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· Paul Bezembinder: Na de dag · Sara Teasdale: Evening, New York · African Dream · Sara Teasdale: I Am Not Yours · Exhibition TATE MODERN LONDON: Yoko Ono Music of the Mind · An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems · Sara Teasdale: I Thought of You · Ulrich von Hutten: Den Geist? · The Curious Thing: Poems by Sandra Lim · Grands Corps Malade: nouveau CD “REFLETS” · Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: Hearing the Battle. (July 21, 1861) · Ark by Estill Pollock

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Paul Bezembinder: Na de dag

 

Na de dag

Het licht heeft je gezicht verweerd
en de marok wil met je aan de haal,
barok wordt rococo, de wijn creëert
de tralies voor de panter van de taal.

De wind steekt op, sirocco of simoem,
rhizomen worden schaars, de gentiaan
verdorst, de iris wordt een zonnebloem
en aan de hemel dient de maan zich aan.

Paul Bezembinder
Na de dag
Gedicht

Paul Bezembinder studeerde theoretische natuurkunde in Nijmegen. In zijn poëzie zoekt hij vooral in klassieke versvormen en thema’s naar de balans tussen serieuze poëzie, pastiche en smartlap. Bij uitgeverij Leeuwenhof (Oostburg) verschenen de bundels Gedichten (2020), Parkzicht (2020) en Duizelingen (2022). Website: www.paulbezembinder.nl.

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Sara Teasdale: Evening, New York

Evening: New York

Blue dust of evening over my city,
⁠Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers
Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads,
⁠Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933)
Evening: New York
from: Flame and Shadow

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African Dream

Poem

African Dream

(meeting Alf Khumalo:
“call me Alf” he said with a wink)

take of in Cape Town at dawn
the horizon is an oyster
the mountain table
is ready for breakfast

next to me an elderly man
sits with his camera
adjusting different lenses
– he looks happy

I open my lab top
to type a few words trying
to catch the peacefulness
of this early morning flight

above Kimberley we fly
through various cumuli
he lifts his camera – I ask
“What are you doing sir?”

he explains the softness & asks
“What are you doing lady?”
I put what you see
through your lens in words

like the mushrooms on our plates
he looks surprised asks when & where
he can buy my first collection
there is none so far & he has left me

leaving his work in my heart

c.w.

 

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Sara Teasdale: I Am Not Yours

I Am Not Yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love—put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933)
I Am Not Yours

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Exhibition TATE MODERN LONDON: Yoko Ono Music of the Mind

TATE MODERN LONDON
Yoko Ono Music of the Mind
15 February – 1 September 2024

Delve into the powerful, participatory work of artist and activist Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (1933) is a leading figure in conceptual and performance art, experimental film and music. Developing her practice in America, Japan and the UK, she is renowned for her activism, work for world peace, and environmental campaigns. Ideas are central to her art, often expressed in poetic, humorous and radical ways.

Spanning more than seven decades, the exhibition focuses on key moments in Ono’s career, including her years in London from 1966 to 1971, where she met John Lennon (1940 – 1980).

The show explores some of Ono’s most talked about artworks and performances, from Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) which she created as a ‘petition for peace’.

Alongside her early performances, works on paper, objects, and music, audiences will discover a selection of her activist projects such as PEACE is POWER and Wish Tree, where visitors can contribute personal wishes for peace.

Through her instructions and event scores, Ono invites visitors to take part in both simple acts of the imagination and active encounters with her works.

The exhibition is organised by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

              Y O K O   O N O   &   J O H N   L E N N O N

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An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems

Hell, I Love Everybody.

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes

Celebrating James Tate’s work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, “No, you can’t do that,” Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the “poet of possibilities,” and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry’s future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.

James Tate was born in 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri. He earned a BA from Kansas State College and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was the author of over 20 poetry collections, including the posthumously published The Government Lake (2018); The Ghost Soldiers (2008); Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), which won the National Book Award; Selected Poems (1991), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; Distance from Loved Ones (1990); Constant Defender (1983); Viper Jazz (1976); and The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970). Tate died in 2015, at the age of 71.

James Tate’s poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Yale Younger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and have been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made his home in Pelham, Massachusetts.

Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and How to Be Drawn, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.

