Our Rimbaud Mask by Anna Vitale
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Essay. OUR RIMBAUD MASK follows the early publication history of David Wojnarowicz's Arthur Rimbaud in New York photographic series in order to show that our identification with Rimbaud, and with any artist, must remain a site of inquiry and curiosity rather than an obvious source of similitude. What forms of identification are sustainable and which ones are destructive? How do we know the difference? This essay draws together archival research, psychoanalytic theory, and impassioned close readings to lay claim to one of the most taboo fantasies staged in the series: suicide. The Rimbaud mask, different from the image of Rimbaud, invites us to become compassionate witnesses to those whose lives feel unsurvivable without assuming the experience can be shared.
Vitale, Anna: - Anna Vitale is the author of OUR RIMBAUD MASK, DETROIT DETROIT, and Different Worlds, and the chapbooks Unknown Pleasures, Anna Vitale's Pop Poems, and Breaststa. Recent poems and prose have appeared in Alienocene, Columbia Poetry Review, Full Stop, and Jacket2. She earned an MFA from Bard and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She hosts the Tenderness Junction on WFMU in Jersey City and teaches writing in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781946433206 |
| ISBN 10 | 1946433209 |
| Title | Our Rimbaud Mask |
| Author | Anna Vitale |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ugly Duckling Presse |
| Year published | 2018-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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