6/8/2023 0 Comments Middle Earth by Henri ColeHenri Cole’s poems in Pierce the Skin, the new selected volume published by Farrar Straus Giroux that spans six books and twenty-five years, achieve the same effect of fluidity, transience, and emblematic vulnerability as Bourgeois’ steel spider. Despite its solid construction, the lithe, angular design of the spider makes it seem precarious - more sinew than steel - and the title Maman, French for mother, reinforces this sense of vulnerability as terrifying as the giant spider may be, she is simply the model of a mother protecting her sac of marble eggs, hovering above horrified museum-goers. Artist Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture Maman is grotesque and elegant, vulnerable and out of place on its long uneven legs. A thirty-foot spider made of stainless steel perches outside of London’s Tate Modern Museum.
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