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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“
31. Authors Are Not Their Texts
Aus: Kyle G. Dargan: Bouquet of Hungers. Athens/ Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007. ISBN 0820330310, 9780820330310 88 Seiten
30. Baldwin-Straße
Local News, Harlem. Aus Anlaß des 90. Geburtstags des Schriftstellers James Baldwin am 2.8. wurde ein Teil der 128. Straße zwischen Fifth und Madison Avenue in James Baldwin Way umbenannt. Baldwin wurde 1924 in Harlem geboren und starb 1987. Er besuchte dort die Public School… Continue Reading „30. Baldwin-Straße“
20. American Life in Poetry: Column 489
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Jonathan Greene, who lives in Kentucky, is a master of the short poem, but while he prunes them down to their essentials he never cuts out the wonder and delight. Here’s a good example from his most recent… Continue Reading „20. American Life in Poetry: Column 489“
15. American Life in Poetry: Column 488
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s a poem by an Indiana poet, Shari Wagner, that has a delightful time describing the many sounds of running water. Creek-Song It begins in a cow lane with bees and white clover, courses along corn, rushes accelerando… Continue Reading „15. American Life in Poetry: Column 488“
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