VES 102k: Word Play: Language as an Art Material
Freshman Seminar 36m: Noisy Art

The Memory Theater Burned (Turtle Point Press, 2004).
Reprinted with permission of Turtle Point Press.

Krukowski studied at Harvard, concentrating in social studies and continuing on to graduate work in English and comparative literature, but left the academy when his first band, Galaxie 500, started touring extensively in the late 1980s. After the inevitable band break-up, he and his partner Naomi Yang began recording as a duo, Damon & Naomi, releasing five albums on Sub Pop Records (1992–2002) before founding their own label, 20/20/20. Krukowski and Yang are also book publishers, editor and designer respectively of Exact Change, a press based in Cambridge that specializes in writings associated with avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century such as pataphysics, Dada, and surrealism. Krukowski’s own writings include a collection of poems, 5000 Musical Terms (Burning Deck Press, 1995), and a book of prose poems, The Memory Theater Burned (Turtle Point Press, 2004). In addition to poetry, Krukowski often writes about music for ArtForum and other periodicals. “Damon regards language as prayer thought. His lines move with a strange speed of wonder yet with an ear towards new found sound. This is good music.”—Thurston Moore