paradise is no solution
Thurston Moore
a stab at heaven (fertility)
You cannot stay on the summit forever
Rene Daumal
Mount Analogue Notes Found Among the Author's Papers
a man who rides the lunar tides
Lionel Ziprin
Songs for Schizoid Siblings
The goal is to live with godlike composure
Joseph Campbell
Excerpt from "A Joseph Campbell Companion"
The privilege of a lifetime is being yourself.
Joseph Campbell
Excerpt from "A Joseph Campbell Collection"
The difference between architecture and sculpture is plumbing
Rosemarie Castoro
What is the Difference between Architecture and Sculpture?
"Haven't we been down this street before?"
Mark Strand
The Street at the End of the World
Young people are falling cluster-by-cluster
Liang Yue
Good night, my darling. I hope there is no endless rain in my dream (3)
After my sight became blurry
Liang Yue
Good night, my darling. I hope there is no endless rain in my dream (4)
The word “thinking” always implicated falling
Liang Yue
Good night, my darling. I hope there is no endless rain in my dream (5)
I feel faint to reach these incisive feelers
Liang Yue
Good night, my darling. I hope there is no endless rain in my dream (2)
The other day I was still thinking about this piece
Félix González-Torres
Selected Correspondence Letters from Félix González-Torres (1992)
To me, “art” is the mastery of sublime and innocent works! Yes!
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
To me, "Art is the mastery of sublime and innocent works!"
I underwent a medical examination
Sophie Calle
Excerpt from Gagarin, Fifth Edition (Original text in French)
The Ocean Gave me Oysters
Don Van Vliet
A Christmas Card From Don Van Vliet
Clear day, clear mind
Christoph Fink
Thursday 17 December 1998
I was riding downtown in a cab with a prince
Mark Strand
An Event About Which No More Need Be Said
Jealousy. Whispered weather reports.
Randall Mann
Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery
It doesn't matter
Dorothea Grossman
For The Newly-Bereaved
They tear us tirelessly head to toe
Jüri Talvet
How They Are (Translated from Estonian by H.L. Hix)
so you feared to call a fir tree green?
Jüri Talvet
Exiting Summer (Translated from Estonian by H.L. Hix)
Like tiny butterflies yellow leaves float
Jüri Talvet
Red Wine 2 (Translated from Estonian by H.L. Hix)
The sea’s foamy lips continue to smile at Pärnu
Jüri Talvet
You’ll Return Tomorrow, Won’t You? (Translated from Estonian by H.L. Hix)
Dear Caroline
Wim Delvoye
Love Letter #3
My name is Marlene. When I was small, they called me –‘Kinnie’.
Marlene Dumas
Titles, first names and diminutives (Translated from South African)
Far away from everything, here I am,
Bili Bidjocka
Collage... (Translated from original text in French and Bassaa)
Light creates space. Darkness is richly filled volume.
Giuseppe Penone
Excerpt from "Green is the balance between light and shadow." (Translated from original text in Italian)
To say how much I've missed you, I offer this
H.L. Hix
Cy Twombly, "Beyond (A System for Passing)"
look look look until you become so sheer
Jüri Talvet
Look At Me (Translated from Estonian by H.L. Hix)
has a moth in her palm
Wendy Videlock
The woman with a tumor in her neck
Noon bouncin’ ball of warm beside child
Don Van Vliet
Untitled Poem (from the back sleeve of "Lick My Decals Off Baby")
Until that day they had never
Isabel Allende
Excerpt from "The House of The Spirits (La Casa De Los Espírtus)" (1982)
People who dream when they sleep
Isak Dinesen
Excerpt from "Out Of Africa"
Ice glitters like it’s good.
Antoine De Chandieu
Octonaires on the World’s Vanity and Inconstancy
I can’t forget the smile hidden in the umbrage
Liang Yue
Good night, my darling. I hope there is no endless rain in my dream (1)
I have grown tired of the moon
Mark Strand
Nocturne of the Poet Who Loved the Moon
Miss Lonelyhearts threw the letter into an open drawer and lit a cigarette.
Nathanael West
Excerpt from “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”
The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life
Joseph Campbell
Excerpt from "A Joseph Campbell Companion"
Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
Excerpt from "A Joseph Campbell Companion"
What you have to do, you do with play.
Joseph Campbell
Excerpt from "A Joseph Campbell Companion"
almost all lies are pocket size
Lionel Ziprin
Songs for Schizoid Siblings
beware, beware!
Lionel Ziprin
Songs for Schizoid Siblings
les Amours, les Blessures, les Couleurs,
Bernard Villers
Excerpt from Course de la vie (Curriculum Vitae)
Oh dear. Jesus, fuck. Fuck.
Matt Mullican
Excerpt from Trance performance Zürich 2003
MARTHA: Okay, stuff, let's go.
Ernest Lehman
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2)
Quick! a last poem before I go
Frank O'Hara
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday
Underwater what the heart can do.
Nancy Kuhl
If Breath is an Occasion for Memory
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight
Yukio Mishima
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
My sleeves move again in dances
Zeami
The Deserted Crone (Obasute)
no substitute for damnation
Jessica Lauffer
Pekkarot in Pink Flamingos:
BATHING IN YOUR HOUSE
Jessica Lauffer
Jackie (as read by Holly Woodlawn)
Beauty always gives me a hard on
Jessica Lauffer
An Exercise In Poor Taste Or Nice Girls Don’t Wear Cha Cha Heels
They explore the knuckles, the wrists, the elbows.
Smut Vol. 1
On a Saturday Afternoon, by Aimee Bender
I do not love you except because I love you;
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet LXVI: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You