[lit-ideas] Re: National Poetry Month exercise?
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:45:49 +0100
Wow! Great to hear from you, Chris.
The calendar for the month is posted at this link:
http://www.nomadtrio.com/LITID/LITIDCAL.html
Please have a look and pick your four dates. Email me them and I will be
happy to reserve them for you & update the calendar. Anyone else interested?
There are still a few slots left. The idea is to contribute anything that
celebrates poetry.
Reminder for Mike Geary and Ursula -- Mike, you're up Saturday, April 2 and
Ursula on Sunday, April 3. I'll kick things off on Friday, April 1.
All best, Mirembe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bruce" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: National Poetry Month exercise?
> On the 25th of March, 2005 Mirembe Nantongo wrote:
>
>> April, which starts next Friday, is National Poetry
>> Month. Would anyone like to participate in a poem
>> sharing exercise?
>
> I have an idiosyncratic translation (about which more later)
> of what is termed by some as the best-known poem in the
> German language (about which also more later) which I
> would like to post to the list toward the end of the month.
>
> I also have a couple of translations (by others) of another
> very short well-known 'comic' poem (one of my favourites)
> which I would be happy to post and critique earlier in the
> month if we are having trouble filling all the dates ....
>
> In addition - I am working on a translation of a poem by
> Gottfried Benn who appears to be little known outside of
> Germany but whom a major literary magazine in a poll of
> writers chose (over Rilke, Celan, George, Trakl, Morgenstern,
> Hofmannsthal, etc., etc.) as *the* German-language poet of
> the 20th century. I mention this in part because this poem is
> perhaps *the* answer to G. L. Hodgkins':
>
>> . . . In death caused by a chronic condition, whether animal
>> or human, the dying being stops eating and drinking. It is
>> part of the natural process. Does anyone care to know about
>> the natural process of death or has ignorant speculation
>> become the acceptable norm?
>
> (And a very disturbing answer it is, too - to be posted with the
> strongest of caveats ....)
>
> Oh - this I almost forgot: recently there was some discussion
> of a passage in Hegel which (and this is lost in translation) 'turns
> upon' Hoelderlin's 'Brot und Wein'. I have a translation of that
> as well .....
>
> There are 4 offerings - which I would prefer to post in the order:
> 2, 4, 3, 1 (perhaps one a week?). If space is limited my order of
> preference is sequential (1, 2, 3, 4).
>
> Thanks very much for this, Mirembe!
>
> Chris Bruce
> Kiel, Germany
>
> P.S. And, now that I think of it, there's ..., and ...., and ..., and
> ...,
> and ... (to say nothing of offerings from the above-mentioned
> poets whom Benn edged out in the 'German-language poet of the
> 20th century' poll). What the heck - once April is over I'll start a
> series: 'Wednesday Poems-in-Translation' ....
>
> P.P.S. I just mentioned Morgenstern, didn't I? Well, I can't ask for
> even *more* space on the Poetry Month list - but during poetry
> month I *must* post about a reading of one of Morgenstern's
> 'Galgenlieder' [Gallowssongs] which I saw recently (via DVD). This is
> one of the most chilling things I've seen in my life - and I am
> grateful that I saw just a recording of it and not the live performance.
> I had to stop the machine at the end of that one - and that was also
> the end of that evening's 'entertainment', believe you me! (Of course
> in commenting on the reading I will be obliged to post at least some
> of the poem itself as well, but - unless you absolutely insist on
> scheduling it in as an item of its own - I will just slip it in
> somewhere; with the Benn translation mentioned above if that is
> 'authorized'.) I'd love to hear from others about readings and
> 'performances' of poetry and prose (i.e., pieces f literature that
> one 'ordinarily' reads silently to onesself). (Additional
> parenthetical remark: do any read out loud to themselves?)
>
> And now the sun is shining and the garden awaits, so I will (donning
> jacket and gardening hat) finally close, for now ....
>
> -cb
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