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Tonio Schachinger receives the German Book Prize 2023
Statement from the jury:
“At first glance, Tonio Schachinger’s ‘Echtzeitalter’ is a school story. At second glance, it is much more than that: a social novel that describes its hero Till’s coming-of-age at an elite Viennese boarding school where future key players are prepared for life with reactionary rigour and according to the ideals of the educated bourgeoisie. Till escapes from this repressive environment – embodied by his diabolical teacher Dolinar – into the world of gaming. With subtle irony, Schachinger mirrors the political and social conditions of the present: brute force issues forth from educated pupils. The world of computer games offers a place of fantasy and freedom. In a narratively brilliant and contemporary way, the novel negotiates the question of literature’s place in society.”
The members of the jury for the German Book Prize 2023 are: Shila Behjat (journalist and publicist), Heinz Drügh (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main), Melanie Mühl (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Lisa Schumacher (bookshop “Steinmetz’sche Buchhandlung”, Offenbach), jury spokesperson Katharina Teutsch (independent critic), Florian Valerius (bookshop “Gegenlicht Buchhandlung”, Trier) and Matthias Weichelt (Sinn und Form literary journal).
The following novels were also shortlisted for the award:
Terézia Mora: Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens (Luchterhand Literaturverlag, August 2023), Necati Öziri: Vatermal (claassen, July 2023), Anne Rabe: Die Möglichkeit von Glück (Klett-Cotta, March 2023), Sylvie Schenk: Maman (Carl Hanser Verlag, February 2023) and Ulrike Sterblich: Drifter (Rowohlt Hundert Augen, July 2023).
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Raymond Carvers wereldfaam berust op tweeënzeventig korte verhalen waarin zelden iets bijzonders gebeurt.
Carver beschrijft de gewone wederwaardigheden van gewone mensen in gewoon proza. Zijn grote talent is het naar boven brengen van het bijzondere, het beangstigende en het dramatische in al die gewoonheid.
In zijn eigen woorden: ‘Het is mogelijk om in een gedicht of verhaal over alledaagse dingen en voorwerpen te schrijven in alledaagse maar dan wel precieze taal en die dingen – een stoel, het gordijn voor een raam, een vork, een steen, de oorbel van een vrouw – een immense, zelfs aangrijpende lading mee te geven.’
De verhalen van Carver vormen het schoolvoorbeeld van het korte verhaal als een slice of life: er is weinig plot, weinig expliciete voorgeschiedenis; hoe het afloopt krijg je ook nooit te lezen, maar de kennismaking met een volstrekt authentiek, onbekend leven, dat in zijn beperktheid toch een volledig beeld geeft, brandt de lezer in de ziel.
Carver-vertaler Sjaak Commandeur selecteerde speciaal voor deze uitgave 200 pagina’s nooit eerder vertaald werk. Een kleine weldaad is de grootste verzameling van Carvers werk die ooit in Nederland verscheen, met onder veel meer de klassiekers Wees alsjeblieft stil, alsjeblieft, Waar we over praten als we over liefde praten en Kathedraal.
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) brak in 1976 door met de publicatie van zijn verhaal ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’ en de gelijknamige bundel. Later volgden de verhalenbundels What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) en Cathedral (1983). Carver groeide op in een gezin uit de lagere middenklasse. De uitdagingen en moeilijkheden die hij in die sociale klasse observeerde, vormen een centraal thema in zijn gehele oeuvre, evenals zijn eigen worstelingen in zijn huwelijk en met een alcoholverslaving. Carver is een van de meest karakteristieke stemmen uit de twintigste-eeuwse Amerikaanse literatuur.
Auteur: Raymond Carver
Een kleine weldaad.
Alle Verhalen
Vertaler: Sjaak Commandeur
Taal: Nederlands
Releasedatum: 01 september 2023
Bindwijze: Gebonden
ISBN 9789028232075
812 pagina’s
Prijs: € 45,00
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English poet Estill Pollock’s new collection is an ARK built to weather the flood of 21st century life.
