from Michael Benedikt & 'Dark Love Poems' --a site with selections from book, The Body
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Control panel for crackling hearth. We'd suggest lowerng volume a bit. Music may be played together with hearth-sounds Playing After Site Download: 'Ondine' by Maurice Ravel from sensuous piano suite Gaspard de la Nuit. Then 2 Others from Gaspard. Ravel based suite's music on prose poems by poet A. Bertrand. Haunting, dark poetry on which suite's based, at Fantasies of Bertrand Ravel is also composer of the famed Bolero--a full-length orchestral 'tone-poem' Sorry--Ravel music link at this page is temporarily in limbo Mellow Jazz for piano. Composer unk. Note: We plan to add other counter-cold-weather music in a future edition of this page 'Dark Love Poems' Poems about love & longing & passion & What A Little Moonlight Can Do. Poetry from The Body (publ. by Wesleyan University Press in l968--Revised Versions 1999-2001). College-Level & Above, please. Info re Background of Benedikt Websites via article at about.com 'The Compleat Michael Benedikt--Poet Laureate of The Net' Selections from many of Benedikt's books now appear at a dozen-&-a half Other Benedikt Links Benedikt Bio. Complete bio. in Marquis' Who's Who in America; World; Entertainment; & Bowker's Who's Who in American Art Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five books of poetry: The Badminton at Great Barrington--or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, a book of tragi-comical love poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, l980); and with Wesleyan University Press Night Cries (prose poems, l976); Mole Notes (prose poems, l971); Sky (l970); and The Body (l968). Anthologies of poetry under his editorship are: The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (Dell/Laurel, l976); and The Poetry of Surrealism (Little Brown, l974). Benedikt also co-edited/co-translated 3 anthologies of 20th century European plays, all 3 published by E.P. Dutton & Co: Modern French Theatre: The Avant-Garde, Dada, & Surrealism (l964, Faber Ltd. in UK); Post-War German Theatre (l966; Macmillan Ltd. in UK); & Modern Spanish Theatre (l969). He's also the editor of Theatre Experiment: American Plays (Doubleday, l967). Benedikt is a former Art Critic & Associate Ed., Art News, and also Art International. A former Paris Review Poetry Editor, his editorial selections are represented in The Paris Review Anthology (Norton, l990). Benedikt's work is represented in 65+ anthologies of US poetry. Recent, uncollected poetry in such literary magazines as Agni, Iowa Review, Jerusalem Review, Lips, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, New York Quarterly, Partisan Review, Paris Review and Washington Square. Poetry grants and awards included an NEA Fellowship, a NY State Council On The Arts Grant, and a Guggenheim Grant. Benedikt taught Literature and Creative Writing as Visiting Professor at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Hampshire, and Vassar College/s, and at Boston University. Many poetry readings at colleges and bookstores around the USA--in l986 at invitation of US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, at Library of Congress. Benedikt lives in Manhattan.Recent readings at various Barnes & Noble 'superstores' in NY Metro area. E-mail at benedit5@aol.com. Top OTHER BENEDIKT LINKS OTHER HOLIDAY POETRY SITES '4th of Ju l y : New York and New Jersey & Laura & Me' Spooky Poems for Halloween & All Year Round 'Xmas on Bay State Road' & Other Poems from Boston & Cambridge * OTHER WEBSITES BY THIS CONTEMPORARY US POET--PARTIAL LISTING (Bookmark Some Of Us! Return to Top ) Dark Love Poems Erotic poems selected from The Body http://members.tripod.com/MichaelBenedikt/darklove.html The Thesaurus and Other New Verse Incl. 'Of Panty-Lines That Show' & New 'Of Sexual Style' https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/ind2.html Robert Desnos: Introduction & Translations Surrealist poems of love, longing & passion by a major 20th cent. French poet http://members.aol.com/benedit5/index.html Brief Prose Poems Popular site on this unusual literary form. With Interview http://members.aol.com/benedit4/index.html Theatre, Film, & TV Poems New with 3 Erotic Fantasies in tribute to Fellini, Italian filmmaker http://members.aol.com/benedit2/index.html The Badminton at Great Barrington; Or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo About tempestuous romance & a not-always-so-comical Valentine https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/bdmintn.html Mini-Site--American Vibrations https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/amervib.html Top of Benedikt Links Top of Site Credits Love logo at top of site--Painting by Distingushed 20th-Century American Artist Robert Indiana Blazing Wood Hearth--Graphic by Ron Koster. Copyright © l997 Ron Koster / Psymon See more of Koster's remarkable web artwork at Psymon's Web Bindery OTHER GOODIES & SUCH FOR VALENTINE SEASON Wide Variety of Valentine-related items (incl. 'Satin & Lace' & Role-Playing Costumes) at Everything Valentine.Com Wide Variety of Valentine Gear at Electrique Boutique.Com Holiday Links at Mr. Grinch This l'il site lst posted 2/2/02
