Nomadics

July 27, 2015

Lee Harwood (1939-2015)

Sad to see an old friend and a poet I admired very much leave our world. You should check out his Collected Poems published by Shearsman Books in 2004. Download a PDF sampler from this book here....

Amazigh / Arab Culture / Music / Translation

July 25, 2015

Neo-Beat Amazigh Band

It was a pleasure last week to get together with poet El Habib Louai & his band — for their lovely gig in Brooklyn that included Louai’s Arabic translation of Ginsberg’s “America” & plenty of...

Music / Whatever

July 24, 2015

Tomorrow: 50th B-Day of Dylan going Fender Stratocaster

As Carl Wilson remarks on Slate reviewing Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties: “Because history is told by the victors, rock lore holds up the Newport...

Europe / European History

July 23, 2015

Tariq Ali on Greece

Diary Tariq Ali LRB July 2015 In the early hours of 16 July, the Greek parliament voted overwhelmingly to give up its sovereignty and become a semi-colonial appendage of the EU. A majority of...

Cultural Studies / European History / Middle East

July 22, 2015

“Ulysses already wanted to go to Europe:”

Raoul Schrott on the Mediterranean An excellent poet, translator (of the Odyssey & the Iliad, among others), essayist, travel writer, born in Germany and living today in Austria, Raoul Schrott, whom I have been...

Novel / Prose

July 20, 2015

Carl Weissner Gets Stellar Notice in Book Podcast

via Jan Herman’s ever so valuable Straight Up blog & : June 8, 2015 by Jan Herman In his latest podcast at realitystudio.org Jed Birmingham zeroes in on the immensely talented Carl Weissner and...

Iran / Israel

July 18, 2015

Uri Avnery on Israel & the Iran Treaty

Uri Avnery July 18, 2015 The Treaty AND WHAT if the whole drama was only an exercise of deception? What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but...

Film

July 17, 2015

Gad Hollander: Diary of a Sane Man

Diary of a Sane Man from Gad Hollander on Vimeo. This classic feature-length experimental film was first shown in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival in 1990. It was broadcast in the...

Poetry / Radio / Talk / Translation

July 16, 2015

Joris Radio-Talk on Celan’s Poetry

Poetry / Translation

July 16, 2015

2015 National Translation Award Longlist in Poetry!

Happy to announce that my Paul Celan – Breathturn into Timestead made the ALTA longlist! Posted on July 15, 2015 by Erica Mena The American Literary Translators Association is pleased to announce the 12-title...