Poetry
Everything Happens
By Dominique Fourcade
Manet selects the motto 'Everything Happens' for his stationery and sends a letter to Mallarmé 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
Taking his cue from Manet's letterhead, Tout Arrive Dominique Fourcade, like an upside-down Boy Scout, invents a motto of his own: "Be ready but not prepared." His ars poetica, teasingly torn from the French by Stacy Doris, is a deliciously quirky brief for the multitrack improvisation of possibility. "Let, and not force to happen" is not the idea but a method sounded in the alarm of writing. "The light is in the dark."
—Charles Bernstein
2000 33 pages $10.00 ISBN 978-0-942996-44-9
