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The Crowning Gift
I have had courage to accuse;
And a fine wit that could upbraid;
And a nice cunning that could bruise;
And a shrewd wisdom, unafraid
Of what weak mortals fear to lose.
I have had virtue to despise
The sophistry of pious fools;
I have had firmness to chastise;
And intellect to make me rules,
To estimate and exorcise.
I have had knowledge to be true;
My faith could obstacles remove;
But now, by failure taught anew,
I would have courage now to love,
And lay aside the strength I knew.
Gladys Cromwell
(1885-1919)
The Crowning Gift
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La Madone Amoureuse
Le ciel noir se piquait de torches résineuses,
Scintillantes lueurs, astres pâles d’amour.
Secouant du zénith leurs vapeurs lumineuses
En nuages d’encens au brasier du jour.
Se lustrait du vermeil bruni d’un disque pur,
Coeur jaunissant de fleur immobile et plantée
Comme une pâquerette aux mornes champs d’azur,
A travers l’infini sombre de l’étendue
La blancheur de la Vierge immense s’allongeait,
Colosse de vapeur vaguement épandue
Où le glaive éclatant de la lune plongeait.
Ce n’était plus le marbre aux arêtes précises
Où les Grecs découpaient la chair pâle des dieux,
Mais un esprit flottant en formes indécises
Et versant du brouillard vers la voûte des cieux.
Car l’idéal chrétien est fait de chair meurtrie,
Et d’orbites saignants et de membres broyés,
Tandis qu’abandonnant sa dépouille flétrie
L’âme ailée ouvre l’air de ses bras éployés.
Les dieux morts des anciens vivaient de notre vie;
Ils avaient nos amours; ils avaient nos douleurs;
Ils voyaient nos plaisirs en pâlissant d’envie
Et se vengeaient du rire en nous forçant aux pleurs.
Le Symbole vivant n’a que son existence
Dont la force idéale échappe à nos regards,
Et les martyrs en vain cloués sur leur potence
Interrogeaient l’éther avec leurs yeux hagards.
Mais l’élan passionné de la Vierge Marie
Avait noyé son âme en une ombre de chair
Faite de désirs fous, de luxure pétrie,
Où le cri de l’amour passait comme un éclair.
Cette chair transparente errait dans la pénombre,
Emergeait sous le froid de la Nuit, grelottait,
Et la Vierge trempée aux plis d’un voile sombre
Couvrait de ses deux mains son front et sanglotait.
Ses cheveux blonds coulaient en vagues dénouées
Qui ruisselaient à flots dans le fauve sillon
Des mamelles de brume à sa forme clouées
Par deux boutons puissants casqués de vermillon.
Et ses larmes roulaient en sanglantes rosées,
Jaillissant sous les cils parfumés de ses yeux
Comme un filet gonflé de leurs perles rosées,
Sa chevelure d’or tombait en plis soyeux.
Pendant qu’elle pleurait dans ses chairs cristallines,
Un nuage laiteux en panache fumait,
Fondant leur transparence en teintes opalines
Dont la neige mousseuse et légère écumait.
Et ses pâles cheveux aux couleurs effacées
Lentement noircissaient au creuset de la nuit,
Et l’or blond s’enfuyait de leurs teintes passées (5).
Ainsi que l’or mourant d’une braise s’enfuit
Ses veines se gonflaient de gouttes purpurines
Qui faisaient tressaillir ses nerfs en les baignant;
Un souffle sensuel dilatait ses narines
Et le désir perçait son coeur d’un clou saignant.
La blonde déité qui pleurait diaphane,
En cachant ses yeux bleus de ses longs doigts nacrés,
Avait pris les cheveux d’une brune profane
Et sa chair inhabile à des gestes sacrés.
Ce n’était plus la chaste et mystique Marie
Eclairée du halo pur de la Trinité,
Mais c’était une fille amoureuse, qui crie
Et gémit de désir sur sa virginité.
Elle entendait monter de langoureuses plaintes
De la vasque profonde où la Terre planait;
Le soupir attiédi des premières étreintes
En effluve d’amour vers sa bouche émanait.
Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905)
La Madone Amoureuse
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Bahnhofstrasse
The eyes that mock me sign the way
Whereto I pass at eve of day.
Grey way whose violet signals are
The trysting and the twining star.
Ah star of evil! star of pain!
Highhearted youth comes not again
Nor old heart’s wisdom yet to know
The signs that mock me as I go.
James Joyce
(1882-1941)
Bahnhofstrasse
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A Portrait of One: Harry Phelan Gibb
Some one in knowing everything is knowing that some one is something.
Some one is something and is succeeding is succeeding in hoping that thing.
He is suffering.
He is succeeding in hoping and he is succeeding in saying that that is something.
He is suffering, he is suffering and succeeding in hoping that in succeeding in saying that he is succeeding in hoping is something.
He is suffering, he is hoping, he is succeeding in saying that anything is something.
