True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal. One reads and rereads the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them to reach, to touch, the vision or experience that prompted them. One then gathers up what one has found there and takes this quivering almost wordless “thing” and places it behind … More John Berger on Translation
As a fond mother, when the day is o’er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead, Which, though … More Nature
La guitarra … Dejó al borracho en su coche, dejó el cabaret sombrío, donde se muere de frío, noche tras noche, y alzó la cabeza fina, universal y cubana, sin opio, ni mariguana, ni cocaína. … Cógela tú, guitarrero, límpiale de alcohol la boca, y en esa guitarra, toca tu son entero. El son del … More El son entero
“El fin del arte es elevar la vida, acentuando su naturaleza de eterno borrador.” “El arte descubre caminos, nunca metas.” “esta esencia horizontante del arte” –C.V., “Salón del otoño,” 1924 Axé.
Yo vi a Sabás, el negro sin veneno, pedir su pan de puerta en puerta. ¿Por qué, Sabás, la mano abierta? (Este Sabás es un negro bueno.) Aunque te den el pan, el pan es poco, y menos ese pan de puerta en puerta. ¿Por qué, Sabás, la mano abierta? (Este Sabás es un negro … More Sabás
I am looking for Hass’ poem on it. “Poetry proposes no solutions: it says justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.” Axé.
This anthology is so extensive, one might as well assign the complete works. But it is an Austral, so not expensive, and well made unlike some of these. And the introduction is rather good, so perhaps it is something one should in fact have for classes … or give to one’s McNair scholar as a … More Merino’s introduction to his Vallejo anthology
La piedra blanca de Enrique González-Martínez. PORQUE YA MIS TRISTEZAS . . . Porque ya mis tristezas son como los matices sombríos de los cuadros en que la luz fulgura; porque ya paladeo la gota de la amargura en el dorado néctar de las horas felices; porque sé abandonarme, con la santa inconsciencia de una … More Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca
He is an archipelago. Trilce is filled with, even structured by fragments of the myth of Inkarrí. From Los heraldos negros we know that a huaco is …el pichón de cóndor desplumado por latino arcabuz but also [u]n fermento de Sol; ¡levadura de sombra y corazón! The poetic subject is a solar being, latent but … More Additional gossip on César Vallejo
It is time to actually read Anti-Oedipus and the discussions of it from those days, in places like this. Here is my Vallejo problem: my issue is psychic invasion, and I have a visceral reaction to the idea of subject shattering. “Then that is a non-liberatory, but binding, shattering,” someone said. What is fractured subjectivity … More Sur Deleuze, et sur le sujet
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