Ohiya (singing vow): Inkpata Nawaze Naci, Naci, coze May Maya Leci cu wana. Winona: The magic of the night of nights beckons me, beckons me, beckons me; a wonder-world is sheltered ‘neath the trees from grass and shrub and willows low. Come mystic voices, sighs, enchanting breeze from mystic voices, sighs enchanting breeze. The pallid […]
B: People talk of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt the economy of Europe. But they don’t ! ! mention the African Plan, which enabled Hitler’s hordes at a time when their economies !! were under siege, their stability threatened. Who saved Europe? It was Africa. There is very little talk about that. There is so […]
It never felt so goodIt never felt so rightAnd we were glowing likeA metal on the edge of a knife – Meatloaf ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ (1977) Two spreads from the same book Two duets from the same invocation: Peter Morin (1:15:07) and Aaron; Jacques Coursil and Marque Gilmore (8:26:45)
Maybe one of the most recited mantras of the last few years – at least in my perception – has been “we need to take care of each other.” This has been so, at least since Brexit, the election of the 45th president of the United States, the march of the alt-right with chants like […]
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documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]