Dear Hilary and Nalini,
Everything is coming together and I am feeling vehklemt about it.
The translation project I’ve been working on is finished and the book is printed. It’s not for sale, but I have a few copies and my palm is easily greased.
I did a reading recently with a number of excellent writer-translators, including Christian Hawkey. A few years back, he decided to collaborate on a book with an Austrian poet named Georg Trakl (who died in 1914) and the result was this book, which is fascinating and beautiful. via UDP.
via laphamsquarterly:
The Lenox Globe, c 1510, the only early map which actually uses the phrase “here be dragons” (hic sunt dracones). It’s located on the east coast of Asia, underneath the label for India.
Shoutout fellow LDRs.
Obstructed-view standing room only at this German literary festival today. I wasn’t able to see or hear the authors, so I left — BUT perhaps the world isn’t going illiterate?
Happy anniversary, 1/2.
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.
South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, interviewed in Guernica.
