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Category: Poetry
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The Bard in Mallarmé
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The Lost Voice of the Great War
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Sweet with Fire
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Remembering Samuel Johnson
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À tous les sables du ciel
parce qu’on a toujours des herbes dans le sang je plaide pour la verdure je plaide pour la quiétude dans les forges du moment et pour les soleils marbrés qui cognent partout sur les dalles du temps qui reviennent jouer dedans avec tous les vents à la vie voulue à l’été éternel et je vénère […]
À tous les sables du ciel
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a cover, blurbs from four of my idols in disparate fields, and a foothold on Amazon. The people I approached to endorse, […]
From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
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The Duke and the Swan
Here’s a curious likeness that was probably observed soon after Mallarmé’s celebrated sonnet “Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui . . .” was published, and repeatedly since then—as, latterly, by me. The poet knew his Shakespeare, whose pirate Lieutenant opens the fourth act of Henry VI part 2 with the structurally similar line […]
The Duke and the Swan
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