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\"\"<\/a>Trilce<\/a><\/em>, by the Peruvian modernist C\u00e9sar Vallejo, is a book of poems I\u2019ve read (the verb is probably too strong) with much enjoyment and little comprehension. Vallejo\u2019s Spanish has almost nothing in common with the language I learned at school, but its obscurity is addictive: I keep going back to the poems. So far as we know, Vallejo gave only one interview; it has now been translated<\/a>, for the first time, into English by Kent Johnson. Vallejo\u2019s repartee isn\u2019t as baffling as his poems, but it\u2019s almost as enjoyable. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lost C\u00e9sar Vallejo interview should\u00a0be paired with Paul Muldoon\u2019s translation of \u201cPiedra negra sobre una Piedra blanca,\u201d which is probably the best English version of Vallejo\u2019s most famous poem. Muldoon calls it \u201cTestimony\u201d:<\/p>\n

I will die in Paris, on a day the rain\u2019s been coming down hard,<\/div>\n
a day I can even now recall.<\/div>\n
I will die in Paris\u2014I try not to take this too much to heart\u2014<\/div>\n
on a Thursday, probably, in the Fall.<\/div>\n
It\u2019ll be like today, a Thursday: a Thursday on which, as I make<\/div>\n
and remake this poem, the very bones<\/div>\n
in my forearms ache.<\/div>\n
Never before, along the road, have I felt more alone.<\/div>\n
C\u00e9sar Vallejo is dead: everyone used to knock him about,<\/div>\n
they\u2019ll say, though he\u2019d done no harm;<\/div>\n
they hit him hard with a rod<\/div>\n
and, also, a length of rope; this will be borne out<\/div>\n
by Thursdays, by the bones in his forearms,<\/div>\n
by loneliness, by heavy rain, by the aforementioned roads.<\/div>\n

\u2014John Jeremiah Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I feel like every time I pick up a Brian Evenson book, I discover him anew. I\u2019ve been reading his 2009 collection, Fugue State<\/em><\/a> (published by the excellent Coffee House Press<\/a>). His lapidary tales remind me of Shirley Jackson and Edgar Allan Poe\u2014that intimate strangeness and psychic tension they do so well\u2014and of Stephen Dixon\u2019s wry precision. But Evenson\u2019s stories, consistently disorienting, are also occasionally blackly funny: a tortured literary editor coerced into publishing schlocky Swedish mysteries (the horror!) and a woman who finds herself trapped in an invisible box after having sex with a mime. It\u2019s like The Twilight Zone<\/em> on whip-its. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

My sister found Goodbye, First Love <\/a><\/em>a little long. (\u201cIf I wanted to see a Roehmer movie, I\u2019d go ahead and rent one.\u201d) Me, I\u2019m waiting for the seven-hour director\u2019s cut. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was a little girl, I was both fascinated and repelled by Dare Wright\u2019s photographic picture book,\u00a0The Lonely Doll<\/a><\/em>. These feelings were only intensified after reading Jean Nathan\u2019s The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll<\/a><\/em>\u2014the story of Wright\u2019s strange, lonely, creative, sad life. Through this weekend, stills from The Lonely Doll<\/em> are on view at the Fred Torres expedition space<\/a>. \u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Usually when I hear someone talking about the crisis in publishing, my eyes roll back in my head. I just don\u2019t get it. But last week\u2019s show on NPR\u2019s\u00a0On the Media<\/a> made everything momentarily clear. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s been a gray week, so I figured it\u2019d be a good time to review the new wave digs of Factory Records, those coked up shimmy shakers ran the electropop gamut from the seventies through the nineties. While everyone remembers New Order and Joy Division, I\u2019ve been focusing on their lesser-known acts, like the Railway Children and Revenge (UK). Though my all-time favorite remains John Dowie\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Hard to Be an Egg,\u201d<\/a> a rather literal lamentation on the woes of an egg\u2019s life: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be an egg \/ to end your life upon a piece of buttered bread \/ disappearing down a hole in someone\u2019s head \/ it\u2019s not appealing \/ it\u2019s a dreadful way for eggs to start the day \/ first we\u2019re boiled alive \/ then horrid housewives cut our heads off with a knife \/ it isn\u2019t nice to feel the meat of our insides \/ it’s not endearing it\u2019s such a fright that an egg turns white.\u201d I picture evil fat British children banging on kitchen tables, knife and fork in hand, Heinz beans smeared across their lips. \u2014Noah Wunsch
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