He is suffering, he is hoping, he is succeeding in saying that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in hoping that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in saying that he is succeeding in hoping that something is something.
He is hoping that he is succeeding in saying that something is something.
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
A Portrait of One
Harry Phelan Gibb
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Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May ’68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May ’68.
Based on detailed archival research and original translations, close readings of plays and historical documents, and a rigorous assessment of avant-garde theater history and theory, Occupying the Stage proposes that the French theater of 1959–71 forms a standalone paradigm called “The Theater of May ’68.”
The book shows how French theater artists during this period used a strategy of occupation-occupying buildings, streets, language, words, traditions, and artistic processes-as their central tactic of protest and transformation. It further proposes that the Theater of May ’68 has left imprints on contemporary artists and activists, and that this theater offers a scaffolding on which to build a meaningful analysis of contemporary protest and performance in France, North America, and beyond.
At the book’s heart is an inquiry into how artists of the period used theater as a way to engage in political work and, concurrently, questioned and overhauled traditional theater practices so their art would better reflect the way they wanted the world to be. Occupying the Stage embraces the utopic vision of May ’68 while probing the period’s many contradictions. It thus affirms the vital role theater can play in the ongoing work of social change.
Occupying the Stage
The Theater of May ’68
Kate Bredeson (Author)
Publication Date: November 2018
Pages 232
Trim Size 6 x 9
Paper Text – $34.95
Northwestern University Press
Drama & Performance Studies
ISBN 978-0-8101-3815-5
# new books
Occupying the Stage
The Theater of May ’68
Kate Bredeson
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Manos de primavera. Antología poética de Federico García Lorca
Hands of Spring : Anthology of Poetry by Federico García Lorca
La voz de Lorca ilustrada por la mano poética de Aitor Saraiba.
La luna, el agua, la tierra, las imágenes lorquianas caminan de la mano de las poéticas ilustraciones de Aitor Saraiba. Una defensa de las voces únicas y las imágenes indestructibles. Un libro, sí, un canto a la libertad y al arte.
Lorca’s voice, illustrated by the poetic hand of Aitor Saraiba.
The moon, water, earth: Lorca’s images go hand-in-hand with the poetic illustrations of Aitor Saraiba. A defense of unique voices and indestructible images. A book—and a song to freedom and art.
Manos de primavera. Antología poética de Federico García Lorca
Hands of Spring : Anthology of Poetry by Federico García Lorca
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Hardcover
Pages: 128
10 x 11
Aug 20, 2019
Published by Montena
PRH Grupo Editoria
Category: Poetry
Spanish Language Nonfiction
ISBN 9788417671419
ISBN-13: 9788417671419
$20.95
# More poetry
Anthology of Poetry
by Federico García Lorca
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Vlaanderen, o welig huis
Vlaandren, o welig huis waar we zijn als genoden
aan rijke taaflen! – daar nu glooiend zijn de weiên
van zomer-granen, die hunne aêmende ebbe breien
naar malvend Ooste’ en statig dagerade-roden,
dewijl de morge’ ontwaakt ten hemel en ter Leië -:
wie kan u weten, en in ‘t harte niet verblijên;
niet danke’ om dagen, schoon als jonge zege-goden,
gelijk een beedlaar dankt om warme tarwe-broden?…
o Vlaandren, blijde van uw gevens-rede handen,
zwaar, daar ge delend gaat, in paarse en gele wade,
der krachten die uw schoot als rodend ooft beladen.
– Vlaandren, wie wéet u en de zomer-dageraden,
en voelt geen rilde liefde in zijne leden branden
‘lijk deze morgen door de veië Leië-landen?
Karel van de Woestijne
(1878 – 1929)
Vlaanderen, o welig huis
Portret van Karel van de Woestijne (1937) door Henri van Straten (1892 – 1944)
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Fluch
Du sträubst und wehrst!
Die Brände heulen
Flammen
Sengen!
Nicht Ich
Nicht Du
Nicht Dich!
Mich!
Mich!
August Stramm
(1874-1915)
Fluch, 1914
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Het Russische absurdisme laat zich gemakkelijk terugbrengen tot één man: Daniil Charms. “Charms is kunst,’ schreef een vriend over hem.
Met zijn opvallende verschijning, zijn excentriciteit, zijn creatieve tegendraadsheid was hij een fenomeen en groeide hij na zijn dood uit tot een wereldwijd bekende cultschrijver. “Mij interesseert alleen “onzin”,’ schreef hij ooit, “alleen dat wat geen enkele praktische zin heeft.’
Charms blinkt uit in het tonen van de onsamenhangendheid van het bestaan en de onvoorspelbaarheid van het lot. Hij zoekt naar een ongefilterde verbeelding van de chaos die wij voortbrengen, los van zingeving en in de hoop op nieuwe ervaringen en aha-erlebnissen. In zijn werk laat hij willekeur vergezeld gaan van een stevige dosis, vaak zwartgallige, humor.
