Writings on Lewis Baltz, John Gossage, Evan Connell, Frank Stella, Terry Conway, Guy Williams, Hitchcock, Wim Wenders, Kubrick, Joel-Peter Witkin, Thomas Barrow, Stanley Cavell, Robert Creeley, Plato’s Phaedrus, Ross Feld, Rachel Whiteread, James Baldwin, Allen Graham, Don Dudley, Carroll Dunham, …and then some…

Cover photo by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

CONTENTS:

Editor’s Preface: by William Peterson

Foreword: by Stanley Cavell

Introduction:  “On Slipping Across: Reading, Friendship, Otherness” by David Morris

On Photographs:

1. Absorbing Inventories: Thomas Barrow’s “Libraries Series”
2. Afterworld: Photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin
3. BLDGS: Photographs of Lewis Baltz
4. Space Begins Because We Look Away From Where We Are: Lewis Baltz, Candlestick Point
5. Buried Silk Exhumed: The Lewis Baltz Retrospective, Rule Without Exception
6. From Obscenity in Thy Mother’s Milk: John Gossage’s “HF!” Portfolio
7. Thirteen Ways of NOT Looking at a Gossage Photograph

On Movies:

Passion Misfits Us All: Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas

8. Death’s Blue-Eyed Boy: Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
9. Still Moving
10. Highlighting Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Magic Marker

On Painting:

12. Frank Stella’s The Whiteness of the Whale
13. Passion and the Pine Breeze: The Paintings of Terry Conway
14. Guy Williams: On In: Outside
15. Original Face: Allan Graham’s Moon 2
16. Poem: Omoide No Tsukimi

On Reading & Writing:

17. A Gloss Annexed
18. Vatic Writing: Evan Connell’s Notes from a Bottle . . .
19. Tell It Like It Is: The Experimental Traditionalists
20. Rebus
21. What Was Called A Thought Echoed in Sight: Yvor Winters’ Centennial
22. Poem: Occasional Loquats: For Janet Lewis
23. For Robert Creeley on his 70^th Birthday
24. A Nobler Seduction
25. Slipping Across

Fiction: Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, The TLP Hotel (4 Excerpts)

Shorts & Excerpts from Correspondence

Envoi: by Ira Jaffe

Chronology: by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Bibliography