Two or Three Things that have come my Way
Recently came across a new online internationalist — thus translation — oriented magazine, Cerise Press, edited & published between the US and France. Check it out — I am of course immediately very taken...
Category: Paul Celan
Jean Daive's Memoir of Paul Celan
Taking a break from translating the Meridian variorum, and more specifically from proofing the Mandelstam section (see Wednesday’s post) I check out the Belgian online litmag alligatorzine, and come across Rosmarie Waldrop’s translation of...
Mandelstam via Celan (2)
Last December I posted the opening of Paul Celan’s radio-essay on Osip Mandelstam — which you can read here — and earlier still some the notes Celan wrote when composing the radio-essay — which...
Marinetti's Manifesto Meets MoMA
Yesterday at high noon I saw a man wielding a hammer in a glass house & screaming how beautiful speed & war are. That was Charles Bernstein reading F.T. Marinetti‘s The Founding and manifesto...
Celan, Kafka & the Glottal Stop
Kavka, jackdaw, (corvus monedula) I just read an essay by Matthew Landis on the connection of certain themes in Paul Celan’s poetry & Jacques Derrida’s writings, especially those of the trace, the breach, the...
The Alexander Poem, Durs Grünbein, Lenz, etc.
This 20th of January I was not able to do what I like doing on that day of the year: reread Georg Büchner’s Lenz (there is bilingual edition with an excellent translation by Richard...
Rosa Luxemburg: 90 years ago
“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden““Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently” Ninety years ago Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht were assassinated in Berlin. While being transported to...
Mandelstam via Celan
Toward the end of the Meridian Variorum edition the editors reprint a radio play Paul Celan wrote the same year he composed the acceptance speech for the Büchner prize. It is made up of...
Celan on poetic practice
I have been working on finishing/revising/preparing my translation of the variorum edition of Paul Celan’s Meridian Speech. As I work on this, I’ll post a few excerpts over the next 3 or 4 weeks....
Paul Celan: Line the Word Caves
November 23 is the birthday of Paul Celan — the birthyear is 1920. Here, in memory of that day, a poem from his volume Threadsuns in my translation. It is one of Celan’s more...
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux