Monthly Archives: February 2015

On Not Bringing His Christmas Stocking Out of Storage

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

(an analogue to John Ashbery’s On His Reluctance to Take Down the Christmas Ornaments and a response to Matthew Buckley Smith’s charge that the poem doesn’t make any sense) Can you feel a sense of it A package unopened An … Continue reading →

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Maldoror is Not Surrealism

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

  If this video weren’t already long enough, I could have, if I wished to be helpful, drawn more comparisons between Maldoror and Surrealism, something about how Breton surely recognized the Sadean character of Maldoror, about how he wanted as … Continue reading →

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