http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2008/12/05/world-books-beasts-know-best/ Commentary on the arts Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2008/12/05/world-books-beasts-know-best/comment-page-1/#comment-786 Illinois Press Book Blog » Recent online reviews Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:52:14 +0000 http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2008/12/05/world-books-beasts-know-best/#comment-786 [...] -The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro, on The Arts Fuse -The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, edited by Chad Berry, on CMT.com [...] [...] -The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro, on The Arts Fuse -The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, edited by Chad Berry, on CMT.com [...]

]]> http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2008/12/05/world-books-beasts-know-best/comment-page-1/#comment-778 “Cliquot” « Hour of Gold Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:50:41 +0000 http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2008/12/05/world-books-beasts-know-best/#comment-778 [...] The Complete Works of Jean de la Fontaine, translated by Norman Shapiro. This one’s in keeping with my folklore interests. This review is very favorable, and the excerpts sound really promising. Rimbaud: the Double Life of a Rebel, by Edmund White. I adore Rimbaud. My dad loaned me his copy of Illuminations when I was in high school, and I’ve been carrying it around with me ever since. I know a little about his life — strained childhood, his love affair with Verlaine, his renunciation of poetry and early death in Africa. Rimbaud’s poetry is so strange, so inscrutable, that I don’t really think knowing more about his life would help me to understand the poems themselves, though I might have a better perspective about why he wrote the way he did. Rimbaud is one you give yourself over to, one where you just get lost in the words, where you don’t try to analyze, but only to see as clearly, as vividly, as you possibly can. [...] [...] The Complete Works of Jean de la Fontaine, translated by Norman Shapiro. This one’s in keeping with my folklore interests. This review is very favorable, and the excerpts sound really promising. Rimbaud: the Double Life of a Rebel, by Edmund White. I adore Rimbaud. My dad loaned me his copy of Illuminations when I was in high school, and I’ve been carrying it around with me ever since. I know a little about his life — strained childhood, his love affair with Verlaine, his renunciation of poetry and early death in Africa. Rimbaud’s poetry is so strange, so inscrutable, that I don’t really think knowing more about his life would help me to understand the poems themselves, though I might have a better perspective about why he wrote the way he did. Rimbaud is one you give yourself over to, one where you just get lost in the words, where you don’t try to analyze, but only to see as clearly, as vividly, as you possibly can. [...]

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