Friday Pick: K.J. Erben’s A Bouquet
Behind the spirits and water sprites, what emerges from this collection is a culture that has a profound faith in language. After all, what are curses and spells but poems?
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Emily Bludworth de Barrios
As if you were a famous and celebrated painting. //
Just hanging about /
receiving praise. //
It is an adolescent wish, /
wanting to be praised for having done no thing.
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Johannes Baader
"Did Baader fall and hit his head, you say? /
Baader says Baader’s head’s okay. Okay?"
Daniel Bosch translates German Dadaist poet Johannes Baader
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Daniel Bosch translates German Dadaist poet Johannes Baader
Irena Brezna
Father comes home on the weekends and shoots sparrows. He’s not allowed to live with us, he’s a bourgeois element. Once, when our life wasn’t happy yet, he helped rich people get even richer and exploited the proletariat. He was a lawyer with his own office, and wore a white shirt and tie.
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Erje Ayden
He said the three men he most admired were James Cagney, James Cagney, James Cagney.
So Art and I had something in common – James Cagney.
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