Poems in the Language of Death
Paul Celan’s truest homeland, paradoxically, was the German language — the language of the Nazis who imprisoned him in a forced labor camp and murdered his parents.
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Paul Celan’s truest homeland, paradoxically, was the German language — the language of the Nazis who imprisoned him in a forced labor camp and murdered his parents.
Source: Poems in the Language of Death
In the first biography of the poet, she emerges as a shape-shifter, endlessly revising her art, politics, and sense of self.Photograph by Nancy Crampton
Some called her coarse, extreme, too quick to change. In fact, she was always one step ahead.
Source: The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich | The New Yorker
Watt on books by Bob Arnold, Jericho Brown, Carolyn Forché, Patricia Colleen Murphy, and Fernando Pessoa.
Source: Anvil and Rose 1 — Caesura
William Hogarth, Time Smoking a Picture, 1761. Palau Antiguitats.
The social role of poetry has always been a question, but it has not always been posed explicitly as a question.
Tameca Cole: Locked in a Dark Calm, 2016, collage and graphite on paper.COURTESY TAMECA COLE AND DIE JIM CROW
Nicole R. Fleetwood’s ‘Marking Time,’ accompanying a planned MoMA PS1 show, explores prison art and the visual culture of prison.
Source: Book Review: ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’ – ARTnews.com
Wright’s darkly comic novel burrows into our hollow cravings, and finds more hollowness.
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I think that America’s failure to recognize Wright’s greatness is a condemnation of a literary establishment that continues to reward the kind of mellifluous writing that conveys what reviewers like to call a perfect emotional pitch.
Wright looks beyond America’s sugarcoated veneer of respectability with a clear vision of the ridiculously hideous place this country has become. He isn’t trying to soothe us. He is asking us if we are long past the point of redemption.
Source: Lifestyle Over Life: Stephen Wright’s Vision of America
A Sand Book by Ariana Reines Tin House Books, June 2019 323 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Ariana Reines’s A Sand Book, winner of the Kingsley Tufts
Book Review | Craig Pittman’s “Cat Tale” recounts the long, messy struggle to save Florida’s state animal from extinction.
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, Juno Salazar Parreñas, 2018, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 184 pp., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-7077-2
Source: RESISTING THE REORDERING OF LIFE ON EARTH – Society & Space