{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-03T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-05-03T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:05:00","slug":"ostaijen-to-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/ostaijen-to-picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostaijen to Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* * * Pleasure this morning to come across PoetryInternational<\/a>‘s new addition: a site for the Belgiam\/Flemish poet Paul Van Ostaijen<\/a> (1896-1928) that includes a little bio and a good number of poems (and indicates that a full English translation of Ostaijen’s Bezette Stad<\/i> \u2014Occupied City\u2014, 1921) will <\/span>be published shortly in Jacket magazine. Do not miss reading one of my favorite Ostaijen poems, the Homage to Singer<\/a>, which contains the following lines in James Holmes & Peter Nijmeijer’s translation from The First Book of Schmoll. Selected Poems<\/span> (Bridges, Amsterdam, 1982):<\/div>\n

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A Singer?
yessir
yessir yessir yessir I'm telling you a Singer
don't you understand English Mister
Circulez<\/i>
   Bitte auf Garderobe selbst zu achten
I want a sewingmachine
everyone has a right to a sewingmachine
I want a Singer
everyone a Singer
Singer
     singer
               meistersinger
                                       Hans Sachs
doesn't Hans Sachs have a Singermachine
why doesn't Hans Sachs have a Singer
Hans Sachs is entitled to a Singer
Hans Sachs must have a Singer
Yessir
           that is his right
                 Right makes might
                                Long live Hans Sachs
                                                       Hans Sachs is right
he has a right to

SINGER'S SEWINGMACHINE ARE THE BEST<\/pre>\n
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* * * Checking out Jacket 30 (the Ostaijen isn’t up yet) I came across John Most’s review<\/a> of Jerome Rothenberg’s and my  The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems <\/span><\/i>by Pablo Picasso ( Exact Change Publishers, 5 Brewster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; orders@exactchange.com; http:\/\/exactchange.com\/<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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