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conceptual writing / escritura conceptual / scrittura concettualeINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
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Crux Desperationis 11 - december 2018
director Riccardo Boglioneeditorial staff RB, Georgina Torello
journal header Paolo Argerijournal design Massimo Alacca
Images taken from Emile-Bayard, Les Arts de la Femme, Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1904 (after Boutet de Monvel)
cc by-nc-nd
gegen, Montevideo 2018
DIVYA VICTOR
Croniamantal
AURÉLIE NOURY
Cinque autoritratti
MICHELE GRANZOTTO
Song of Myself (excerpt):ELISABETH TONNARD
Edgar Allan Poe likes his own link.
Emily Dickinson updated their
cover photo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson shared Walt
Whitman’s post.
Henry David Thoreau added a new
photo to the album: Walden; or,
Life in the Woods.
“I would prefer not to”
(Being all the sentences containing the text “I would prefer not to” in Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall
Street, by Herman Melville, arranged in chronological order.)
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But in quite as clear a one came the previous reply, “I would prefer not to.”
“I would prefer not to,” said he.
“I would prefer not to,” he said, and gently disappeared behind the screen.
“I would prefer not to.”
“I would prefer not to.”
“I would prefer not to.”
“I would prefer not to.”
“I would prefer not to.”
“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply.
“No; I would prefer not to make any change.”
“I would prefer not to take a clerkship,” he rejoined, as if to settle that little item at once.
“No: at present I would prefer not to make any change at all.”
I would prefer no to
SIMON BROWN
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ
PREFACE
I initially thought of adding tags explaining why each of these lumi- nous monuments has been so important for
me, each of them weighty enough to merit its own page; but then I decided to leave enough blank space for
readers to inscribe their own comments that they are wel- come, if they wish, to send to me for possible further
use, thanks.
Less interested in defining a canon than recording my own great enthusiasms, may I hope that each new entry
comes to the reader as a surprise.
Richard Kostelanetz, FarEast BushWick, NY, 14 May 2017
Works I wish were made by me (excerpt):
Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote
Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Stories
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Greguerías
Frank Lloyd Wright
Guggenheim Museum
Ambrose Bierce
A Devil ’s Dictionary
Simon Rodia
The Watts Towers
Jean Paul Sartre
The Wall
Emma Goldman
My Disi l lusionment With Russia
James Joyce
Finnegans Wake
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
W. A. Mozart
Requiem
L. Moholy-Nagy
Vision in Motion
[name redacted] was born and raised in beautiful New Hampshire, but now spends her days in
sunny Santa Monica, California. She recently completed her master's degree in English and Cre-
ative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University and is pursuing her goal of becoming a
professor. [name redacted] lives next to a dusty cactus in Tucson, Arizona. He writes mostly poetry
and nonfiction. Recent publications can be found in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], and [name redacted]. Say hello at [website redacted]. [name redacted] recently left
teaching to write full-time. You can find her work in [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name
redacted], as well as online at [website redacted]. [name redacted] was born and raised in Tampa,
Florida. She graduated from the University of Nebraska, earning an MFA in poetry, and currently
teaches English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a mentor for the nonprofit organi-
zation, The Seven Doctors Project. Her poetry and short fiction have been published by [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted],
[name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and
[name redacted]. Recent work by [name redacted] has appeared or is forthcoming in [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Her chapbook [name
redacted] is forthcoming from [name redacted] (2015). Her website: [name redacted]. [name
redacted] is a poet, visual artist, and soon-to-be librarian living in Boston, Massachusetts. His pre-
vious works have appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and as an oc-
casional contributor to [website redacted] and [website redacted]. He maintains a blog of recent
work at [website redacted]. [name redacted] is currently co-editor-in-chief for [name redacted]. She
also curates [name redacted] at [website redacted], where poets write about music. Her chap-
book [name redacted] is forthcoming from [name redacted]. She lives in Jersey City and blogs oc-
casionally at [website redacted]. [name redacted] holds a B.A. in English and a Writing Certificate
from Kent State University and an M.A. in English from Cleveland State University. She has been
published in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Together with fellow Ohio poet, [name
redacted], she has co-self-published a chapbook entitled [name redacted]. [name redacted] was
born in Toronto, Ontario, but her adult years have all been spent in Waterloo, where she recently
completed a degree in Political Science and English Literature, and in Victoria, BC. Her poetry has
appeared in [name redacted] and [name redacted]; her fiction at [name redacted]. In 2009 she
won a 24-hour playwright competition with [name redacted]. [name redacted] is a poet and chil-
dren's author from Edmonton. She has published poetry in [name redacted], [name redacted] and
has also published a children's story with a CD. [name redacted] is a poet – poems he has written
have appeared on [name redacted], [name redacted], & in his spare time he is an amateur hermit.
