Syrian Poet Aïcha Arnaout Interview
Unhappily I have only a French version & no time right now to translate into English. But here are the opening paragraphs of an interview by Cécile Oumhani with the Syrian poet Aïcha Arnaout. You can read the full interview here. Cécile Oumhani: Entretien avec la poète syrienne Aïcha Arnaout Aïcha Arnaout est une poète syrienne, qui vit à Paris depuis 1978. Elle écrit en français et en arabe et … Read more Syrian Poet Aïcha Arnaout Interview
Climate Change Remobilizes …
… Long Buried Pollution as Arctic Ice Melts Trapped toxic chemicals are escaping from melting snow and ice in the Arctic, according to new research Check out the following article from the Scientific American by Lauren Morello and ClimateWire | July 25, 2011 | 11 Image: NASA Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region’s snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study. Researchers from Canada, … Read more Climate Change Remobilizes …
What We’ve Been Up To
— Nicole helps bake a mountain cake for my birthday & documents the process: Coque or Gâteau à la Broche – Nicole Peyrafitte Photos Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte & Roland Jamme Video: Nicole Peyrafitte Flower arrangement on the cake: Sylvia Gorelick. — & I get published inside a gator: i.e. in alligatorzine alligatorzine113 | Pierre Joris | St/range: An uncertain range with a French translation by Peter Cockelbergh here. alligatorzine114 | Pierre Joris | Meditations on the Stations of … Read more What We’ve Been Up To
Finally! A “No Confidence Vote in Poetry Society”!
Well, the last time I was involved with the Poetry Society, headquartered back then (& probably even now) in Earls Court, London, was back in the early seventies when we managed by an overwhelming vote at the annual election to get a number of “us” on the board, actually enough to have a majority, & thus able to make Bob Cobbing chair, while Eric Mottram was editor of the … Read more Finally! A “No Confidence Vote in Poetry Society”!
NEA Translation Fellowships
Most happy to learn that I was given a Translation Fellowship by the NEA this year! Below the official announcement: NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces $200,000 for 16 Literature Translation Fellowships Since the inception of the literary translation program in 1981, the Arts Endowment has awarded 339 Translation Fellowships in 62 languages from 72 countries For immediate release July 21, 2011 Contact: Liz Stark 202-682-5744 starke@arts.gov Washington, DC … Read more NEA Translation Fellowships
Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (2)
Ode in praise of al-Mansur al-‘Amiri, Emir of Cordoba (Mu’arada of Abu-Nawas)(Extract) O wife! Set the will of the unjustly treated free so that it may rise into the desert’s immensity and take flight! Perhaps what pained you after separation will make the lowly stronger or free a prisoner. Don’t you know that to settle down means to die and that the homes of those who have … Read more Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (2)
Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (1)
From the DIWAN IFRIKIYA anthology, a poet of the early glorious days of al-Andalus (given the limits of blog formatting & text width, the final layout will be slightly different to indicate the hemistiches of the original Arabic lines): Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (‘Umar Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Darradj al-Qastalli) (958-1030) Ode In praise of Khaïran al-‘Amiri, Emir of Almeria (Extract) In the folds of … Read more Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (1)
Review of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
A new review of Jerry Rothenberg and my translation of the Selected Picasso has just been published online by David Detrich of Innovative Fiction. The book is available from the publishers here. Opening paras below, the full review available here: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz AUTHOR: . | POSTED AT: 9:33 AM | FILED UNDER: INNOVATIVE FICTION The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & other poems (2004) by Pablo Picasso is a translation … Read more Review of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Potential market, no buyers
Via the excellent signandsight site, the opening paras of a recent essay by Norbert Mappes-Niediek. Fascinating lit news from that other, often forgotten or belittled area of Europe: 03/07/2011 The paradoxes of the Ex-Yugoslavian bookmarket Only the greats of pre-war literature – like Ivo Andric – have readers in all republics. It does happen that a bookstore in Montenegro orders two or three books from his publishing house, says publisher Nenad … Read more Potential market, no buyers