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Tag Archives: poetry
Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History
I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading
Life, books, literature, poetry, politics
19th c., balzac, baudelaire, culture, flaneur, history, intellectuals, literature, paris, poems, poetry, poets, revolution, secret, war, writers
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A poem about Liu Xiang
刘翔 – è¯—æŒ – 红袖添香 via kwout The irony is that i was looking for poems by the poet Liu Xiang, whose name is written with the same characters as that of the famous athlete. Clicking on a link I … Continue reading
An interesting quote from Tristan Tzara
Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed — persistently inquisitive — about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I … Continue reading
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America, art, arts, dada, dadaist, death, France, french, grave, Life, literature, montparnasse, paris, poetry, poets, quotes, tristan tzara, work, writer
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