Lyrikzeitung & Poetry News
Das Archiv der Lyriknachrichten | Seit 2001 | News that stays news
Kategorie: Nordamerika
Eminem is a berserker
and the music curls and drums, races and swells to meet the sharpness of his reportorial eye, the spring of his rhymes. „He has sent a voltage around a generation,“ said Seamus Heaney this past summer, admiring him for his „verbal energy“ and for… Continue Reading „Eminem is a berserker“
Amerikanische Sestine
The sestina, an intricate verse form created and mastered by the Provençal poets, is a 39-line poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and one three-line envoi (or „send-off“). The six end-words are repeated in a prescribed order, as end words in each of the… Continue Reading „Amerikanische Sestine“
Am Anfang war der Schlag
In the beginning there was Beat. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. Here were writers who took the same words everyone else had at the time and used them in new ways, much like the bebop jazz players… Continue Reading „Am Anfang war der Schlag“
Biermann übersetzt Dylan
. ..frei: „Blindly punchin‘ at the blind / breathin‘ heavy / stutterin‘ / an‘ blowin‘ up/ where t‘ go / what is it that’s exactly wrong / who t‘ picket? / who t‘ fight. Auf deutsch heißt das dann: „Ich tapp ne fremde Straße… Continue Reading „Biermann übersetzt Dylan“
Plath/ Hughes: Kreative Hochzeit
The portrait that emerges is that of a selfish artist who „lived for poetry, with single-mindedness of the sort he had long ago discerned in W. B. Yeats, the first poet who ever seized his imagination.“ Together, he wrote in a letter quoted in… Continue Reading „Plath/ Hughes: Kreative Hochzeit“
Jennifer Grotz
In seiner Reihe „Poet’s Choice“stellt Edward Hirsch eine Villanelle von Jennifer Grotz vor. / The Washington Post 12.10.03
Transit, Transzendenz und Tropen
Hier zwei Auszüge aus dem Essay If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope von David Baker, aus: The Gettysburg Review (gefunden bei Poetry Daily) Genres, so the argument goes, are sentimental and artificial distinctions, as false as a sense of self is to a person.… Continue Reading „Transit, Transzendenz und Tropen“
T.S. Eliot 115
We’re celebrating the 115th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s birth by revisiting James Wood’s eloquent defense of the poet against charges of anti-Semitism, first published in TNR in 1996… / schreibt The New Republic 23.9.03
Eternity
Michael Collier (poet laureate in Maryland) kommentiert in The Baltimore Sun vom 21.9.03 das Gedicht „Eternity“ von Hart Crane über einen Hurrikan von 1926. Hier der Anfang des Gedichts: September – remember! October – all over. Barbarian Adage After it was over, though still… Continue Reading „Eternity“
Ginsbergs „Kaddish“ im Theater
The Habimah National Theater of Israel is visiting the United States for the first time in 40 years, with a four-day run (it ends tomorrow) at Symphony Space. It brings theatrical intelligence and moments of real power to „Kaddish L’Naomi,“ its staging of Allen… Continue Reading „Ginsbergs „Kaddish“ im Theater“
Edith Plath,
Tochter der Dichterin Sylvia Plath, protestiert mit einem Gedicht gegen die Verfilmung des Lebens ihrer Mutter, berichtet die Netzeitung. / 17.9.03
Pantoum, Villanelle, Sestina
A skilled and restless metricist, [Donald] Justice likes to experiment with traditional forms, which he enlivens and roughens with variations. („I like to leave a rough spot or two in handling any of the forms,“ he says, „a mark of authenticity.“) He has written… Continue Reading „Pantoum, Villanelle, Sestina“
Poesienachrichten aus den Staaten
Aus einer lesenswerten Sammlung von Poesienachrichten aus den Staaten im Jahr 2003 in der Post Gazette vom 7.9.03 hier die Kürzeste: Dana Gioa, Dichter und Chef des National Endowment for the Arts, spendierte dieses Jahr fast $1 million an Dichter und Nachdichter. Außerdem u.a.… Continue Reading „Poesienachrichten aus den Staaten“
Im Netz seit 1.1.2001
|
|
|
Lyrikzeitung & Poetry News 
Neueste Kommentare