RE: Politics and literature
Nanna Mercer: Fast forward to December 20 0 12 ...like Nancy Huston I was a little too heavy-handed :-O) )) Bad Sex award 2012: extract from the winning novel Infrared by Nancy Huston A taste of the...
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Jacek K.: From http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004838.php : Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski , have won the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize for their translation of Полевой госпиталь...
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Jacek K.: From http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4352#more-4352 : Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination by E. Lepore & M. Stone, 2012 Perhaps now More than Ever We spend our days Immersed in...
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Jacek K.: Letter Already Broadcast into Space by Jake Adam York - To Sun Ra, from Earth You are not here, you are not here in Birmingham, where they keep your name, not in Elmwood's famous plots or the...
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Jacek K.: Read the entire newfound tale of Hans Christian Andersen: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1841044/hans-christian-andersens-the-tallow-candle/
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Nanna Mercer: Thank you, Jacek for posting the English version. Here, courtesy of Politiken, is the original source, the Danish version. Til Madam Bunkeflod fra hendes hengivne H.C. Andersen Tællelyset...
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Jacek K.: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1179259.ece From “On Christ’s Nativity” – Five sonnets by G. G. Belli, translated by Anthony Burgess; introduced by Andrew McCulloch I n an...
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Jacek K.: On the occasion of today's end of the world: Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor...
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Jacek K.: Studying Ethical Questions as the Brain’s Black Box Is Unlocked [Excerpt] Lately, you’ve been writing about this question: Do people own their memories? Most of us think, “Of course we do.”...
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Raymond Anthony: DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover. 'The unexpurgated' Orioli 1928 edition. After interrupted reading and constantly pushing it to the back of the queue. I finally managed to finish...
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Jacek K.: The Passing of the Year by Robert W. Service My glass is filled, my pipe is lit, My den is all a cosy glow; And snug before the fire I sit, And wait to feel the old year go. I dedicate to...
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Jacek K.: On what poetry is and is not, from http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/01/03/so-much-depends/ : First, the poet is doing something here, and he’s doing it with language—not ordinary...
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Jacek K.: Born on December 23,1802, Sara Coleridge was an English author and translator. She is the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge January brings the snow, Makes...
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Jacek K.: Poem of the Week: “Milosz’s Return” by Dennis O’Driscoll; introduced by Michael Caines T he name of the Irish poet and critic Dennis O’Driscoll – who died on Christmas Eve at the age of...
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Nanna Mercer: Some Kiss We Want There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs...
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Jacek K.: More tormented than Rumi, three centuries later: [85] SONNET I want to want, Lord, what I do not want, An icy veil hides between heart and fire And damps the fire, making my page a liar,...
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Jacek K.: Awakening Slave St. Matthew Young Slave Dying(?) Slave ( detail ) Figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II [44] SONNET If my rough hammer in hard stones can form A human semblance, one...
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Nanna Mercer: Death XXVII Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death." And he said: You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?...
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Jacek K.: Four centuries earlier... [81] SONNET I see within your beautiful face, my Lord, What in this life we hardly can attest; Your soul already, still clothed in its flesh, Repeatedly has risen...
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