Ayden LeRoux

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Brandon Shimoda |Rashed Aqrabawi |Ayden LeRoux

Talking with the Dead for Eiko OtakeNo body is going to riseout of that moundof wet dirtIt’s not dirt    It’s a bodyI imagined itdryI imaginedmounds everywheremarking the momentsas gravesof where people werenot    over there,    somewhere elselike trees    in pink youthgreet the afterlife+If the people did not transitionfrom life into death,did they die? If they did not die, are they dead? If they are not dead    wherewherewhere . . .

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Rashed Aqrabawi |Ayden LeRoux

In reading these poems, I’m reminded of a rock formation, spectacularly contoured, enduring the eddying crosscurrents of wind and water. Certainly the poems give an eloquent sense of the forces—both drastic and subtle—that have impressed upon and honed the exquisite particularities of this sensibility: tectonic violences, both present and past; the gravitational attractions of desire, heritage, family; the scouring currents of diaspora.

Mar 15, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Ayden LeRoux

One Saturday evening in June 2019 I went to see newwork by Marwa Abdul-Rahman at the Wilding CranGallery in Los Angeles. I was fascinated by the lack ofboundaries in the work on display, its open sense ofstruggle and pressure. In the artist’s range of materialsand the tensions contained within, I was struck by abursting energy and a feeling of something more cerebral, controlled, and willed.

Dec 1, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Ayden LeRoux

Reading Lists These fictional authors aren't who they seem to be...

Mar 2, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Ayden LeRoux

In Catherine Lacey’s “criminally good” novel, a widow investigates the true identity of her wife, a controversial artist who influenced the likes of Kathy Acker and David Bowie. Part of the Editor's Choice series. Mar 2, 2023 Driver's license for Dorothy Eagle, an alias of X. Created by Alex Merto. Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.