Join us in the Gallery for a reading by poet and essayist Lisa Robertson, “The Baudelaire Fractal.” Robertson describes the subject thusly:
“A new prose text, resulting from a period of intense immersion in Baudelaire. It slowly unravels a mystical experience – that of waking up in a hotel room one morning to discover that I have written the complete works of Baudelaire, yet without actually having become Baudelaire. It’s as if his texts have become me, or I have realized myself within them. In part the liminal portal of the hotel room inaugurates this experience, whose telling moves among hotel rooms occupied in my 35-year span of travelling and writing. The text moves from room to room, from memory to memory, including many inclusions of shared points of reference for B and I – looking at Claude in the Louvre, reading Poe, smoking hash, relative impoverishment, affairs, dandyism. . . It is part memoir, part novelistic magical realism, part trash-talking contemporary art and poetry life.”
Conceived and developed by Shelly Rosenblum
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