[name redacted]’s poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and elsewhere. She teaches writing
at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received an MFA in poetry and MA in Literature. [name
redacted]’s first book, [name redacted], is forthcoming from [name redacted]. [name redacted], a
chapbook, will appear from [name redacted] in 2006. Recent poems appear in [name
redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and co-
edits [name redacted]. [name redacted] is a poet currently residing in Dumfries, Virginia. He
serves as a staff writer/reviewer for [name redacted], and his poems have appeared or are forth-
coming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and elsewhere. [name redacted] is
Associate Professor of English and World Comparative Literature, National Taipei University of
Technology. His full-length book of poetry, [name redacted], was published by [name redacted] in
2008. Poems and stories have appeared, most recently, in [name redacted]; [name redacted];
[name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; and
[name redacted]. Scholarly articles have appeared in [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name
redacted]; [name redacted]; and [name redacted]. [name redacted] is also a performance artist,
Sites of Contemporary Meat (excerpt)
theatrical magician and singer-songwriter. His original album [name redacted] was produced by
[name redacted] in 2013. [name redacted] lives in Mobile, Alabama. She is an English instructor at
the University of South Alabama. [name redacted] is currently working on a chapbook of modernist
sermons as poetry. [name redacted] was raised in Haynesville, Louisiana. His work includes the
novels [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and [name redacted] ([name redacted]). Non-fiction and
poetry have appeared under his name in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and
other publications. A schoolteacher by trade, he currently lives with his wife on a mountain in rural
northwest Arkansas. [name redacted] is from a leviathan corporation that moved her family every
two years. Her work has appeared in: [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted],
and [name redacted]. Honors and awards include: [name redacted], [name redacted]; [name
redacted], U of Utah; [name redacted], Semifinalist; [name redacted], [name redacted], Poetry;
[name redacted], Fiction, UNCW; [name redacted], Fiction; [name redacted], Poetry; [name
redacted], Poetry. More at [website redacted] [name redacted], 30 yrs old, Israeli. Of melancholic
temperament. An anti-capitalist working endless hours as a rough laborer. A tribalist renting an
open apartment alone, with a ginger bitch. Post-psychedelic, affectionate, musical, post-new-age.
He dreams of one day being a hipper, hippier version of [name redacted]. [name redacted] lives in
Somerville, Mass., with her husband, daughter, and two cats. In 2005, her poem "[name redacted]"
was included in U.S. Poet Laureate [name redacted]'s [name redacted] project. [name
redacted] just completed a one year [name redacted] in Wesleyan University's Writing Program
and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is an editorial assistant at [name redacted], a fiction reader
for [name redacted], and also works for [name redacted]. Her recent poems have been published
or are forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], and [name redacted]. Feel free to email her at [email redacted]. [name redacted] is a
writer, reader, listener, watcher and lover of all things gothic, weird and obscure. She comes from
the land of kitsch vampires and cheap alcohol, though she is currently based in the UK. On a day-
to-day basis, she keeps impending madness at bay by striving to maintain the fragile balance be-
tween her research, her teaching, her writing and the slightly less exciting parts of her life. [name
redacted] is an author of poetry and short fiction currently living in St. Catharines Ontario. His work
has appeared in issues of [name redacted] and the anthology [name redacted], as well as upcom-
ing issues of [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and elsewhere. [name
redacted]’s chapbook, [name redacted], was published by [name redacted] in April of 2012. You
can follow [name redacted] on Twitter, @[name redacted]. [name redacted] is a Brooklyn, NY-
based writer of poetry and fiction. He is the founder and publisher of [name redacted], a literary
journal/website built on the promise of helping emerging writers gain exposure. [name redacted]’s
work has been featured in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name
redacted], among other publications. [name redacted] has published widely in journals such
as [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Awards include two [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and a [name redacted]. She was a finalist in the
[name redacted] (2007), [name redacted] (2009, 2012), and received honorable mentions in
the [name redacted]’s [name redacted] (2008, 2010). She is the editor of [name redacted], and
lives on a small horse farm in Northern Illinois. She has published 11 books including [name
redacted] ([name redacted]), [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and [name redacted] from [name
redacted]. [name redacted] received the 2013 [name redacted]. [name redacted] was published in
spring of 2014 by [name redacted] ([name redacted]). Two chapbooks are forthcoming in
2014; [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and [name redacted] ([name redacted]). [name redacted]
is also an associate editor of [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted], b. 1970, is
an artist, writer and public servant based in the South Pennines. [name redacted] has enjoyed a
varied career that has included roles as diverse as video producer, script writer, lecturer, project
manager and landscape painter. [name redacted]’s poetry has been accepted for publication in a
number of journals and anthologies including [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name
redacted]. [name redacted] is a regular contributor to [name redacted] poetry performance nights.
