Figure It Out
of Wayne Koestenbaum
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âToward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse.â In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passengerâs leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for stranger; Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friendâs stinky feet. Koestenbaum dreams about a hand job from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenbergâs squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to readers: âBuy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina.â âDescribe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.â âFind in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness . . . 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.â Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Soft Skull
- Publication Date May 5th 2020
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781593765958
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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