Kendra Sullivan in conversation with Louis Bury
From left to right: Kendra Sullivan, Sullivan’s new book “Reps,” and Louis Bury.
We spoke together on the occasion of her recent Ugly Duckling Presse book, Reps, which uses undisclosed constraints as carrying cases — safe deposit boxes — for the stories humans tell each other to make sense of their many capacities.
Kendra Sullivan operates in the vital tradition of poets who undertake DIY cultural work. She is the Director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Humanities, where she is responsible for initiatives such as Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Archive Initiative and NYC Climate Justice Hub. She co-founded the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Brooklyn, and is a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-arts collective.
Bernard Noël (1930-2021): State of Air
Bernard Noël
States of Air
tr. Charles Bernstein
for Viera da Silva
we have just the view
the words of wind
this void the land
here the deepening reverses
self-regard
making us leap into our eyes
always the go-and-come
the viewed and the not viewed
the graphing of not there
on that which is there