Have We Made It Across the Vast Plain of Night?
No.
For the Mind in the Act of Entertaining Itself,
This is not a gurney.
We may as well be in a museum. After the intravenous,
confetti and Clindamycin. Sleep then keep sleeping through
the details, all the way through to the part with croquet and cucumber
on the lawn, all the trappings of Empire,
but none of the pornography.
We may as well be in a museum. After the intravenous,
confetti and Clindamycin. Sleep then keep sleeping through
the details, all the way through to the part with croquet and cucumber
on the lawn, all the trappings of Empire,
but none of the pornography.
Stephen Sollins. Static 6, 2004. Correction fluid on printed television schedules. Courtesy of the artist.
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Julia Guez’s poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in POETRY, The PEN Poetry Series, Vinyl, Circumference, BOMBLog,
and The Brooklyn Rail. She is Brooklyn’s managing director of programs at Teach For America-New York and teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers.
and The Brooklyn Rail. She is Brooklyn’s managing director of programs at Teach For America-New York and teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers.
Stephen Sollins holds a BA in Photography from Bard College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. He is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and Smack Mellon. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including the Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center, and Mitchell-Innes and Nash in New York, and is part of public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. His work is represented in New York by Pavel Zoubok Gallery and in San Francisco by Brian Gross Fine Art.