Daggers of moonlight
Murder the sheets
in the stink of a four dollar room
And Daddy’s gone a-hunting
for a dimebag of schoolboy
Tied up with a yellow balloon
So hush little baby
daddy must go
I’ll cover you up with a blanket of snow
By the time I make Jersey
you’ll be in heaven
In a pretty blue shoe box, I know
So sing a song […]
Here’s a small section from Steve McCaffery’s 1970-1975 “multi-panel language environment” entitled Carnival:
You can check out the fully assembled version of this panel, as well as the 1967-1970 panel, here.
Attempting to transcend the boundaries of concrete poetry, McCaffery claims that the panel approaches the sacred by virtue of its mandala-like qualities. Of course, in […]
Jean Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (1993) is a site of synchronous convergence, an intersection of the examination of the postmodern condition and the embodiment of the very principles it examines. This is an exaggeration, to be certain, but the textual line between interpretation and enaction is anything but clearly […]
