Tag Archives: Charles Baudelaire

Yahia Lababidi’s Balancing Acts

Posted on April 7, 2017 by

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

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

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

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

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