What with vital writers and artists — Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Paul Celan, Franz Kafka, Joan Baez, Robert Lowell, and others in Memoirs of a Maverick Translator — what with them, a time comes for various other people, events, jokes, unique ideas, and more. They have wild difference, thus not much order or connection.
Paul Celan at 100: Marjorie Perloff tribute
Marjorie Perloff reads her translation of a poem from Paul Celan's FADENSONNEN (1965), and the original, for today's Celan Centennial reading for NYU's Deutsche Haus.
DEINE AUGEN IM ARM, YOUR EYES IN YOUR ARM,