The poem discusses Russia's preoccupation with monuments throughout history and the cycle of building and destroying them. It describes a statue that was blown up beside a river but seems to have overcome death. It talks about people chaining themselves to a statue of Felix and trying to pull it down, until the statue "coughed itself in half". The poem suggests handling monuments differently by changing their context rather than eliminating them, and talks about memory and what to do with the future beyond just commemoration through monuments.
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Poem for "People as Monuments" project.
http://seanstarowitz.com/topics/art/people-as-monuments-public-proposal-2
The poem discusses Russia's preoccupation with monuments throughout history and the cycle of building and destroying them. It describes a statue that was blown up beside a river but seems to have overcome death. It talks about people chaining themselves to a statue of Felix and trying to pull it down, until the statue "coughed itself in half". The poem suggests handling monuments differently by changing their context rather than eliminating them, and talks about memory and what to do with the future beyond just commemoration through monuments.
The poem discusses Russia's preoccupation with monuments throughout history and the cycle of building and destroying them. It describes a statue that was blown up beside a river but seems to have overcome death. It talks about people chaining themselves to a statue of Felix and trying to pull it down, until the statue "coughed itself in half". The poem suggests handling monuments differently by changing their context rather than eliminating them, and talks about memory and what to do with the future beyond just commemoration through monuments.