{"id":2084,"date":"2009-10-01T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:16:54","slug":"two-or-three-things-that-have-come-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/two-or-three-things-that-have-come-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Two or Three Things that have come my Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently came across a new online internationalist \u2014 thus translation \u2014 oriented magazine, Cerise Press<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, edited & published between the US and France. Check it out \u2014 I am of course immediately very taken by Charlotte Mandel<\/strong>l’s translation of Abdelwahab Meddeb<\/strong>‘s The Stranger Across<\/em>, but also fascinated by Tony Brinkley<\/strong> & Raina Kostova<\/strong>‘s translations of Osip Mandelshtam<\/strong> \u2014 to me, the most difficult of the Russian poets to bring over into English.<\/p>\n

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Just in from burning deck<\/strong>, Jean Daive<\/strong>‘s memoir of Paul Celan<\/strong>, Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan<\/em><\/a>, translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop<\/strong>. I have commented on it before on this blog \u2014 check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"daive2\"<\/a>Also just in, Donald Wellman<\/strong>‘s excellent translation of Antonio Gamoneda<\/strong>‘s Lapidas \/ Gravestones<\/em> from UNO Press<\/a> (University of New Orleans Press). Gamoneda is one of the major Spanish poets of the the last half-century (he’s born in 1931) and, if I am not mistaken, this is the first of his collections available to US readers.<\/p>\n

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Writes Jos\u00e9 Kozer on the back cover:<\/p>\n

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One should be glad for Gamoneda\u2019s belated recognition and simply shrug one\u2019s shoulders over the timing, since that seems to be the lot of great poets. One should concentrate on a poetry that \u201ctravels from the visible to the invisible\u201d and vice versa. A poetry not prone to expletives, resentment, nor the exploitation of personal grievances. A poetry that can deal with, in the words of Eduardo Mil\u00e1n, \u201cthe intimacy of exclusion\u201d objectively yet passionately, language transparent and yet complex. Translator Donald Wellman\u2019s sensitivity to these nuances and complexities serves these poems well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gamoneda, the recipient of the 2006 Cervantes prize, the major literature award in Spain,\u00a0 had of course been silenced under the Franco dictatorship \u2014 here a video of the poet speaking of his life of resistance to that disctatorship and his poetics:<\/p>\n

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