![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line Review by Mina Tavakoli at 6:50 p.m. ![]() Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history." Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play. Call it Sabrina." "Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed." "Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness. He directly proposes assignments to readers: "Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Wayne dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg's squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for "stranger" Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend's stinky feet. " In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. ![]() By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse. "Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together. ![]()
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