Poet and performance artist John Giorno is many things to many people. It depends on who you talk to. To some, he’s simply lost in translation. The author of Suicide Sutra and Thanks for Nothing is fatalistic, shockingly blunt, incendiary, controversial, and pornographic – according to his critics. His defenders claim the iconic figure in [...]
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Pockets
June 21, 2010 – 4:01 pm
In Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis writes that for protagonist George Babbitt, “A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.” So by studying the contents of a man’s pockets, what details can [...]
