{"id":12953,"date":"2015-02-28T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12953"},"modified":"2015-02-28T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:21:12","slug":"celan-peyrafitte-howe-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/celan-peyrafitte-howe-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Celan, Peyrafitte, Howe, Meyer."},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the serialization of The Malady of Islam<\/em> taking up all weekdays (& will do for another couple of weeks), I’ll use Saturday’s post to list other items\/events of interest.<\/p>\n

1) A Review of Breathturn into Timestead <\/em>in The Arts Fuse<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Fuse Poetry Review: \u201cBreathturn into Timestead\u201d \u2014 A Magnificent Guide to the Enigmatic Poetry of Paul Celan<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

Feb\u00a0<\/span>25\u00a0<\/span>2015<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Once you have wrestled with Paul Celan, not against but along-side him in his poetry, you may find yourself with a changed and sharpened sensibility to image and language.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Kai Maristed<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few days ago I was shopping in a big department store in Munich. At the cash register I set down the thick book of poetry (over 700 pages with annotations, thank you) that I\u2019d been lugging around all morning. Quietly, almost under her breath, the clerk said, \u201cAch! Paul Celan<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked at her. Mid-forties, buttoned-up cardigan, short curly hair. Clear pale eyes. \u201cYou know Celan?\u201d<\/p>\n

With a small smile, she recited from memory: \u00a0Schwarze Milch der Fruehe wir trinken sie abends \/ wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts\u2026<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018Black milk of daybreak, we drink it in the evening \/ we drink it at noon and in the morning we drink it at night\u2026) These are the first lines of Celan\u2019s extraordinary poem, Todesfuge<\/em>. (Death Fugue) Worked on for at least a year, published in his early collection Poppy and Memory<\/em>, this ferocious, beautiful lyric challenged the famous statement by philosopher Theodor Adorno, that \u201cto write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ctd here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

2) Nicole Peyrafitte’s performance at The Poetry Project<\/em><\/strong> on Wednesday 25 February.<\/p>\n

To see how the image below was created, check out the documentation & video on the blog, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3) A few books it has been my pleasure to spend some time with this past week:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars \/ The Telepathy of Archives<\/em><\/strong>. (Christine Burgin\/New Directions 2014). Sumptuous stroll through the natural landscape of a library cormorant. If you are unconvinced that poems descend from other poems, that texts generate texts, that archives don’t entomb the dead but enliven the live, then spend some time with this book.<\/p>\n

\"Howe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Thomas Meyer, Essay Stanzas<\/em><\/strong> (The Song Cave, 2014) Meyer \u2014 maybe my generation’s\u00a0least well-known master-poet of the lyric imagination \u2014 gathers 4 sequences in this book which, as Peter O’Leary suggests,\u00a0“compress Orphic oracle, Faustian apocalypse, oneiric pageant, invented fable, wisdom literature, cryptic joke, disturbing aphorism, epigrammatic wit and nervous ruin.” Here two (near random fragments) from the sequence “Kept Apart:”<\/p>\n

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a poet said
\npointing to a dark spot
\non the moon
\nthat’s blck money
\ncarried there by
\ndead traders
\nwho fled earth
\nbut in fact
\nthose thieves
\nand smugglers
\nleft their loot here on earth
\nand paid interets on that sum
\nwith their deserted bodies
\nthat poor innocent moon
\nmust put up with these stories
\nthat cause him such deep grief<\/p>\n

cut and broken
\nshaped and chipped
\nstone becomes statue
\nyet we hear about
\nhow every road
\nis lined with
\nunhewn
\ngods<\/p>\n

Everybody remembers money
\neven at the point of death
\neven so tirelessly charity
\nworks away
\npast
\nthe last
\nbreath<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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