Tag Archives: translation
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Breton: Mad Love, Mad Light
1August 30, 2025 by tsk2001
I have a used copy of Breton’s Mad Love, translated by the great Mary Ann Caws, and it’s one of …
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Reconfiguring Breton’s “Free Union”: In the Ear of the Behearer
2August 16, 2025 by tsk2001
Is André Breton’s list poem, “Free Union,” the French precursor of Ginsberg’s “Howl”? Well, no, or perhaps it is, but …
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The Duchamp Haikus: Art Eats the Spectator
Leave a commentAugust 6, 2025 by tsk2001
There was a time some years ago when BTR had a sideline in poetic assemblage, known as Squotations: strict 5-7-5 …
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Prose Poem (On Marcel Duchamp’s Birthday)
1July 28, 2025 by tsk2001
It’s July 28. Something must be run through BTR to celebrate this hallowed occasion. I ask Chat for poets who …
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Tilapia, Even
Leave a commentJuly 25, 2025 by tsk2001
Below is a detail of a handball court wall, taken locally on the usual park walk. I later realized what I …
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Hugo Ball/Bastille Day Dada-Bada-Bing
Leave a commentJuly 14, 2025 by tsk2001
It’s Bastille Day and also, not coincidentally, the day, in 1916, when Hugo Ball presented his Dada Manifesto in Zurich—in …
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A D-Day Quintain for Lew Welch
Leave a commentMay 23, 2025 by tsk2001
Yes, it’s Disappearance Day, May 23, which is truly in poor taste, but it’s going to get worse. Or better. …
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Birthday Prose Poem for Robert Creeley
1May 21, 2025 by tsk2001
“Dimensions,” by Robert Creeley (b. May 21, 1926), put through some ‘B’-based BTR filtration, yields the following prose poem, if …
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