He lives in [name redacted] with his wife and three children. [name redacted] lives and creates in
Huntsville, AL, where she’s a writer, editor, and visual artist. She’s the Interviews Editor for [name
redacted] and the Editor of [name redacted]. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared
in [name redacted] and [name redacted]. You can find more of her work at [website redacted].
[name redacted] lives and works in Kentucky, and recently graduated from the University of
Louisville, where he studied philosophy. When he’s not writing, he spends his time hiking, climb-
ing, fishing and generally spending as much time outdoors as possible. He has had recent work
appear in [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted]: "Poetry of
mine has appeared recently in [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. Other of
my work has been published in the [name redacted] anthology ([website redacted]), [name
redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. My work has appeared in numerous other liter-
ary journals, including [name redacted] (a [name redacted] nominee), [name redacted] (also a
[name redacted] nominee), [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name
redacted]. A one-act play of mine was a finalist in the [name redacted] and was produced in Seat-
tle." [name redacted] was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in Kamloops, BC. He has taught
ESL in China and is a graduate of the [name redacted]. [name redacted] is currently writing and
filming in Kamloops. [name redacted], former college English instructor, writes in the Texas Hill
Country. Both a juried and featured poet at the [name redacted], she’s also won a Japanese haiku
contest. Her poetry and fiction have been nominated for a [name redacted]. She also writes es-
says and plays. [name redacted] is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have appeared
in [name redacted], the [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted]
and [name redacted], among others. [name redacted] is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, the
Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and Drew University, where he completed an
MA in British and American Literatures. He teaches creative and expository writing in the Paul
McGhee Division, a liberal arts college within New York University. His work has appeared previ-
ously in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted],
[name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and will also be included in
upcoming issues of [name redacted], and [name redacted]. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York,
with his wife, [name redacted]. [name redacted] I am a twenty year old from Ireland who works in
the office of a catering company and seeks to become a full time writer. [name redacted] has writ-
ten a novel called [name redacted], which is forthcoming from [name redacted]. She has work pub-
lished in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], among others,
and a chapbook of poetry, [name redacted], available from [name redacted]. She homegirls it up at
[website redacted]. [name redacted] is a poet, scholar and educator from Buffalo, NY. His poems
appear in a number of literary magazines and academic journals, most recently [name redacted]
and [name redacted]. His scholarship appears in refereed academic journals. An article entitled
"[name redacted]" will appear in [name redacted] this spring. He also is a frequent contributor to
the online music magazine, [website redacted]. Poetic interests include: the beats, [name
redacted], French symbolism, the Language poets, and hip-hop. [name redacted] was born in the
South Bronx, NYC and raised in Carruzos, Carolina, Puerto Rico. He is a graduate of DeWitt Clin-
ton high school and has studied at Hudson Valley Community College; Fordham University (Rose
Hill); University of Kentucky and Pace University (NYC). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish
Literature and Latin American Studies, and a Master in Secondary Education. He is a doctoral stu-
dent in the Education Policy and Evaluation program at the University of Kentucky and lives in
Bowling Green, Kentucky where he is the director of the Office of Diversity Programs for Western
Kentucky University. As an undergraduate student he co-founded the [name redacted]— a group
of friends who have dedicated the last 20 years of their writing careers, to the aesthetic of making
the invisible visible. Look for [name redacted]'s poems in the [name redacted], [name redacted],
[name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name
redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and on his website at [website redacted]. [name
redacted] is a professional writing/editing major at Youngstown State University. He has been pub-
lished at [name redacted], where he works as a slush reader. [name redacted] lives in San Fran-
cisco, CA where runs a workshop on poetics and edits [name redacted]. His work is forthcoming or
has appeared online at [name redacted] and [name redacted] and in print in [name
redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. In 2007, his poem "[name redacted]" received
the [name redacted] and [name redacted] awards at the Pennsylvania State University. Currently
he is pursuing his MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts and working on a book, a re-cu-
ration, of text found in the 75th Anniversary Show at the [name redacted].
