May 3, 2011
My story-poem suite now exists in the world of ink and paper. The Useless Eaters/Die Nutzlosen Esser appears in the current issue of Denver Quarterly, which can be purchased where books are sold but as those spots are as rare as mudfluppers and veeeperblixas, you might want to order it here. A real live human being will deliver it to your mailbox in an actual old-fashioned envelope covered with very retro stamps that tell their own tales of journeys and adventures. Try it. Everything old is new again.
Edited by the ever-intriguing Bin Ramke (one of my favorite poets), Denver Quarterly is always filled to the hatbrim with delicious words, and I treasure its arrival even when my own work isn’t inside it! I invariably discover new kindred artists, whose best treasures are only shallowly buried within its pages. Just a little trowel work pops them right out into my brain, or yours!
My piece is in English and a smattering of Hebrew, with German translation by Dorothea Herreiner. It takes place in a Bavarian wormhole whose one mouth is the Black Plague, and the other is the ignominious middle ages of the 20th century. The piece itself is now en route to various other incarnations, such as an illustrated book (here is the expensive and inefficient place to order it), a dance performance with GroupMotion Dance Company, and…
most upcomingly as a video installation and photographs (installation and photograph to premiere in Chelsea/NYC this autumn at my solo museum exhibition…to take place at Yeshiva University Museum, located at the Smithsonian-affiliated Center for Jewish History.)
Edited by the ever-intriguing Bin Ramke (one of my favorite poets),