Month: december 2017

Reading: No One, Everyone by Bronisław Maj
Polish poet Bronisław Maj (b. 1953) is celebrated as one of the finest poets of his generation and recepient of some reputable literary prizes (almost no author biography on the Internet fails to mention the Prizes). I found a short verse in a translation by Katarzyna Kietlinska and David Malcolm: No one, everyone No one ...
Reading: Vacation by William Stafford
William Stafford (1914-1993) was a very prolific American writer who was born in Kansas and died in Oregon. From his many works I selected, with the help of Szeslaw Milosz, a short observation about traveling: Vacation One scene as I bow to pour her coffee:-- ____Three Indians in the scouring drouth ____huddle at the grave scooped in ...
Vertaling: Her Kind van Anne Sexton
Voor de gedichtenvertaalwedstrijd die Jac Naber of Facebook organiseert vertaalde ik een poosje geleden het gedicht "Her Kind" van Anne Sexton. Voor de volledigheid publiceer ik deze vertaling, nu de wedstrijd gelopen is, integraal op dit blog: * * Ik ben zo'n vrouw geweest. Ik ben uitgegaan, een bezeten feeks door de zwarte luchten, moediger ...
A poet is a lazy philosopher - K. Choi, lazy poet
Reading: This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
Something light and exhilarating today. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a New York poet important voice of modernism and symbolism, who was celebrated by Ginsberg and the Beats for his accessibility. For our growing anthology, I read what is probably the most famous post-it note of American culture: This is just to say I have ...
Tableau I
, in which we are all gummy bears competing with each other on the birthday table of a child who has yet to be diagnosed colorblind
Reading: Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass
Robert Hass (b. 1941) is another famous American poet who served as Poet Laureate of that immense country and won a Pulitzer prize. I read one of his poems today that I think is representative. In other words: vintage Hass: Winged and acid dark A sentence with "dappled shadow" in it. Something not sayable spurting ...
Een nuttige eigenschap
Ik heb de nuttige, en nutty, eigenschap aangeleerd dat ik al mijn verleden produceerde voor nihil kan verklaren, zonder er depressief van te worden. Ik heb geen Herzblut-roman of Lebensgedicht dat ik met me meedraag in de hoop het ooit te kunnen slijten. Ik rommel wat aan, vrolijk als een labrador die kwispelend rond het ...
Icecream
in my country, everybody can eat icecream with wholeness in it world leaders rub nuclear shoulders for it, spiders feel secure in their web with some fly carcasses but it is warming everywhere and I am afraid of the others who restrict everything what if I want to dance on harvest day? what if I ...