Pierre Joris wrote:
> It's been a busy week! Check out the following posts at:
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> Mallarmé in Arabic
> Technicians of the sacred finally in French
> William Kennedy at 80
William Kennedy has given me two gifts. One is *Quinn's Book* because
of that epic-battle opening chapter--the Hudson River at Albany
exploding into ice-artillery in 1849. The other is the opening chapter
of *Ironweed*, with its description of the street-drunk Francis Phelan
stumbling to the grave of his baby son Gerald, whom, while intoxicated,
he killed by dropping him on his head . It is the imagined view of the
"outer" world from the underworld that is phantasmagoric and forever
haunting...the 14-day old dead baby Gerald among the other dead,
unemotionally observing his guilt-racked father who had never recovered
from what he did to his child. In that world forgiveness is neither
possible nor necessary--everything just is.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman kenwolman.wordpress.com
Abuse of power comes as no surprise--Jenny Holzer
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