“Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness.“Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.”. "Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it.He directly proposes assignments to listeners: 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. 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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