Tag: Lodève

Lodève (3): Zéno Bianu & Youssef Khadim Allah

Here, first, the final poem of Zéno Bianu’s reading, a “scantata” (“something between scansion and cantata,” he suggested & mentioned Baudelaire). And now a poem by the Tunisian poet Youssef Kharim Allah, with, beneath the video, my English translation: TERRORIST room 31 moustache and weak virility explosive belt stuffed with hygienic colored chalk made by the MT company. I’m chasing a small salary at the tail end of the … Read more Lodève (3): Zéno Bianu & Youssef Khadim Allah

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Lodève "Voix de la Méditerranée" festival (1)

Just back to our Pyrenean hide-out from 8 days in Lodève at the “Voix de la Méditerranée” festival. An excellent occasion, though exhausting, what with having to do at least one half-hour reading a day, trying to catch as many of the other readers as possible & spending social time with old friends and new acquaintances. I did not have easy access to the net, and even here, I … Read more Lodève "Voix de la Méditerranée" festival (1)

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