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· David Duchovny: About Time. Poems · Fleur Jaeggy: Die letzten Tage von Ingeborg · Release by Adelaide Crapsey · “Once there came a man” by Stephen Crane · Jaap Goedegebuure: Sympathie voor de duivel. Over de verbeelding van het kwaad · The Lonely Death by Adelaide Crapsey · 56e POETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM · “Behold, the grave of a wicked man” by Stephen Crane · Amaze by Adelaide Crapsey · “Once there came a man” by Stephen Crane · Niagara by Adelaide Crapsey · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Stanzas

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David Duchovny: About Time. Poems

David Duchovny’s debut book of poetry covers a range of intimate themes, in particular his relationship with his father, who looms large throughout the work. Here, Duchovny’s typically clever wordplay distills to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what the author holds most dear. His approach to poetry is beautifully encapsulated in his introduction:

“Poetry is not useful. And that is exactly why we need it. It reminds us of two important things: our ultimate lack of agency (unpopular to say, I know) and our inability to say anything plain, our inability to capture what it means to be human with the imperfect tool of words; we come face-to-face with our shadow selves, for in the end we will all die and be forgotten, and come away with nothing, nothing in the way of utility anyway, no talking points, no bullet points, no propaganda, no resolutions, no policy, no knowledge. If anything, maybe we remember a few lines . . . something like a pop song from the collective unconscious, something like wisdom . . . You see, I wanted to say it plain, but out comes that torrent of modifiers and adjustments, denials, double negatives, shading, stabs at wit, backpedaling, playing at capturing the lightning. Maybe this time. Maybe that’s what a poem is–that glorious feeling of Maybe this time I’ll get it right. If that’s the case, it seems a worthy enterprise to me.

With About Time–perhaps his most personal work to date–Duchovny (author, actor, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, podcaster) continues his journey as one of our most prolific creators.

David Duchovny is an award-winning actor, director, New York Times best-selling author, and singer-songwriter.

With an acting career spanning more than three decades, Duchovny is a two-time Golden Globe winner and four-time Emmy nominee.

His novels include Truly Like Lightning, Holy Cow, The Reservoir (novella), and Bucky F*cking Dent, which Duchovny adapted into the film Reverse the Curse. The film, directed by Duchovny, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

As a musician, he has released three studio albums: Hell or Highwater, Every Third Thought, and Gestureland.

He is the host of the podcast Fail Better.

About Time: Poems is his most recent book.

David Duchovny:
About Time
Poems
English
Publ: Akashic Books,U.S.
Publ.date: 1st september 2026
96 pages
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1636143245
ISBN-13: 978-1636143248
€ 23,81

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Fleur Jaeggy: Die letzten Tage von Ingeborg

Fleur Jaeggy: Die letzten Tage von Ingeborg. Ingeborg Bachmann aus nächster Nähe – bewegende Szenen einer Freundschaft

Fleur Jaeggy erinnert sich an Ingeborg Bachmann, ihre Weggefährtin, langjährige Freundin, an das viele, viel zu wenige gemeinsame Leben, an lichte, unbeschwerte Nähe und an das schwere Ende Ingeborgs. Und Fleur Jaeggy breitet diese Erinnerungen so aus, wie nur sie es kann, schonungslos anschaulich, in zärtlicher Lakonie.

Im Sommer 1971 fahren die beiden in einem roten Alfa Romeo von Rom aus an die toskanische Küste. Der Plan ist einfach: einen Monat zusammen verbringen, keine Briefe, keine Anrufe, Meer, Sonne. Sie gehen täglich schwimmen, reden bis tief in die Nacht. Italo Calvino kommt zu Besuch, Uwe Johnson schaut vorbei, aber eigentlich sind sie so innig, dass sie niemanden sonst sehen wollen. Nur knapp zwei Jahre später stirbt Ingeborg Bachmann und Fleur Jaeggy bleibt in tiefer Trauer zurück.

Über fünfzig Jahre nach dem viel zu frühen Tod Ingeborg Bachmanns schreibt Fleur Jaeggy dieses sehr private Buch. Die letzten Tage von Ingeborg ist eine Hommage in drei Akten: Es sind Erinnerungen an sonderbar mäandernde Gespräche, Leberwurstessen, Reisen nach Klagenfurt und Wien; es sind Reflexionen über das Altern; vor allem aber ist es das schmerzhafte Protokoll der letzten Tage von Ingeborg Bachmanns Leben im Zentrum für Brandverletzte Sant’Eugenio in Rom. Fleur Jaeggy war bis zuletzt an ihrer Seite.

