from The Committee to Save the New York Public Library: Dear friend, Our website is now up! The Committee to Save the New York Public Library is online at www.savenypl.org Now we need your help. Please spread the word about our site and the threat facing the 42nd Street Library: via social media, via twitter, via linking from your blog, via plain old-fashioned word-of-mouth. If you have friends who you … Read more New York Public Library Troubles
[I too am traveling, so just forwarding this post from Arab Literature (in English): New post on Arabic Literature (in English) Best of ArabLit: The ‘Rules’ for Translatorsby mlynxqualey In 2011 and 2012, ArabLit ran a series of “rules” for literary translators. More than 20 literary translators participated. In no particular order: David Colmer (Dutch-English) Judith Wilkinson (Dutch-English) Samah Selim (Arabic-English) Susan Bernofsky (German-English) Fatima Sharafeddine (English-Arabic, French-Arabic, Arabic-English, Arabic-French) George Messo … Read more The ‘Rules’ for Translators
Am in Bloomington, Indiana today for talk at Lilly Library & translation seminar. Here the latest debate on related matters from Arab Literature (in English) blog — a debate not unrelated to other publishing, such as poetry, as well: by mlynxqualey Early yesterday morning — around 1 a.m. — I joined a talk with Prof. Robyn Creswell (The Paris Review) and Prof. Elias Muhanna (@qifanabki) at Brown University: Courtesy Royal … Read more The Failure of Arabic Literature (in Translation): The Failure of Reviewers
Beatriz Leal Riesco reviews Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour (University of California Press, 2013) To bring together for the first time for the English-speaking public a broad range of texts from North Africa, ranging from ancient myths from the oral tradition to the most cutting-edge of contemporary poetry, has been the signal achievement … Read more Asymptote Review of Millennium Vol IV
Old friend & collaborator Paul Buck was interviewed by 3.a.m. magazine on his new book on the film Performance. Opening paras below; read the whole piece here. performance redux Paul Buck interviewed by Richard Marshall. 3:AM: You approach the film from a series of angles – the art scene, the London drug scene, the gangster scene, the film scene and so on. This gives the reader a very intense and close up way in … Read more Paul Buck on Performance — the movie
The excellent BANIPAL magazine has just published a solid interview with Moroccan poet Mohammed Bennis conducted by Camilo Gomez-Rivas. Opening paras below. You can access the whole piece here. Mohammed Bennis lives for literature, and for poetry in particular. Camilo Gomez-Rivas introduces this influential Moroccan literary figure and poet, with an in-depth interview and translations from two of his most important poetry collections. The semantic shifts one encounters in a single … Read more Mohammed Bennis Interview
Check out the new issue of Numéro Cinq which offers a range of interesting materials, among them: The General Indifference of Sand: Poems — Jean Portante Translated by Pierre JorisThe first poem begins: THE DESERT Le désert compta ses rides et l’aigle et le faucon répandirent, aussitôt la nouvelle. — Edmond Jabès it is due to the general indifference of the grains of sand that the desert came about … Read more Jean Portante in Numéro Cinq
Been on the road for readings for nearly a week, thus no posts. Old friend Bill Sherman had sent me a review of the two Dorn reviews plus his own takes on the Dorn, which he graciously gave me permission to repost here on Nomadics — which I’ll do, as I catch my breath & sort out next week (which will culminate in an Occitan poetry & music performance … Read more Bill Sherman On Ed Dorn’s Collected