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Robert Dunn Bruce Weber Larissa Shmailo Lori Rappaport Michael Graves Tom Obrzut Linda Lerner Madeline Artenberg Austin Alexis Ptr Kozlowski Thomas Fucaloro George Spencer Yuko Otomo Bob Heman JD Rage Hassanal Abdullah Back to Issue 41_42 Back to Front Page |
Issue 41/42 : July - December, 2008 : Volume 11 No 1/2 Austin Alexis Poe's Brooklyn Peering across the East River toward Brooklyn, his heart aflutter, Poe saw or imagined he saw ravens ravenous as they swooped down for a worm or bug slithering or crawling in the Brooklyn thickets. And projecting beyond the bush country we now call Bushwick he saw or hallucinated automatons in the graveyards, those misty stretches so plentiful and spacious in Brooklyn, spotted with gray rectangles of death even as Poe's dead arose savior-like or monstrous. Poe must have longed to row or take a ferry over to see his Gothic vocabulary in action: the shadows of Flatbush elongated in moonlight along earth of unending horizontals capable of gobbling up anyone— even Poe himself— in a premature burial perfect as a death wish that's granted. |