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O'Keeffe painting with blue and green waves in front of a red moon over mountains

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924

(Smith College Museum of Art collection)

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel & Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

Love Paul Celan and love what I’ve read from Yoko Tawada this year (in particular, The Bridegroom Was a Dog and The Emissary) so I’m looking forward to her latest. For fans of Hiromi Kawakami & Bae Suah. Thank god for good short translated books.

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Paul Celan & the Trans-Tibetan Angel 2020 Yoko Tawada tr by Susan Bernofsky

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada | New Directions Patrik, who sometimes calls himself “the patient,” is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open aga...

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions), Fiction

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…to become invisible so as to be able to read.

Paul Celan & the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada tr Bernofsky

Yoshijiro Urushibara (1889-1953)
The Grand Canal, Venice by Moonlight ca.1921
#japanese #woodblock

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With a changing key,
you unlock the house where
the snow of what’s silenced drifts.
Just like the blood that bursts from
Your eye or mouth or ear,
so your key changes.

Paul Celan

#poetry #poem #translation

Little “tough guys”, putting on a show for their tv ratings… two small men, peeping from Puten’s pockets. WE THE PEOPLE, LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE, a bygone era…

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

The Art of the Deal Breaker… even if you do get a deal with Trump, he will break it. This is his life story, a liar and a cheat!

I’d like to apologize to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the people of the United States of America

Zelenskyy is a hero of the Free World.

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

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I STAND WITH ZELENSKYY!

pResident tRump… vampire/bleeder of the free world..😢..😡

At Least Now We Know the Truth The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.

Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes.

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Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.

pResident tRump… vampire/bleeder of the free world..😢..😡

Tomorrow, people across the country are participating in an Economic Blackout—a coordinated effort to withhold spending for 24 hours to send a powerful message about economic justice, corporate greed, and political accountability.

Joyce Mansour, 1928-1986, Egyptian-British Surrealist poet. From the Women Poets Postcard series (proof). Lino block and stencil on repurposed cardboard inserts, 4x6

I want to sleep with you elbow to elbow Hair entwined Genitals enlaced With your mouth as a pillow. I want to sleep with you back to back Without breath to keep us apart Without words to distract us Without eyes to tell lies Without clothes. I want to sleep with you breast to breast Clenched and sweating Glistening from a thousand shivers Consumed by the wild inertia of bliss Splayed on your shadow Pounded by your tongue And to die between the rotted teeth of a rabbit Contented.

Joyce Mansour, "I want to sleep with you..."
trans from French by Emilie Moorhouse
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L’orage tire une marge argentée Dans le ciel Et éclate dans un immense spasme englué Sur la terre. L’écume flottante Envolée de la mer un déroute Vient rafraîchir nos visages défaits Et nos corps qui se cachent Dans la sombre tiédeur de nos désirs endormis Se dressent. Notre sieste harcelée de punaises Prend fin Et le court lapement des vagues Sur la plage où danse l’azur S’est tu, mon amour Et il pleut.

The storm draws a silver line In the sky And bursts into a great viscous spasm On the earth. The floating foam Surge of the ocean in disarray Refreshes our undone faces And our bodies hiding In the dark warmth of our sleeping desires Rear themselves. Our nap hassled by sleep bugs Ends And the short lapping of the waves On the beach where the sky dances Is quiet, my love And it’s raining.

Joyce Mansour, from Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems, translated by Emilie Moorhouse (City Lights, 2023)

Poems to Wake the Corpses | Anahid Nersessian Aside from the fact that they’re all dead, the women of Surrealism have had a banner couple of years. In 2021 Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing

The mice of desire
Eat the raw cock
Hidden in the hand
Of the sculptor
Gone mad.
 
Joyce Mansour
 
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Cover of poetry collection Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems by Joyce Mansour, translated by Emilie Moorhouse, published by City Lights, 2023

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Surrealist love poems by Frida Kahlo, Annie Le Brun, and Joyce Mansour.

Just a small thought but it pains me that the complete works of Joyce Mansour (Michel de Maule, 2014) remains such a hard edition to find. I got lucky picking up a nice copy right when it came out, but .... Glad to see new(ish) English translations out there, too. But still: Mansour deserves better!