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wrote about Baudelaire's dark Satanic swill for Book Post Verso Books books.substack.com/p/review-micha…

Marx Goes to Texas: this is such a great essay by Ryan Moore, Ryan Moore. proteanmag.com/2024/08/11/mar…

Teaching this impossible artwork for this first time today. I'm no closer to understanding how it can exist.

There comes a moment in every life when you realize Hölderlin’s essay on “Becoming in Dissolution” is the Science of Logic in miniature.

Nathan Brown's 2022 Baudelaire book is a stone-cold masterpiece - a thrilling read from beginning to end, an absolute necessity for anyone who cares about literature and philosophy. The rare single-author study that completely transcends its genre.

San Francisco launch of my translation of The Flowers of Evil at Adobe Books, Sunday February 23, 7pm Verso Books Adobe Books

Worked on translating Robert Desnos's "Le Dernier Poème" for awhile, and then it dawned on me.

On this day, 50 years ago, Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975) was released in Italy.

Feeling self indulgent this afternoon

Nathan Brown's superb new translation of "The Flowers of Evil" (as well as its companion, "Baudelaire's Shadow") is a major event, so come out to celebrate April 11 at the Francis Kite Club in NYC. Nathan is reading, I'll play solo, and Lara Allen DJs: franciskiteclub.com/calendar#/even…

"I came to grasp the tenderness and generosity of these poems in a way I hadn't before, the kindness traversing them and the openness to experience they require." Ronjaunee Chatterjee speaks with Nathan Brown about his translation of Baudelaire's "Flowers Of Evil." lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-the…

Celebrating the new Verso edition of the Flowers of Evil tonight at the Francis Kite Club (no cover): David Grubbs plays solo guitar, I read from the translation, and Lara Allen spins a special Fleurs du mal DJ set. Hope to see you if you're in NYC!

Read Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage" and then Shelley's "Mont Blanc" yesterday for the first time in about 25 years. Need to write a book on Romantic grammar.

Déjà dix jours de bonheur

was toying with the idea of translating the rest of Hölderlin's still-untranslated letters one day, but glad to see someone else did this and it's coming out later this year sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Co…

“The elements of language explicate one another. They speak for that which still remains to be said in that which is said; they speak as philological additions to one another. Language is archiphilology.” - Werner Hamacher

I translated Baudelaire’s Recueillement for Lapham’s Quarterly: laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/loo…