Writings
Some writing of mine that can be found online:
but for us they… and if an inner landscape in Blackbird, 2011
Waylaid, in the New Orleans Review, 2008
Returning, in the Journal Blackbird
Time Out Chicago commissioned me to write some Love Poems for the luminaries of the Windy City
A review of my poetic sequence “New Orleans: Soft and Splinter” at Salon.com
I enjoy Reading the Papers of Borges, don’t you?
Oh, the beauty of a Revolting Sofa
Writing of mine has appeared in print in the following publications:
Southwestern American Literature
Hubbub
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In October of 2009 I was thinking about cities. What makes a city a city? Is it the density? The commerce? The cultural institutions? We all know a city when we come to one – what is that?
Perhaps it has something to do with desire. So one Sunday morning a few friends and I set out walking. We decided we would walk someplace new and take turns leading. The only guide was our desire. We ended up in private gardens and a flea market, a hippie commune, an antiques mall, a couple of art galleries, and a hilltop homeless enclave, among other places. Afterwards I wrote this essay – Cities of Desire (with apologies to Italo Calvino) – about what makes a city a city.
What you see here are the images from our walk along with field recordings of the sounds from the city. Overlaid on all this is the essay. The walkers were: Alejandra Orozco, Robert Hudon, Cynthia Rothschild, and me (Abraham Burickson). Enjoy.
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