Edwin Denby, "The Subway" & "Ciampino: Envoi"
From left: Thomas Devaney, JS Wu, Vincent Katz
Al Filreis convened Thomas Devaney, JS Wu, and Vincent Katz (visiting from New York) to talk about two poems by Edwin Denby. The two poems are “The Subway” and “Ciampino: Envoi.” They can be found in Edwin Denby: the Complete Poems, published by Random House and edited by Ron Padgett. You can hear Denby performing these poems in audio recordings archived at his PennSound page. These poems and a selection of others were recorded and edited by Jacob Burckhardt between the years 1976 and 1983, on a CD originally issued on disc in 2004.
August 28, 2024
Translation 2.0
Eric Zboya’s At the Heart of a Shipwreck
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Birdlike, a poem lifts off from the page, leaves words behind, ascends beyond ink.
But then it flies into a window.