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Revolution: A Reader, Selected and annotated by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler, with a bibliography by David Brazil, Paraguay Press, Paris / Publication Studio, Portland, OR, 2012 (then 2015) [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel]

Texts: Kathy Acker, Etel Adnan, Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Hannah Arendt, Dodie Bellamy, Hakim Bey, David Brazil, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Mahmoud Darwish, Guy Davenport, Angela Davis, Gilles Deleuze, Stacy Doris, Hal Draper, Frantz Fanon, Shulamith Firestone, M.F.K. Fisher, Michel Foucault, Charles Fourier, Mavis Gallant, Jean Genet, George Grosz, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alan Halsey, Donna Haraway, Harry Hay, William Hazlitt, Christopher Hill, Langston Hughes, Ivan Illich, The Invisible Committee, Calvin Johnson, J. Krishnamurti, Thomas Kuhn, Violette Leduc, Mina Loy, Lucretius, Asmaa Mahfouz, Agnes Martin, Marshall McLuhan, Louise Michel, Eileen Myles, Elena Poniatowska, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Michel Ragon, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, Edward Said, Saskia Sassen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Situationist International, Valerie Solanas, Rebecca Spang, Gertrude Stein, Jalal Toufic, Edward John Trelawney, Flora Tristan, Oscar Tuazon, Vivienne Westwood, Oscar Wilde, Raymond Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Woodcock

Design: Roman Seban

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https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/art-keeps-revolution-honest

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David Brazil

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 25 July 1969

Ethnicity: Brazilian

Occupation: Promoter, actor

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Gabriel Medina’s birthday party 23/12/19

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Signaling Through the Flames: David Brazil, Author of Holy Ghost

During this time of uncertainty, we’ve asked City Lights authors how they’re doing, what they’re reading, and any advice they have for our community. Their responses have been very inspiring to us, and we hope that sharing them will inspire you as well.

“Signaling Through the Flames” gets its title from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s timeless work, Poetry As Insurgent Art, which beings with the line, “I am signaling you through the flames …” This line is, in turn, taken from Antonin Artaud in his landmark book The Theatre and Its Double, in which he says  “If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” Follow the hashtag #SignalingThruTheFlames across all our platforms on social media to follow the complete series.

City Lights: Where are you?  

David Brazil: I'm in my shotgun apartment in the Bayou St. John neighborhood of New Orleans. 

What books make you feel inspired?

The Bible (Philippians and Mark's "little apocalypse" in chapter 13), George Jackson's Soledad Brother, Genet's Prisoner of Love, and N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Also Oswald Chambers' classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest.   

What gives you hope in this moment? (And/or what are you thankful for?)

My partner Sarah and our son Sam both give me hope, and I'm grateful for my comrades in the New Orleans Mutual Aid Society (@MutualAidNO) and the many other projects of community response. This is what the fight against capitalism and for collective liberation looks like now. 

Any advice that you’d like to share with our community? 

Stay strong yourself (eat well, get rest, don't drink), and figure out how you can support our most vulnerable neighbors: houseless folks, those over sixty, and the immune-compromised. Pray daily. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, so prepare for the long haul. 

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David Brazil is a poet, translator and novelist. His books include The Ordinary, antisocial patience, and Holy Ghost (published by City Lights in 2017). With Kevin Killian, he edited the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal TRY! magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He's a Scorpio.

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Neymar's Glow Up - a story documented by David Brazil