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Ōoka Makoto: from “What Is Poetry?” in "Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the...
Translation from Japanese by Janine Beichman[The recent publication of Ōoka’s “selected poems” (Kurodahan Press, 2018) is a generous introduction in English to one of the leading figures of the Postwar...
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Rae Armantrout: Four New Poems 2019
LET IT GO 1“Let it go,” they say, meaning whatever you were just feeling. And the feeling before that too, if you can recall it. I don’t really distinguishbetween feelings and thoughts....
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Safaa Fathy: from Revolution Goes Through Walls (translated by Pierre Joris...
Translator’s Note. These last weeks, while trying to work on other things, I keep getting interrupted by messages coming in via WhatsUp— it is old friend Habib Tengour, sending photos & videos live...
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A Tribute to George Economou, Poet & Translator: From & About Cavafy (Redux)
[editor’s note. The following group of translations of poems by Cavafy and commentary thereon has been drawn from a lecture of Economou's entitled “Adventures in Translation Land,” given at Tel Aviv...
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Postface to “The President of Desolation”: Now available from Black Widow Press
[In announcing the publication of my latest book of poems from Black Widow Press, I thought the following Postface might be of interest in what I say about the book’s title and the concerns that inform...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (19): from Roger Williams, “A Key...
Selection & commentary by John Bloomberg-Rissman, in collaborationOf Fowle.(New England, 1643)from A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of...
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Sade LaNay: from "Harte", poems and poetics
[What follows is an extraordinary example of experimental translingual writing, the movement in this instance between English and German, while encompassing, if I read it correctly, an underlying...
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George Economou’s Ananios of Kleitor: A Review by Tim Whitmash
[Following the death this month of George Economou, I am posting again this definitive review of his masterwork Ananios of Kleitor, which appeared earlier in the blogger edition of Poems and Poetics,...
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Charlie Morrow: A Voice in the Wilderness: Seance vs. Vision Music (1975)
[The following is a classic statement on voice & breath by Charlie Morrow, who for many years has been my collaborator & close companion (at times my mentor) in the elaboration of performative...
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India Radfar: Five Opening Poems, with Foreword, from “Far”
FOREWORDThe Minoan civilization of Crete had the written languages Linear A and Linear B, both of which are predecessors of the Greek language. Discovered 100 years ago in Phaistos, Crete and dated at...
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Hiromi Itō & Jeffrey Angles: “Birthing the World,” from The Kojiki
Author note: The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) is the oldest chronicle ever produced in Japan, compiled in the years 711-12 CE by the court noble Ō no Yasumaro at the request of the Empress...
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Peter Valente: Introduction and Translation of Nerval’s Essay “Le Diable Rouge”
T Bronze sculpture by Robert Lerivrain [TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. With the help of Henri Delaage (a well-known figure in the nineteenth century among...
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Anne Blonstein: Seven Notarikon Poems with a Note on the Process & an Essay...
[The following, reprinted from two previous postings on Poems and Poetics, is intended to serve as an early announcement of a symposium on the work of Anne Blonstein (1958-2011) to be held in Buffalo...
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The Mystery of False Attachments, Now Available from Word Palace Press
The following poems are the opening of a series of 140 “fragments” in a new book of mine, The Mystery of False Attachments, set for publication later this month by Word Palace Press in California. The...
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Toward a poetry and poetics of the Americas (20): Joanna Kitchel, El Niño...
El Niño Fidencio curingEssie Parrish [In putting together a transnational & historical anthology of the Americas north & south (now in progress), Javier Taboada and I are looking also at...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (21): “Lord” Timothy Dexter...
from A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING ONES; OR PLAIN TRUTHS IN A HOMESPUN DRESS (1848)1/To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings...
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Rochelle Owens: Beloved the Aardvark, Part Three
[The third & concluding section of Owens’s major opus]Evolution is smartclean clear and simple gapsin the sequence of events laid down and eroded awayhungry or thirstyeat or drink body of data...
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Jeffrey C. Robinson: Remaking the World: Poetry of the Homeless Library
[author’s note. The Homeless Library (2104-17) is “the first history of British homelessness. A collection of books handmade by homeless people, reflecting on their lives and how they connect with the...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (22): Juan Gelman, from “The Poems...
Lament for the Death of Parsifal Hoolig it began to rain cowsand in light of the prevailing situation in the countrythe agronomy students sowed disorderthe engineering professors proclaimed their...
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John Bloomberg-Rissman: from “With the Noose Around My Neck,” 139, a poem &...
[editor’s note. The following is a further installment of John Bloomberg-Rissman’s ongoing collage epic, composed, as with much of his writing, (almost) entirely from words or sounds appropriated from...
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