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Contemporary Verse Novels: Jacques Roubaud’s SOME THING BLACK and Alix Cleo Roubaud’s ALIX’S JOURNAL

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I first heard about these two books from M. Kitchell’s post at HTML Giant. I went to the Dalkey Archives website and read: “In 1983 Jacques Roubaud’s wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem (“Nothing”), then fell silent for thirty months.“ [...]

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Start Suffering

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on December 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »

“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you want to escape from but can’t.” – Flannery O’Connor *** The stakes get raised again. After reading John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig I’m of a mind with Louise Glück lines from “Mock Orange”: How can [...]

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“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time later, Dalkey Archive author Harry Mathews followed in Stendhal’s footsteps and also decided that he would write [...]

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