Fleur Jaeggy ist eine schweizerische und italienischsprachige Autorin, Ex-Model, Intellektuelle, Mystikerin, inzwischen etwas über 80 Jahre alt, ehemals enge Vertraute Ingeborg Bachmanns, Witwe des Adelphi-Verlegers Roberto Calasso, heute lebt sie weitgehend zurückgezogen in Mailand. Ihr weltweit gefeiertes Werk umfasst Romane, Erzählungen und Geschichten – beginnend mit Ich bin der Bruder von XX, wird es fortan vollständig im Suhrkamp Verlag erscheinen.

Ingeborg Bachmann, geboren am 25. Juni 1926 in Klagenfurt, wurde durch einen Auftritt vor der Gruppe 47 als Lyrikerin bekannt. Nach den Gedichtbänden Die gestundete Zeit (1953) und Anrufung des Großen Bären (1956) publizierte sie Hörspiele, Essays und zwei Erzählungsbände. Malina (1971) ist ihr einziger vollendeter Roman. Bachmann starb am 17. Oktober 1973 in Rom.

Fleur Jaeggy
Die letzten Tage von Ingeborg.
Ingeborg Bachmann aus nächster Nähe –
bewegende Szenen einer Freundschaft
Barbara Schaden (Übersetzung Ital.)
‎Deutsche Erstausgabe
Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH
Hardcover
44 pag.
ISBN-10: ‎3518433296
ISBN-13: ‎978-3518433294
Erscheinungstermin: 24.07.2026
16,00 Euro

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Release by Adelaide Crapsey

 

Release

With swift
Great sweep of her
Magnificent arm my pain
Clanged back the doors that shut my soul
From life.

Adelaide Crapsey
(1878—1914)
Release

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“Once there came a man” by Stephen Crane

“Once there came a man”

Once there came a man
Who said:
“Range me all men of the world in rows.”
And instantly
There was a terrific clamor among the people
Against being ranged in rows.
There was a loud quarrel, world-wide.
It endured for ages;
And blood was shed
By those who would not stand in rows,
And by those who pined to stand in rows.
Eventually, the man went to death, weeping.
And those who stayed in the bloody scuffle
Knew not the great simplicity.

Stephen Crane
(1871—1900)
“Once there came a man”

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Jaap Goedegebuure: Sympathie voor de duivel. Over de verbeelding van het kwaad

Al zo lang mensen elkaar verhalen vertellen, gaan hun verhalen vooral over goed en kwaad. Daarbij is een gelukkige afloop maar al te vaak een kwestie van hopen tegen beter weten in.

En dat niet alleen omdat het kwaad net als in de ware wereld winnaars macht en profijt oplevert, maar ook vanwege de fascinerende werking die er voor de verteller en zijn gehoor van uitgaat. Het kwaad prikkelt de verbeelding en verleidt tot een blik in de afgrond.

In Sympathie voor de duivel laat Jaap Goedegebuure zien hoe Nederlandse schrijvers, van Louis Couperus tot en met Manon Uphoff, de fascinatie voor het kwaad hebben verbeeld. Hun werk confronteert ons met het kwaad dat men bedrijft om er lust aan te beleven, lust zoals die wordt beschreven door Jacob Israël de Haan, bezongen door Slauerhoff, en beleefd door de personages van Simon Vestdijk, A.F.Th. van Heijden en Arnon Grunberg. Er is het kwaad van de oorlogsmisdadigers die Harry Mulisch en Louis Ferron ten tonele voeren, het satanische kwaad dat Renate Dorrestein en Thomas Rosenboom oproepen, en het zoet smakende maar niettemin giftige kwaad in de romans en verhalen van Manon Uphoff.

Wie het kwaad in de literatuur, en dus ook in de werkelijkheid om ons heen en in ons zelf, wil leren kennen kan zich laten leiden door een van de motto’s van dit boek, opgetekend uit de mond van Oek de Jong: ‘Je moet het kwaad in om te kunnen groeien.’

