Tag Archives: Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg and Working in the Gap

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Mark Kerstetter

It’s hard to read about Robert Rauschenberg without encountering a Great American Image: a uniquely American hero in modern visual art. It seems to me rather that he was more like the Slavoj Žižek of the art world of his … Continue reading →

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The Sad Cup of Coffee: a note on personification

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

I’ve had cold coffee and hot coffee, good coffee and lousy coffee, but I’ve never had a sad cup of coffee. —Robert Rauschenberg the spirit of truth must guide us in some sort, even in our enjoyment of fallacy. —John … Continue reading →

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On Not Bringing His Christmas Stocking Out of Storage

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

(an analogue to John Ashbery’s On His Reluctance to Take Down the Christmas Ornaments and a response to Matthew Buckley Smith’s charge that the poem doesn’t make any sense) Can you feel a sense of it A package unopened An … Continue reading →

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A Place Called Gooseberry Inn

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Mark Kerstetter

The gracious and cool Kyle Harvey of Fruita Pulp has provided an exhibition space for four of my poems: Chagall Sketches, Gooseberry Inn, Working in the Gap, and Beckett in Roussillon. All four are very personal in very different ways. … Continue reading →

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