November 2013 – Nomadics

November 30, 2013

Avnery on the Iran Deal

Dimona Nuclear Reactor, Negev Nuclear Research Center Uri Avnery November 30, 2013 The Debacle THE GREATEST danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders....

Uncategorized / Whatever

November 28, 2013

A Thanksgiving Team: Burroughs & Mustill, Redux

via Jan Herman‘s Straight Up site: November 28, 2013 by Jan Herman Leave a Comment A Straight Up tradition continues. William S. Burroughs’s words of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day paired with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill....

Film / Whatever

November 26, 2013

The Horse’s Ass As Aesthetic Gauge

In the German newspaper Die Welt, Siegfried Tesche speaks with filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, whose latest film Me and You just started its run in Germany, about movie-making and a range of other subjects (If you...

Book Launch / Poetry

November 25, 2013

RD is Back!

On the last day before I left for Europe earlier this month, the mailman brought a gorgeous 869 page book: Robert Duncan — The Collected Later Poems and Plays, edited and with an introduction...

Poetry

November 23, 2013

Paul Celan…

… born today, 23 November, 93 years ago, i.e. in 1920. Left in 1970; is stilled missed. But we have the work. Here is one of the first poems of his I translated back...

Freedom of Speech / Politics

November 19, 2013

Open Letter re Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The Luxembourg writer Lambert Schlechter has been writing to the Russian ambassador & to the media in Luxembourg & beyond to try & put pressure on the Russian government in relation to the latter’s...

Arab Culture / Intellectuals / Literature / Mashreq / Translation

November 18, 2013

Humphrey Davies on Climbing Translation’s Mt. Everest

via the excellent Arab Literature (in English) blog: by mlynxqualey In his recent review of the book, M.A. Orthofer called Humphrey Davies’ translation of Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq’s Leg Over Leg “the most important literary publication of a...

Air pollution / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming

November 16, 2013

Climate Talks: 2° Target

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 11/15/2013 Success of climate talks vital for 2°C target Achieving a global climate agreement soon could be crucial for the objective to keep global...

Live Reading / Minority Literature / Performance / Poetics / Poetry Festival / Translation

November 15, 2013

Occitan Symposium, Banquet & Performance

On Saturday, November 23, Poets House, in partnership with City Lore and NY’OC Trobadors, hosts a landmark symposium celebrating and bringing the riches of southern French poetry and culture to the American public. The symposium gathers international and local...

Agitprop / Intellectuals / Memoir / Poetics / Poetry readings

November 14, 2013

Alcalay & Hollander at Bard College!

ON TRANSLATION AND POETIC IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF IDENTITY POLITICS WITH AMMIEL ALCALAY AND BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Monday, November 18, 2013 Olin 115, 11:50am-1:10pm Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander will address how translation as act and idea...