Going through some folders I came across the little piece below which I gave orally somewhere in the seven minutes allotted for the occasion (can’t for the life of me remember where — if any one can, please contact me). As far as I know it was never printed anywhere, so here it is, e-printed or posted: Seven Minutes on Translation The text that opens my recent volume of … Read more Seven Minutes On Translation
Came to this via signandsight, I think — the text comes from a Ukrainian newspaper & I have left it as is. Chernivtsi is Czernowitz, which, if you have followed this blog, you’ll have come across a number of times, most recently as the place of a major poetry festival this past summer in celebration of Paul Celan who was born there — & who in the years of … Read more Rose Ausländer’s NKVD Archive Declassified
An email in my inbox this rainy morning led me to the site with the following press release. Thought I’d pass it on: For Immediate Release Dead Poets Society of America Contact Walter Skold: info@deadpoes.org Charles Olson Tombstone in Danger of Splitting September 28 – On the eve of the Charles Olson Centennial about to be celebrated in Gloucester, one New England poet and filmmaker has discovered that Olson’s … Read more Olson’s Tombstone Blues
the Living Theater presents: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TULI Tuesday Sept. 28, 7 pm until forever at the Living Theater – 21 Clinton Street between Houston and Stanton ( F, J, M, G to Essex – Delancey stop or F to Second Ave. ) FREE and open to the public a cast of 100’s including Videos by Thelma Blitz speakers, readers, musicians i.e. the Fuxxons, Judith Malina, David Amram, John Kruth … Read more Tuli Kupferberg Event @ Living Theater
Well, I was not going to post anything today — Sunday rest, I guess, though there was little rest in fact: I spent the whole day correcting proofs for the Celan MERIDIAN — done now! Nicole was working just as concentratedly & just now posted the results: her incredible Fast Poulet recipe with reflections on music. Go and check it out on her COLLECTAGES blog. It was a scrumptious … Read more Le Chicken Rapide…
Wonder by Hugo Claus translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim Michael Henry Heim has been awarded the 2010 PEN Translation Prize for his translation from the Dutch of Hugo Claus’s Wonder! The judges wrote of Heim’s translation: “Michael Henry Heim’s outstanding translation has succeeded masterfully in mirroring Hugo Claus’s many voices in this novel that reflects a complex, complicated vision of post-World War II Flanders. It is … Read more Bravo Archipelago Books: 2010 PEN Translation Prize to Heim for Claus’ Wonder
Launch of LPB’s new magazine, VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts For anyone who happens to be in NYC this September, you are cordially invited to the launch of the inaugural issue of LPB’s new magazine, VLAK, at the St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th Street, 8pm, on the 27th. This reading launches the inaugural issue of Vlak, an international magazine with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, … Read more Vlak Reading @ St Mark’s on 27 September
4th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival 5 Days of Poetry and Music Friday Sept. 24, Sidewalk Café 94 Ave. A NYC Free with a two-drink minimum 7:00 p.m. Noelle Kocot 7:20 p.m. Pierre Joris 7:35 p.m. Maureen Thorson 7:55 p.m. Steve Cannon 8:00 p.m. Nicole Peyrafitte 8:20 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk-David Shapiro reading and in conversation with Joanna Fuhrman 9:10 p.m. Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye-poetry and music … Read more Boog City Readings
From the Ukarainian paper The Day, here the opening paras of an article on the Czernowitz / Chernivtsi Poetry Festival in honor of Paul Celan: Chernivtsi’s poetic meridian By Maria TOMAK, The Day “Chernivtsi, located midway between Kyiv and Bucharest, the Crimea and Odesa, has always been a secret capital of Europe, where sidewalks were swept with bouquets of roses, and there were more bookstores than bakeries,” reads the … Read more Meridian Czernowitz
In Oskar Pastior‘s Bucharest Securitate-dossier (R 249.556) the following hand-written and -signed letter of commitment of 8 June 1961 was found — of course we do not know exactly under what threats to life and limb he was forced to write and sign it. Absolutely no evidence has come to the fore so far that “Stein Otto” did any snitching: “The undersigned Pastior Capesius Oskar Walter, born 20 October … Read more Pastior’s Letter of Commitment