Poetry – Page 39

Improvisation / Music / Performance / Poetry

August 7, 2011

If In The Pyrenees, Catch Us…

Centre de Montagne / Germ-Louron Mercredi 10 Août 2011 19h : Fredreric Maintenant / piano / apéro / jardin 20h : repas (nombre limité, il faut réserver! voir détail ci-dessous) 21h 30 ...

Arabic / Cooking / Poetry / Translation

July 26, 2011

— 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...

Agitprop / Literature / Poetry Cuisine / Poetry Party

July 24, 2011

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...

Arab Culture / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

July 20, 2011

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...

Arab Culture / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

July 19, 2011

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...

Africa / Poetry / Translation

July 12, 2011

A Poem by Tene Youssouf Gueye

Continuing on my Mauritanian foray, here is a poem in my translation by Tene Youssouf Gueye, born in Kaédi, Mauritania in 1928 and who died in 1988 (for details see commentary below the poem). THE MEANING...

Anthology / Poetry / Translation

July 11, 2011

Two Poems by Djibril Sall

Finally have internet in the mountains of the Pyrenees (the village of Bourg d’Oueil, to be precise) & can try to get back to some normalcy of blogging. Working right now — as I’ve...

Arab Culture / Poetry

June 14, 2011

A year in jail for a poem

Via “The Arabist“: Bahrain: A year in jail for a poem By Ursula Lindsey June 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM Share On Sunday a court in Bahrain sentenced Ayat Al Qurmazi, a 20-year-old education student, to a year...

Poetry

June 4, 2011

Poetry for Architects

Old friend Norman Weinstein reviews Guillevic’s Geometries (read full article here): Book Review: Diving into Architecture from Every New Angle: Reading Guillevic’s “Geometries” Why an obscure book of French poetry in a flashy translation...

Book Launch / Book Review / Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Intellectuals / Interview / Poetics / Poetry

June 3, 2011

Charles Bernstein Interview in Brooklyn Rail…

… check it out, excellent! Charles Bernstein by Phong Bui CHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald by Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein is the author of Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago...