Nomadics Blog

Dying

For today, a poem by Töge Sankichi (1912-1953) from the book Poems of the Atomic Bomb, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, reprinted here from Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre...

…& for those friends in NYC

Subject: [bspg-sbu] 60th Anniversry Atomic Bombings, Interfaith Gathering On Friday, August 5, from 6:30 pm to 9:30pm, The New York BuddhistChurch and the Riverside Church will co-sponsor an Interfaith PeaceGathering. This year makes the...

more from "The Gift of Emptyness"

Here are a few more translations from Mohammed Bennis’s collection Le Don du Vide: RINGS Anchor the air to the rings of the doorsor to the ruins of the praisesThe sea fulfills youYour depth...

Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), the great Austrian (sound/concrete, etc.) poet, would have been eighty today. The German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reminds of us the occasion and brings some unpublished poems, the following among them:...

The Gargoyles of Rodez Cathedral

To close the Rodez visit, here are a few photos of those famous gargoyles on the cathedral. They were taken by Nicole Peyrafitte, & if I was a better editor of visuals, they would...

State of Siege

It is, I believe, worth reminding us every so often of the scandal the major lack of translations of poetry (& other literary writing) in the US represents. This lack, I have noticed over...