Tag Archives: Charles Baudelaire

Agamben on Twilight

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Mark Kerstetter

Twilight As the weight of day bears down and night’s promise advances, memory and loss in equal shares emerge in a standoff. Will and fancy, knowledge and flight become unlikely workmates and vision pushes focus against the last flakes of silver backing … Continue reading →

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Yahia Lababidi’s Balancing Acts

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Mark Kerstetter

The poems of Yahia Lababidi recall some great names: Borges, Pessoa, and Baudelaire. The spirit of Baudelaire looms large in the poems of Balancing Acts. But I think of visual artists too. Striking, novel images are conjured, mysterious and dreamlike, … Continue reading →

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Bataille on Baudelaire

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

I belong to a turbulent generation, born to literary life in the tumult of surrealism. In the years after the Great War there was a feeling which was about to overflow. Literature was stifling within its limitations and seemed pregnant … Continue reading →

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Three Books by Seann McCollum

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Mark Kerstetter

1. shoplift a six-pack of love from the plaid pantry of my heart The 49 short prose pieces in this book will make you laugh and they just might put a hairline crack in your little heart.

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Poetry in Prose

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Mark Kerstetter

This article is about what poetry in prose means to me.

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