SACHA ARCHER
MICHALIS PICHLERMigration #31
Poema Existencial
BELÉN GACHEtipografía disponible en http://belengache.net/ratona/
Claudia Schiefer laying between two couchesA magician doing a levitation trickA piece of metal held up highReligious iconographyA fashion model without bodyA parachute A piece of fabric blown by the windA piece of fabric and a fruit stuck in the corner of a couchA prismatic three dimensional structure made out of thin metalA paper kiteExotic fruits cut in exotic shapesA folded napkinSemiplume feathersTwo hands, open �ngersHand cut handsA face in a bowlZoom of a single noodleKids doing gymnasticsA black woman holding her leg high, forming an archHenri Moore Two young girl contortionists Reclining �gureA human body underneath silver latexDetail of cut shapes on a dressA girl wearing a cardboard maskA View-MasterAn abstract playgroundCut circles on cardboardA hole showing the back of a ladyA naked backUpholsteryA folded jacketPeruvian sculpturesGabriel KuriA landscapeLady GagaMagnets and powderLady GagaPierre Huyghe, UntitledAn Olmec headA stone headA Transparent crystalA marbled columnYaacov AgamA falling curtain in a circular shapeA sculpture wrapped in cloth�ree ghostsFolded feltRobert MorrisA hole in a mountainSticks and plastic forming a tipi-like constructionErnst CaramelleA modernistic haircut A half naked man making an archFranz West Wire like chips on a plateTwisted cottonBraided hairstyleA porous organic shapeCoralsA stone with eyes and mouthAn ancient maskA boy wearing a hoodie with holes in itAn abstract faceA brick with noseA face made out of cardboardSomething upon a teenagers nose�e pro�le of a clip on a girls noseA melted ice-cream cone on the �oorA stone A piece of marbled cakeA champignonFolded sheet as head decorationA dress blown by the windA circular structure made of woodA mechanical gameNeon lightsCubes of iron forming a sculptureStrings and glassA cageA net with cansA re�ection upon a platter
An ancient maskA boy wearing a hoodie with holes in itAn abstract faceA brick with noseA face made out of cardboardSomething upon a teenagers nose�e pro�le of a clip on a girls noseA melted ice-cream cone on the �oorA stone A piece of marbled cakeA champignonFolded sheet as head decorationA dress blown by the windA circular structure made of woodA mechanical gameNeon lightsCubes of iron forming a sculptureStrings and glassA cageA net with cansA re�ection upon a platterDiamond shaped screenA windowSol LewittSolar Panel A metal bedA metal rail and stairsA grid on fabricTwo balls on a chairTwo boys wearing paper masksA paper maskA blindfolded kidLady JusticeA hand holdng something transparentMelting iceA hand grabbing something watteryA water fallA brides veilA chi�on dressCurtains blown by the windA mosquito netA human underneath a netA �sherman’s netA de�ated plastic domeA bunch of plastic bagsTwo guys huggingA head inside a full shopping cartBreaking bricks with the heada karate moveA fanA white peacock A coralA Bismark palmA folded napkin in shape of a fanA braided circular hair-doA hand holding a paper folded structureAn A dressClayA transparen jelly �sh�e bottom of a champignonA coralA gray hair swirlA swirl in the ocean�e zoom of a �nger printA distorted faceA handcra�ed cardboard maskA blown up latex glove�e back of a headCotton candyA wooden model of a headClay on a stick�e pro�le of a sculptureHead massageHand on bustA man wearing a turtle neckCrowd sur�ngA crowd reaching out Lord Shiva’s poseAn organ cactusA human poseSynchronized swimmingA man opening his mouth
An ancient maskA boy wearing a hoodie with holes in itAn abstract faceA brick with noseA face made out of cardboardSomething upon a teenagers nose�e pro�le of a clip on a girls noseA melted ice-cream cone on the �oorA stone A piece of marbled cakeA champignonFolded sheet as head decorationA dress blown by the windA circular structure made of woodA mechanical gameNeon lightsCubes of iron forming a sculptureStrings and glassA cageA net with cansA re�ection upon a platterDiamond shaped screenA windowSol LewittSolar Panel A metal bedA metal rail and stairsA grid on fabricTwo balls on a chairTwo boys wearing paper masksA paper maskA blindfolded kidLady JusticeA hand holdng something transparentMelting iceA hand grabbing something watteryA water fallA brides veilA chi�on dressCurtains blown by the windA mosquito netA human underneath a netA �sherman’s netA de�ated plastic domeA bunch of plastic bagsTwo guys huggingA head inside a full shopping cartBreaking bricks with the heada karate moveA fanA white peacock A coralA Bismark palmA folded napkin in shape of a fanA braided circular hair-doA hand holding a paper folded structureAn A dressClayA transparen jelly �sh�e bottom of a champignonA coralA gray hair swirlA swirl in the ocean�e zoom of a �nger printA distorted faceA handcra�ed cardboard maskA blown up latex glove�e back of a headCotton candyA wooden model of a headClay on a stick�e pro�le of a sculptureHead massageHand on bustA man wearing a turtle neckCrowd sur�ngA crowd reaching out Lord Shiva’s poseAn organ cactusA human poseSynchronized swimmingA man opening his mouth
CLAUDIA DE LA TORRE
Small Comfort (cover)
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