August 2011
12 posts
From The Desk of Of Montreal: “My Struggle” By... →
Nina Barnes — art director of Of Montreal & wife of the Athens poprock frontman Kevin Barnes — discusses the impact of “My Struggle” on an entire continent.
And a video of Knausgård reading.
The train rushed past It passed me by, and I am like a station. I don’t know whether I’m seeing people off or greeting them: Welcome, on my platforms cafes, offices, roses, telephones, newspapers, sandwiches, music, and a rhyme for another poet who comes and waits
The train rushed past It passed me by, and I am still waiting
—Mahmoud Darwish (1941 - 2008) trans. by Jeffrey...
Standing Before the Ruins of Al-Birweh by Mahmoud Darwish tran. by Sinan Antoon
Like birds, I tread lightly on the earth’s skin so as not to wake the dead I shut the door to my emotions to become my other I don’t feel that I am a stone sighing as it longs for a cloud Thus I tread as if I am a tourist and a correspondent for a foreign newspaper Of this place I choose the wind I choose absence to...
Today is the 3rd anniversary of the death of Mahmoud Darwish. For the occasion:
A Traveler by Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Sinan Antoon
This road takes me; a horse guiding a horseman A traveler like me cannot look back I have walked far enough to know where autumn beginsThere, behind the river, the last pomegranates ripen in an additional summer and a beauty mark grows in the seed of the apple...
Please join Archipelago Books on Friday, August 12, for a starry celebration of Julio Cortázar’s From the Observatory:
Friday, August 12 6:30 p.m. Vassar College Observatory 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
Reception to be followed by a reading and panel discussion with translator Anne McLean, Vassar English professor and Cortázar scholar Mihai Grunfeld, and Vassar astronomy...
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“Fragments are the only form I trust.”
– Donald Bartheleme
thanks to PoetryFound
(via billyjane)
Book Review: Julio Cortazar's From the Observatory →
The Wall Street Journal reviewed our latest book!
oxford american dictionary
archipelago |ˌärkəˈpeləˌgō| noun ( pl. -gos or -goes)
a group of islands. • a sea or stretch of water containing many islands.
ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Italian arcipelago, from Greek arkhi- ‘chief’ + pelagos ‘sea.’ The word was originally used as a proper name ( the Archipelago [the Aegean Sea] ): the generalization of meaning occurred because the Aegean Sea is remarkable for its large...
