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Pushing the High Note
From the glass-shattering soprano wit of artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase comes this low-key/high decibel trove of art and verse: PUSHING THE HIGH NOTE. Brain-fusing the magic realism of Nobel winning artist-poet Gunter Grass (Show Your Tongue) and the tummy-tickling word winks of U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room), this humoresque is truly ophthalmic arpeggio for the frontal lobes. From the visual music of Audition's "the old cage elevator" rattling to a stop, to the ocular barcarolle of a Viking Princess gliding about, an "oak leaf as her vessel," to the goggled capriccios of Harley Man's "tattooed charm on my left forearm" and the waxed mustache whimsy of Monocle Max, PUSHING THE HIGH NOTE is nothing less than cache-with-cachet - a thought-pourri of art and verse for serious collectors. One that vibrates . . . before it explodes.
Picnic on the Print
From the Paris-gilded imagination of artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase comes this bon vivant collector's frisson: PICNIC ON THE PRINT. In amuse-bouche analogous to J. R. R. Tolkien's self-illustrated rendering of The Hobbit, each double-page tableaux elicits a double take; each double entendre flambé a second thought. From à la carte delicacies like Vine Dweller's "see her swinging gently on a hammock full of peas" (à la Beatrix Potter's art-and-verse) to word-grilled Compliment's "chic-to-cheek" scarf (à la Lewis Carroll's interplays), between the obvious and the understated. A palette of optical word plays for frontal cortexes pining for the piquant. Chef-d'oeuvre for eyes; plat du jour for brain cells.
Tiptoeing Through Paris
From the Parisian cobblestones of rue Galande's flaneuring artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase come this collector's first-kiss frisson, TIPTOEING THROUGH PARIS. With Left Bank winks from Gertrude Stein evoking Baudelaire's Symbolist escapades (Tableaux Parisiens, Le Soleil, Le Cygne), each en pointe lyrical soirée - from The Not-So-Secret Garden ("where artists impart the meaning of art") to Erté ("me on may way to d'Orsay") to Lost in Thought ("just close your eyes and look") -finds its prosody in the sonorous footsteps of Mallarme, Verlaine, and Apollinaire. And across the Seine: in Right Bank arch support from the leathery insoles of Victor Hugo evincing Lamartine's bon mot Romanticism (...
Paul de Man Notebooks
This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.
Poetic License
In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.
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