Albrecht Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportion (1528), p. 232

Poetry Bullets

Kaleem Hawa

A list of things I learned from you:
the coercion of form;
formalism as anxiety;
art’s fickleness as the point;
dematerialization of thoughts as insects;
iconicity as dehumanization rather than elevation;
ambivalence as deeply uncool;
(moral cloaking as the same);
that I’m pretty
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fucked up in the head.

Kaleem Hawa writes about film and books.