All Posts2004 April
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Baetens, ethics, constraint
Baetens, Jan. “Free Writing, Constrained Writing: The Ideology of Form.” Poetics Today 18.1 (Spring 1997): 1-14. Jan Baetens is one of the editors/founders of the journal Formules: Revue des litteratures a contraintes, which I have collected a number of issues of, but only so far browsed through. Having now read this article by him, I [...]
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The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
Cocteau, Jean. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) [1929]. Trans. Rosamond Lehmann. New York: New Directions, 1957. ISBN: 0811200213 (pbk), $11.95. This short novel is inexorably linked to films in my mind. It is the first book I’ve read by Cocteau (though not the first I own) who I am firstly familiar with for his [...]
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Racing in the Streets: The Bruce Springsteen Reader
Racing in the Streets: The Bruce Springsteen Reader. Ed. June Skinner Sawyers. New York: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 0142003549 (pbk), $16.00. When I was a kid, Bruce Springsteen was the guy on Mtv with the baseball video (it took me more than a decade to realize that “Glory Days” wasn’t all about baseball). He was the [...]