Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.

useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.

From Vienna it’s picture-postcard all the way. Tell me, was ever such a land at ease! The fat farms glistening, the polished pigs.

gave me. I cared for it faithfully, ...

The following is drawn from one of three texts accompanying Florian Hecker’s Resynthese FAVN, a ten-CD box set to be released by Blank Forms in December. Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé ...

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I wake them up. I bring them breakfast. They complain—it’s too early. They would like to listen to Bizet’s Carmen. They are ...