“I have nothing left / To offer, except this poem,” Estill Pollock declares around the midpoint of his new collection ARK, and for anyone else this might seem an apology or lament; but Pollock’s poems encompass multitudes, and offer the reader entire worlds. His title of course suggests both a means of safety and sanctuary (the title of one section here), as well as a repository of sacred texts, and both are apt descriptions for this volume.
His hierophantic language demands much from the reader, but rewards in equal measure, and pleasure. His scope ranges over time and space, “in data streams / Of stars,” from “Neanderthals in Paris” to “AI execution codes” and “Cryptocurrency blockchain” carrying us over rising tides of (literal) water and war and all manner of floods that threaten to engulf us. A long account of “London in those times / Of empire” makes up much of the middle section; and even though it has been decades since he left his native America he devotes specific attention to its problematic history, and present. “Mason-Dixon” recounts the Original Sin of slavery, while more recently he observes how “American democracy eats / Its young—pockets emptied to Big Pharma / Big Banks, murder-cop trials, neo-Nazi podcast / Or demagogue variant QAnon.”
“Old worlds give up their dead,” he observes, “a skull / In tidal mud, looted barrows, souvenirs / Of species an archived fidelity, as though / We were disappearing from our own lives.” But Pollock’s ARK is here to preserve us. “This is about everything, and nothing” – in which respect it perfectly resembles life.
Estill Pollock’s publications include Constructing the Human (Poetry Salzburg, 2001) and the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy (Cinnamon Press, Wales, 2012). His recent poetry collections, ENTROPY (2021) and TIME SIGNATURES (2022), are published by Broadstone Books. He lives in Norfolk, England.
Ark
by Estill Pollock
Pub Date: 8/15/2023
Publisher: Broadstone Books
ISBN 978-1-956782-43-1
Binding: PAPERBACK
Pages: 92
Price: $ 26.00
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Loin des idées reçues et des poncifs sur Flaubert, Régis Jauffret nous invite à découvrir sa vie et son oeuvre et des aspects méconnus de sa personnalité : l’homme tonitruant et hâbleur qui se cachait derrière un des écrivains incontournables des lettres françaises.
“Depuis longtemps la postérité s’est chargée de peinturlurer Flaubert. Il est admis aujourd’hui qu’il mena toujours une vie d’ermite dans sa maison isolée de Croisset, que son père l’écrasait de sa personnalité, que sa mère était possessive jusqu’à l’empêcher de se marier, de fonder une famille, bref, de quitter le nid.
Nous verrons dans cet ouvrage à quel point ces poncifs sont controuvés. En outre, je me permets à plusieurs reprises d’évoquer le Flaubert tonitruant, hâbleur et par certains aspects assez grotesque qu’évoquent à l’occasion ses contemporains. Ce n’est certes pas pour l’accabler, au contraire cette facette de sa personnalité me semble presque attendrissante et fait de lui un commensale des pantins que nous sommes. Et puis, que voulez-vous, j’ai toujours préféré les humains aux dieux. Si je fus humble dans ma tâche – sans humilité, la littérature se fane au fur et à mesure de son apparition sur le papier, l’écran, le papyrus – je n’ai pas hésité à faire preuve d’une grande familiarité envers le maître. J’ai passé près de cinq années en sa compagnie, il est devenu pour moi une sorte de camarade d’outre-tombe.
Un ami que j’ai pris souvent dans mes bras, malgré son corps fumeux de fantôme et avec lequel je me suis régulièrement disputé jusqu’à la fâcherie. Néanmoins, je n’ai jamais poussé le ridicule jusqu’à me prendre pour lui car je suis assez occupé à me croire vaniteusement moi-même et à finir mon oeuvre à laquelle je tiens davantage qu’à celle de notre Gustave. Je devrais m’abstenir de proférer pareil blasphème.
A force de sincérité les romanciers se montrent mufles”.
