Translation – Page 31

Haiti / Natural Disaster / Poetry / Translation

January 26, 2010

Haiti, Césaire, Translation, & The New Yorker

The New Yorker, as we well know, has a house style and is proud of it. That this may be a natural thing to aspire to for such a venerable old publication isn’t too...

Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

January 14, 2010

Three by Dib

Took the first volume of the Algerian writer Mohammed Dib’s Collected Works (which consists of the Collected Poems, edited and presented by Habib Tengour — as published in 2007 by Editions de la Différence) ...

Natural Disaster / Poetry / Translation

January 13, 2010

Epic Debris: Haiti

Eerie feeling last night: had an email in the late afternoon from Claude Pierre, the Haitian poet, & just as I started to read & respond, the radio brought news of the earthquake. Communications...

Maghrebi Literature / Poetry / Translation

January 7, 2010

Abdellatif Laâbi Wins 2009 Goncourt Poetry Prize

In early December, the yearly “Prix Goncourt” for poetry given by the members of the Goncourt Academy to a francophone poet was awarded to the Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi — which is excellent news,...

Paul Celan / Translation

January 4, 2010

A Celan Poem

For the pleasure of this cold, clear Monday morning, the poem “Mit allen Gedanken” by Paul Celan from his volume Die Niemandsrose. It has been my pleasure to spend some time with this work...

Cultural Studies / Essays / Literature / Translation

January 2, 2010

Freud for All

Since yesterday, the works of Sigmund Freud have entered the public domain — I am not sure that the publishing world is in a feeding frenzy over here in Anglosaxonia, though in France, Libération...

Book Reviews / Books / Criticism / Essays / Independent Publishers / Intellectuals / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

December 26, 2009

Boxing Day 09 Favorite Books List

& the winner (aka my favorite favorite book of the year) is: Kenneth Irby THE INTENT ON Collected Poems, 1962- 2006 672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; designed by Jonathan Greene;...

Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

December 18, 2009

Just out: Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard

Just published by the University of California Press in the Poets for the Millennium series: Nicole Brossard Selections by Nicole Brossard Introduction by Jennifer Moxley Poets for the Millennium, 7 A Simpson Book in...

Book Review / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

November 2, 2009

This & That

On Jalel El Gharbi’s blog, a review by Giulio-Enrico Pisani of my most recent book of poems, Aljibar II. For those who read French. Bilingual edition available in this country from ta’wil productions. *...

Book Review / Criticism / Essays / Paul Celan / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

October 10, 2009

Celan in Australia, & Heidegger Again

Friend Warren Burt alerted me to a radio program on Paul Celan & Martin Heidegger just broadcast by ABC: A message in a bottle: encounters with Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. It’s just streaming...