Nomadics

Literary critic, cultural theorist, philosopher, essayist and “father” of reception theory Wolfgang Iser died yesterday. Here is how Tom Van Imschoot from Ghent University described Iser & his work in an article for the...

Wolf Biermann had always been a sort of heroic figure: the intrepid, engaged, peace-mongering, guitar-slinging song-writer poet, heir to Heine & Brecht in a minor key, who kicked himself out of West Germany at...

Rain Taxi, my favorite, and I do honestly think, the best, magazine around for reviews of the current lit (be it poetry, prose, comics, etc.) I want to hear about, is trying to raise...

I’ve been so focused on the non-U.S. parts of the world (and, notwithstanding the prevailing mindset inside These States, them’s huge chunks of the world) that I haven’t taken the time (or simply had...

These last weeks I’ve been working via Skype with old friend Eric Sarner (see above) who is translating Aljibar, a collection of my poems into French for publication in Luxembourg by Editions PHI this...

This is the net at its best — as storage & publicly accessable domain for knowledge: The Austrian Academy Corpus has just put up the complete run of Karl Krauses satirical turn–of-the-previous-century magazine Die...

Oh — I’ll always remember the strange week propped up on a bed in the Hotel Léopold in Algiers (Algeria, not Louisiana) in the very hot late August/early September of 1976 during Ramadan &...

Strange how the daily work of writing and reading sometimes criss-cross and crash into each other. Yesterday morning, as I was working on a complex/complicated translation of the variorum edition of Paul Celan’s “Meridian”...

The great French historian and specialist of ancient Greece, Jean-Pierre Vernant, died yesterday at the ripe old age of 93. I had learned much about Greek mythology and thought from him, before I came...

For today, a little poem the Moroccon poet Abdellatif Laâbi sent out around the end of the year — & I have just found a moment to translate: O gardener of the soulfor the...