By: Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

TAYLOR SWIFT

By: Joshua Glenn

Contemporary… but also soulless.

By: Ludwig Rubiner

“The human being hovers within a luminous net in flight…”

By: Art Wallace

MICHIGAN

By: James Parker

“I am here to take this story by the throat.”

By: Christopher Blayre

“Think of the lines of light that are connecting us at this moment with the other planets…”

By: Carlo Rotella

SMOOTHER GROOVES

By: Álvaro de Campos

“Energetic cavalcade of me inside all energies…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“A force of which they knew nothing was dragging them forward over the edge of a glacier…”

By: Vladimir Mayakovsky

“We’ll wash the world with a second deluge…”

By: Heather Quinlan

THE GRATEFUL DEAD

By: Joshua Glenn

A self-immolating work of Pop Art.

By: Paul Valéry

“Alien, ineluctable stars who deign, / Omnipotent, on time’s far edge, to shine…”

By: Mandy Keifetz

FAITH

By: Joshua Glenn

Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW