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Youtube Wives or Stepping Stones (Paperback)
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Youtube Wives or Stepping Stones (Paperback)
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Loot Price R448
Discovery Miles 4 480
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YouTube Wives Or Stepping Stones is, before everything, first and
foremost, a literary act. Keats' urns and Rilke's torsos, Bishop's
fish and Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition, this is the
company that Smith is writing to keep as hedoggedly pursues his
models. In the concrete this litany of wives appears as a series of
tawdry fetishes predestined to fail-dancing girls for Degas,
barmaids for Manet, pubescence for Balthus, this Korean for
Orientalism, those women for Woman, these artists for ART. These
poems and pieces, confessions and letters and descriptions, are
essays toward bringing art to life. Smith screens them all, flexing
his desire toward the idea of their beauty, even as he is
frustrated by their overwhelming distance and his underwhelming
isolation. Smith is a Kemp Road Warhol. And so these poems are
markers of a journey, in pursuance of an absolute level, a true
altitude. This is a Baudelarian night-walk for beauty. Who are
these wives? Where do these stepping stones lead?
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