"Go Rimbaud"--Patti Smith

Happy Birthday to Arthur Rimbaud.  (He is guy who graces the top right of this blog).
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19836

Death Fugue by Paul Celan

Anne Carson said in "Economy of the Unlost" that Celan disavowed this early poem later in life, but I think it is great.  I can see why he "disavowed" it when you look at his later poems; there seemed to be a shift in poetics, but it still resonates as an incredible piece of art.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16961

I like this translation better:

https://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15865

Anybody wanna go see Michael Chabon on Oct 17th?

Books That I Thought about Picking, but Didn't

Books I did not pick for November. No real reason, they all looked like fun reads, and I will probably read some of them on my own. So many books to read.

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
the Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Umbrella by Will Self
Cubop City Blues by Pablo Medina
A wicked Company by Phillip Blom
Saving the School by Michael Brick
Nox by Anne Carson
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Trilogy by H. D.

The last two I have thought about for awhile and still may do if I can think of nothing else.  Doubtful prospect.

Wallace's biography sounding very familiar

So I'm reading D.T. Max's biography on DFW, and I'm noticing a trend in Wallace, and the main character from The Marriage Plot. Either Eugenides did research on depression akin to Wallace, did research on Wallace himself alongside Max, or some other form of psychoanalytical research, and formed his character. Very intriguing.

A quote from Dick

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Aids for the indecisive

For those that can't decide(like me)what to pick. Here are two lists. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books