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Arrowsmith’s Montale: “Flood Tides”
Frantic with love, I knelt at the Castalian Spring but no freshet reflected my image. I have never seen the piranha’s native waters where swimmers wash back ashore, bones picked clean. And yet other waters work with us, for us, and on us, with an indifferent monstrous effort of recuperation.
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Arrowsmith’s Montale: Late poems first seen
William Arrowsmith’s hitherto unpublished translations of the last two volumes of Eugenio Montale’s poems are about to appear from Norton, in a collected edition lovingly prepared by Arrowsmith’s friend and student Rosanna Warren. The volume represents a life’s work for both poet and translator. Writes Warren: By the time Montale reached his fruitful old age, [...]
Writers: Eugenio Montale, Rosanne Warren, William Arrowsmith
Tagged Italy, Poetry
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Jeet Thayil, poet of the Bombay streets
He handed me the headphones. The music was high- pitched, like the sound track of a movie in which random scenes had been strung together, or cut up and played backwards, or deliberately placed out of order. Bottles clinked and a door creaked open. A shot rang out. A child whispered, is he here? Where [...]
Writers: Jeet Thayil
Tagged Fiction, India
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“Flight Into Egypt,” by Joseph Brodsky, translated by Melissa Green
…where the drover came from, no one knew. Their affinity made the heavens slate the desert for a miracle. There, they chose to light a fire and camp, the cave in a vortex of snow. Not divining his role, the Infant drowsed in a halo of curls that would quickly become accustomed to radiance. Its [...]
Writers: Joseph Brodsky, Melissa Green
Tagged Russian Poetry
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“mehitabel dances with boreas,” by Don Marquis
On a hibernal note, a cockroach types, regarding his friend Mehitabel the cat: well boss i saw mehitabel last evening she was out in the alley dancing on the cold cobbles while the wild december wind blew through her frozen whiskers and as she danced she wailed and sang to herself uttering the fragments that [...]
Writers: Don Marquis
Tagged American poetry
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“Live Like a Poet! At Home in the Bateau Lavoir,” by Rosanna Warren
On April 13, 1904, Pablo Picasso and his friend the Catalan painter Sebastià Junyer Vidal travelled from Barcelona to Paris and installed themselves in Montmartre in the studio just vacated by the Basque ceramicist and sculptor Paco Durrio. Junyer Vidal paid the rent. Called “La Maison du Trappeur” (The Trapper’s House), later renamed Le Bateau [...]
Writers: Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Rosanna Warren
Tagged French Poetry
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“Arcanum” by William Logan
As soon as I see the word arcanum in any proposition, I begin to suspect it. —Descartes Like Hegel’s cows, chewing in the final dark of reason, a domestic passion lies within the salus of a language. Writing is a privacy. I seal up that child of silence; it turns its blank, dull face [...]
Writers: William Logan
Tagged Poetry
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More Rozewicz!
We considered the work of Polish poet Tadeusz Rozewicz in February, when Norton published a major new selected poems translated by Joanna Trzeciak. Now arrives from Anvil the third edition of their selection of Rozewicz, They Came to See a Poet, translated by Adam Czerniawski and first published in 1982. How interesting! There is rather [...]
Writers: Tadeusz Rozewicz
Tagged Poetry, Poland
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On Grief, Kathrin Stengel
In my love for the other, I desire death and life at the same time: death because I want to balance out the injustice of his death, and life because now I have a completely different appreciation for it. And even though the urge to live is stronger than the wish to die, life from [...]
Writers: Kathrin Stengel
Tagged Essay, German
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz, 100 Years
This year marks the centenary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the great poet of modern Urdu. Faiz was born in a small Punjabi village in British India and studied English and Arabic literature in Lahore before becoming a prominent public intellectual and advocate for an independent Pakistan. He is celebrated for expanding the traditional Urdu forms [...]
Writers: Agha Shadid Ali, Faiz Ahmed Faiz