July 16, 2008
A SCARY PRONOUNCEMENT
Bum 1: Listen to this. Listen to what is written in this book here: I have not come into this world to make men better but to exploit their weaknesses. Bum 2: Who said that?
B1: Adolf Hitler.
B2: It's a scary pronouncement, but I'll tell you something. I would be even more frightened of the one who says: I have not come into this world to exploit the weaknesses of men but to make men better.
B1: You don’t think humanity should be improved.
B2: What do I know of humanity. I could tell you more about red radishes.
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unpublished Beckett in FULCRUM 6
FULCRUM #6 (730 pages) features previously unpublished and uncollected writing by Samuel Beckett, Robert Frost and Octavio Paz; original scholarship on "Samuel Beckett as Poet" by Christopher Ricks, Eliot Weinberger, Marjorie Perloff and others; a special section on "Poetry and Myth"; poetry by George Seferis, Boris Vian (translated by Raymond Federman) and Francisco de Quevedo; a great deal of outstanding current poetry and literary criticism; and visual art.
The "Samuel Beckett as Poet" feature, edited by Philip Nikolayev, presents Beckett's neglected masterpiece "Ceiling" and other uncollected and unpublished poems, essays by Christopher Ricks, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger, Simon Critchley, Anne Atik, S.E. Gontarski and others, life drawings of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha, and a previously unpublished conversation between Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger on Beckett. A number of the essays quote Beckett's unpublished correspondence and manuscripts.
FULCRUM #6 is 730 pages long and offered at an artificially low price.
Please visit www.fulcrumpoetry.com for more information or to acquire a copy.
The "Samuel Beckett as Poet" feature, edited by Philip Nikolayev, presents Beckett's neglected masterpiece "Ceiling" and other uncollected and unpublished poems, essays by Christopher Ricks, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger, Simon Critchley, Anne Atik, S.E. Gontarski and others, life drawings of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha, and a previously unpublished conversation between Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger on Beckett. A number of the essays quote Beckett's unpublished correspondence and manuscripts.
FULCRUM #6 is 730 pages long and offered at an artificially low price.
Please visit www.fulcrumpoetry.com for more information or to acquire a copy.