Regis Jauffret est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont Microfictions, Sévère, La Ballade de Rikers Island, Papa et Le Dernier Bain de Gustave. Il a reçu le prix Goncourt de la nouvelle pour Microfictions 2018, le prix Femina pour Asile de fous et le prix Décembre pour Univers, Univers.
Dictionnaire amoureux de Flaubert
de Régis Jauffret (Auteur)
Alain Bouldouyre (Dessins)
Éditeur: Plon
Illustrated édition
4 mai 2023
Langue: Français
Broché
480 pages
ISBN-10:2259310613
ISBN-13:978-2259310611
€ 28,00
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BANNED BOOKS WEEK
LET FREEDOM READ
During Banned Books Week 2023!
October 1 – 7, 2023
The American Library Association has announced the theme for Banned Books Week 2023: “Let Freedom Read!” Banned Books Week will take place October 1 – 7, 2023.
This annual event highlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools and the value of free and open access to information.
Banning books restricts information and discourages freedom of thought. It undermines one of the primary functions of education: teaching students how to think for themselves.
The 2023 Banned Books Week theme – ‘Let Freedom Read’ – captures what’s at stake for our democracy: that the safety of our right to speak and think freely is directly in proportion to our right to read.
LET FREEDOM READ
During Banned Books Week 2023!
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2023
October 1 – 7, 2023
More on website: https://bannedbooksweek.org/
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Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zeigt ab 2.9.2023 in einer umfassenden Ausstellung die Werke des Künstlers Chaïm Soutine (1893 – 1943, geb. in Smilovit- chi, gest. in Paris).
Dessen expressive Gemälde reflektieren sein Leben als jüdischer Emigrant und sind zugleich Zeugnisse einer Existenz am Rand der Gesellschaft. Die Ausstellung im K20 konzentriert sich mit rund 60 Gemälden bewusst auf die frühen Meisterwerke des Künstlers und legt ihren Fokus auf die Serien, die zwischen 1918 und 1928 entstanden sind. Die Ausstellung widmet sich auch der Entwurzelung des Menschen infolge von Flucht und Migration, die damals wie heute eine zutiefst prägende Erfahrung ist.
Die Gemälde Soutines sind Farbexplosionen und trotz aller widrigen Umstände Liebeserklärungen an das Leben und an die Menschen, die wie er auf der untersten Stufe der Gesellschaft stehen. Pagen, Zimmermädchen, Köche, Messdiener und Chorknaben sind seine Modelle. Mit ihnen, wie mit den Gemälden von wankenden Landschaften und geschlachteten Tieren schafft er prägnante Bilder für eine ganze Epoche. Einer Generation, die durch Krieg, soziale Missstände und den unerbittlichen Widerstreit religiöser und politischer Weltanschauungen gezeichnet ist. Die Menschen und Motive berühren zutiefst, weil ihre Verletzlichkeit den Existenzängsten unserer Zeit Ausdruck verleiht.
War Soutine durch sein Einzelgängertum zu Lebzeiten ein Spezialfall der Moderne, so wurde er nach seinem Tod gleichermaßen zum Urvater des Abstrakten Expressionismus und der Neuen Figuration erhoben. Nachfolgende Maler*innengenerationen verehrten ihn und beriefen sich auf ihn als Vorbild und Inspiration. Dazu gehörten Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet und vor allem Francis Bacon. Später kamen Georg Baselitz, Marlene Dumas, Anish Kapoor und andere dazu.
Katalog
Chaïm Soutine. Gegen den Strom
Herausgegeben von:
Susanne Gaensheimer und Susanne Meyer-Büser, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Texte von Claire Bernardi, Marta Dziewańska, Catherine Frèrejean, Sophie Krebs,
Susanne Meyer-Büser, Pascale Samuel
Hatje Cantz, Berlin
Deutsche Ausgabe
176 Seiten, Hardcover
Preis: 32 Euro
Chaïm Soutine. Gegen den Strom
K20 vom 2. September bis 14. Januar 2024
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Website: https://www.kunstsammlung.de/de/soutine
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The title poem, “Because I Love You, I Become War,” is a poem of feminist genius, deserving to be in the pantheon of all-time brilliant poems!