Hell, I love everybody
An essential collection of James Tate’’s extraordinary poems
hat will captivate today’s readers,
with an introduction by Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Ecco Press
Publish Date: November 07, 2023
Pages 112
Dimensions 5.3 X 7.1 X 0.3 inches
Language English
Type Paperback
EAN/UPC 9780063306073
Price $17.99

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Sara Teasdale: I Thought of You

I Thought of You

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
⁠And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
⁠As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
⁠The cold and sparkling silver of the sea—
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
⁠Before you hear that sound again with me.

Sara Teasdale
(1884-1933)
I Thought of You
from: Flame and Shadow

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Ulrich von Hutten: Den Geist?

Den Geist?

Den Geist?
Als ob es Weiber gäbe,
die ihn liebten.
Schöne Gestalt gefällt ihnen
und Reichtum.

 

Ulrich von Hutten
Ritter und Dichter
(* 21.04.1488, † 29.08.1523)
Den Geist?

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The Curious Thing: Poems by Sandra Lim

 

In this gorgeous third collection, Sandra Lim investigates desire, sexuality, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness.

Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim’s poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day.

An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume’s myriad discoveries―Lim’s lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material.

Animated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life.

Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Curious Thing, Loveliest Grotesque and The Wilderness, chosen by Louise Glück for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She has received many honors for her work, including the Levis Reading Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from MacDowell and the Getty Foundation. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sandra Lim:
The Curious Thing.
Poems
Language: ‎English
Publisher: ‎W. W. Norton & Company
October 10, 2023
80 pages

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-324-06618-7
Price $16.95

Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-393-86789-3
Price $26.95

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Grands Corps Malade: nouveau CD “REFLETS”

Au départ, l’idée traversait l’esprit de Grand Corps Malade d’intituler l’album “Portraits” au pluriel.

Il envisageait que chaque chanson représente le portrait d’une personne, d’une chose, ou d’un lieu spécifique. Cependant, au fil du temps, cette notion a évolué, aboutissant finalement au choix du titre “REFLETS”. Ce titre représente pour lui une opportunité d’explorer la réflexion de la société, de capturer l’esprit d’une époque, de saisir les éléments qui nous entourent. Cette approche ouvre la porte à de nombreux…

Liste des titres
No Titre Durée
1. J’ai vu de la lumière 3:31
2. Reflets 2:52
3. Retiens les rêves 3:39
4. Le jour d’après 3:19
5. Autoreflet 4:49
6. Je serai là 3:05
7. Rue La Fayette 3:38
8. C’est aujourd’hui que ça se passe 2:47
9. 2083 3:47
10. La sagesse 3:04
11. Deauville 3:04
12. Paroles et musique 3:57

Reflets est le 8e album studio de Grand Corps Malade sorti le 20 octobre 2023.

Reflets
Album de Grand Corps Malade Sortie
20 octobre 2023
Genre CD, vinyle
Label Anouche Records

Grands Corps Malade
CD “REFLETS”
Prix de vente 15,00€
Main artists: Grand Corps Malade
Genre: Franse chansons

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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: Hearing the Battle. (July 21, 1861)

 

Hearing the Battle

July 21, 1861

One day in the dreamy summer,
On the Sabbath hills, from afar
We heard the solemn echoes
Of the first fierce words of war.

Ah, tell me, thou veilèd Watcher
Of the storm and the calm to come,
How long by the sun or shadow
Till these noises again are dumb.

And soon in a hush and glimmer
We thought of the dark, strange fight,
Whose close in a ghastly quiet
Lay dim in the beautiful night.

Then we talk’d of coldness and pallor,
And of things with blinded eyes
That stared at the golden stillness
Of the moon in those lighted skies;

And of souls, at morning wrestling
In the dust with passion and moan,
So far away at evening
In the silence of worlds unknown.

But a delicate wind beside us
Was rustling the dusky hours,
As it gather’d the dewy odors
Of the snowy jessamine-flowers.

And I gave you a spray of the blossoms,
And said: “I shall never know
How the hearts in the land are breaking,
My dearest, unless you go.”

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
(1836–1919)
Hearing the Battle.
(July 21, 1861)
Poem

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Ark by Estill Pollock

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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