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Robert Archambeau

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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Asymptotic Oz: Fragments on Dub Poetics open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Asymptotic Oz: Fragments on Dub Poetics
Mark Scroggins muses on his poem Zion Offramp.
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Writing Jazz Wrong open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Writing Jazz Wrong
Poet and jazz musician Al Basile discusses the creative process
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Lure of Machine Logic: On Will Alexander open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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The Lure of Machine Logic: On Will Alexander
KPrevallet reviews Will Alexander's The Coming Mental Range
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID! Did we publish him? YES WE DID.
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"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid
"She looked at the woodsman’s ax / and its edge…"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid
"She looked at the woodsman’s ax / and its edge…"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The Fortnightly Interview: The Potential Power of the Smallest Poem open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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The Fortnightly Interview: The Potential Power of the Smallest Poem
Kelvin Corcoran in conversation with poet Peter Riley
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Translation: Bring a Stone to Your Chest, New Poems by Franca Mancinelli open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Translation: Bring a Stone to Your Chest, New Poems by Franca Mancinelli
Translated from the Italian by John Taylor
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger
Susan Blumberg-Kason in conversation with Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger
Susan Blumberg-Kason in conversation with Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Recollection, but Not in Tranquility
Donald Gardner reviews 'Laptop': poems by Desmond Egan
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Fiction by Christine Hume: "Blazon"
"We finally found a still spot inside us, and we stayed there until it was over."
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A Poem by Amy Glynn open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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A Poem by Amy Glynn
"The past / is perfect because it’s not moving."
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Can the contemporary university—already a dystopic self-parody—be satirized? Find out at The Fortnightly Review!
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The University of Closed Minds: On Julian Stannard
Anthony Howell reviews Julian Stannard's The University of Bliss
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Out now from MadHat Press!
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Translation: Six Poems by Klaus Merz open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Translation: Six Poems by Klaus Merz
Translated from the German by Marc Vincenz
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Cassandra Atherton: Alice in Wonderland in Japan open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Cassandra Atherton: Alice in Wonderland in Japan
“The first dollars used in postwar Japan are on women’s bodies.”
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Fiction by Lance Olsen: "hanging scene #1—“it’s on her”—goodbye" open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Fiction by Lance Olsen: "hanging scene #1—“it’s on her”—goodbye"
"you’ve got to love it all away—your life—your grief—"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Three Poems by James Dowthwaite up at the Fortnightly Review! Check it out and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Three Poems by James Dowthwaite
"In the soft breathing of the city’s hours, / the town heaves"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Pierre Joris, 1946-2025: World Citizen open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Pierre Joris, 1946-2025: World Citizen
Mark Scroggins remembers the acclaimed poet, editor, and translator
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The Bus to Hell: On Yuval Sharon—fresh from The Fortnightly Review!
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The Bus to Hell: On Yuval Sharon
Peter O'Brien reviews Yuval Sharon's A New Philosophy of Opera
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My novel Alice B. Toklas is Missing reviewed in The Evergreen Review! evergreenreview.com/alice-b-tokl...
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Review: Alice B. Toklas is Missing
Evergreen Review
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Two Poems by Rae Armantrout
"I've dreamed this before, / I shouldn't be surprised"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Two Poems by Rae Armantrout -- now at the Fortnightly Review! Like and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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Two Poems by Rae Armantrout
"I've dreamed this before, / I shouldn't be surprised"
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Fortnightly Interview: Answering History with Robert Pinsky open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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The Fortnightly Interview: Answering History with Robert Pinsky
Joshua Corey chats with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
ART I LIKE #50: Jeremy Frey's baskets seen on a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. Always happy when basketry or quilting or glass-blowing gets a shout-out from a major arts organization. The play with form and pattern, the care of craft! Like pots, the baskets really come alive in groups. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
ART I LIKE #49: Peter Reginato's sculpture is sproingy & colorful while still very modern. When he paints in enamels—pouring and dripping he makes his own visual language out of bars of color, loops, lobes, and lines. I love the alternating crowded and open spaces and—wow the color pallatte! #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
ART I LIKE #47: Cate Simmons, Persephone's Journey. Kara Walker's not the only artist breathing life into the old silhouette form. I proposed this for the annual English Department tee shirt one year, but a colleague really put her foot down about Virginia Woolf, so we went that way instead. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
ART I LIKE #46: In a film I once saw a curator ashamed to admit how much Emily Young's work won him over—carving stone was, in his opinion, old hat. Young likes the work to look old—fragments are part of the aesthetic. She also understands that stone by itself is hard to beat for beauty. #sculpture
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
ART I LIKE #45: Leopold Segedin, Follow the Leader. Part of a series set in west side Chicago where Segedin grew up in. The women in this image belong in their environment, either matching its colors or complimenting them. The grey-suited men are as out of place in color as in gesture. #chicagoart
