Bernstein
“And surely it is a scandal, I tell my students, how Americans are afflicted with attention-deficit disorder, just like they say in Time magazine, which after all should know, being one of the major sites of infection for the disease it laments, with it’s “you can never simplify too much” approach to prose and... »
A few links
“a.rawlings has one thing she keeps in her mind while performing: “Don’t fuck it up!”” Angela is interviewed here, along with Dani Couture and Paul Vermeersch, about the promised land of exp. poetry, Toronto (where I may be headed, knock on woodcrossed fingers, in July). Charles Bernstein talks to australian poet, and editor of... »
You are a pipe
I One’s understanding of one’s own language is limited, one’s understanding of other languages is even more limited, and a perfect transferal of a text from one language to another is impossible simply because the languages are two different ones. “Boat” is not the same as “bátur,” which is not the same as “Boot”... »
Links, quotes and recommendations
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... »