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• 22 Oct 2009 01:44

  Passion (1940-45) Writing R. B. Kitaj d. Oct. 21, 2007

  October 21, 2009 Muge _______________________ Champdieu Bernard Noël translated by Eléna Rivera the proportions at times prompt the sky to think the garden therefore is in the open head to look is to see the interior view the long fold stirs according to the hidden which comes to the edge of form a white shadow the boxwood knows that better than us it builds by ardor of the line springboards for the eye the infinite sets itself thus within reach the tree is always of life or of knowledge from the moment where the sap of breath appears it isn’t important to have a green thumb but to be able to bring through the branches this flowering of air that we call being Three Poems from The Rest of the Voyage Bernard Noël translated from the French by Eléna Rivera Conjunctions _______________________ The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin) R. B. Kitaj Second diasporist manifesto (a new kind of long poem in 615 free verses) R. B. Kitaj google books _______________________ The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray I began by thinking that MacDiarmid was more a poet of sound than sense. Then, having read some of his earlier lyrics, I found to my amazement that I couldn’t forget them. If it had been mere sound, I wouldn’t have remembered them. Gradually, saying “The Watergaw,” I started to think, wait, I know what he’s talking about! [Quotes from MacDiarmid's “The Watergaw”]: Ae weet forenicht i’ the yow-trummle I saw yon antrin thing, A watergaw wi’ its chitterin’ licht… [Gray interupts himself: "Or is it “glimmering" licht?"] Ayont the on-ding. And I’m thinking, I know what he means! It took a wee bit. The “on-ding” is a word for an on-blast of weather coming into your face. So if you’re seeing something beyond the on-ding, it’s beyond a snow storm or water. “Watergaw” is the name for a water rainbow, the kind of rainbow that forms in a mist of falling water. Then [the narrator] thinks of this look that was given to him by somebody dying. I used to think it was by a woman, but it was actually his father. “An’ I thocht o’ the last wild look ye gied/ Afore ye deed!” The thought is of a dying person looking at you and meaning something, and not knowing what the meaning is, but knowing that there’s meaning. Somebody is going out, like a light bulb, out, and they’re looking at me, and they know I know it, but they’re away and there’s nothing to be said. Then there’s this feeling, in bad weather, of suddenly seeing this water rainbow and thinking that it means the same thing that was meant by the dying father’s glance, or a dying anybody’s glance. The other thing you’re finding is that there was an old Scottish speech, which I use myself. He grew up in a community where there was much old Scottish speech used. But he also mined the dictionaries of the older Scottish speech. “Aye, that’s a good one.” “Yes, use that!” He has actually restored quite a lot of meaning to Scottish words that people had forgotten....(more) via the Literary Saloon Alasdair Gray: Works Sorcha Dallas Contemporary Art _______________________ Dizzy Gillespie b. Oct. 21, 1917 and Ted Wilson Lisette Model c. 1954 _______________________ An Interview with Suzanne Jill Levine author of The Subversive Scribe “What a loss to readers, and how unfair to the translator, that readers are not aware of what we experience, of how complex the process is and how it reveals the literary critic and scholar in the good translator.” _______________________ Shout About It from the Housetops Kurt Vonnegut previously unpublished vanity fair _______________________ In The Wake of an American Dream Ross Mantle via Joerg Colberg _______________________ Marching Toward Zombieland When sober-minded individuals begin to regard an enterprise within a nation as "an enemy of the people" you can bet that some serious blood is going to flow. This is now essentially the situation for the Goldman Sachs company, which last week announced third-quarter earnings of over $3 billion largely derived from converting zero percent loans from taxpayers into zero risk profits off of anything paying more than zero percent in interest, revenue, or dividends. The "people" across this big country may not have a clue how any of this is done, and there may be much to fault them on from the care-and-feeding of their own bodies to the content of their dreams, but you can't argue with the fact that they are heavily armed to an extreme. And although it may be hard to measure with precision, one might venture to state that they are increasingly pissed off. How else explain popular entertainments like "Zombieland?"(....) The sense that Wall Street has pulled off a coup d'etat and taken over the machinery of the United States is the most powerful meme out there now, and its power is growing in magnitude every day among all classes of Americans. I can't say how much it reflects reality. Even if it is a result of sheer happenstance - the tragic evolution of an industrial economy into a financial finagling economy - the citizens will still experience it as a stealing of their future. Whatever else one might say about American culture, it is keenly attuned to a sense of heroes and villains. We take great pride in our ability to blow away the bad guys. And life imitates art, as Oscar Wilde observed. If a zombie virus is on the loose in America, the first infections showed up in the zombie banks, among the zombie bankers. Watch out, Lloyd Blankfein! Woody is on his way.......(more) _______________________ Muge permanent link

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