Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history."įigure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play from “one of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today” (John Waters). Whatever his subject favorites include porn, punctuation and the poetry of Frank OHara the goal.
“Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness. Buy Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum at Mighty Ape NZ.“Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.”."Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it.He directly proposes assignments to listeners: FIGURE IT OUT ESSAYS by Wayne Koestenbaum RELEASE DATE: Writer, musician, and cultural critic Koestenbaum (English, French, and Comparative Literature/CUNY Graduate Center Camp Marmalade, 2018, etc.) offers up another batch of personal essays published in a variety of venues. A collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity. Koestenbaum dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. Figure It Out: Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum. Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet.
Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts 26 ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world.Ī subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger".
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