Fleurs du Mal Magazine
Or see the index
A Portrait of One: Harry Phelan Gibb
Some one in knowing everything is knowing that some one is something.
Some one is something and is succeeding is succeeding in hoping that thing.
He is suffering.
He is succeeding in hoping and he is succeeding in saying that that is something.
He is suffering, he is suffering and succeeding in hoping that in succeeding in saying that he is succeeding in hoping is something.
He is suffering, he is hoping, he is succeeding in saying that anything is something.
He is suffering, he is hoping, he is succeeding in saying that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in hoping that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in saying that he is succeeding in hoping that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in saying that something is something.
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
A Portrait of One
Harry Phelan Gibb
fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Gertrude Stein, Stein, Gertrude
Fluch
Du sträubst und wehrst!
Die Brände heulen
Flammen
Sengen!
Nicht Ich
Nicht Du
Nicht Dich!
Mich!
Mich!
August Stramm
(1874-1915)
Fluch, 1914
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: *War Poetry Archive, Archive S-T, Expressionism, Stramm, August
Le Voyage
Oh! sable
Si fin,
Qu’accable
Matin
Mon pas,
J’espère
Là-bas,
Repaire
Du jour,
Mourir!
Et le sable lui dit, en paraissant s’ouvrir:
Marche! Marche toujours!
Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905)
Le Voyage
Portrait: Félix Vallotton
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Félix Vallotton, Marcel Schwob
Siede
Meine Schwäche hält sich mühsam
An den eigenen Händen
Mit meinen Kräften
Spielen deine Knöchel
Fangeball!
In deinem Schreiten knistert
Hin
Mein Denken
Und
Dir im Auggrund
Stirbt
Mein letztes Will!
Dein Hauch zerweht mich
Schreivoll in Verlangen
Kühl
Kränzt dein Tändeln
In das Haar
Sich
Lächelnd
Meine Qual!
August Stramm
(1874-1915)
Siede, 1914
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: *War Poetry Archive, Archive S-T, Expressionism, Stramm, August
Hugo
J’ai un portrait d’Hugo, en face sur le mur,
Et quand je le regarde, et quand le vers est dur
A terminer, son oeil, et sa barbe si douce
Me donnent bon courage et les mots sous son pouce
S’alignent sans efforts et je relis ses vers
Si doux et si charmants, plus calmes que les mers.
“J’étais seul près des flots par une nuit d’étoiles;
“Pas un nuage au ciel, sur la mer pas de voiles,
“Mes yeux plongeaient plus loin que le monde réel
“Et les bois et les monts, et toute la nature
“Semblaient interroger dans un confus murmure
“Les flots des mers, les feux du ciel.”
. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905)
Hugo
Mai 1881
Portrait: Félix Vallotton
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Félix Vallotton, Marcel Schwob, Victor Hugo
Singeries
Quand je te vois penché, mon mignon, tout en nage,
Sur le croûton de pain qui te sert de joujou,
Je me repens, mon Dieu, d’avoir pris pour un page
Ce qui n’était pourtant qu’un affreux sapajou.
C’est un maki mordant ses dix doigts avec rage,
Ce faune gentillet, taillé comme un bijou,
Un ouistiti grimpant aux barreaux de sa cage,
Un macaque à poil ras, un singe en acajou.
Ton masque enluminé, sillonné de grimaces,
Semble servir d’album à croquis aux limaces
Pour crayonner l’argent de leurs chemins crochus.
Et les casques noircis qui couronnent tes ongles,
Piqués dans tes cheveux brouillés comme des jungles,
Font penser que tu dois avoir les pieds fourchus.
Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905)
Singeries
Juin 1888
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: #Editors Choice Archiv, Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Marcel Schwob
Over a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish of contemporary lyricists.
Arranged alphabetically, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem presents an overview of his considerable achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain.
The landscape of Tennant’s lyrics is recognisably British in character – restrained and preoccupied with the mundane, occasionally satirical, yet also yearning for escape and theatrical release.
Often surprisingly revealing, this volume is contextualised by a personal commentary on each lyric and an introduction by the author which gives a fascinating insight into the process and genesis of writing.
Flamboyant, understated, celebratory and elegiac, Neil Tennant’s lyrics are a document of our times.
Everything I’ve ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I’ve ever been
Everywhere I’m going to
One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Neil Tennant
Hardback
272 pages
English
Poetry
Published 01/11/2018
ISBN13 9780571348909
Publisher Faber & Faber Inc.
18,99 euro
# new books
One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Neil Tennant
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Art & Literature News, AUDIO, CINEMA, RADIO & TV, Pet Shop Boys
Who has not suffered grief?