Control panel for crackling hearth. We'd suggest lowerng volume a bit. Music may be played together with hearth-sounds
Playing After Site Download: 'Ondine' by Maurice Ravel from sensuous piano suite Gaspard de la Nuit. Then 2 Others from Gaspard. Ravel based suite's music on prose poems by poet A. Bertrand. Haunting, dark poetry on which suite's based, at Fantasies of Bertrand Ravel is also composer of the famed Bolero--a full-length orchestral 'tone-poem' Sorry--Ravel music link at this page is temporarily in limbo Mellow Jazz for piano. Composer unk. Note: We plan to add other counter-cold-weather music in a future edition of this page 'Dark Love Poems' Poems about love & longing & passion & What A Little Moonlight Can Do. Poetry from The Body (publ. by Wesleyan University Press in l968--Revised Versions 1999-2001). College-Level & Above, please. Info re Background of Benedikt Websites via article at about.com 'The Compleat Michael Benedikt--Poet Laureate of The Net' Selections from many of Benedikt's books now appear at a dozen-&-a half Other Benedikt Links Benedikt Bio. Complete bio. in Marquis' Who's Who in America; World; Entertainment; & Bowker's Who's Who in American Art Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five books of poetry: The Badminton at Great Barrington--or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, a book of tragi-comical love poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, l980); and with Wesleyan University Press Night Cries (prose poems, l976); Mole Notes (prose poems, l971); Sky (l970); and The Body (l968). Anthologies of poetry under his editorship are: The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (Dell/Laurel, l976); and The Poetry of Surrealism (Little Brown, l974). Benedikt also co-edited/co-translated 3 anthologies of 20th century European plays, all 3 published by E.P. Dutton & Co: Modern French Theatre: The Avant-Garde, Dada, & Surrealism (l964, Faber Ltd. in UK); Post-War German Theatre (l966; Macmillan Ltd. in UK); & Modern Spanish Theatre (l969). He's also the editor of Theatre Experiment: American Plays (Doubleday, l967). Benedikt is a former Art Critic & Associate Ed., Art News, and also Art International. A former Paris Review Poetry Editor, his editorial selections are represented in The Paris Review Anthology (Norton, l990). Benedikt's work is represented in 65+ anthologies of US poetry. Recent, uncollected poetry in such literary magazines as Agni, Iowa Review, Jerusalem Review, Lips, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, New York Quarterly, Partisan Review, Paris Review and Washington Square. Poetry grants and awards included an NEA Fellowship, a NY State Council On The Arts Grant, and a Guggenheim Grant. Benedikt taught Literature and Creative Writing as Visiting Professor at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Hampshire, and Vassar College/s, and at Boston University. Many poetry readings at colleges and bookstores around the USA--in l986 at invitation of US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, at Library of Congress. Benedikt lives in Manhattan.Recent readings at various Barnes & Noble 'superstores' in NY Metro area. E-mail at benedit5@aol.com. Top OTHER BENEDIKT LINKS OTHER HOLIDAY POETRY SITES '4th of Ju l y : New York and New Jersey & Laura & Me' Spooky Poems for Halloween & All Year Round 'Xmas on Bay State Road' & Other Poems from Boston & Cambridge * OTHER WEBSITES BY THIS CONTEMPORARY US POET--PARTIAL LISTING (Bookmark Some Of Us! Return to Top ) Dark Love Poems Erotic poems selected from The Body http://members.tripod.com/MichaelBenedikt/darklove.html The Thesaurus and Other New Verse Incl. 'Of Panty-Lines That Show' & New 'Of Sexual Style' https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/ind2.html Robert Desnos: Introduction & Translations Surrealist poems of love, longing & passion by a major 20th cent. French poet http://members.aol.com/benedit5/index.html Brief Prose Poems Popular site on this unusual literary form. With Interview http://members.aol.com/benedit4/index.html Theatre, Film, & TV Poems New with 3 Erotic Fantasies in tribute to Fellini, Italian filmmaker http://members.aol.com/benedit2/index.html The Badminton at Great Barrington; Or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo About tempestuous romance & a not-always-so-comical Valentine https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/bdmintn.html Mini-Site--American Vibrations https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/amervib.html Top of Benedikt Links Top of Site Credits Love logo at top of site--Painting by Distingushed 20th-Century American Artist Robert Indiana Blazing Wood Hearth--Graphic by Ron Koster. Copyright © l997 Ron Koster / Psymon See more of Koster's remarkable web artwork at Psymon's Web Bindery OTHER GOODIES & SUCH FOR VALENTINE SEASON Wide Variety of Valentine-related items (incl. 'Satin & Lace' & Role-Playing Costumes) at Everything Valentine.Com Wide Variety of Valentine Gear at Electrique Boutique.Com Holiday Links at Mr. Grinch This l'il site lst posted 2/2/02
