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The Ghost of Warhol

Updated: Dec 21, 2021

(for Agnieszka, who inspired it) His guests out by ten, odds are his warehouse hadn't changed into some Byzantine chapel No pale Madonna caviglie or soft Dorothy Day eyes (after the Masters) lay ready
to be etched: it seems he couldn't have prayed either without etching Elvis instead or a rather rakish Kafka And, of course, the great Warhol didn't



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Jay Carsons
Jay Carsons
Dec 20, 2021

I really like your poems. But unless I misunderstood this one, I would say don't be too quick to imagine that Warhol was removed from chapels and Madonnas. The fact that he wasn't, makes him a much more interesting figure than the shallow image of the Studio 54 dandy that had mesmerized us until now. But it's quite possible I've misunderstood the poem. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/andy-warhols-religious-journey

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Conrad DiDiodato
Conrad DiDiodato
Dec 20, 2021
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Thanks, Jay!


It's nice to hear from you. Please share link to your websites.


You have not misunderstood the poem at all. I meant to make that fact of the great Warhol's religiosity a problem and the propensity (almost a reflex action) to see him as the "Studio 54"dancy only deepens it. I've always admired the great Warhol as devotee to both art and the Virgin. What courage!


But I also happen to be a Derrida reader. The poem as I've written it stands at that crossroads always between 'belief' and critique. The reader's free to go either way...

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