precursory questions
1. how many home videos did you keep?
2. how many seeped into adulthood, vhs tape wrinkled and blinking back at you the screen a reflection, skipping with white?
hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?
Further Reading
BILL FREIND’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
Another View of the Review The last negative review I wrote was over twenty-five years ago, when I trashed an AC/DC album in my high school newspaper, so I might not be the best person to contribute to a discussion of the importance of the negative poetry review. I’ve always been more interested in reviewing […]
Breaking Currents: eddy at M23
by Corey Durbin
An eddy, the titular inspiration for this show, is a flowing water phenomenon where the current is disrupted by inverse movement, causing a whirlpool. This exhibit of young emerging sculptors makes a similar gesture against a cultural current, long spiraling toward doom. M23 is a small gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the […]
Inheritance
by Amy Sawyer
His untucked shirt hid his belt missing a loop or two. His morning beer kicked in early. My uncle drove six of us in the back of a station wagon. No seatbelts, confident in the wood-paneling protection, we sloshed atop the vinyl seats, classy as koozies. His mustache and thin lips offered profane prayers as […]
