Author archives for Claire Wilcox

Claire Wilcox is a free-lance writer who currently lives in Paris.

Write/Cross-out: Lucy Ives

July 28, 2010 – 2:10 pm

Powered by the refrain-directive “write,” and “cross out,” the content of poet and collage artist Lucy Ives’ most recent work, Anamnesis, remains under active, sustained deliberation throughout. BOMBlog’s Claire Wilcox emailed with Ives, discussing practice, poetry, and power of fortuitous error.

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Czech Mate: Patrik Ouředník’s Case Closed

June 9, 2010 – 2:00 pm

A man confesses an old affair to his son, catches a flu, then dies. A mother mistakes her child’s first word for an expression of pain, and smothers him in blankets until he is “sweating like a stuck pig.” In Czech author Patrik Ouředník’s Case Closed, language can be deadly. Claire Wilcox investigates.

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