Posts Tagged ‘Charles Baudelaire’
Attention Span 2009 – Daniel Bouchard
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop | The Flowers of Evil | Wesleyan | 2006
Daniel DeFoe | Memoirs of a Cavalier | Shakespeare Head Press | 1928
Rachel Loden | Dick of the Dead | Ahsahta Press | 2009
Eric Hobsbawm | The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 | Vintage | 1989
Fanny Howe | The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation |Graywolf | 2009
Devin Johnston | Sources | Turtle Point Press | 2008
Flann O’Brien | The Hard Life | Dalkey Archive | 1994
Tom Pickard | The Dark Month of May | Flood | 2004
Winfield Townley Scott | New and Selected Poems | Doubleday | 1967
Genevieve Taggard | Travelling Standing Still | Knopf | 1928
More Daniel Bouchard here.
Lipstick Traces – June 2009
Most of the mp3 files linked to on Lipstick of Noise live on other servers, but occasionally I upload clips to the Third Factory site hosted by Duration. According to the Awstats, these are the eleven most listened to tracks for June 2009:
Rosmarie Waldrop – Shorter American Memory of Declaration of Independence
Julie Patton – Alphabet Soup
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop – Carrion
Eugene Ostashevsky – DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper
Paul Dutton – Untitled
Alice Notley – In the Pines 14 (excerpt)
Lisa Robertson – “Plentifully of reason…” from The Men
Daniil Kharms, trans. Matvei Yankelevich – Blue Notebook 4
Jackson Mac Low – from Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha
Stephanie Young – fr. Betty Page We Love You Get Up
Charles Bernstein – Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold
Attention Span – Leonard Schwartz
Nathalie Stephens | The Sorrow And The Fast Of It | Nightboat | 2008
This Canadian writer is new to me. Andrew Zawacki describes her as “the son-daughter of Helene Cixous and Jean Genet,” and that sounds right. A poem in prose, its sentences echo and refine.
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop | The Flowers of Evil | Wesleyan | 2007
This is the best translation of Baudelaire I have ever read. Waldrop translates the poems into “versets”, which he defines this way: “a measured prose that allows the sentence to dominate, as in prose, checked by a sense of line that restricts it.”
Rikki Ducornet | Desirous | Pierre Menard Gallery | 2007
Lush images, fictions, essays by and about this luminous writer.
Takashi Hiraide, trans. Sawako Nakayasu | For The Fighting Spirit Of The Walnut | New Directions | 2008
A master of the Japanse prose poem, impeccably translated by Sawako Nakaysu.
Fanny Howe | The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown | Nightboat | 2008
Nightboat Books has brought these two major texts by Howe back into print.
Francis Ponge, trans. Lee Fahnestock | Mute Objects Of Expression | Archipelago | 2008
From my own blurb for this book: “Ponge’s prose accepts the truth that things themselves defy our language. The writing accepts this, but is not resigned to it…. Being holds out against its every nemesis, and both Being and Non-Being offer themselves to our dream of silence.”
Zhang Er and Chen Dongdong, eds. | Another Kind Of Nation: an Anthology of Contemporary Poetry | Talisman | 2007
A big anthology of a very important contemporary poetry.
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More Leonard Schwartz here.
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Attention Span 2011 | Stephen Burt
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Angela Leighton | On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Legacy of a Word | Oxford | 2007
Art for art’s sake becomes art for form’s sake becomes art for the sake of nothing, or nothing inside: a nihilism not for destructive Russians but for pensive, patient ancients, in a line of descent that starts with Lucretius and keeps on ticking, to (take your pick) Stevens or Ashbery or you or me. Bonus: includes the best case I have ever seen for sustained attention to the thoughtful poetry of W. S. Graham.
Jennifer Finney Boylan | She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders | Broadway | 2003
“I didn’t want to be told I had to be a woman…. People can’t have everything they want, I thought. It is your fate to accept a life being something other than yourself.
“I don’t think this is so crazy, even now. If I could have pulled this off, I would have.”
Christopher Nealon | The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century | Harvard | 2011
At least half the people who read Third Factory probably knew this book was on the way: it’s out, and it’s short, and it doesn’t disappoint. Some of its supposedly contrarian claims are going to be commonplaces pretty soon—sort of like the claims in The Well-Wrought Urn. Bonus: includes the best case I have ever seen for sustained attention to the thoughtful poetry of Kevin Davies.
Timothy Donnelly | The Cloud Corporation | Wave | 2010
Another long-awaited book about the deformations that way-too-late capitalism works on the voice and the soul; exhilarating and saddening at the same time. It helps if you, too, love Stevens, disappointments, urbanity and urbanneness (not the same thing, and not in that order). “Right around here is where I start getting lost.”
Jennifer Homans | Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet | Random | 2010
I started reading this book because I had to (it was a candidate for an award): I didn’t think I cared for ballet at all. By the time I finished it I had come to care a great deal, not just for the art form and its history, but for the magisterial way in which Homans takes her imagined reader in hand: it’s a doorstop, but it’s also a masterpiece, and it’s a book you ought to consult if you ever plan to write a large-scale cultural history of anything at all.
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Wallace Fowlie | Flowers of Evil/ Les Fleurs du Mal and other works: a dual language book | Dover | 1992 (1963)
“Through the symbolic bars separating two worlds, the main road and the castle, the poor child was showing his own toy to the rich child who was greedily examining it.”
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Stephen Burt is a professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics, and Close Calls with Nonsense.
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Written by Steve Evans
October 29, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Posted in Attention Span 2011, Commented List
Tagged with Angela Leighton, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Nealon, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jennifer Homans, Stephen Burt, Timothy Donnelly, Wallace Fowlie