In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz—to name only some of the masters in this slim volume.
“The poems in this collection,” as Schulman notes in her introduction, “sing of grief as they praise life.” She notes: “As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. ‘Time doesn’t heal grief; it emphasizes it,’ wrote Marianne Moore.
The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don’t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence.”
Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s highest award, The Frost Medal, Grace Schulman is the author of seven poetry volumes as well as a book of essays and a new memoir, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, about her life with her beloved late husband Jerome. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, the former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, and was for thirty-five years the poetry editor of The Nation.
Mourning Songs
Poems of sorrow and Beauty
Edited by Grace Schulman
Paperback
96 pages
Publisher: New Directions
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811228665
ISBN-13: 978-0811228664
Product Dimensions: 4 x 6 inches
Price US 11.95
1 edition: May 28, 2019
# new books
Mourning Songs
Poetry
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: - Book News, Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Art & Literature News, Danse Macabre
Tanz
Milchweiche Schultern!
Augen flirren, flackern!
Blond und schwarz und sonnengolden
Taumeln Haare, wirren, krampfen,
Schlingen Brücken,
Brücken!
Hin
Und rüber
Taumeln, Kitzel,
Bäumen, saugen,
Saugen, züngeln
Schürfen
Blut
Schweres, lustgesträubtes
Blut!
In die Wunden
Hüpfen Töne,
Sielen, bohren,
Wühlen, quirlen,
Fallen kichernd,
Schwellen auf und fressen sich,
Gatten, gatten, schwängern sich,
Bären Schauer
Wahnengroß!
Hilflos surren um die Lichter
Mutterängste
Nach den Kindern,
Die sich winden,
Winden, huschen
Vor den Tritten,
Die sie packen,
Ihre glasen, sichten Leiber
Schinden, scharren,
Pressen, schleudern,
Tückisch abgemessne Lüste
Jagen unter Brunstgestöne,
Brunstgeächze
Und
Gekrächze!
Durch die Wirrnis
Durch die Flirrnis
Blitzt Verstummen!
Jäh zerflattern
Drängen gellend
An die Decke
Sich die Töne,
Klammern, krallen
Scheu verwimmernd
Am Gebälk!
Glotzen nieder,
Wo mit Wuchten
Schlorrt das Keuchen,
Schlappet
Ringsum an den Wänden
Seinen ungefügen Leib,
Unzahlmäulig
zuckt und schnauft!
An die angstzerglühten Herzen
Reißen flammend hoch die Lichter
Ihre hetzverstörten Kinder,
Die in Irren, Wirren
Zitternd
Ob der ungewohnten Ruhe
Ab sich tasten
Und sich streicheln
Gegenseitig
Hell von Staunen,
Daß sie leben noch,
Sie leben!
Zagig finden sie das Lächeln,
Fluten leise, fluten, fluten,
Reichen summend sich die Hände,
werden warm
Und
Schwingen Reigen!
Da
In Peitschlust, Streitdurst, Quälsucht
Vollgesogen
Vom Gebälke
Stiebt das Gellen!
Schrillt unbändig,
Ueberschlägt sich,
Purzelt, flattert,
Springt und stöbert,
Federt, pumpelt auf
Das Untier,
Das
Mit tausend Füßen aufschrickt,
Trippelt, trappelt,
Trappelt, grappelt,
Gell gedrängelt
Von den Tönen,
Die zerrasseln,
Niederprasseln,
Peitschen, schlagen, fiebern, kosen
Und im Wirbel
Wringen, wiegen
Schwelles,
Blaßhellrotes Fleisch!
Milchweiche Schultern!
Augen . . .
August Stramm
(1874-1915)
Tanz, 1914
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: *War Poetry Archive, Archive S-T, Expressionism, Stramm, August
A poet and anthropologist explores the surprising world of war games in mock Middle Eastern villages in which the U.S. military trains.
With deft lyrical attention, these documentary poems reveal the nuanced culture and violence of the war machine—alive and well within these basecamp villages, the American military, and, ultimately, the human heart.
Kill Class is based on Nomi Stone’s two years of fieldwork in mock Middle Eastern villages at military bases across the United States.
The speaker in these poems, an anthropologist, both witnesses and participates in combat training exercises staged at “Pineland,” a simulated country in the woods of the American South, where actors of Middle Eastern origin are hired to theatricalize war, repetitively pretending to bargain and mourn and die.
Kill Class is an arresting ethnography of American military culture, one that allows readers to circle at length through the cloverleaf interchanges where warfare nestles into even the most mundane corners of everyday life.
Nomi Stone is a poet, anthropologist, and author of a previous book of poems, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008). Winner of a 2018 Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Stone has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, an MPhil in Middle East Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Princeton University and her ethnography in progress, Human Technology and American War, is a finalist for the University of California Press Atelier Series.