Sascha A. Akhtar, author of #LoveLikeBlood
Raw[ness] exudes from this collection of poems and poetics prose about love and war, both corporal and terrestrial. Whether speaking of “rose petals yawning like little girls, like the daughters I never bore,” or a California wildfire’s “yellowed skies” and “smoke taint,” even color is narrative in Eileen Tabios’ dexterous hands.
Eileen R. Tabios has released over 60 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 11 countries and cyberspace. DOVELION: A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (AC Books, 2021) is her first long- form novel. Her 2020 books include a short story collection, PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora; a poetry collection, THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY(NA)KU (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019); and her third bilingual edition (English/Thai), INCULPATORY EVIDENCE: Covid-19 Poems.
Her award-winning body of work includes invention of the hay(na)ku, a 21st century diasporic poetic form, and the MDR Poetry Generator that can create poems totaling theoretical infinity, as well as a first poetry book, Beyond Life Sentences, which received the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry. Translated into 11 languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies.
Because I love you, I become war
Poems & Uncollected Poetics Prose
by Eileen R. Tabios
Pub Date: 5/30/2023
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, Inc.
ISBN-10 : 099865826X
ISBN-13 : 978-0998658261
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Price: $ 22.00
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Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize Listed in The Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2022.
Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in PoetryAmerican Book Award-winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures.
Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpik’s relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities.
Through an animist process of transfiguration into a Shaman’s omniscient voice, we are greeted with a destabilizing grammar of selfhood. Okpik’s poems have a fraught relationship to her former home in Anchorage, Alaska, a place of unparalleled natural beauty and a traumatic site of devastation for Alaskan native nations and landscapes alike. In this way, okpik’s poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how one’s existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs.
dg nanouk okpik was born and spent much of her life in Anchorage, Alaska. She graduated from Salish Kootenai College with an AFA in Liberal Arts and Liberal Studies, and later attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, graduating with an AFA and a BFA in Creative Writing before receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. okpik has won the Truman Capote Literary Award, the May Sarton Award, and an American Book Award for her first book, Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press, 2012).
Blood Snow
by Dg Nanouk Okpik
Publisher: Wave Books
Publish Date: October 18, 2022
Pages 96
Language: English
Paperback
EAN/UPC: 9781950268634
BISAC Categories:
Native American
Women Authors
Price $18.00
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To Star the Dark is the first new collection of poems by Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, following her acclaimed prose bestseller A Ghost in the Throat
The poems in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s much-anticipated new collection To Star the Dark take place in hospitals, in cellars, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, inside our screens and beyond them.
Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which – like the starlings – sings, at once, both past and present.
DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA is a bilingual Irish poet and essayist, born in Galway in 1981, living in Cork for many years. She is author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity.
Ní Ghríofa’s first book in English, Clasp (Dedalus Press, 2015) won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Award. A Book of the Year in both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent, Lies (Dedalus Press, 2018), draws on a decade of Ní Ghríofa’s Irish language poems, accompanied by her own translations.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is also author of the prose bestseller A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press, 2020) which finds the eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill haunting the life of a contemporary young mother, prompting her to turn detective. Ní Ghríofa’s artistic practice encompasses cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art, and her work has been commissioned by institutions such as The Poetry Society (Britain), Poetry Ireland, The Embassy of Ireland in Britain, and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Further awards for Ní Ghríofa’s work include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen’s University), and the Ostana Prize (Italy), among others.
To Star the Dark (Poetry)
By Doireann Ní Ghríofa
70 pp.
