Archive for June, 2007

“They only got me, they never got what I got” - is a sentence I remember from some Bob Dylan interview, hopefully somewhat correctly. “I remember this coming up right at the time I began writing, in 69-71 – in conversation and correspondance with Ron Silliman, sitting here in the front row- around things... »

For those that missed it: The new Nypoesi double number on translation is out. Click here for the first one and here for the second one. The second one features remixes of Jörgen Gassilewskis Landskapsinteriör – in the style of Translating Translating Appolinaire, where yours truly, fully, truefully has three versions: 1) Switching out... »

I If a Lorentzian spacetime contains a compact region Ω, and if the topology of Ω is of the form Ω ~ R x Σ, where Σ is a three-manifold of nontrivial topology, whose boundary has topology of the form dΣ ~ S², and if furthermore the hypersurfaces Σ are all spacelike, then the... »

Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson – superstar of the Icelandic short story, blogs about two recent comments I’ve had about the Icelandic culture-media. There he has this near canonizing statement about yours truly: “I have a strong feeling that EÖN is not and will not be in the good graces of the literature world.” Click... »

Yesterday evening Leevi Lehto was presented with the Nuori Voima award. Leevi read, both in “civilized Finnish” (not so civilized really) and “barbaric English” (HUMUNGOUSLY BARBARIC). One of the poems Leevi read was byos – his translation of Lars Mikael Raattamaa’s Pajkerno, a univocal rendition of a Swedish classic, Pojkarna by Anna Maria Lenngren,... »

I’ve posted a new homophonic translation of the first verse of Time and the Water (Tíminn og vatnið) by Steinn Steinarr, over at my poetry blog, called Teaming of what, Ned? Martin Johs. Möller posted my Biskops Arnö reading on the Brink. Mirroring language’s tendency to mirror itself I will link to Charles Bernstein’s... »