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"One reason people’s aversion to poetry sometimes passes over into strong annoyance, or even resentment, is that poems steal our very language out from under us and return it malformed, misshapen, hardly recognizable…"
— Dan Chiasson on poet David Ferry’s beautiful thefts: http://nyr.kr/WtVe8C(Source: newyorker.com)
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In this week’s issue, Adam Green profiles theatrical pickpocket Apollo Robbins. Robbins tells Green: “A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I’m trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions. My goal isn’t to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality.” http://nyr.kr/UKfy6A
Photograph by Martin Schoeller.
