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From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving present.
The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder.
a “Working Life” is a book transfixed by the everyday: the “sweet accumulation” of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover’s foot on the bed.
These poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us during the pandemic lock-downs.
Myles’s lines unabashedly sing the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and also find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world.
With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.
Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
a “Working Life”
Author: Eileen Myles
Poetry
Language: English
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 2023-04-18
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780802161895
ISBN-10: 0802161898
Pages: 288
List Price: $26.00
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Menschen
Als ich, mit der Welt zerfallen,
Schweigend ging umher,
Da fragten die lieben Menschen:
Was quälet dich so sehr?
Ich sagte ihnen die Wahrheit;
Sie haben sich fortgedrückt
Und hinter meinem Rücken
Erklärt, ich sei verrückt.
Ada Christen
(1839 – 1901)
Menschen
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The Weather-Cock Points South
I put your leaves aside,
One by one:
The stiff, broad outer leaves;
The smaller ones,
Pleasant to touch, veined with purple;
The glazed inner leaves.
One by one
I parted you from your leaves,
Until you stood up like a white flower
Swaying slightly in the evening wind.
White flower,
Flower of wax, of jade, of unstreaked agate;
Flower with surfaces of ice,
With shadows faintly crimson.
Where in all the garden is there such a flower?
The stars crowd through the lilac leaves
To look at you.
The low moon brightens you with silver.
The bud is more than the calyx.
There is nothing to equal a white bud,
Of no colour, and of all,
Burnished by moonlight,
Thrust upon by a softly-winging wind.
Amy Lowell
(1874-1925)
The Weather-Cock Points South
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Suicide is often framed as betrayal, even though we live in a world that betrays us.
When this world tells us that death is better, what does it mean to have faith in life?
JUDAS & SUICIDE is a poetry collection navigating religion and suicidality.
It approaches these topics through the lens of Black family and community, sadness, medication, sexual violence, the prison industrial complex, media, and Bible verses.
JUDAS & SUICIDE explores how to be convinced to stay alive without feeling obligated to.
Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine.
Judas & Suicide
Poems
by Maya Williams
Publ. Date: 5/23/2023
Publisher: Game Over Books
ISBN: 979-8-9878871-0-3
Binding: PAPERBACK
Pages: 80
Price: $ 18.00
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Übrig geblieben sind ihr nur ein Briefumschlag mit einer Handvoll Fotografien und die Angst vor dem Vater, die Sorge um ihre Mutter und ihren Bruder, die Knoten in ihrer Brust.
Seka sucht mit Anfang zwanzig nach den Spuren ihrer zerbrochenen Familie und ihres bisherigen Lebens. Sie rekonstruiert den Weg ihrer Eltern aus Bosnien in die Schweiz und fragt nach den Verbindungen, den Fäden zu ihr.
Dabei stößt sie auf das Gefangenenlager in Omarska in den neunziger Jahren und einen Brief, der sie weiter nach Den Haag und Genf führt, später ins Berner Oberland.
Und sie stellt fest, dass in Omarska heute Erz in den Minen abgebaut wird, als hätte es die Geschichte nicht gegeben, die eines fast schon vergessenen Krieges in Europa. Dabei wirken die Versehrungen der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart fort.
Mina Hava verknüpft in ihrem Debütroman historisches Material, Recherche- und Rekonstruktionsarbeit mit persönlichen Erfahrungen, Verlusten und Ängsten – und beleuchtet, was Geschichte bedeutet für Landschaften und Körper. Sensibel erzählt Für Seka ein junges Leben, in dem das Politische und das Persönliche untrennbar verbunden sind, eine Geschichte vom Verlassen und Verlassenwerden und von der Frage, was war.
Mina Hava, geboren 1998, studierte Globalgeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule in Zürich sowie Literarisches Schreiben am Deutschen Literaturinstitut in Leipzig. Für Seka ist ihr Debütroman.
Nina Hava
Für Seka
Roman
Erscheinungstermin: 03.04.2023
Fester Einband,
278 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-518-43111-5
Suhrkamp Verlag,
ca. 13,4 × 21,6 × 2,8 cm,
€ 24,00
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Lied des Todes
Alles Leben ist Lüge,
Wahr bin nur ich allein,
Finde nun, Herz, Dein Genüge,
Schlafe, schlafe nun ein.
Ich war Dein erster Begleiter
Und werde Dein letzter sein,
Die Menschen eilten weiter,
Ich liess dich nie allein.
Sie alle kränkten dich stets aufs neu,
Ich stand nur still beiseite,
Sie gingen alle, ich blieb treu,
Ergib Dich mir nun heute.
Lieb mich und meine sanfte Macht,
Du bist mir ja bestimmt.
Das Leben hat dich müd gemacht,
Schlaf ein, schlaf ein, mein Kind.
Ich und Deine Mutter lauschten
Deines Herzens erstem Schlag,
Blut und Blut zusammenrauschten,
Herz an Herz gebettet lag.
Sie war Anfang, ich bin Ende
Und dazwischen littest Du.
Gib Dich nun in meine Hände,
Finde, Seele, Deine Ruh.
Joseph Roth
(1894 – 1939)
Lied des Todes
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Hoe betoverend te kunnen spreken met alle dingen.
In haar tweede dichtbundel Anker Kruis Hart belicht Sofie Verdoodt de voortdurende metamorfose van mens, dier en ding. Erotiek, verlies en moederschap raken hierbij verknoopt.