Jaap Goedegebuure (1947) doceerde letterkunde aan de universiteiten van Leiden, West-Berlijn, Tilburg en Nijmegen. Hij publiceerde boeken over onder meer H. Marsman, Jeroen Brouwers, Frans Kellendonk, het fin de siècle, literatuur en religie, en poëzie en mystiek. Sinds 1975 recenseert hij voor tal van kranten en tijdschriften. Bij Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer verscheen van hem in 2022 Door de jaren heen lezen, biografische notities van literaire auteurs: Gerard Reve, Harry Mulisch, Doeschka Meijsing, Boudewijn Büch, Rogi Wieg, F. Springer en vele anderen. Goedegebuure publiceerde ook in de literaire tijdschriften waarbij Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer betrokken is, Extaze en Elders.

Jaap Goedegebuure
Sympathie voor de duivel
Over de verbeelding van het kwaad in het werk van Nederlandse en Vlaamse schrijvers
uitgebreid met een Personenregister
vormgeving omslag Els Kort
gebrocheerd in omslag met flappen,
332 blz.,
€ 29,50
ISBN 978-94-93368-23-1
NUR 321, 620
2025
Uitg.: In de knipscheer

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The Lonely Death by Adelaide Crapsey

The Lonely Death

In the cold I will rise, I will bathe
In waters of ice; myself
Will shiver, and shrive myself,
Alone in the dawn, and anoint
Forehead and feet and hands;
I will shutter the windows from light,
I will place in their sockets the four
Tall candles and set them a-flame
In the grey of the dawn; and myself
Will lay myself straight in my bed,
And draw the sheet under my chin.

Adelaide Crapsey
(1878—1914)
The Lonely Death

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56e POETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Dit jaar staat het festival in het teken van Word on the street: de poëzie van het dagelijks leven. En er zijn veel, héél veel mooie programma’s om naar uit te kijken: van de poëzie van Spinvis, de geschiedenis van poesiealbums, een heuse Poetry Barbershop en Nailsalon, tot ecopoetics en straatactivisme. En natuurlijk horen, lezen en vieren we het werk van aanstormende en gevestigde dichters van over de hele wereld!

Met onder andere: Arlo Parks (GBR) / Spinvis (Erik de Jong) (NLD) / Dominique De Groen (BEL) / Aracelis Girmay (USA) / Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad (NLD) / Zoë McWhinney (GBR) / Radmila Petrović (SRB) / Marjolijn van Heemstra (NLD)

Meer informatie op website: https://www.poetry.nl/festival/

56e POETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

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“Behold, the grave of a wicked man” by Stephen Crane

“Behold, the grave of a wicked man”

Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
And near it, a stern spirit.
There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
“No flowers for him,” he said.
The maid wept:
“Ah, I loved him.”
But the spirit, grim and frowning:
“No flowers for him.”

Now, this is it —
If the spirit was just,
Why did the maid weep?

Stephen Crane
(1871—1900)
“Behold, the grave of a wicked man”

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Amaze by Adelaide Crapsey

Amaze

I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.

Adelaide Crapsey
(1878—1914)
Amaze

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“Once there came a man” by Stephen Crane

 

“Once there came a man”

Once there came a man
Who said:
“Range me all men of the world in rows.”
And instantly
There was a terrific clamor among the people
Against being ranged in rows.
There was a loud quarrel, world-wide.
It endured for ages;
And blood was shed
By those who would not stand in rows,
And by those who pined to stand in rows.
Eventually, the man went to death, weeping.
And those who stayed in the bloody scuffle
Knew not the great simplicity.

Stephen Crane
(1871—1900)
“Once there came a man”

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Niagara by Adelaide Crapsey

 

Niagara

Seen on a Night in November
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumnal, evanescent, wan,
The moon.

Adelaide Crapsey
(1878—1914)
Niagara

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Stanzas

Stanzas

Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

’Twas thus, as ancient fables tell,
Love visited a Grecian maid,
Till she disturbed the sacred spell,
And woke to find her hopes betrayed.

But gentle sleep shall veil my sight,
And Psyche’s lamp shall darkling be,
When, in the visions of the night,
Thou dost renew thy vows to me.

Then come to me in dreams, my love,
I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797—1851)
Stanzas

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