New today: me in the Berlin Review, responding to @sentantiq on Nolan's Odyssey, but also on the collapse of literacy in contemporary America, senses of apocalypse in the humanities, and a relevant new Hölderlin translation: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

A.V. Marraccini · Our Age of No-Brow

Nobody killed the humanities. And yet they lie in guilt and agony in their cave, reaching for the last roasted scraps of the Sun God’s sacred cattle. What does this end-of-the-world Odyssey summer mea...

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For more literary stuff, notebooks, minor speculations, shifting to Substack and Insta more: - insta: Saintsoftness -substack: avmarraccini.substack.com

A.V. Marraccini | Substack

Substack: Cloud Studies ⎔ essayist + art historian + critic ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (2023) ⎔ next book THESE NEW FRAGILITIES in 2028 from Seven Stories Press ⎔ avmarraccini.com for all my work. Click ...

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New Substack thing! Loose Thoughts on Stupid Love: Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/loose-thou...

Loose Thoughts On Stupid Love

Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness

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New Substack thing! Loose Thoughts on Stupid Love: Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/loose-thou...

Loose Thoughts On Stupid Love

Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness

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Today for the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social: on Hockney, Pliny the Kitten, Pliny the Elder, and things as they seem to be as the twentieth century recedes: clereviewofbooks.com/david-hockne...

Hockney As He Was, Or Seems To Be - Cleveland Review of Books

It’s like the whole intellectual coating of the past midcentury is sloughing off at once, the last scarred remnants of a flayed skin.

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Today for the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social: on Hockney, Pliny the Kitten, Pliny the Elder, and things as they seem to be as the twentieth century recedes: clereviewofbooks.com/david-hockne...

Hockney As He Was, Or Seems To Be - Cleveland Review of Books

It’s like the whole intellectual coating of the past midcentury is sloughing off at once, the last scarred remnants of a flayed skin.

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My “Difficult Epigrams”from CRB issue 4.1 are now up online. Click through for brass noses, obsidian, espaliered trees, and intractable loves: clereviewofbooks.com/difficult-ep...

Difficult Epigrams - Cleveland Review of Books

Would you still love me if I had a brass nose? What if I were intractable? What if I were as old as the Sibyll? Beauty isn’t everything. I cannot recall the face of Bach.

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My “Difficult Epigrams”from CRB issue 4.1 are now up online. Click through for brass noses, obsidian, espaliered trees, and intractable loves: clereviewofbooks.com/difficult-ep...

Difficult Epigrams - Cleveland Review of Books

Would you still love me if I had a brass nose? What if I were intractable? What if I were as old as the Sibyll? Beauty isn’t everything. I cannot recall the face of Bach.

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I hope you enjoy this drafty little mock-period fiction experiment with no proper ending, inspired by the character studies of Fragonard, Montesquieu, and Balzac— as well as Plin’s little orange slice collar, which will be absent tomorrow. Now on Substack: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-misfortu...

A Misfortune of Oranges

a mock-period character study in light fiction

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I hope you enjoy this drafty little mock-period fiction experiment with no proper ending, inspired by the character studies of Fragonard, Montesquieu, and Balzac— as well as Plin’s little orange slice collar, which will be absent tomorrow. Now on Substack: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-misfortu...

A Misfortune of Oranges

a mock-period character study in light fiction

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New Substack piece “Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred” — loose thoughts on pure mathematics, love, literature, and other problems: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/conjecture...

Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred

loose thoughts on pure mathematics, elegance, literature, love and other problems

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New Substack piece “Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred” — loose thoughts on pure mathematics, love, literature, and other problems: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/conjecture...

Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred

loose thoughts on pure mathematics, elegance, literature, love and other problems

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Thanks so much to Marshall Amintor for letting me know We The Parasites was in a Puzzmo crossword clue today. This is so cool!!! ❤️‍🔥🪱

There’s a new season of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader documentary series on Netflix, which means I get to repost this extremely strange hybrid fiction I wrote for the very first issue of @deathkit.bsky.social : deathkitcom.wordpress.com/dallas-cowbo...

‘dallas cowboys’ cheerleaders nonsite liberation plan’ by a. v. marraccini

1let me just clarify i’m not kidnapping the dallas cowboys cheerleaders. i saw photos of the unabomber cabin in storage and artistically, i can’t say i didn’t like it, it was sort of appealing, but…

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Working on a new essay for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social in the usual chaotic-ordered webbed map style. In memoriam, things that feel like summers, swimming pools, phenomenologies of desire (hazy and otherwise), things as they are(n’t), Wallace Stevens et alii

Today, I have a some delicious self-reflexive formal play going with a new sonnet entitled “Critcs and Criticism” at The Sonneteer (Ken Gordon’s poetry Substack). Have a look! thesonneteer.substack.com/p/critics-an...

Critics & Criticism

A Poem by A. V. Marraccini

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New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

Rose Period

in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem

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Because I would normally say something tonight, instead; wait for my thoughts on the late David Hockney later this summer in the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I promise it will be worth it!

New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

Rose Period

in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem

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I’m going to be posting some short experimental pieces soon and it’s hit and miss with promo, so do subscribe if you’d like to see them: avmarraccini.substack.com

A.V. Marraccini | Substack

Substack: Cloud Studies ⎔ essayist + art historian + critic ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (2023) ⎔ next book THESE NEW FRAGILITIES in 2028 from Seven Stories Press ⎔ avmarraccini.com for all my work. Click ...

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Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis

A sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties

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Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered @sevenstories.bsky.social + @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social ! Excited for you all to see it in 2028! With thanks to beloved agent @craigliterary.bsky.social Celebrating after with a basil strawberry iced lemonade, which will turn out to be book-themed… 🍓

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis

A sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties

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Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered @sevenstories.bsky.social + @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social ! Excited for you all to see it in 2028! With thanks to beloved agent @craigliterary.bsky.social Celebrating after with a basil strawberry iced lemonade, which will turn out to be book-themed… 🍓

A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

Twenty-Five Epigrams To Touch Grass

On Dürer's Great Piece of Turf, artifice, nature, and the dialectics of writing the internet as new Republic of Letters

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A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

Twenty-Five Epigrams To Touch Grass

On Dürer's Great Piece of Turf, artifice, nature, and the dialectics of writing the internet as new Republic of Letters

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Buy @clereviewbooks.bsky.social CRB Issue 4.1 and get one of the most beautifully designed magazine-anthologies in contemporary literature, with some linked epigrams on difficulty, brass noses, volcanoes, obsidian, macarons and the Cumaean Sibyl. asterismbooks.com/product/clev...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be one of the lecturers at the Runokuu Poetics Conference, part of the Runokuu Festival this year in Helsinki. The theme of this year’s conference is breath, and I’m thinking about the poetics of embodied objecthood.

“there’s a thing we do to each other when you can tell another woman wants to crawl inside your skin and take your life, or part of it. And because she can’t, she hurts you. Deep down she knows and you know she knows, but it doesn’t matter; the public hurt is the aim.”

A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Substack Essay: Blue Period-- on being the target of cruelty between women, and on making a life in art as a woman outside of the clinic and the asylum as aspirational gazes: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/blue-period

‘Illness as metaphor as identity doesn’t appeal to me at all now; it’s too close, too real, too uninteresting in its badness.’ Excellent essay. Many have asked why I don’t write about living with chronic illness. The thought bores me to death. I’m trying to survive, be alive, thrive where I can.

A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Substack Essay: Blue Period-- on being the target of cruelty between women, and on making a life in art as a woman outside of the clinic and the asylum as aspirational gazes: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/blue-period