Keep your passport for ‘the surrealist place par excellence’ –
its chaos-politics a measure of its attractiveness
for artists tamed by Europe. On the 1929 Variétés world map
it dominates the States: no government and hardly a state to call its own
but every year it mounts the Theatre of Cruelty
and the Conquest happens all over again and guts you where you sit.
Here’s where Eisenstein came to instruct himself
in the revolutionary power of montage. An upturned U means
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