Editor: Dawn-Michelle Baude
Genre: Literature / Prose & Poetry / Anthology
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: French Connection Press
Publishing Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-2-914853-09-5
Retail Price: $19 USD / 15€ EUR / 12£ GBP
From the earliest records in the Western tradition of poetry, throughout the classical period and during the Middle Ages, spanning the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and beyond, romantic love has been the obsessive object of poetic attentions. However, modern and postmodern poets tend to avoid writing about love, focusing instead on political, social and theoretical terrains.
When Dawn-Michelle Baude took on the job of guest-editing the sixth edition of the internationally acclaimed poetry anthology “Van Gogh’s Ear,” she deliberately chose love as her theme in order to challenge this modern poetic system in which the vocabularies for alienation and violence have outstripped those of attachment and affection.
More than seventy cutting edge poets from around the globe have answered Dawn-Michelle Baude’s call for poems about love. “Van Goghs Ear 6: The Love Edition” takes the throbbing pulse of love now, in 2009, in countries around the world. Sexual, romantic, altruistic, fetishistic, Platonic, political, happenstance and all the rest – the poems and prose in this edition are vital, and, in abrupt contrast to the foundational irony of postmodernism, even sincere. The writers engagement with the topics ranges from the subtle to the overt, the off-hand to the engaged, just like in life.
Etel Adnan
Greg Bachar
Aaron Belz
Pierre Bismuth
Jean-Luc Blanc
Charles Borkhuis
Kate Braverman
Lee Ann Brown
Robert Chrysler
Julia Connor
Andrei Codrescu
Joel Craig
Carl Miller Daniels
Jean Day
Patrick Dillon
Trisha Donnelly
Yan Duyvendak
Amanda Earl
Daniela Elza
Mia Enell
Michael Farrell
Alex L. Ferguson
Bonny Finberg
Kathleen Fraser
Gloria Frym
Vidya Gastaldon
Robert Glück
Susy Gómez
E. Tracy Grinnell
Fabrice Gygi
Brenda Hillman
Anselm Hollo
Alexander Jorgensen
Ken Kagami
Aryan Kaganof
Amin Khan
Artus de Lavilléon
Joseph Lease
Shannon Lucy
Bernhard Martin
Clay McCann
rob mclennan
David Meltzer
Michelle Miller
Laura Moriarty
Mrwyk & Moriceau
Jennifer Moxley
Laura Mullen
Mel Nichols
Michelle Noteboom
Amy O’Neill
Ethan Paquin
Simon Pettet
Raymond Pettibon
Kristin Prevallet
Stephen Ratcliffe
Tom Raworth
Sarah Riggs
Didier Rittener
Eléna Rivera
Elizabeth Robinson
Steve Rodefer
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Hiroe Saeki
Leonard Schwartz
Alain Séchas
Jim Shaw
Rod Smith
Laura Solomon
Cole Swenson
Mark Tardi
John Tranter
Serdar Turkeli
Pierre Vadi
Jean-Luc Verna
Rosemarie Waldrop
Andrew Zawacki