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The Year the City Emptied: After Baudelaire
"There's a lot of fake anger out there, masking dangerous fear. Daisy Fried gives us the real thing: anger born of despair, love, desire, injustice, and loss. She's a grave robber, revivifying the corpse of Baudelaire to mess with him and help her to cope. His ghoulish presence accompanies her as she haunts Philadelphia, 'that old worker, ' recording riots, suffering, stench. This book has killer atmosphere, fragrances fine and foul. It growls with the cavernous hunger of our 'graveyard Nation' mid-pandemic. But the calm center of The Year the City Emptied is Fried's dying husband. Just try and read his last lucid words, swansong of a lost world, without choking up."--Jennifer Moxley
Book Details
- Publisher: Flood Editions
- Publish Date: Mar 14th, 2022
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.50in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781733273480
- Categories: • American - General• European - French• Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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About the Author
Daisy Fried is the author of THE YEAR THE CITY EMPTIED: AFTER BAUDELAIRE (Flood Editions, 2021), Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn't Mean to Do It. She is a poetry critic, poetry editor for the journal Scoundrel Time, and a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia.
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What people are saying
Daisy Fried is a poet.
My 4th book, The Year the City Emptied, has been out a year now. I adapted poems by Baudelaire to 2020, running his structures & images thru my 21st C. American woman's idiom & nervous system, & ended up w/ a book about pandemic, politics, & my husband's death. Links in thread.
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Today's Featured Poem: "Daybreak" by Daisy Fried, from The Year the City Emptied, published by @floodeditions. Read here: https://t.co/qAYhalhg2c
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Baudelaire’s poems call on Daisy Fried to bring them into her own tongue in "The Year the City Emptied," a first-class practicum in poetic assimilation from one language and time into another. #PoetryReview #BookReview #LitCrit @floodeditions @DaisyFried https://t.co/b4GvDe3OOL
What people are saying
Daisy Fried is a poet.
My 4th book, The Year the City Emptied, has been out a year now. I adapted poems by Baudelaire to 2020, running his structures & images thru my 21st C. American woman's idiom & nervous system, & ended up w/ a book about pandemic, politics, & my husband's death. Links in thread.
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Today's Featured Poem: "Daybreak" by Daisy Fried, from The Year the City Emptied, published by @floodeditions. Read here: https://t.co/qAYhalhg2c