M.I. Gelb

a series of intermitten reflections on my "project" as a writer

today

definitions

by project i mean the thing that i am doing (or more specifically the thing i want to do but am incapable of (forever incapable of) which is a mix of influences and desires and pain which is to say ah let's start again

i don't like the word project (but i do like it because it is painfully unromantic) but i think it is the best choice for that thing all artists have (that is to say, you don't have to lay out a manifesto to have a project (i just mean what you are trying to do with your art (and how you are trying to do it)) therefore ah let's start again

constellation points:
- surrealism (to destabilize, to bring something out from below, to push into something else)
- modernism (to explode into new logics)
- postmodernism (to recognize that the only logic that exists must be exploded)
- marginalized literature (to be small to be anti-hegemonic to be anarchist to find value in anything else but this)
- fear and rage (to scream to scream to scream)
- radical transfeminism (to explode my own body into liberation to push back to try not to die to recognize the world wants to kill me)
- mad pride (to write through and for my brain and nothing else)

thus, writing (such as it is (is it funny or awkward or embarrassing to write this while i'm still working on a collection that expresses these things) and such as it will be)


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