Happy B-Day Claude Debussy!
Claude Debussy would be 150 today. You can listen to a range of his music here (on the fabulous Russian music site which you can translate with a right-click) or for furrin-fobicniks check here, or travel via the usual youTube where a good way in is to start with the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun here. Informative page from the Oxford Companion to Music here. Or go to the rather well-done French Wiki-site which also has a lot of links to his music.
Claude Debussy au piano l’été 1893 dans la maison de Luzancy (chez son ami Ernest Chausson). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
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“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
I fell in love with ‘La fille au cheveux de lin’ as a teenager. I also was drawn to his personality as revealed in this story. While practicing one day his piano teacher yelled, “Modulate. Modulate.” To which Debussy replied, “Why? I’m happy where I am. Pleasure is the law.” Can’t argue with that.