p-ramblings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In an article, Pablo Neruda said the following about Walt Whitman. Por mi parte, yo, que tengo ahora cerca de 70 años, descubrí a Walt Whitman cuando tenía sólo 15, y lo consideré mi más grande acreedor. Estoy ante vostros, sintiendo que le guardo para simpre la mas grande y maravillosa deuda que me ha ayudado a existir . . . Soy un poeta de habla hispana que...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
DWx (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Carol Graser , our host, started off the night with a poem by Pablo Neruda, then on into a night of the cafe's variety of open mic poets, dancers, & Nicole Peyrafitte, the performance artist as the featured poet. The dancers were a troop of 4 young ballet students, "Lily Loveday & her Dancers," who performed a haiku to guitar accompaniment -- so good they had to do it twice, in the...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I picked up two Andre Gide novels last year - The Immoralist and Strait is the Gate - purely for the covers alone, both by Antonio Frasconi. I’ve since discovered that not only has Frasconi done art for Langston Hughes (Let America be America Again) and Pablo Neruda (Bestiary/Bestiario), he’s also illustrated Poe, and this [...]
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Nimrod International Journal from the University of Tulsa is titled "Words at Play" and features works by the 31st Annual Award Winners and Finalists for Poetry and Fiction:The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry First: Mike Nelson, “Acacia”Second: Alicia Case, “Ascension” and other poemsHM: Natalie Diaz, “The Elephants” and other...
The Irascible Poet (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
For most of my life I have lived two parallel tracks. I returned to the US after living and working South America in 1998 and I have been both poet/critic and businessperson. The result of this dichotomy is that I could move between these two worlds picking and choosing my reality at will. It was a comfortable existence because you were never totally consumed by one or the other and this lead to innovations...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The past decade has seen biopics of Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and now John Keats, but film's reliance on poetry goes beyond simply retelling poets' life stories The title poem of Don Paterson's new collection Rain opens with the confession that "I love all films that start with rain: / rain, braiding a windowpane / or darkening a hung-out dress / or streaming down her upturned face". In...
Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions , LXVI (translated by William O’Daly): En qué idioma cae la lluvia / sobre ciudades dolorosas? In which language does rain fall / over tormented cities? [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: Pablo Neruda , The Book of Questions , poetry , house , autumn , rain , Laura , photo by Laura , photos
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Suppose you publish a small book of poems with a legendary small press publisher, say, Jonathan Williams 's Jargon Press. Suppose further that W.C. Williams writes the preface, and Alberto Moravia the introduction. Suppose that the cover art is a collage by Pop Art/mail and collage artist Ray Johnson , and the title page has a collage by Jean-Jacques Lebel , whose father was a friend of Duchamp's....
The Perpetual Bird (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
What can I say? If there's an indispensable 20th century poet it's Pablo Neruda. With all his flaws, as a person and a poet (but "what soul is without flaws?", as Rimbaud asked rhetorically), Neruda's poems are illuminations. He's been translated by everybody, it seems, but among his best servants in that regard has been William O'Daly. Here are a couple of poems from O'Daly's 2008 translation...
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
. Between 1974 and 1983 there existed a very interesting swiss music project called "Poesie und Musik". They were publishing inspiring records that combined poetry and music based on texts by Francois Villon, Heinrich Heine, the indian Chief Seattle and Pablo Neruada. Here´s their first album with interpretations of poetry by Pablo Neruda, called "Ein Mensch kam zur Welt",...
Where the Trail Leaves the Cherry Thickets (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
(A photograph of mine. I placed it into PS4 to add a certain softness.)Like this I want you, love,love, Like this I love you,as you dressand how your hair lifts upand how your mouth smiles,light as the waterof the spring upon the pure stones,Like this I love you, beloved.-Pablo Neruda
X Poetics (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved . Charles Darwin I've spent much of August in Annandale-on-Hudson at Bard College teaching in the Language & Thinking Program. This 2 1/2 week session is attended by all incoming Bard freshmen. The intensive reading and writing session immerses students in what Joan Retallack calls the process...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
U.S. Poets in Mexico Second Annual Event in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico -- January 2-9, 2010 In January 2010, U.S. Poets in Mexico will be returning to Mérida for our second annual event. U.S. Poets in Mexico invites contemporary American and Mexican poets to Mérida every year for one week of poetry workshops, readings, Spanish lessons and day trips. Faculty members will be notable...
All The (Useless) Info... (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
By J. M. Maurette It is not possible to mention the beauties of Havana without including The Cathedral Square. With its cobbled streets and beautiful facades it captivates visitors from all over the world. Originally known as Plaza de la Cinaga (Swamp Square), and then named "Plaza de la Catedral", it is a place that has much to do with the origins of the capital city, settled definitively...
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