The Knotted 45
In 1988, Luxembourg — the country of which I am still a citizen, even after these many green-carded years — offered the above sculpture by artist Fredrik Reuterswärd to the UN in New York where you can see it today in the Visitor’s Plaza, facing First Avenue at 45th Street. Today, my friend John Maas — an excellent sculptor himself — alerted me to the fact that the Washington commentator Steven C Clemons used it on his blog to highlight a political cartoon by a young “aspiring political cartoonist,” Jonah Lobe, taking aim at John Bolton’s aims should he get to the UN. Can’t resist reprinting it here too:
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
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“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