2021
Dedalus Press
ISBN 9781910251874 (hardback)
ISBN 9781910251867 (paperback)
€20.00 hardback
€12.50 paperback
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Joyce Mansour (1928–1986), a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was born in England.
She became a well known female poet, author of 16 books of poetry, as well as a number of important prose and theatre pieces.
Mansour was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953.
Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist group and became her lifelong friend and ally.
Despite her success in surrealist circles, her books received scant attention from the literary establishment, which is hardly surprising since Mansour’s favorite topics happened to be two of society’s greatest fears: death and unfettered female desire.
She lived in Paris, France until her death in 1986 at the age of 58.
Now, over half a century later, Mansour’s time has come. Emerald Wounds collects her most important work, spanning the entire arc of her career, from the gothic, minimalist fragments of her first published work to the serpentine power of her poems of the 1980s.
In fresh new translations, Mansour’s voice surges forth uncensored and raw, communicating the frustrations, anger, and sadness of an intelligent, worldly woman who defies the constraints and oppression of a male-dominated society. Mansour is a poet the world needs today.
“You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me –and very objectively too– the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that’s you.” –André Breton
“A woman created the sun
Inside her
And her hands were beautiful
The earth plunged beneath her feet
Assailing her with the fertile breath
Of volcanoes “
Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems
by Joyce Mansour (Author)
Garrett Caples (Editor)
Emilie Moorhouse (Translator)
Published by City Lights
ISBN: 9780872869011
July 25, 2023
217 pages
Paperback
26,99 euro
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“This book takes me right back to the Carnage Years―yours, too―sacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahn’s wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating, coy, bloody, and so true I wanted to memorize lines from them.”
Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers
Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma.
Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative’s power to both disfigure and restore.
This is a book about love.
And it is a book about lies.
Love can be a lie, but it is also always true.
This is a book about truth.
This is a book about story.
There is no such thing as a true story and so there are no stories in this book.
Without a story, there is separation.
This is a book about separation.
Everything is a story. Even the truth.
There is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love.
Elaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights, 2015), as well as several chapbooks including I Told You I Was Sick: A Romance (After Hours, Ltd., 2017), A Voluptuous Dream During An Eclipse (Poor Claudia, 2012) and Customer (Ecstatic Peace! Library, 2010). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Brooklyn Rail, Jubilat, Poetry Foundation, Art Papers, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and teaches at Pomona College and the Poetry Field School. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Romance or the End
By Elaine Kahn
Category: Poetry
Publisher: Soft Skull
February 2020
Language: English
Paperback
144 pages
ISBN-10: 1593765843
ISBN-13: 978-1593765842
Price: $16.00
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A vital reconstruction of Italian Futurist poet Ardengo Soffici’s visual poetics, presented for the first time in English in Olivia E. Sears’s exacting translations. With a foreword by Marjorie Perloff.
With unexpected lyricism, buzzing between the entropic and the erotic, Soffici’s unrelenting poems manifest his milieu’s fascination with the metropolis. Guillaume Apollinaire called it “very important work, rich in fresh beauties.” This facsimile-style edition—with a foreword by Marjorie Perloff, helpful annotations, and an informative afterword by the translator—offers a glimpse into the vibrant early avant-garde, when modernity held tremendous promise.
Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964) was an Italian painter, poet, and art critic associated with Florentine Futurism. Years spent in Parisian artistic circles spurred Soffici to champion an artistic renewal in Italy, introducing French impressionism and cubism and a vibrant magazine culture.
Olivia E. Sears is a translator of Italian poetry and prose, specializing in avant-garde women writers. She founded the Center for the Art of Translation and the journal Two Lines, where she served as editor for twelve years.
Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms
Ardengo Soffici
Olivia E. Sears (Translator)
Pub Date: 09/15/2022
Publisher: World Poetry Books
Product Number:9781954218055
ISBN978-1-954218-05-5
SKU #: I17G
Binding: Paperback
Pages:120
Poetry.
Translation.
Italian Studies.
Price: 23,99 euro
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