{"title":"Nathan Brown","description":"Nathan Brown is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montréal, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the translator of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil (Verso, 2024) and the author of Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021) and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017).","products":[{"product_id":"the-risen-spring-the-birth-of-a-vagabond-book-4-the-birth-of-a-vagabond-book-4-paperback","title":"The Risen Spring: The Birth of a Vagabond - Book 4: The Birth of a Vagabond Book 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this year-long odyssey passes through its fourth and final season-from the coast of Oregon to Key West...and from there to Quebec-I now must wrestle, full on and finally, with the big questions of healing, transformation, and moving on. And the answers, if there are any, come-though very slowly...and only as whispers-from the stones, the mountains, the oceans and the deserts. But also along thousands of miles of backroads and blue highways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's more than one encounter with some past \"place where it all began.\" Reckonings and goodbyes abound. And so, in The Risen Spring, I must come to grips with one unavoidable truth in particular: Healing is a path that we follow for the rest of our lives. Yes, a vagabond is certainly born. And there will be no going back...to anywhere, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor anything...that used to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376807018719,"sku":"9798988127178","price":25.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/g1sXBVSMa99798988127178.webp?v=1789225393"},{"product_id":"baudelaires-shadow-on-poetic-determination-paperback","title":"Baudelaire's Shadow: On Poetic Determination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaudelaire's fame and notoriety have been established by the reduction of his complex work to simplified profiles: the poet of the modern city, of erotic obsession, of Satanic revolt, of colonial fantasies, of mystical correspondences, of corporeal decay . . . But what is it that holds these facets of the work together? Is there a logic underpinning the proliferation of themes, styles, and personae in \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, while suturing content and form? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaudelaire's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e argues that what is most fundamentally at stake across the manifold layers of Baudelaire's poetic project is the problem of determination: a contradiction between \u003ci\u003edetermining\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ebeing determined\u003c\/i\u003e, a dialectic of agency bound up with its negation. This approach enables a new understanding of conceptual, formal, and figural cruxes traversing \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, including the relationship between writing and reading, the anticipation of death, the negativity of the void, the representation of race, the poetics of ekphrasis, the singularity of the aesthetic, the actuality of the social, the indeterminacy of sense, and the materiality of the signifier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith philosophical precision and poetic élan, one of Baudelaire's finest translators reconstructs what we thought we knew about \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e from the ground up, revealing the dialectical logic at the heart of this major work of modern literature.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With a kind of omniscient curiosity, Nathan Brown probes so deeply into the metaphysical bestiary of \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du Mal \u003c\/i\u003ethat he can emerge from its cavernous depths with an armload of dripping seaweed named Kant. Wonders never cease in this sumptuous, even clairvoyant, examination\"--\u003cb\u003eJed Rasula\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Georgia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the most philosophically serious engagement with Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du Mal\u003c\/i\u003e that we have, Nathan Brown takes on the mysteries of poetic existence and of poetic determination with rich, surprising readings of such poems as 'Les Sept Vieillards, ' 'Obsession, ' 'Un Voyage ? Cyth?re, ' and 'Les Petites Vieilles.' An unusually stirring and eloquent tour de force.\"--\u003cb\u003eJonathan Culler\u003c\/b\u003e, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaudelaire's fame and notoriety have been established by the reduction of his complex work to simplified profiles: the poet of the modern city, of erotic obsession, of Satanic revolt, of colonial fantasies, of mystical correspondences, of corporeal decay . . . But what is it that holds these facets of the work together? Is there a logic underpinning the proliferation of themes, styles, and personae in \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, while suturing content and form? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaudelaire's Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e argues that what is most fundamentally at stake across the manifold layers of Baudelaire's poetic project is the problem of determination: a contradiction between \u003ci\u003edetermining\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ebeing determined\u003c\/i\u003e, a dialectic of agency bound up with its negation. This approach enables a new understanding of conceptual, formal, and figural cruxes traversing \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, including the relationship between writing and reading, the anticipation of death, the negativity of the void, the representation of race, the poetics of ekphrasis, the singularity of the aesthetic, the actuality of the social, the indeterminacy of sense, and the materiality of the signifier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith philosophical precision and poetic ?lan, one of Baudelaire's finest translators reconstructs what we thought we knew about \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e from the ground up, revealing the dialectical logic at the heart of this major work of modern literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montr?al, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377705779423,"sku":"9781531514242","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ECghYhqtln9781531514242.webp?v=1789239976"},{"product_id":"100-years-paperback","title":"100 Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with his songs and prose, author and singer-songwriter Nathan Brown has written at least one poem every day for over 20 years now. And from that practice comes this new collection in which each poem deals chronologically with every year of our lives, from the ages of 0 to 100. In one, he tells the story of an 8-year-old girl attempting to cross the border into the U.S. with her older brother. Further in, he works through the mental gyrations of a 39-year-old man and a woman who is 61 falling in love at a reading in a bookstore. As a whole, these poems offer a stark sensitivity to all the stages, transitions, and graduations of life, while also marking a willingness to put an honest, sometimes even cold and hard, magnifying glass up to the struggles of the soul--the Venus and the Mars in us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378365333727,"sku":"9780999478455","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Wwpbcm3tX19780999478455.webp?v=1789254506"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nathan-brown.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}