Playing After Site Download: 'Ondine' by Maurice Ravel from sensuous piano suite Gaspard de la Nuit. Then 2 Others from Gaspard. Ravel based suite's music on prose poems by poet A. Bertrand. Haunting, dark poetry on which suite's based, at Fantasies of Bertrand Ravel is also composer of the famed Bolero--a full-length orchestral 'tone-poem' Sorry--Ravel music link at this page is temporarily in limbo
Mellow Jazz for piano. Composer unk. Note: We plan to add other counter-cold-weather music in a future edition of this page 'Dark Love Poems' Poems about love & longing & passion & What A Little Moonlight Can Do. Poetry from The Body (publ. by Wesleyan University Press in l968--Revised Versions 1999-2001). College-Level & Above, please. Info re Background of Benedikt Websites via article at about.com 'The Compleat Michael Benedikt--Poet Laureate of The Net' Selections from many of Benedikt's books now appear at a dozen-&-a half Other Benedikt Links Benedikt Bio. Complete bio. in Marquis' Who's Who in America; World; Entertainment; & Bowker's Who's Who in American Art Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five books of poetry: The Badminton at Great Barrington--or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, a book of tragi-comical love poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, l980); and with Wesleyan University Press Night Cries (prose poems, l976); Mole Notes (prose poems, l971); Sky (l970); and The Body (l968). Anthologies of poetry under his editorship are: The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (Dell/Laurel, l976); and The Poetry of Surrealism (Little Brown, l974). Benedikt also co-edited/co-translated 3 anthologies of 20th century European plays, all 3 published by E.P. Dutton & Co: Modern French Theatre: The Avant-Garde, Dada, & Surrealism (l964, Faber Ltd. in UK); Post-War German Theatre (l966; Macmillan Ltd. in UK); & Modern Spanish Theatre (l969). He's also the editor of Theatre Experiment: American Plays (Doubleday, l967). Benedikt is a former Art Critic & Associate Ed., Art News, and also Art International. A former Paris Review Poetry Editor, his editorial selections are represented in The Paris Review Anthology (Norton, l990). Benedikt's work is represented in 65+ anthologies of US poetry. Recent, uncollected poetry in such literary magazines as Agni, Iowa Review, Jerusalem Review, Lips, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, New York Quarterly, Partisan Review, Paris Review and Washington Square. Poetry grants and awards included an NEA Fellowship, a NY State Council On The Arts Grant, and a Guggenheim Grant. Benedikt taught Literature and Creative Writing as Visiting Professor at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Hampshire, and Vassar College/s, and at Boston University. Many poetry readings at colleges and bookstores around the USA--in l986 at invitation of US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, at Library of Congress. Benedikt lives in Manhattan.Recent readings at various Barnes & Noble 'superstores' in NY Metro area. E-mail at benedit5@aol.com. Top OTHER BENEDIKT LINKS OTHER HOLIDAY POETRY SITES '4th of Ju l y : New York and New Jersey & Laura & Me' Spooky Poems for Halloween & All Year Round 'Xmas on Bay State Road' & Other Poems from Boston & Cambridge * OTHER WEBSITES BY THIS CONTEMPORARY US POET--PARTIAL LISTING (Bookmark Some Of Us! Return to Top ) Dark Love Poems Erotic poems selected from The Body http://members.tripod.com/MichaelBenedikt/darklove.html The Thesaurus and Other New Verse Incl. 'Of Panty-Lines That Show' & New 'Of Sexual Style' https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/ind2.html Robert Desnos: Introduction & Translations Surrealist poems of love, longing & passion by a major 20th cent. French poet http://members.aol.com/benedit5/index.html Brief Prose Poems Popular site on this unusual literary form. With Interview http://members.aol.com/benedit4/index.html Theatre, Film, & TV Poems New with 3 Erotic Fantasies in tribute to Fellini, Italian filmmaker http://members.aol.com/benedit2/index.html The Badminton at Great Barrington; Or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo About tempestuous romance & a not-always-so-comical Valentine https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/bdmintn.html Mini-Site--American Vibrations https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/amervib.html Top of Benedikt Links Top of Site Credits Love logo at top of site--Painting by Distingushed 20th-Century American Artist Robert Indiana Blazing Wood Hearth--Graphic by Ron Koster. Copyright © l997 Ron Koster / Psymon See more of Koster's remarkable web artwork at Psymon's Web Bindery OTHER GOODIES & SUCH FOR VALENTINE SEASON Wide Variety of Valentine-related items (incl. 'Satin & Lace' & Role-Playing Costumes) at Everything Valentine.Com Wide Variety of Valentine Gear at Electrique Boutique.Com Holiday Links at Mr. Grinch This l'il site lst posted 2/2/02
Mellow Jazz for piano. Composer unk. Note: We plan to add other counter-cold-weather music in a future edition of this page
'Dark Love Poems' Poems about love & longing & passion & What A Little Moonlight Can Do. Poetry from The Body (publ. by Wesleyan University Press in l968--Revised Versions 1999-2001). College-Level & Above, please.
