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Nomads [poem by Charles Baudelaire tr. Sandra Simonds]
Portrait of a 23-year-old Baudelaire, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846) Nomads A tribe of prophetsmoves through the mistcarrying a bit of moneyand little kids on their backs,kids with enormous appetites.The men are…
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“Aubade” by Max Harris [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Max Harris is best known as the editor responsible for publishing the oeuvre of the fictional poet Ern Malley. The hoax has become the stuff of legend and Harris’s role as the dupe overshadows…
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Darragh Park’s Cover for “Two Journals” by James Schuyler
In 1985 James Schuyler and Darragh park commenced on the project of "accompanying journals," in Park's phrase, Schuyler's in prose and Park's in drawings. The journals were not "mutually descriptive," but did reflect conversations…
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T. S. Eliot: The More You Know, The More You Don’t
Poet, playwright and critic T.S. Eliot, circa 1920. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES From T.S. Eliot’s essay “The Perfect Critic” for the literary journal Athenaeum in 1920: The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by…
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Sherman Alexie: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________ Gentrification Let us remember the wasps That hibernated in the walls Of the house next door. Its walls Bulged with twenty pounds…
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Donald Shambroom’s “Forsythia” at Mercury Gallery (Rockport)
Forsythia, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 in. Donald Shambroom is a visual artist and writer whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the…
