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“The great events I went in search of failed to reach my expectations," wrote Alfred de Vigny, a friend of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Richard Sieburth’s translations of Baudelaire’s last writings arrive over a century late, so they are just in time for the empty triumph of what Baudelaire called “the cult of images.”
David B. Hobbs teaches at a small university in Canada. With Richard Sieburth, he is editing a collection of Ezra Pound's unpublished late poetry, and he
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: This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention.