EVERYTHING HAPPENS

Poetry. Translated from the French by Stacy Doris. "Manet selects the motto 'Everything Happens' for his stationery and sends a letter to Mallarme at about the same time that William James, Gertrude Stein's favorite professor, wonderfully writes 'Life is in the transitions as much as in the terms connected.' Recognition is reflexive recognition. To recognize is to admit to oneself or to another, to mark, accept, perceive, empathize identify with, to know again or further. Where shall we go? Once again Dominique Fourcade edgily emphatically lovingly recollects the it is of poetry's transient passage across"--Susan Howe.