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
ART I LIKE #44: Birds, Eggs & Dominoes with Pyramid, 1963. Abercrombie was known as the "queen of the bohemian artists" in midcentury Chicago & had a vocabulary of figures—cats, moons, clouds, pyramids–that she turned into landscapes charged with meaning always about to be revealed. #surrealism #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
ART I LIKE #43. Martin Ramirez doesn't get much play outside of the outsider art scene, but wow, does the work reward attention. He's obsessive about trains but what he's really great at is building up a composition out of curved lines that form ridges, tunnels, funnels of smoke. #art #outsiderart
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
ART I LIKE #42 - Christmas edition. You want a nativity scene, you've got your pick of good ones. I like Fra Angelico's, partly because it has wonderful halos and glorious Byzantine gold, but it keeps the scene modest & low key. Also, it puts animals at the visual center. Why? Dunno. #art #nativity
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
ART I LIKE #41: Gustavo Perez is probably the leading ceramic artist in Mexico. His vessels bend, fold, crease & open up in surprising places, really capturing the fluid nature of clay before it's fired. All of this contrasts with the gloss and shine of flat colored glaze. Love it! #art #ceramics
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
ART I LIKE #40: WW1 turned Louis Monza into a pacifist & his figures shelter in little pockets of safety in a strange world. Sometimes they're trapped, too. The colors in 1968's Nightmare seem at odds with the title. But the faces in the landscape are right out of De Quincey's opium nightmares. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
ART I LIKE #39: Caspar David Friedrich's 1818 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog has mystery & vast sublimity —but you know what's best about it? It graces the cover of a Mekons album that some of the band signed for me last night when they dropped by to pick up a Wesley Kimler collage. #artsurprise
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
ART I LIKE #38: I see Fred Greene Carpenter's landscapes from time to time & have a little one from his trip to the holy land. 1955's "The Valley of Hinom" takes us to a place of dark mojo in the Bible. Figures are stiff & formal, perspective flat, and that spash or sacrificial red ominous.#art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
ART I LIKE #37: Arnold Saper, Satomi, etching 1970s. Saper loves to draw & his etchings—often self-portraits or dragonflies—usually have a loose line. Early ones like this have a more precise look. I love the contrast in values—the hair vs. all that white. I believe this shows his wife. #Canadianart
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
ART I LIKE #36: Remedios Varo The Juggler 1956. Varo's architecture remind me of de Chirico, except her space is alway more populated. One of her signature images is a small, confined space, often a carriage or vehicle sheltering us in a strange world. I'm sure her refugee experience plays into it.
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
ART I LIKE #35: Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2006. I can't think of a more successful public sculpture from this century. Unlike with Chicago's big Picasso, people didn't need to learn to love this: they were in from day one. First you see the city reflected, then you walk up & see yourself. #publicart
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
ART I LIKE 34: Japanese prints! What’s not to love? This one is all about the contrast between interior and the big open world. The bowl & draped cloth imply an intimate world protected & confined by those walls. And beyond? It’d like one of those European ‘world landscapes’—all possibility. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
ART I LIKE #33. Caillebotte gets how to use those verticals to make work feel like work: a long day of scraping. He elongates one worker’s arms via forced perspective to make us feel the effort. Not a lot of color to give relief, but there’s that one tilted head: cracking wise or just yapping? #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
ART INLIKE #32. Turner, Surf, 1842. And by “1842” I mean “1842?!?” Turner was so ahead of the game in letting brushstrokes look like brushstrokes that a story does round of a dowager pointing to a blurry bit on a canvas and howling “WHAT is THAT?” & the artist replying “That, madam, is paint” #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
ART I LIKE #31: Charles Ray is a fave among 'one liner' artists... people whose work doubles down on one big idea. I recall seeing his 1993 Fire Truck outside the MCA & thinking the place was burning down. But the truck looked off... it's a blown up version of a toy. You can buy a model! #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
ART I LIKE #30. Edgy & unnerving, Kara Walker's 1994 ‘Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart' took silhouettes used for genteel 19th c. portraits & used them to show the power dynamics of race. I'll never forget it. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
ART I LIKE #29: Pietro Liberi The Venetian Victory Over the Turks in the Dardanelli. In 1656 Venice trounced the Turks & did not want you to forget it. This vast stonker of a painting launched the "instructions to a painter" genre of poetry, huge in the 17th/18th c. and utterly forgotten today. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
ART I LIKE #28. Autumn on the seine at argenteuil by Claude Monet (1873). I believe it was Cezanne who said "Monet is only an eye—but my God, what an eye!" And it's true—there's no deliberate intellectual program to the work, still less is there moralizing. I'm good with this. #art #impressionism
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
ART I LIKE #27: Christo Running Fence 1976. I saw the film of the making this astonishing thing when I was a kid and was astonished at how angry it made some of the locals, and gladdened when one of the ranchers through whose land it ran declared it so beautiful he slept beside it. I would too. #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
ART I LIKE #26: What I really love about painting is what I really love about calligraphy: the gesture of the brushstroke. It's like improvisation in music—something completely in-the-moment but also something that comes from years of attentive practice. Green Flow, Don Reichert 1980. #art #abex
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
ART I LIKE #25. Ann Shanks, Hide and Seek in the Coliseum, 1956. I love when the Cartier-Bresson street spontaneity of a photo also has a lot going on formally. Here it’s all in the Z axis (the line heading into the depths and out to us), the arc, and that one guy’s pivot left. Vectors! #art
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Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
ART I LIKE #24: Rita Cameron started as a representational painter then moved into abstraction. I always see her images as 'abstracted-from' a scene. This one, so fresh it's still in the studio, has everything I like in a good cityscape: space opening out or being blocked in by solid planes. #art
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