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Atlanta's own outsider artist Lonnie Holley may be pure enigma, but then he is also enigmatically pure. By that I mean that his purity of being is so striking that it defies fathom by mere mortals who must exist in his towering shadow. He is complicated, to be sure, but also authentic at the most basic level. He embodies what all great artists do: A contradiction of clean and complex. It's this duality that compels. His sculptures, comprised of organic and synthetic items culled from the environment, are tangled totems of primitive ideals and modern mythologies, political manifestos that stun for their simplicity and astound for their astute intuitive arrangement. Lonnie's music reflects his improvisational artistic approach: Heartfelt and grounded in this world, and yet existing beyond this plane, an otherworldly opera summoning aliens and angels. On this album, he is joined by Atlanta indie rockers Deerhunter as well as Animal Collective, both of whose own cosmic compositions complement Lonnie Holley's gorgeous anti-aesthetic. 117
The Zen of Innocence (Book Review) By Alison Ross In her quietly fierce poetry collection, Innocence, Patricia Carragon has mastered the art of eviscerating withering emotions with creative defiance. Or maybe she is simply a master of manipulating moods so that the reader is always waiting for the trick ending, the twist that packs a punchline that socks you in the gut. Of course, these poems are confessional musings and rantings, with the author's soul laid bare for the vultures to pick at if they wish. As such, her verse provides wrenching glimpses into a once-stifled life, one that has bravely blasted through the barriers constructed by lesser minds. But the poems’ symbolic import is what softens the hard edges with magical hues. Take, for example, "The Green Crayon," where a girl's coloring tool ignites her imagination, and becomes an emblem of artistic anarchy: "Her imagination immediately left the classroom." Or "Small Dreams," which is layered in nautical metaphor about the menace of time, which cruelly devours dreams: "Fog plays tag with hindsight, clouds part for reality to settle in." Other poems are existential riddles, such as "When I Die," which extols the virtues of oblivion ("will the truth vaporize when oxygen leaves my brain?"), and the exceptional "The Room," wherein the titular protagonist is personified as speaking an arcane idiom and where silence is translator. Even though Patricia Carragon is certain she is no "Dickinson, Keruoac, Basho" ("Mr. Lipson"), by the end we can discern the influence of these authors who have steadily guided her to prize strong symbolism and a feisty Zenlike approach to the travails of life. 118
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THUGWISE CAT Issue 37
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