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Article: The World Outside: A Letter to Baudelaire About Walter Benjamin.(four poems)(Poem)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Cher Baudelaire, tonight as I boarded my train of thought and
entered the first class compartment of my mind, I thought of Margaret
Atwood who wrote "I am in love with Raymond Chandler because of his
interest in furniture." Baudelaire, I am no one but the insatiable
identities descending upon me and tonight it is yours. I've
thought, if Baudelaire were not Baudelaire I would be Baudelaire, though
in truth I have thought the same about Walter Benjamin when he says (I
paraphrase), "I am in love with Baudelaire because of his interest
in furniture. When writing about furniture Baudelaire is free from
capitalism's philosophy and history and archeology and is
enthralled by ...
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