The best poetry books of 2022
Meditations on modern Britain, 100 queer poems, and evocations of the natural world are among this year’s standout collections
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Meditations on modern Britain, 100 queer poems, and evocations of the natural world are among this year’s standout collections
“I should have become a thief,” Bernadette Mayer tells me. “I would’ve made more money, maybe.” For Mayer, thievery and poetry are not so different, property itself being theft, which is also true of poetry, because who do words belong to? It’s this periphrastic logic that runs through Memory, the durational experiment Mayer performed in July 1971, shooting one roll of 35-mm slide film a day and keeping a rigorous diary. First presented as an installation of 1,116 photographs accompanied by handwritten notes and a six-hour audio recording of the entire text at Holly Solomon’s 98 ...
The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick
Solana Beach’s Oolong Gallery will present its latest show “Rivers & Mountains”, opening Saturday, Nov. 5 and running through Dec. 23.
At a time when art criticism was becoming more and more scholastic in tone, Peter Schjeldahl proudly upheld the banner of belletristic criticism.