Info re Background of Benedikt Websites via article at about.com 'The Compleat Michael Benedikt--Poet Laureate of The Net' Selections from many of Benedikt's books now appear at a dozen-&-a half Other Benedikt Links
Benedikt Bio.
Complete bio. in Marquis' Who's Who in America; World; Entertainment; & Bowker's Who's Who in American Art
Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five books of poetry: The Badminton at Great Barrington--or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo, a book of tragi-comical love poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, l980); and with Wesleyan University Press Night Cries (prose poems, l976); Mole Notes (prose poems, l971); Sky (l970); and The Body (l968). Anthologies of poetry under his editorship are: The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (Dell/Laurel, l976); and The Poetry of Surrealism (Little Brown, l974). Benedikt also co-edited/co-translated 3 anthologies of 20th century European plays, all 3 published by E.P. Dutton & Co: Modern French Theatre: The Avant-Garde, Dada, & Surrealism (l964, Faber Ltd. in UK); Post-War German Theatre (l966; Macmillan Ltd. in UK); & Modern Spanish Theatre (l969). He's also the editor of Theatre Experiment: American Plays (Doubleday, l967). Benedikt is a former Art Critic & Associate Ed., Art News, and also Art International. A former Paris Review Poetry Editor, his editorial selections are represented in The Paris Review Anthology (Norton, l990). Benedikt's work is represented in 65+ anthologies of US poetry. Recent, uncollected poetry in such literary magazines as Agni, Iowa Review, Jerusalem Review, Lips, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, New York Quarterly, Partisan Review, Paris Review and Washington Square. Poetry grants and awards included an NEA Fellowship, a NY State Council On The Arts Grant, and a Guggenheim Grant. Benedikt taught Literature and Creative Writing as Visiting Professor at Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, Hampshire, and Vassar College/s, and at Boston University. Many poetry readings at colleges and bookstores around the USA--in l986 at invitation of US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, at Library of Congress. Benedikt lives in Manhattan.Recent readings at various Barnes & Noble 'superstores' in NY Metro area. E-mail at benedit5@aol.com.
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OTHER BENEDIKT LINKS
OTHER HOLIDAY POETRY SITES
'4th of Ju l y : New York and New Jersey & Laura & Me'
Spooky Poems for Halloween & All Year Round
'Xmas on Bay State Road' & Other Poems from Boston & Cambridge
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OTHER WEBSITES BY THIS CONTEMPORARY US POET--PARTIAL LISTING (Bookmark Some Of Us! Return to Top )
Dark Love Poems Erotic poems selected from The Body http://members.tripod.com/MichaelBenedikt/darklove.html
The Thesaurus and Other New Verse Incl. 'Of Panty-Lines That Show' & New 'Of Sexual Style' https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/ind2.html
Robert Desnos: Introduction & Translations Surrealist poems of love, longing & passion by a major 20th cent. French poet http://members.aol.com/benedit5/index.html
Brief Prose Poems Popular site on this unusual literary form. With Interview http://members.aol.com/benedit4/index.html
Theatre, Film, & TV Poems New with 3 Erotic Fantasies in tribute to Fellini, Italian filmmaker http://members.aol.com/benedit2/index.html
The Badminton at Great Barrington; Or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo About tempestuous romance & a not-always-so-comical Valentine https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/bdmintn.html Mini-Site--American Vibrations https://www.angelfire.com/ny/MichaelBenedikt/amervib.html
Top of Benedikt Links Top of Site
Credits Love logo at top of site--Painting by Distingushed 20th-Century American Artist Robert Indiana Blazing Wood Hearth--Graphic by Ron Koster. Copyright © l997 Ron Koster / Psymon See more of Koster's remarkable web artwork at Psymon's Web Bindery
OTHER GOODIES & SUCH FOR VALENTINE SEASON
Wide Variety of Valentine-related items (incl. 'Satin & Lace' & Role-Playing Costumes) at Everything Valentine.Com
Wide Variety of Valentine Gear at Electrique Boutique.Com
Holiday Links at Mr. Grinch
This l'il site lst posted 2/2/02
