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- Title
from Take What You Need.
- Authors
Novey, Idra
- Abstract
Sergei never asked what I did with the sheet metal he loaded onto my truck. You have to become more than yourself is what Louise declared when she passed sixty-five, the very station on the life train where I was now, the age when Louise started sculpting those tremendous cocks of hers, big as boxing bags, suspending them at whatever height she wanted. These works, which she dubs her "Manglements", assert themselves into the foreground of the story with the same haunting force of Louise Bourgeois's works - which makes sense given that Bourgeois is Jean's greatest influence and the central source of reflection on the artistic impulse in Idra Novey's superb new novel, i Take What You Need I . I Deep in the mountains of Pennsylvania, a sixty-six year old woman named Jean welds scrap metal into massive sculptures.
- Subjects
BLACK children; BODY odor; STREET children; SHEET metal; METAL sculpture
- Publication
Brooklyn Rail, 2023, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2157-2151
- Publication type
Interview