ISBN: 978-1-939901-16-3
One Foot in the Other World
Paul Maziar
$20.00
Winter 2021
English
Paperback
6.5 x 8 in.
498 pages
“Paul Maziar's new collection, One Foot in the Other World, offers special insight into art's effect on a keenly sensitive mind, that of a poet/critic in the tradition of his heroes such as Bill Berkson, Charles North, and John Yau. These ekphrastic musings, reviews, and pithy philosophical observations reveal an impassioned seeker, whether of existential solace in the desert or aesthetic discovery in aimless urban wanderings. Captivated by his desire for knowledge without certitude, we follow him in his marvelous journey.”
— Sue Taylor, author of
Grant Wood's Secrets (2020)
“With no political or aesthetic agendas to ram down our throats, Maziar’s
generous eye detects the best in a varied menagerie of both famous and lesser-known artists and writers. He’s the kind of guide whose quiet enthusiasm one quickly learns to trust.”
— Trevor Winkfield, author of Georges Braque & Others: The Selected Art Writings of Trevor Winkfield, 1990-2009 (2014)
“The world Paul writes about is the one I desire to live in. He is drawn to expressions of fear and vulnerability, to artist weirdos, to the strange beauty behind the experience of not knowing. I found the book transporting.”
— Katherine Bradford
Paul Maziar writes about art and books for various publications such as BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Oregon ArtsWatch, L.A. Weekly, and RREALISM. His monograph text, Roger Kukes: Thirty Years, was published in 2019. TO THE AIR, his poetry book in collaboration with artist Cynthia Lahti, was published by the Cooley Gallery at Reed College in 2020 and his first full-length collection of poems,
THE MIRACLE OF TALK, is forthcoming. Paul is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.
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