BOMB 118/Winter 2012
An installation sculptor of massive proportions and environment, Judy Pfaff’s work brings nature and art together emphatically: 65–foot fallen cedars and bronze. Pfaff explains to painter Mimi Thompson how her vision is like memos and love letters.
Raymond Pettibon’s surfers and pitchers, monsters and movie stars populate his drawings alongside text from William Blake, the Bible and any other literary source he feels like plundering. He talks with Grady Turner about the detritus of dreams.
Renowned for his work on the witchcraft trials of the Inquisition, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg shifted centuries to document a trajectory of crime, repentance and conspiracy that extends back 30 years.
Edward Said talks with writer Phillip Lopate about his book, Out of Place, a memoir of his childhood and formation into the itinerate conscience of the intelligentsia and figurehead of postcolonial politics that we know him as today.
Jamaica, a truly post-lapsarian paradise, is he subject of Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise. Fellow writer Randall Kenan dives into the scenery, the intent and the influences that gave birth to this epic first novel.
Tabloid, the newest documentary from prolific filmmaker Errol Morris, will hit theaters July 15th. This 1999 interview with Margot Livesey highlights his film Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby-Dick, on Melville’s classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Clifford Ross joined her for tea and conversation over Melville’s very own bible—marginalia included.
Legendary cross-dresser and co-founder of the theater troupe Split Britches joins playwright Craig Lucas for non-stop laughter and revelations about alternative theater, life, drugs, and the busting of conventions in general.
Betsy Sussler on drawings by Melissa Marks which feature a character named Volitia exploring worlds consisting of “exploding…amorphous cloud[s] of color.”
This First Proof contains excerpts from Dances For Flute and Thunder, poems translated from the ancient Greek. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains art by Erwin Pfrang and Carroll Dunham’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the essay “Field Trips,” from the collection St. Stuart. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Firefly.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
J.D. Dolan was the guest editor of this issue of First Proof. For copyright reasons First Proof is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Life on the Prairie.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains art by Mala Iqbal and Roberto Juarez’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the essay “The Duration of Hell.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “The Right to Rave,” translated by Mark Fried. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains thirteen poems by Lydia Davis. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Women’s Pantomime.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Writing Class, Inpatient Psychiatry, Adolescent Unit.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
