Category: Poetics

Edouard Glissant (1928-2011)

from: The Restless Earth   “Promenade of Solitary Death” The sad boy has not moved On a lake of roses, strewn With pale bodies in the rosebushes Funereal bay it has remained The shore...

The Meridian—Paul Celan

While spending much of the weekend correcting the page proofs of my translation of Paul Celan—The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials forthcoming in the eponymous collection directed by Werner Hamacher at Stanford University Press, I noticed...