Anne Olson
For
Catherine the Great: My foot and a chainsaw dipped in lime juice
For
the Marquis de Sade: Space shoes and ping pong and lollipops
and MTV
For
Simone de Beauvoir: Red sheets and blue sheets and jaundiced
kewpie doll legs
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A boa of thorns
Penelope Rosemont
For
Hannah Höch: A rooster wearing a Balinese hat and playing
the "St. Louis Blues" on a trumpet
For
Robert Desnos: A very comfortable pillow that enables him to
communicate with the planet Venus while asleep, and which allows
him to become the first Earthman to play Venusian music on the harmonica
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A castle on the East River with
hot and cold running words, steam-heated poetry, and wall-to-wall
chance encounters
Paul Garon
For
Memphis Minnie: 1000 silver dollars with which to make an entire
gown
For
Tommy Johnson: A case of 100-proof Chivas Regal and a set of
Steuben glass vessels to drink from
For
Sandor Ferenczi: Membership in a polygamous tribe
For
Louis Armstrong: A chauffeured pirogue, covered in fur, to sail
down the Hudson River
Sarah Metcalf
For
the Marquis de Sade: A bed of pink sherbet in a field of poppies
For
Saint-Just: A hall of mirrors where he could witness the infinity
of his physical being
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A carousel of forbidden fruits
shrouded in piano keys
Jennifer Bean
For
Meret Oppenheim: Rocks of varying shapes and sizes that I collected
while walking from my home to hers
For
Franz Kafka: A newspaper article about the chess game between
Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue
For
the Marquis de Sade: Access to the Internet
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A camera
Franklin Rosemont
For
Thelonious Monk: A rhinoceros-shaped piano covered with starfish
For
Mary Shelley: A large igloo on Waikiki Beach, with music by
Johnny Hodges
For
Louis Armstrong: The Eiffel Tower, painted black and leaning
at a 45 degree angle
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: a baby-blue steam locomotive in
which she could roar down the streets of New York
Ron Sakolsky
For
Vachel Lindsay: Sun Ra's celestial greetings sent from Saturn
in a pulsating mass of glowing blue light encircling the poet's
bed of dreams in mysterious Springfield, Illinois
For
Louis Armstrong: A platter of white hot chocolate alligators
to surround the perfect note
Ryan Deibert
For
Louis Armstrong: A postcard from Madame Laveau's; pasted to
the back, a picture of my friends and me asleep under his statue
at Congo Square
For
Joseph Cornell: My first diorama from kindergarten, in which
the heads of thistles were prehistoric trees for purple dinosaurs
to eat
For
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A tie stolen from my father's
closet
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