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every poem must open itself to the possibility that it will no longer be a poem

wehavetobehavetobeerrant wrote 2 weeks ago: Mais avec Baudelaire, la poésie française… s’impose comme la poésie meme de la modernité. But with B … more →

Tags: extrahere, Expose, Poetry, Rupture, Ulrich Baer

Jeremy Prynne and Geoffrey Hill compare and contrast

bebrowed wrote 2 weeks ago: Prynne and Hill have many things in common, both have taught at Cambridge, Hill is only four years o … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry & Literature, Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Jeremy Prynne, J H Prynne, celan

und was mache Ich jetzt?

mconrsullivan wrote 1 month ago: oh lordy, have you seen and used Google translate?  you can upload or paste entire documents into it … more →

Tags: Readings, Learnings, german, Greek, Latin, Poetry, Hebrew, Google, languages

Lestrange

I, Enoch wrote 1 month ago: Etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, partner of the poet Paul Celan. {Source: the but does it float b … more →

Tags: But Does it Float, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

From Nobodaddy to No One

Marc wrote 1 month ago: It has been observed in the comments of this blog that William Blake was perhaps not an atheist. Tha … more →

Tags: religious faith, Atheism, William Blake, Nobodaddy, karen armstrong, Supernatural Beings

under the dome

pensum wrote 2 months ago: I run into Andreï Tarkovski alone in the salon of the Hotel San Domenico. The curtains are drawn. Th … more →

Tags: Poetry, film, Literature, Tarkovsky, Jean Daive, Andrei Tarkovski

Paul Celan--"Was uns ... " / "What tossed us ..."1 comment

matt wrote 2 months ago: Was uns zusammenwarf, schrickt auseinander, ein Weltstein, sonnenfern, summt. –Paul Celan What … more →

Translating Paul Celan1 comment

poetryinternational wrote 3 months ago: How can one translate something that is untranslatable?  Paul Celan has often been accused of being … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry International, John Felstiner, Michael Hamburger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pierre Joris

More from PI 13/14

poetryinternational wrote 4 months ago: Here’s a second helping from the prodigious new double issue of Poetry International 13/14.  T … more →

Tags: Poetry International, Carolyn Forche, Fady Joudah, Bob Hicok, Daniel Simko

The Goodness of Art

Laura Macomber wrote 4 months ago: By Laura Macomber I recently wrote a 45-page paper discussing the paradox of cultural elitism in pos … more →

Tags: New York Times, Politics, Raphael

Claiming Paul Celan

bebrowed wrote 4 months ago: I’ve just spent a week or so with ‘Wordtraces’ which was edited by Aris Fioretos a … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry & Literature

Paul Celan and the perfect poem

bebrowed wrote 4 months ago: Many, many people have written about Celan but most of it is as ‘difficult’ as the poetr … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry & Literature, John Felstiner, Michael Hamburger

Quote of the Day

darlingaesthete wrote 4 months ago: Only in one’s mother tongue can one express one’s own truth. In a foreign language, the … more →

Tags: Quote Of The Day, Poetry, Truth, Foreign Language, Native Language

A Saturday Afternoon on the Moon4 comments

extrasimile wrote 5 months ago: 1. Again with the tunnel. It’s longer now. I don’t know why. It’s been weeks since we cleared The fe … more →

Tags: Literacy, Laurel and Hardy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, New york movie, Edward Hopper

Geoffrey Hill and language6 comments

bebrowed wrote 5 months ago: This again is an interim report on Hill’s critical writings. It must be said that there are as … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry & Literature, Geoffrey Hill, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell

Translating Part 2

lettersfromladyn wrote 5 months ago: Description begins with visualization of what you want the reader to experience. It ends with you tr … more →

Tags: Translations, Poetry, LadyN, translation, Miroslav Holub, Imagism, Haiku, Modernism, Latin

Where flames a word, Broad Street Review

Kile Smith wrote 5 months ago: Class act Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review, 24 Jun 2009  Donald Nally’s choir, The Crossing, occupies … more →

Tags: new music, New Compositions, Choral Music, The Crossing Choir, Broad Street Review, Donald Nally, Where flames a word

glass

pensum wrote 5 months ago: The world is of glass. And disappearance is within us. Paul Celan (from Under the Dome: Walks with P … more →

Tags: Art, Poetry, anselm kiefer, Jean Daive

Briefenwechsel

adamcathcart wrote 6 months ago: Last week I attended a reading of the Briefenwechsel, or correspondence, between two of the great Eu … more →

Tags: german, Cultural Politics, Berlin, Rosenthaler Platz, Ingeborg Bachmann, Briefenwechsel, Herzzeit, Correspondence, epistolary relationships


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