![]() ![]() Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness. He directly proposes assignments to readers: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. ![]() Koestenbaum dreams about a hand job from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for stranger Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse.”In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. ““Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together. ![]()
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