Nomadics

The first translation into French of the 1001 Arabian Nights — that great, scary tale of a woman holding off a power-crazed serial-killer of women with night-long strings of words — came out in...

My old comrade in arms, I mean bars, the sculptor, wise-crack artiste & website designer John Maas has an excellent visual site, sort of his doomsdaydiary (another incarnation of dadada or now dodadi) of...

What drives as serious & excellent a writer as the Austrian Peter Handke to take — & persist in — political stances that seem so absurdly inept & perverse? For ten years now, Handke...

Launch of Place by Allen Fisher This major work, long out of print, has been republished in a fine edition by Reality Street. Allen Fisher will read from Place On Monday 4th July at...

In a recent email, Vikas Menon writes: “while i’ve been reading a great deal of poetry, i realized i’ve been sorely negelecting texts on poetics — can you drop me a line when you...

This past Thursday the “illustrious” French institution known as the Académie Française elected a new member: the Algerian writer and film maker Assia Djebar. The Académie Française is a rather stuffy old institution founded...

Chuck Stein, poet & philosopher extraordinaire, is in Rome, I learned last night, working with video artist Gary Hill on a major production in that city. He has been sending diaristic posts to Harvey...

Trio Pamplemousse George Muscatello: GuitarNicole Peyrafitte: VoiceDanny Whelchel: Percussions Trio Pamplemousse investigates musical genres such asJazz standards & French cabaret, as well as contemporary poetry. Thinking back to last Thursday and Trio Pamplemousse’s gig...

I started this blog with the translation of a poem by Moroccon poet Abdellatif Laâbi for the French journalist Florence Aubenas who, together with her Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun, had been kidnapped in Baghdad....

Ugh. A week of aches & pains & 90 degrees heat w/ 100% humidity in Smallbany — but I promise to get back to the blog in more depth soon. Meanwhile, another sending by...