Tag Archives: Baudelaire

David Bowie, La Fleur du Mal

Posted on January 12, 2016 by jillbpearlman

Celebrity fades fast – some have clocked it as 15 minutes – so the fact that David Bowie turns out to be so enduring is fascinating. There are two powerfully linked ideas. Bowie (and his alienated stage personas) was an … Continue reading →

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2015 – Wresting with an Octopus

Posted on December 30, 2015 by jillbpearlman

Trying to sum up the year?  It’s like grabbing onto an octopus. The head is small and inaccessible.  Although you may latch onto an arm, it will be slip from your grasp, in its own clever way of resisting and fighting … Continue reading →

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Terror and the Imagination

Posted on November 17, 2015 by jillbpearlman

Tom D’Evelyn’s words about art as replenishment for the imagination.  Reposted from Haiku Eschaton, originally posted on November 14, 2015 by Tom D’Evelyn As events unfolded and the number of dead rose in Paris, November 13, The Poetry Society tweeted a quote from … Continue reading →

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WHAT WOULD BAUDELAIRE DO?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by jillbpearlman

I know, poets are said to have beautiful words but no practical action. Still, I began to wonder what Baudelaire, French poet par excellence, bad boy and scowling melancholic, would say about France and its current crisis of post-attack polarization. … Continue reading →

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Becoming Cleopatra

Posted on December 21, 2014 by jillbpearlman

Baudelaire had a cabinet full of images for the artist – artist as circus performer, as a skilled worker who toils away at a craft, even as a snake charmer working with dangerous matter.  The personas multiply, doubling on themselves, … Continue reading →

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