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Paperback. Condición: Good. With its undulating body, I, CAUSTIC reproduces the two-pronged movement that testifies to the continuing relevance of Kha r-Eddine's writing: destruction and reconstruction, annihilation and regeneration, death and revival.--Khalid Lyamlahy (from the Postface)Kha r-Eddine's corroded lyric I spews the detritus of autocratic narcissism in this absurdist take-down of its patriarchs: the king and his advisors, military and police officers, husbands, fathers, older brothers. In the wake of the Moroccan student and worker uprising of March 23, 1965, which emboldened both government repression and popular movements for democracy, the characters ponder the irony of revolution when everyone has co-opted its rhetoric and wonder whether the so-called dregs of society--sex-workers, abandoned children, unemployed laborers--can rise up to prevent a nuclear Arab apocalypse. Yet from the King's privy in Rabat to a coastal town in southern Morocco, humanity's inhumanity is just one force of nature among so many others: what's the point of all this trouble when you'll end up a maggot-eaten corpse? Syersak's energizing translation delivers into English all the poet's acerbic humor and idiomatic exuberance. You'll laugh so hard your inner hyena will come out. Is your blood boiling yet?--Teresa Villa-IgnacioKha r-Eddine's excoriating satire of independent Morocco, written in the first decade of Hassan II's rule, from the remove of voluntary exile in France, performs a devastating critique of the violence of the ruling class, the incompetence of government, the hypocrisy of organized religion, and the stubborn presence of police brutality, even as it fashions radically new modes of literary and poetic expression. Sometimes crude, even grotesque, often brilliantly seductive, irreligious, and funny, Jake Syersak's bold translation into English breathes new life into this important and too-long neglected work of modern Moroccan literature.--Thomas C. Connolly, Department of French, Yale UniversityPoetry. Hybrid. Middle Eastern Studies.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. With its undulating body, I, CAUSTIC reproduces the two-pronged movement that testifies to the continuing relevance of Kha r-Eddine's writing: destruction and reconstruction, annihilation and regeneration, death and revival.--Khalid Lyamlahy (from the Postface)Kha r-Eddine's corroded lyric I spews the detritus of autocratic narcissism in this absurdist take-down of its patriarchs: the king and his advisors, military and police officers, husbands, fathers, older brothers. In the wake of the Moroccan student and worker uprising of March 23, 1965, which emboldened both government repression and popular movements for democracy, the characters ponder the irony of revolution when everyone has co-opted its rhetoric and wonder whether the so-called dregs of society--sex-workers, abandoned children, unemployed laborers--can rise up to prevent a nuclear Arab apocalypse. Yet from the King's privy in Rabat to a coastal town in southern Morocco, humanity's inhumanity is just one force of nature among so many others: what's the point of all this trouble when you'll end up a maggot-eaten corpse? Syersak's energizing translation delivers into English all the poet's acerbic humor and idiomatic exuberance. You'll laugh so hard your inner hyena will come out. Is your blood boiling yet?--Teresa Villa-IgnacioKha r-Eddine's excoriating satire of independent Morocco, written in the first decade of Hassan II's rule, from the remove of voluntary exile in France, performs a devastating critique of the violence of the ruling class, the incompetence of government, the hypocrisy of organized religion, and the stubborn presence of police brutality, even as it fashions radically new modes of literary and poetic expression. Sometimes crude, even grotesque, often brilliantly seductive, irreligious, and funny, Jake Syersak's bold translation into English breathes new life into this important and too-long neglected work of modern Moroccan literature.--Thomas C. Connolly, Department of French, Yale UniversityPoetry. Hybrid. Middle Eastern Studies.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. In Bosch's] enchanted garden no color line is drawn.--Commentary 106, Art Treasures of the Prado, 1954Poetry. Art. Joan Retallack's BOSCH'D--fables, moral tales & other awkward constructions is passionate, transgressive and, albeit obliquely, optimistic that we can (but only with creative buoyancy) exhume a sense of viable futures for all species on this planet. The first of many BOSCH'D aphorisms states the opening condition this way: Humor without gravitas passes through the mind with little effect; gravitas without humor is death. With that, Retallack takes on the paradoxical, hence generative, dystopian logics she calls our projectile legacies--misogyny, racism, undaunted colonialism, and more. It's where her playful and grave poetics of the poethical wager revs up. As the sun at noon illustrates all shadows, Hieronymus Bosch illuminated a beautiful and grotesque biosphere (see Fig. x) that, along with tender sensuality and ubiquitous love, was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene. Bosch'd (verb. trans.) does not yet appear in our lexicons. For some of its implications, we present this erudite, searching, and great-humored book.I've encountered few imaginations as consistently delightful and nourishing as Joan Retallack's, even fewer that can match her range of exploration from book to book. In BOSCH'D, instructional notations lead to paradox, and mathematical sketches add up to koans, and yet throughout the book, the political and philosophical implications are absolutely exigent. In Retallack's gnomic propositions, poetry becomes almost all that we could ask of it.--Forrest GanderThis proliferation of angels, and angles, and spectra, and scenes, and singing is all but too beautifully blur to blurb. It defies its own collection. You have to ride, or hide, in an untied thought balloon to read it. It's so beautiful, with so much thought inside, and so loco, so such a little crazy in all its other languages, so off and errant but also so on the spot and dug in and garden'd, so unalone and shared and redshifted, so non-solo'd and so alter'd, that it becomes an altar, its music of alterity holding a delightful cultivation of flown that we can ground in, though it's also so nonlocal, so shar'd in the general speech, that even in the preparation of its table of contents, as if it were a piano on which bizarre things have been painted as the coming of froth, BOSCH'D blindsides despair. Who is Genre Tallique anyway? Bud Powell? An owl? Wow --Fred MotenMay language be always in motion, biomimetic, hers. Retallack's radical intelligence is balm-like, in no small part for the restlessness and fluidity of its humor. Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.' Must has gotten musty and, yet, out of the delirious entanglements of the poem and reason, Retallack's verse emerges, always victorious: 'We are not designed to perceive most of what surrounds us or to fully understand the rest.' Anthropocentric reason keeps leading us nowhere and very well may be the epitome of our foolhardiness. In their refusal to perpetuate 'past-perfected-present-participling legacies, ' Retallack's poems invariably know better.--M nica de la Torre.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. In Bosch's] enchanted garden no color line is drawn.--Commentary 106, Art Treasures of the Prado, 1954Poetry. Art. Joan Retallack's BOSCH'D--fables, moral tales & other awkward constructions is passionate, transgressive and, albeit obliquely, optimistic that we can (but only with creative buoyancy) exhume a sense of viable futures for all species on this planet. The first of many BOSCH'D aphorisms states the opening condition this way: Humor without gravitas passes through the mind with little effect; gravitas without humor is death. With that, Retallack takes on the paradoxical, hence generative, dystopian logics she calls our projectile legacies--misogyny, racism, undaunted colonialism, and more. It's where her playful and grave poetics of the poethical wager revs up. As the sun at noon illustrates all shadows, Hieronymus Bosch illuminated a beautiful and grotesque biosphere (see Fig. x) that, along with tender sensuality and ubiquitous love, was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene. Bosch'd (verb. trans.) does not yet appear in our lexicons. For some of its implications, we present this erudite, searching, and great-humored book.I've encountered few imaginations as consistently delightful and nourishing as Joan Retallack's, even fewer that can match her range of exploration from book to book. In BOSCH'D, instructional notations lead to paradox, and mathematical sketches add up to koans, and yet throughout the book, the political and philosophical implications are absolutely exigent. In Retallack's gnomic propositions, poetry becomes almost all that we could ask of it.--Forrest GanderThis proliferation of angels, and angles, and spectra, and scenes, and singing is all but too beautifully blur to blurb. It defies its own collection. You have to ride, or hide, in an untied thought balloon to read it. It's so beautiful, with so much thought inside, and so loco, so such a little crazy in all its other languages, so off and errant but also so on the spot and dug in and garden'd, so unalone and shared and redshifted, so non-solo'd and so alter'd, that it becomes an altar, its music of alterity holding a delightful cultivation of flown that we can ground in, though it's also so nonlocal, so shar'd in the general speech, that even in the preparation of its table of contents, as if it were a piano on which bizarre things have been painted as the coming of froth, BOSCH'D blindsides despair. Who is Genre Tallique anyway? Bud Powell? An owl? Wow --Fred MotenMay language be always in motion, biomimetic, hers. Retallack's radical intelligence is balm-like, in no small part for the restlessness and fluidity of its humor. Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.' Must has gotten musty and, yet, out of the delirious entanglements of the poem and reason, Retallack's verse emerges, always victorious: 'We are not designed to perceive most of what surrounds us or to fully understand the rest.' Anthropocentric reason keeps leading us nowhere and very well may be the epitome of our foolhardiness. In their refusal to perpetuate 'past-perfected-present-participling legacies, ' Retallack's poems invariably know better.--M nica de la Torre.…

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