July 2017 - Black Sun Lit

Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_03: Mimesis

Jared Daniel Fagen — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:22:49 +0000

Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the third volume of Vestiges: Mimesis. For Aristotle, art was the faithful imitation of nature, in which beauty could be realized. For Wilde, life was an imitation of art, which operated like a veil and no longer a mirror. Though diametrically opposed in appearance, both claims have in common a consequence of art and perception of reality—that the world is felt as an imperfection, and art an impossibility...

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Excerpts from My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, trans. from French by Rainer J. Hanshe

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:46:34 +0000

Love can be derived from a generous feeling: the taste for prostitution; but it is soon corrupted by the taste for property. Love wants to abandon itself, to confound itself with its victim, as the conqueror with the vanquished, & yet preserve the privileges of the conqueror...

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The Cave Solution by Janalyn Guo

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:08:40 +0000

I was told I would fight back at the greenhouse; I would struggle with letting go. At night, I can’t sleep, and even the mantras don’t help. My body burns, the same way it feels when I forget something important and it’s too late to go back. I am full of regrets...

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