Reading Begins at 3:53 timestamp.
Reading Order:
Valery Oisteanu
In Prague (English + Romanian)
Charles Alexander
from section I of Breathturn
Caroline Bergvall
from The Meridian (trans. Joris)
Ian Fairley
from Der Sand aus en Urnen + early poems
Allen Fisher
Das Fremde (trans. Joris)
Das Fremde (trans. Fisher)
Umlichtet die Keime (trans. Joris)
Was bittert (trans. Joris)
Krokus, vom gastlichen (trans. Joris)
Norman Finkelstein
Tenebrae
The Straitening
Ben Friedlander
Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle (trans. Friedlander)
Mit der Friedenstaube, so kommt (trans. Friedlander)
Affenzeit. Und (trans. Friedlander)
Stille, Fergenvettel (trans. Friedlander)
Er hatte in der Stadt Paris (trans. Friedlander)
Jesse Glass
Assisi (trans. Hamburger)
Flower (trans. Hamburger)
Solve (trans. Hamburger)
Zuzanna Gudyka
Sink mir weg (from Lichtzwang)
Below (trans. Hamburger)
Pierre Joris
Tenebrae (trans. Joris)
White and Light (trans. Joris)
Speechgrille (trans. Joris)
Snowbed (trans. Joris)
Matière de Bretagne (trans. Joris)
Rubble Scow (trans. Joris)
Sonia Lewington
On the white prayer-thong (trans. Hamburger)
Corona (trans. Hamburger)
I can still see you (trans. Hamburger)
With all my thoughts (trans. Hamburger)
Peter Philpott
Höerreste, Sehreste (trans. Amos Weisz)
Ihn ritt die Nacht (trans. Amos Weisz)
Muschelhaufen (trans. Amos Weisz)
Tretminen (trans. Amos Weisz)
Todtnauberg (trans. Amos Weisz)
Rob Stanton
The Sluice (trans. Felstiner)
The industrious (trans. Joris)
Leapcenturies (trans. Joris)
A reading branch (trans. Fairley)
The poles (trans. Hamburger)
David Ting
Ein Dritter (trans. Ting)
Am Meer (trans. Ting)
Mit dem Seidelbast (trans. Ting)
Deine Hände, die (trans. Ting)
Meridiane, halbe (trans. Ting)
Ein Leseast (trans. Ting)
Sarah Sarai
David Weiss
Ungewaschen unbemalt (trans. Joris)
Du liegst (trans. Joris)
Lila Luft (trans. Joris)
Brunnengräber (trans. Joris)
Das angebrochene Jahr (trans. Joris)
Unlesbarkeit (trans. Joris)
Antony Rudolf
Thank you to everyone who read in remembrance of Paul Celan.
Special thanks to Rob Stanton who organized & hosted this reading on the 50 year marker of Paul Celan's death. Also a special thanks to Pierre Joris who allowed the use of his photo's and scholarship.
Quote during the introduction of this video used with permission from NOMADICS blog by Pierre Joris, a brief excerpt follows. [After Celan entered the Seine] On his desk Paul Celan had left Wilhelm Michael's biography of Hölderlin, Das Leben Friedrich Hölderlins, lying open to page 464. He had underlined the following sentence from a letter by Clemens Brentano: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter well of his heart.”
Link: pierrejoris.com/blog/paul-cel...
Special Thanks to The Estate of Paul Celan for allowing the use of a photograph of Paul Celan.
Thank you to Marilyn Crispell, Richard Nunns, & Jeff Henderson for allowing selections of the song Quiet Night from the album This Appearing World to be used in this video.
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