Figure It Out By Wayne Koestenbaum
Book Excerpt :
?Toward 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.? 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 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. 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. He directly proposes assignments to readers: ?Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina.? ?Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.? ?Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness . . . Reimagine doing the laundry as having an
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