Net wanneer de tijd niets meer overlaat om te wissen, gooit Verdoodt haar anker uit. Van veraf of van heel dichtbij aanschouwen we de grote oversteek, de zielsverhuizing, of de gedaantewissel van een reeks personages, waaronder een lyrisch ‘ik’.
Deze gedichten zijn als intieme brieven of elegieën voor personages die uit de eigen as blijven verrijzen. Sofie Verdoodt (1983) debuteerde in 2014 bij PoëzieCentrum met Doodwater.
Haar werk verscheen in tijdschriften en bloemlezingen als Poëziekrant, De Brakke Hond, Nieuw Groot Verzenboek, De Volksverheffing en De Grote Inkijk. Ze werkte mee aan muzikale projecten van BARST en Amenra. Als doctor in de kunstwetenschappen doceert ze en schrijft ze essays over film en kunst.
Anker Kruis Hart
Gedichten
Auteur: Sofie Verdoodt
Uitgeverij: Poeziecentrum VZW
Taal: Nederlands
ISBN: 9789056553579
Uitvoering: Paperback
Aantal pagina’s: 42
2023
Afmetingen: 200x150x5 mm.
20,00 euro
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Available for the first time in paperback, How To Be Invisible collects the seminal lyrics of Kate Bush, selected by the artist and brought together in a beautiful edition with cover artwork from Jim Kay.
Selected and arranged by the author, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush in a beautiful new paperback edition featuring a new cover by illustrator Jim Kay.
‘The greatest singer-songwriter of the past 40 years, whose work is complex, ethereal and filled with so many secrets that one can listen to the albums for decades and still discover new delights every time[…] there’s not a spare word anywhere in Bush’s work. Everything means something.’ – Irish Times
Kate Bush is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. Rising to prominence with her debut single ‘Wuthering Heights’, she has released ten studio albums, all of which have charted in the UK Top Ten. She has been nominated for thirteen Brit Awards, winning for Best British Female Artist in 1987, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002 she received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, was appointed a CBE in the 2013 New Years Honours, and was twice-nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How to Be Invisible, a collection of Bush’s lyrics, was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and was a Rough Trade and Belfast Telegraph Book of the Year.
How To Be Invisible
Kate Bush (author)
New introduction by Kate Bush
Language: English
Paperback
224 Pages
Published: 06/04/2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 9780571383023
ISBN-10: 0571383025
Number of pages: 224
$19.95
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Holland Festival’s associate artist ANOHNI presents a mixed media exhibit: SHE WHO SAW BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
The installation includes a series of portraits honoring ANOHNI’s former collaborator Dr. Julia Yasuda, taken by Julia’s late wife Erika Yasuda in Tokyo in the early 1980s, and exhibited here for the first time.
Erika Yasuda’s portrets: Within the collection of the Huis Willet-Holthuysen in the centre of Amsterdam, ANOHNI layers photos, silkscreened fabrics, sculpture, video, sound and paintings from her own artistic practices within a selection of Erika Yasuda’s extraordinary portraits. The works reflect an insular and delicately composed vision of enlightened femininity and luxuriant androgyny, persevering in memory despite historical and ongoing existential threats.
ANOHNI: ‘I like the concept of ‘animism’ – that everything is alive, in an ongoing a process of transformation -and that all materiality is imbued with a certain presence, even a sense of memory that we might not entirely understand. I work with veils as a way to suggest different layers of presense. Sometimes I imagine a cacophony of moments within a timeline in a certain space, as if they were all able to express their vitality simultaneously.’
About ANOHNI: Born in England, ANOHNI lives and works in America as a musician, visual artist and theater director. In 1995 she founded her performance group The Johnsons, with which she performed with symphony orchestras in opera houses around the world, including Sydney Opera House, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Real in Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New York.
ANOHNI has presented exhibitions of her visual work at the Nikolaj Kunsthal, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The Hammer Museum, The Kitchen and Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in New York. She co-facilitated the art project FUTURE FEMINISM presented at The Hole, New York in 2014 and was part of ANOHNI’s artistic residency in Aarhus, European Capital of Culture in 2017.
The Willet-Holthuysen House: The imposing Willet-Holthuysen House is situated in the center of Amsterdam. The house on the Herengracht contains many period rooms. Its beautiful salons are in the style of Louis XIV, and the garden is symmetrically designed as a French formal garden.
Address: Herengracht 605, 1017 CE Amsterdam.
Open daily from 10 a.m. 5 p.m.
• https://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/
june 4 until october 29 – 2023
Willet-Holthuysen House – Amsterdam
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Grodek
Am Abend tönen die herbstlichen Wälder
von tödlichen Waffen, die goldnen Ebenen
und blauen Seen, darüber die Sonne
düstrer hinrollt; umfängt die Nacht
sterbende Krieger, die wilde Klage
ihrer zerbrochenen Münder.
Doch stille sammelt im Weidengrund
rotes Gewölk, darin ein zürnender Gott wohnt
das vergoßne Blut sich, mondne Kühle;
alle Straßen münden in schwarze Verwesung.
Unter goldenem Gezweig der Nacht und Sternen
es schwankt der Schwester Schatten durch den schweigenden Hain,
zu grüßen die Geister der Helden, die blutenden Häupter;
und leise tönen im Rohr die dunkeln Flöten des Herbstes.
O stolzere Trauer! ihr ehernen Altäre
die heiße Flamme des Geistes nährt heute ein gewaltiger Schmerz,
die ungebornen Enkel.
Georg Trakl
(1887 – 1914)
Grodek
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