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    Sonics in Warholia
    Sonics in Warholia
    Sonics in Warholia
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    Sonics in Warholia

    By Megan Volpert

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    Poetry. LGBT Studies. Speaking directly to the pop icon's ghost, Megan Volpert dives into a completely charted yet utterly unknown ocean that is Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of love letters and hate mail audaciously perforates the scene of the usual cultural suspects with icy shrapnel in a terrifying mirror game. This is not a biography, but a book that reflects Andy—detects him, the Andy who deflects. Working into territory that channels the essay as its more radical practitioners imagine, Megan revives the prose poem and rethinks herself. As the idea of a "real" Andy begins to decay, the author learns to invent him and discovers herself everywhere. Remaking this mythic man in the image of her own baggage, Megan gives us her most personal writing to date and a striking truth: everybody becomes Andy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSibling Rivalry Press
    Release dateOct 9, 2011
    ISBN9781937420079
    Sonics in Warholia
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    Megan Volpert

    MEGAN VOLPERT is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University and a fellow at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. She is a frequent contributor to PopMatters and has written or edited more than a dozen books, including Boss Broad, which won a Georgia Author of the Year Award. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.

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      Sonics in Warholia - Megan Volpert

      Sonics in Warholia

      By Megan Volpert

      A Sibling Rivalry Press eBook

      Copyright 2011 by Megan Volpert.

      Cover design by Mona Z. Kraculdy.

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      Thanks to the editors of Ariel, Black Warrior Review, and Trunk of Delirium for their willingness to publish some form of the pieces that appear here.

      Additional works of art that orbit this project, including audio companion and responses from other writers, can be found on the author's website (located predictably at www.meganvolpert.com).

      portrait of a mix tape

      for the love of good machines

      illusion of depth and vanishing acts

      photographs of stolen things

      dear diary of a dead man's telephone number

      of confessions during blow job

      ballad of the maladies

      recurring fear of flat champagne

      Portrait of a Mix Tape

      The purpose of a mix tape is to evoke certain feelings in the listener by archiving a set of songs the listener will for whatever personal reason associate with particular moments in time that are linked to these feelings. In general, the mix tape can be viewed as an emotional salve, either a soothing presence or a generator of energy and excitement. Occasionally however, the mix tape is meant to chart the entire course of a person’s life, as a sort of greatest hits or magnum opus. Thusly, Andy, please enjoy your 58 years boiled down to fifty-seven minutes and fifty-one seconds.

      But you cannot enjoy it; it’s too suspenseful. You already sense the potential badness, the caughtness of moments meant to be filed far away. To temporarily allay your fears, we will begin with The Velvet Underground and Nico’s All Tomorrow’s Parties, which is a tribute to you and supposedly your favorite song. But then it is followed crushingly with David Bowie’s Andy Warhol, also meant as a tribute to you that you nevertheless despised.

      And what costume shall the poor girl wear to all tomorrow’s parties? Andy Warhol looks a scream. She’ll turn once more to Sunday’s clown and cry behind the door. Hang him on my wall. For Thursday’s child is Sunday’s clown, for whom none will go mourning. Andy Warhol, Silver Screen, can't tell them apart at all.

      Mack the Knife, with lyrics originally composed by Bertolt Brecht for The Threepenny Opera, premiered the year you were born and has in common with All Tomorrow’s Parties that it has been subsequently covered by every musician under the sun. The day you expired, Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer was number one on the Billboard charts, as it had been since Valentine’s Day of 1987. Bon Jovi’s merchandise includes an eco-friendly Warhol Heart and Dagger t-shirt.

      Gina dreams of running away. Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe, and he keeps it out of sight. You live for the fight when it’s all that you’ve got. Fancy gloves, though, wears old MacHeath, babe, so there’s never, never a trace of red. It’s tough, so tough. Now on the sidewalk, sunny morning, lies

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