Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. BOMB is a meditation on a book of photographs that document the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos. The thirty page poem begins with epigraphs by Democritus, Gregory Corso and Andre Breton/Paul Eluard before embarking upon its own project of lucid investigation via an elliptical glancing narration: Put the bomb in a glass vase/add dust and forget. BOMB is sharp, stark, rhythmic; Coolidge tangles with the dreamlike oddness of the photographs in fits and starts of language with an explosive beauty. Keith Waldrop's series of collages are literal reworkings of the original pictures: deep blacks and bright whites excavated from the book, remade here in the image of the poem.
Synopsis
Artwork by Clark Coolidge, Keith Waldrop. Contributions by Chillava Klatch, Shahzia Sikander. Text by Faisal Devji.