Kill Class
by Nomi Stone (Author)
Paperback
87 pages
Publisher: Tupelo Press
February 1, 2019
Language: English
Poetry
ISBN-10: 1946482196
ISBN-13: 978-1946482198
$17.95
# new poetry
Kill Class
by Nomi Stone
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: *War Poetry Archive, - Book News, - Book Stories, Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Art & Literature News, WAR & PEACE
Von Liebe
Am Abend sprach das Meer und flüsterte:
Ihr schönen Mägdelein, erzählt mir leise,
Ich will die Liebe wissen! Redet mir
So von der Liebe, gleich als sollte ich
Dran sterben, so als müsst’ in Ruhe ich
Versinken dran, als könnte sie vorm Sturme
Mich schützen, dass so wütend er nicht mehr
Auf mich sich stürzte! – O! so sprachen da
Die Mägdelein, – Wir wissen wahrlich nicht,
Du armes Meer, ob wir erzählen dürfen;
Denn nimmermehr würdst du in wilder Kraft
Die Schiffe schleudern wollen, und der Felsen
Sorgenumwölbte Stirn mit Schaume peitschen,
Noch wälzen unter jähe, grüne Klippen
Der Sterne Blicken. Glaub’ uns Meer, Du wolltest
So mächtig nimmer sein, so scheu und spröde,
In deinen Schoß und in dein Herz nicht mehr
Die schlafumfangnen Menschenherzen saugen.
Du würdest dann gleich uns den Himmel ansehn,
Und ihn nicht sehen, lächeln, wie der Wind
Vorüberweht, und weinen, weil die Sonne
Aufgeht! Nein! wir werden nichts erzählen!
Carmen Sylva
(1843-1916)
Von Liebe
Gedicht
• fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, CLASSIC POETRY
Mrs. Whitehead
But you like it.
They can’t any of them be quite as bad because they learned french but I never did.
He doesn’t look dead at all.
The wind might have blown him.
He comes from that direction. That’s the way.
They are not knotted. Have you smelt it. What would you suggest, your advice I have come across three or four.
So they are the others.
Separate them.
It does make one come, he is extraordinarily charming and endearing once of twice only twice I think.
He is not staying out that’s hard beside that what does he do.
That’s long for his mother.
She travelled from this rest. She crocheted from this nest.
She crocheted from this nest. I thought it wasn’t ever.
It’s one of my favorite ones this.
And yet not this.
Isn’t it funny.
It isn’t.
Break or breaking, very fair, break or very wanting.
I tried it this way before.
Very difficult to change extra places and yet I can agree. I can agree by that. I rest this piece of it and it’s nearly the same climate. I will tell you why they want a real door. They choose it.
They do so and very pure water. They are safe when they take a bath. Oh it is very. Oh it is.
In a way a vest.
I do think you get what you want.
Corrections.
It is eleven weeks from the middle of September. I glance in a way.
It is eleven weeks from the middle of September.
Total recollect others.
I glance at and I can recollect others. I make a division neatly, I close.
What is wrong with not blue. That is right with apples. Apples four. For. Fore.
Before that.
Next stretching.
Next for that leaf stretching.
I do not state leaf.
I like to beg very much stream.
Not exactly in state.
Understate.
All in so.
They expect all the blues to take of all the other families, the whites are extra they are beside all that, they make a little house and through and beside that they live in Paris.
Hardly enough for wood.
Not a color even.
By now a change of grass and wedding rings and all but the rest plan. I don’t care I won’t look.
I am not sure that yellow is good. I am tall.
Allow that. I don’t want any more out in conversation.
I can be careful.
Not within wearing it.
I cannot say to stay.
No please don’t get up.
And now that.
Yes I see.
Did you pay him for that whether for a spider and such splendor and indeed quitting. I meant to gather.
I see it I see it.
Please ocean spoke please Helen land please take it away.
I saw a spoken leave leaf and flowers made vegetables and foliage in soil. I saw representative mistakes and glass cups, I saw a whole appearance of respectable refugees, I did not ask actors I asked pearls, I did not choose to ask trains, I was satisfied with celebrated ransoms. I cannot deny Bertie Henschel is coming tomorrow. Saturdays are even. There is a regular principle, if you mention it you mention what happened.
What do you make of it.
You exceed all hope and all praise.
Stein, Gertrude
(1874-1946)
Mrs. Whitehead
fleursdumal.nl magazine
More in: Archive S-T, Archive S-T, Gertrude Stein, Stein, Gertrude
Thank you for reading Fleurs du Mal - magazine for art & literature