{"id":9702,"date":"2013-01-17T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:57:24","slug":"alec-finlays-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/alec-finlays-new-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Finlay’s New Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friend Alec Finlay<\/strong> has started a most elegant new blog \u2014 today’s post concerns a wonderful project of his around the poem IRISH by Paul Celan (full disclosure: I was\u00a0involved\u00a0in that project too). Below, the opening paragraph. For the full piece go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Back in 1997 I published an artist\u2019s book with translations of one of the less well known poems by Paul Celan, \u2018Irisch\u2019, \u2018Irish\u2019, which opens the fourth cycle of\u00a0Fadensonnen<\/i>(Threadsuns<\/i>). The poem was composed in April 1967, while the poet was confined to a sanitorium for severe depression. I was gripped by the intensity of its interiorized Celtic landscape \u2013\u00a0language-scape<\/i>\u00a0is the term coined by the poem’s renowned translator, Pierre Joris \u2013 which I attempted to further intensify by publishing a series of different translations, or versions, of the poem, following one after the other, allowing the variant phrases to accumulate page by page. It was accompanied by a series of amorphous gouaches by Sol LeWitt, and I copublished the book with my friend Peter Foolen in Eindhoven.<\/div>\n
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In 2002 I returned to the poem, inviting each of the original translators to propose a new translator, repeating the process of sequential versions.<\/div>\n
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from\u00a0Irish (2)<\/i><\/div>\n
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Gib mir das Wegrecht<\/i><\/div>\n
grant me the right of way<\/i><\/div>\n
Give me the right to go<\/i><\/div>\n
Give me the right to pass the way<\/i><\/div>\n
Give me leave to tread<\/i><\/div>\n
Tabhair cead mo chos dom<\/i><\/div>\n
Give me the right of way<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Friend Alec Finlay has started a most elegant new blog \u2014 today’s post concerns a wonderful project of his around the poem IRISH by Paul Celan (full disclosure: I was\u00a0involved\u00a0in that project too). Below,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,91,103],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-alec-finlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","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=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9708,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}