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26. FBI as reader (Total Literary Awareness)
Ein interessantes, kann man sagen Gegenstück? zu Lukács‘ Totalitätsbegriff taucht beim Studium alter FBI-Akten zur „totalen“ Überwachung der schwarzen Literaturszene auf: „Total Literary Awareness“: Half a century before the Pentagon’s controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, an abandoned effort to aggregate and “data-mine” all… Continue Reading „26. FBI as reader (Total Literary Awareness)“
13. Geld für junge Dichter
2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Winners Announced $129,000 in prizes awarded to five young poets CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry… Continue Reading „13. Geld für junge Dichter“
7. American Life in Poetry: Column 492
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Faith Shearin’s poetry is conversational while moving gracefully and almost effortlessly toward conclusions that really have some punch to them. This one is a good example of that. Shearin lives in Maryland. Music at My Mother’s Funeral During… Continue Reading „7. American Life in Poetry: Column 492“
100. Sweethearts oder Bukowski in Iran
Nach iranischen Medienberichten werden Liebesgedichte von Charles Bukowski über Alkohol, Sex und die Outsider der Gesellschaft zum ersten Mal in Iran veröffentlicht. Der Verlag Sarzamin-e Ahurayi sagte, er wird die Gedichte, welche der Schriftsteller Alireza Behnam ins Persische übersetzt hat, veröffentlichen. Es war jedoch nicht bekannt, wie genau die Übersetzungen… Continue Reading „100. Sweethearts oder Bukowski in Iran“
98. Preis für Robert Hass
Die Akademie der amerikanischen Dichter verlieh am Dienstag den mit 100.000 $ dotierten Wallace-Stevens-Preis an Robert Hass für sein Gesamtwerk. Der 73jährige Dichter war der Poet laureate der Vereinigten Staaten von 1995-97 und ist Träger des Pulitzerpreises. Bekannt sind seine Gedichtbände Time and materials und The apple… Continue Reading „98. Preis für Robert Hass“
87. American Life in Poetry: Column 491
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a fine poem by Heather Allen, a Connecticut poet who pays close attention to what’s right under her feet. It may seem ordinary, but it isn’t. Grasses So still at heart, They respond like water To the… Continue Reading „87. American Life in Poetry: Column 491“
78. Wallace Stevens
Mit Williams teilte Stevens auch die Vorliebe für die Momentaufnahme als dichterisches Gestaltungselement: Williams überhöhte den Alltag zu imagistischen Gedichten, Stevens verwob Beschreibung mit Reflexion und schuf kontemplative, regelrecht welt-anschauliche Gedichte, die die Wirklichkeit wie eine Folge von Variationen zeigen. «Dreizehn Anschauungen einer Amsel»… Continue Reading „78. Wallace Stevens“
59. True story
True story: A teenager saw me with Matthea Harvey’s new book of poems as I sat with it in a café and asked if she could look at it. She was the scowly sort, angry tattoo on her shoulder, who I thought was going… Continue Reading „59. True story“
57. American Life in Poetry: Column 491
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a fine poem by Heather Allen, a Connecticut poet who pays close attention to what’s right under her feet. It may seem ordinary, but it isn’t. Grasses So still at heart, They respond like water To the… Continue Reading „57. American Life in Poetry: Column 491“
41. Poesiepfad
Local news, Bronx. In New Yorks Botanischem Garten gibt es nicht nur viele Bäume und Blumen, sondern auch Poesie. Ein Lyrikspaziergang, Gedichte von Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) in Landschaft. Assault I had forgotten how the frogs must sound After a year of silence, else I… Continue Reading „41. Poesiepfad“
40. „Lunch Poems“ turns 50
Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems,” the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theater tickets and phonograph records, turns 50 this year. It seems barely to have aged. O’Hara wrote these poems, some during his lunch hour, while working… Continue Reading „40. „Lunch Poems“ turns 50″
39. Fundsachen
Peter Mendelsund often says that „dead authors get the best book jackets.“ / New York Times 29.7. S. C1 Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion … was born in Azerbaijan and is half-Armenian and half-Fewish“ / New York Times 10.8. S. 3
38. Feminist energy
IT’S HARD NOT to love an artist who can craft a bronze phallus, exhibit it on a meat hook, then tuck it under her arm and go. Louise Bourgeois’s feminist energy is contagious, and her art invites articulation — words called up to answer image.… Continue Reading „38. Feminist energy“
37. American Life in Poetry: Column 490
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The ancient Chinese poets used to say that at some point in each poem the poet ought to lift his (or her) eyes, ought to look beyond the surface of the present into something deeper and more meaningful.… Continue Reading „37. American Life in Poetry: Column 490“
36. Great old troublemaker
Garrison Keillor im Gespräch mit der New York Times: Whom do you consider your literary heroes? John Updike for his vast ambition and the Lutheran diligence that realized it. Edward Hoagland for his style and bravery and love of the world. May Swenson, again… Continue Reading „36. Great old troublemaker“
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