BOMB 123/Spring 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOMB 98/Winter 2007

Atomists: Making Strides, 1996. Computer generated print.

GABRIEL OROZCO by Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa talked with Gabriel Orozco about his “doll of spheres” in 2007. Orozco’s latest work is now at Marian Goodman Gallery through October 10.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ART...

GRONK by Marisela Norte

Gronk, of the performance troupe ASCO, reminisces on life in East Los Angeles; Godzilla; his own character, Tormenta; mural painting; dining al fresco on a traffic island; and creating stage sets for Peter Sellars.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ART...

VIRGINIA FIELDS by Constance Cortez

The LACMA curator’s odyssey into the cosmology of the Maya, in Lords of Creation: The Origins of Ancient Maya Kingship, her latest blockbuster show to present the art and culture of ancient Mesoamerica.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ART...

MARGO GLANTZ by Álvaro Enrigue

The Family Tree (The Genealogies), the legendary Mexican writer and thinker’s shimmering Rashomon of her Jewish family’s past, is revisited on a drive to her childhood home in Mexico City.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, LITERATURE...

SALVADOR PLASCENCIA by Max Benavidez

Saturn devoured his children to leave myths like those in The People of Paper, unfolded here in the form of an origami temptress and a cholo gang leader.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, LITERATURE...

JORGE HERNANDEZ by Josh Kun

Los Tigres del Norte: the ultimate corrido-belting norteño band, and Grammy winners to boot.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, MUSIC...

CHERRíE MORAGA by Adelina Anthony

On the craft of directing and playwriting for a woman’s body, the body politic, and a people’s soul.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, THEATER...

DOñA JULIA JULIETA CASIMIRO by Jesuita Natalia Pineda Casimiro

Doña Julia Julieta, of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, on Mazatec ancestral knowledge, sacred mushrooms, and one patient’s extraordinary regression through time.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, THEATER...

ALBERTO KALACH by Jose Castillo

Urban planning and the Edenic garden, from Cicero to Borges; and universal knowledge and the public library, from Boulee to Kalach’s own soaring Vasconcelos Library.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ARCHITECTURE...

MINERVA CUEVAS by Trinie Dalton

Trinie Dalton on the celebration of individualism and the critique of the capitalist ideal that drives Minerva Cuevas’ video installation The Economy of the Imaginary: Pirates and Heroes.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ARTISTS ON ARTISTS...

PAUL HENRY RAMIREZ by Roberto Juarez

For the 2007 Americas issue, Roberto Juarez underscores the distinctly Hispanic elements of the quirky kinky graphic art of Paul Henry Ramirez.

(BOMB 98/Winter 2007, ARTISTS ON ARTISTS...

A BOOK OF SWOONS by John Phillip Santos

This First Proof contains the series of stories A Book of Swoons. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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A STABBING PAIN by Naief Yehya

This First Proof contains the story A Stabbing Pain, translated by Margaret Carson. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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BORDER CROSSINGS by Luis Alfaro

This First Proof contains the story Border Crossings. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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BORGES'S DAGGER by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

This First Proof contains the story Borges’s Dagger. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS by Juan Rulfo

This First Proof contains four photographs by Juan Rulfo. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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FOUR POEMS by Natalia Toledo Paz

This First Proof contains the poems “For T. S. Eliot,” “The Table,” “Girl With Roots,” and “My house is your house (mi casa es tu casa),” translated by Aura Estrada and Francisco Goldman. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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PHOTOGRAPHS ON SOMEBODY'S LIPS by Angélica Tornero

This First Proof contains an excerpt from Photographs on Somebody’s Lips, translated by Krista Ingebretson. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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THAT SPACE, THAT GARDEN by Coral Bracho

This First Proof contains an excerpt from That Space, That Garden, translated by Forrest Gander. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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THREE POEMS by Mónica de la Torre

This First Proof contains the poems “For Rose to Be We Need a Celebrity,” “Durango, Durango,” and “On Eroticism and Cutting Fabric.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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THREE POEMS by Juan Felipe Herrera

This First Proof contains the poems “19 powkroskaya street,” “The Women Tell Their Stories,” and “Enter the Void.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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