June 2010 – Page 2

June 14, 2010

Secret Transcripts of Heidegger's Notorious Seminar

[Here is a post I started preparing some weeks ago & that got lost in the shuffle. But it seems still worthwhile to me to put it out.] Via signandsight, here are the opening...

Art / Drawing / Soccer / Sports

June 13, 2010

Manderscheid's Soccer Players

Roger Manderscheid, the great Luxembourg poet, novelist and artist who passed away earlier this month (here), published a lovely book of his color drawings on soccer themes back in 2006 with an introduction by...

Soccer / Sports

June 11, 2010

Soccer — as (haikus) seen by Alec Finlay

Check out Alec Finlay’s site here.

Blogs / Book Reviews / Gaza Strip / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine / Paris / Uncategorized

June 10, 2010

Two or Three French Takes

At Drouot’s in Paris (the French equivalent of Sothby’s or Christie’s) a big literary sale has just taken place: The manuscript of Jacques Prévert’s “Quai des brumes” (the 150-page scenario of the film directed...

Memorial Reading / Poetry / Poets / Reading

June 9, 2010

Poetry Project Leslie Scalapino Memorial Annoucement

Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Monday June 21, 2010 8:00 p.m. The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003 212-674-0910 | info@poetryproject.org It is with heavy hearts that we will open the...

Language / Music

June 8, 2010

Untranslatable

… and the longest word of the day is: Stadtschlosswiederaufbauaufschubentscheid …found while reading through my daily “Heute in the Feuilletons” Perlentaucher write-up of cultural news. It was a word in an article in today’s...

Art Exhibition / Live Reading

June 6, 2010

WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE

This Sunday, June 6, from 4:00 to 6:00, will be the “official” opening/reading celebration of: WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE Star Black, Steven Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Aaron Howard, Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo, Nicole...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Man-made Disaster / Petition

June 5, 2010

A Bird on the Beach at East Grand Terre Island, LA

After yesterday’s rose, a bird of a different… feather? Sign the MoveOn petition to Congress and the White House today!

Brooklyn / Environment

June 4, 2010

Easy, easy Friday morning…

Nicole suggested a walk before starting into the day as sun was out & the air clear & that would do the head good, as indeed it did, so after a week of small...

Intellectuals / Literature / Obituaries / Passings / Poetry / Prose / Visual Arts

June 3, 2010

Roger Manderscheid (1933-2010)

And the Memorial Day occasion stretches on: news just in that the Luxembourg writer Roger Manderscheid, an old & dear friend, died on Tuesday night. Of the generation just preceding mine, he was the...