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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Selfish Ghosts
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'It's 1978-79 and in an abandoned warehouse in New York City, at a diner slightly out-of-focus, on a crowded subway pistoling through Brooklyn, seen pissing in a toilet in a dilapidated cubicle is Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud's in Coney Island and at the Hudson River sex piers. He's shooting up heroin. He is masturbating. He is pointing at Jesus graffitied on a wall. He is holding a gun to his head. Says multi-form visual artist David Wojnarowicz of the more than 200 photographs he took of his friends - and possibly himself - wearing a cut-out photocopied Rimbaud mask, 'I had Rimbaud come through a vague biographic& outline of what my past had been—the places I had hung out in as a kid, the places I starved in or haunted on sonic level.'

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    y separately published work icon Island no. 165 2022 24990915 2022 periodical issue

    'This issue includes the winning and shortlisted entries from this year’s Island Nonfiction Prize. These essays thoughtfully explore our relationships with art, illness, sexuality and nature in compelling and beautiful writing.

    'Island 165 is also packed with excellent new poetry and fiction that will startle, captivate, inspire and move you. You’ll even be intrigued by a story told through receipts, internet searches and playlists! 

    'Along with features on three wonderful painters, we bring you a taste of a large, timely artistic project: water[shed], in which 50 artists respond to the 50th anniversary of the inundation of Tasmania’s jewel-like original Lake Pedder. Enjoy' (Publication summary)

    2022
    pg. 6-9
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    y separately published work icon Island Online - 2022 2022 28631470 2022 periodical issue 2022
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