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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Un lac le matin
Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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October 2023
October 2023
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A load of shit
A load of shit
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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A load of shit
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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John Berger’s essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year’s worth of his household’s excrement. What follows is an extended reflection—at once philosophically detached and engaged with the inescapable stuff of life—on shit as an allegory of what it means to be human.
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October 2023
October 2023
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The lottery in Babylon
The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly(...)
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The lottery in Babylon
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges's short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement - a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.
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September 2024
September 2024
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Our distance became water
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically(...)
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically(...)
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Our distance became water
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, "Our distance became water" is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change.
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"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate." As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, "Our distance became water" is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change.
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et(...)
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et(...)
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Architecture : Le coyote, le petit renard, le geai et le pou
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et décident d’œuvrer ensemble, et de s’accorder pour s’établir dans un lieu idéal et habiter, ensemble, le monde. Plein de poésie et de philosophie, superbement illustré, ce conte questionne les fondements mêmes de l’architecture.
Architecture : Le coyote, le petit renard, le geai et le pou
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« Architecture : Le coyote, le petit-renard, le geai et le pou » est un conte philosophique sur ce qu’habiter la Terre ensemble signifie. Il place le désir de communauté comme préalable pour parvenir à s’établir. En partant d’un conte autochtone, l’auteur analyse le cheminement de quatre compères, ici : un coyote, un renard, un geai et un pou qui se rencontrent et décident d’œuvrer ensemble, et de s’accorder pour s’établir dans un lieu idéal et habiter, ensemble, le monde. Plein de poésie et de philosophie, superbement illustré, ce conte questionne les fondements mêmes de l’architecture.
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October 2023
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« Cette déambulation littéraire, politique et géographique navigue entre l’essai, le récit de voyage et le journal. Elle parle d’Inde et du Rojava, de romans, de prison et de broderie, de tropiques et de subsistance, de folie, de décroissance et de rêves. Des vaches et des écureuils tigrés s’y promènent en toute liberté au milieu de réflexions sur l’activisme politique.(...)
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« Cette déambulation littéraire, politique et géographique navigue entre l’essai, le récit de voyage et le journal. Elle parle d’Inde et du Rojava, de romans, de prison et de broderie, de tropiques et de subsistance, de folie, de décroissance et de rêves. Des vaches et des écureuils tigrés s’y promènent en toute liberté au milieu de réflexions sur l’activisme politique.(...)
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Alors nous irons trouver la beauté ailleurs
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« Cette déambulation littéraire, politique et géographique navigue entre l’essai, le récit de voyage et le journal. Elle parle d’Inde et du Rojava, de romans, de prison et de broderie, de tropiques et de subsistance, de folie, de décroissance et de rêves. Des vaches et des écureuils tigrés s’y promènent en toute liberté au milieu de réflexions sur l’activisme politique. Elle mélange allègrement les genres. J’espère qu’elle saura aussi brouiller les frontières. »
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« Cette déambulation littéraire, politique et géographique navigue entre l’essai, le récit de voyage et le journal. Elle parle d’Inde et du Rojava, de romans, de prison et de broderie, de tropiques et de subsistance, de folie, de décroissance et de rêves. Des vaches et des écureuils tigrés s’y promènent en toute liberté au milieu de réflexions sur l’activisme politique. Elle mélange allègrement les genres. J’espère qu’elle saura aussi brouiller les frontières. »
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November 2023
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"Oriel" is a luminous collection of transformations forming a portrait of an ordinary London house over the past forty years. The extraordinary and ultra-mundane rhythms of life there coalesce into twenty five poems about various guests, freight trains, animals, friends, lovers, children, music and death. Penny Cliff is a cellist, a pianist, and a dramatist. She has(...)
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"Oriel" is a luminous collection of transformations forming a portrait of an ordinary London house over the past forty years. The extraordinary and ultra-mundane rhythms of life there coalesce into twenty five poems about various guests, freight trains, animals, friends, lovers, children, music and death. Penny Cliff is a cellist, a pianist, and a dramatist. She has(...)
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"Oriel" is a luminous collection of transformations forming a portrait of an ordinary London house over the past forty years. The extraordinary and ultra-mundane rhythms of life there coalesce into twenty five poems about various guests, freight trains, animals, friends, lovers, children, music and death. Penny Cliff is a cellist, a pianist, and a dramatist. She has performed with orchestras in Italy and in London, and her plays have been widely staged, often accompanied by specially commissioned music. She has lived in a nineteenth century house on Oriel Road in the Homerton ward of Hackney East London, since 1983.
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"Oriel" is a luminous collection of transformations forming a portrait of an ordinary London house over the past forty years. The extraordinary and ultra-mundane rhythms of life there coalesce into twenty five poems about various guests, freight trains, animals, friends, lovers, children, music and death. Penny Cliff is a cellist, a pianist, and a dramatist. She has performed with orchestras in Italy and in London, and her plays have been widely staged, often accompanied by specially commissioned music. She has lived in a nineteenth century house on Oriel Road in the Homerton ward of Hackney East London, since 1983.
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January 2023
January 2023
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''Sea Run'' is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger’s scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson’s influential poetry collection ''Stilt Jack'' (1978). Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson’s richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and(...)
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''Sea Run'' is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger’s scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson’s influential poetry collection ''Stilt Jack'' (1978). Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson’s richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and(...)
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Sea run: Notes on John Thompson’s Stilt Jack
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''Sea Run'' is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger’s scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson’s influential poetry collection ''Stilt Jack'' (1978). Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson’s richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and thinking about poetry that recognizes and engages the “cultural keepings” in which literature is rooted.
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''Sea Run'' is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger’s scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson’s influential poetry collection ''Stilt Jack'' (1978). Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson’s richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and thinking about poetry that recognizes and engages the “cultural keepings” in which literature is rooted.
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October 2023
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The poems in ''Naturalism, an annotated bibliography'' survey the totemic elements of rural life, a world where wells go dry, rains flood brooks and basements, and maintenance only ever slows the inevitable decline. But there’s resilience as well, in garlic scapes, rosehips, winter birds, old houses and books, and love. Goodfellow’s spare style and sensitivity to the way(...)
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The poems in ''Naturalism, an annotated bibliography'' survey the totemic elements of rural life, a world where wells go dry, rains flood brooks and basements, and maintenance only ever slows the inevitable decline. But there’s resilience as well, in garlic scapes, rosehips, winter birds, old houses and books, and love. Goodfellow’s spare style and sensitivity to the way(...)
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Naturalism, an annotated bibliography
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The poems in ''Naturalism, an annotated bibliography'' survey the totemic elements of rural life, a world where wells go dry, rains flood brooks and basements, and maintenance only ever slows the inevitable decline. But there’s resilience as well, in garlic scapes, rosehips, winter birds, old houses and books, and love. Goodfellow’s spare style and sensitivity to the way people, objects, and places fuse together through time give these poems the surefootedness of a thing rooted in the earth.
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The poems in ''Naturalism, an annotated bibliography'' survey the totemic elements of rural life, a world where wells go dry, rains flood brooks and basements, and maintenance only ever slows the inevitable decline. But there’s resilience as well, in garlic scapes, rosehips, winter birds, old houses and books, and love. Goodfellow’s spare style and sensitivity to the way people, objects, and places fuse together through time give these poems the surefootedness of a thing rooted in the earth.
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July 2022
July 2022
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