For a revised and expanded edition of the collection Merde à la Belle Époque, a sonnet by Armand Masson. A rhymed translation like this inevitably requires some paraphrase, but often comes closer to the original poem. Besides, it’s what the poets of 1887 would have expected. THE EYE (Armand Masson, 1887) The eye was in […]
Entries from August 2022
The Eye
August 29th, 2022 · Comments Off on The Eye
Black Scat Review 26
August 22nd, 2022 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 26
The 26th issue of Black Scat Review is now available! I contributed an alphabet, “Partners in Crime,” and my translation of “Upside-Down Stories: Mineral Waters,” by Charles Cros and Émile Goudeau (from my edition of those stories). The other contributors are a fine bunch: Tim Newton Anderson, Tom Barrett, Margot Block, Robert James Cross, Farewell […]
Millay Songs
August 16th, 2022 · 2 Comments
Three songs with words by Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Song of Shattering,” “Spring,” and “The True Encounter.” Here’s the beginning of “Song of Shattering.”
Partners in Crime
August 8th, 2022 · Comments Off on Partners in Crime
An alphabet for an upcoming issue of the Black Scat Review, devoted to “Crime Wave.” PARTNERS IN CRIME When the Arsonist torched the house the Burglar was rifling, the Counterfeiter in the cellar fled with a sack of phonies, which was swiped by a Drifter desperate to pay off an Extortionist, whose last mark, a […]