{"id":181,"date":"2006-05-28T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-05-28T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:24:00","slug":"brossard-ince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/brossard-ince\/","title":{"rendered":"Brossard &amp; Ince"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>At York University. Early breakfast seance listening to Nicole Brossard<br \/>talk of \"la ville\" the city in her life and writing, as a major producer<br \/>of euphoria, saying \"l'air de la ville rend libre parce que nous y circulons.\"<br \/>But Toronto itself is  1&1\/2 hour away by bus or $50 by taxi.Late this<br \/>afternoon a roundtable discussion with her and her translators into<br \/>English and Spanish. More on that as I can.<br \/><br \/>In Luxembourg last week was able to spend time with Turkish poet Ozdemir Ince.<br \/>We read together on a boat going up and down the Moselle; heavy rains outside.<br \/>Wierd time spent in a sleuce. Much talk of Bodrum, anciently Hallicarnussus,<br \/>Herodotus' birthplace where he now lives six months of the year and where I<br \/>came through years ago on my Olsonian quest for the father of prose &amp; history<br \/>writing.Some of Ince's work has been translated into English, and below a poem that<br \/>came out in Talisman some years ago:<br \/><br \/><br \/>POET'S NONALIGNMENT<br \/><br \/>The poet is neutral vis-`a-vis objects,<br \/>a scent of the sea remains in his nails,<br \/>he has seen how the apple rotted and fell of its branch:<br \/>the smell of salt will return to the sea<br \/>and the apple will not bow its head to its quintessence.<br \/><br \/>The poet is neutral vis-`a-vis objects,<br \/>the water turns blue as it gathers in the cistern,<br \/>the shadow becomes shorter as the sun rises,<br \/>the genuine noon is the poet's witness.<br \/><br \/>The poet is neutral vis-`a-vis objects,<br \/>because he is opposed to both death and deathlessness.<br \/><br \/>Ozdemir Ince<br \/>Translated by Talat Sait Halman (Talisman, 1991(Spring 6))<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At York University. Early breakfast seance listening to Nicole Brossardtalk of &#8220;la ville&#8221; the city in her life and writing, as a major producerof euphoria, saying &#8220;l&#8217;air de la ville rend libre parce que&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}