Everything Happens [Paperback]

Dominique Fourcade (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

Poetry. Translated from the French by Stacy Doris. "Manet selects the motto 'Everything Happens' for his stationery and sends a letter to Mallarme at about the same time that William James, Gertrude Stein's favorite professor, wonderfully writes 'Life is in the transitions as much as in the terms connected.' Recognition is reflexive recognition. To recognize is to admit to oneself or to another, to mark, accept, perceive, empathize identify with, to know again or further. Where shall we go? Once again Dominique Fourcade edgily emphatically lovingly recollects the it is of poetry's transient passage across"--Susan Howe.

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Dominique Fourcade, like an upside down boy scout, invents a motto of his own: "Be ready but not prepared." -- Charles Bernstein, poet, critic

Everything Happens
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Once again, Dominique Fourcade edgily emphatically lovingly recollects the "it is" of poetry's passage across. -- Susan Howe, poet

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everything happens including the woman with her throat slit gets into your bed but that's nothing compared to what happened when I saw that Manet had chosen these words for his note paper heading I transcribed them in chalk on the blackboard like I do everything that counts and, I was so frightened, I erased them right away I felt myself embarking on a shimmering apprenticeship

Product Details

• Paperback: 33 pages
• Publisher: Post-Apollo Press; 1st edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942996429
• ISBN-13: 978-0942996425
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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