Voor het eerst verschijnt een grote uitgave van Charms’ werk in de Russische Bibliotheek, samengesteld uit proza, toneelteksten, gedichten, autobiografisch proza en kinderverhalen, en rijkelijk aangevuld met avantgardistische illustraties.
Auteur: Daniil Charms
Verzameld werk
Vertaald door Yolanda Bloemen
Russische Bibliotheek (RB)
Uitgeverij van Oorschot
Verschijningsdatum januari 2018
Taal Nederlands
1e druk
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Afmetingen 20,3 x 12,8 x 3,4 cm
736 pagina’s
ISBN 9789028282353
€ 44,99
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I Speak Not
I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that now burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.
Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,
Were those hours – can their joy or their bitterness cease?
We repent, we abjure, we will break from our chain, –
We will part, we will fly to – unite it again!
Oh! thine be the gladness, and mine be the guilt!
Forgive me, adored one! – forsake if thou wilt;
But the heart which is thine shall expire undebased,
And man shall not break it – whatever thou may’st.
And stern to the haughty, but humble to thee,
This soul in its bitterest blackness shall be;
And our days seem as swift, and our moments more sweet,
With thee at my side, than with worlds at our feet.
One sigh of thy sorrow, one look of thy love,
Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove.
And the heartless may wonder at all I resign –
Thy lips shall reply, not to them, but to mine.
George Gordon Byron
(1788 – 1824)
I Speak Not
(Poem)
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10 décembre 1919: le prix Goncourt est attribué à Marcel Proust pour À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs.
Aussitôt éclate un tonnerre de protestations : anciens combattants, pacifistes, réactionnaires, révolutionnaires, chacun se sent insulté par un livre qui, ressuscitant le temps perdu, semble dédaigner le temps présent.
Pendant des semaines, Proust est vilipendé dans la presse, brocardé, injurié, menacé. Son tort? Ne plus être jeune, être riche, ne pas avoir fait la guerre, ne pas raconter la vie dans les tranchées.
Retraçant l’histoire du prix et les manœuvres en vue de son attribution à Proust, s’appuyant sur des documents inédits, dont il dévoile nombre d’extraits savoureux, Thierry Laget fait le récit d’un événement inouï – cette partie de chamboule-tout qui a déplacé le pôle magnétique de la littérature – et de l’émeute dont il a donné le signal.
Thierry Laget
Proust, prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire
Collection Blanche, Gallimard
Parution : 04-04-2019
272 pages
140 x 205 mm
ISBN : 9782072846786
Genre : Essais
Prix €19,50
# new books
Thierry Laget
Proust
prix Goncourt
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This year, the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam turns 50!
The milestone makes it the oldest festival in the city, and one of the oldest in the country, with a wealth of history and highlights. Nobel Prize-winning poets once stood on Poetry’s stages as bright young talents, and the festival is both a shining example for, and founding parent of, poetry festivals worldwide.
Poetry International celebrates its golden anniversary with an extra festive edition at Concertgebouw De Doelen, which also hosted the debut festival back in 1970. Trailblazing poets will deliver transformative work thrumming with the now.
Unique fusions of poetry by engaging artists from the worlds of music, cinema, and dance amplify the power, the beauty, and the personal impact of poetry, here in the form of an intimate reading or workshop, there as a multidisciplinary theatrical poetry spectacle. Right in the heart of the city, inviting, challenging, unmissable.
What Happened to the Future? Since 1970, poetry luminaries from all over the world travel to Rotterdam for the annual Poetry International Festival. Thousands of poets have shared their work on the stages of De Doelen and the Schouwburg, but also in the city’s squares, parks, and trams. A landmark anniversary like this is an invitation to look back and celebrate the past, but at the same time, Poetry International will be looking ahead. Under the title What Happened to the Future?, the 50th Poetry International Festival unites its rich history with the world’s poems and poets of today and tomorrow.
The Metropole Orchestra – nominated for 18 Grammy Awards – will open the 50th Poetry International Festival with a literal bang. In this theatrical kick-off, the orchestra will perform unique duets with poets, including the legendary Last Poets, godfathers of hip hop and spoken word. Inspired by the festival’s theme, “What Happened to the Future?”, poets from the festival’s rich past, such as Judith Herzberg, Antjie Krog, Rita Dove, Raúl Zurita, and Tom Lanoye, will perform side by side with poets of a more recent vintage, such as Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Koleka Putuma, Patricia Lockwood, Lieke Marsman, Frank Báez, Sayaka Osaki, Ulrike Almut Sandig, and Galina Rymboe. Whether rooted in the past or inspired by the future, their readings will festively raise the curtains on this golden-anniversary edition.
From festival hub De Doelen, Poetry International will take you on a poetic walking tour through the heart of Rotterdam. Led by a guide from UrbanGuides, you will discover extraordinary art in public spaces and have surprising encounters with festival poets and spoken-word artists. Explore the city’s hidden stories together!
Practical festival information
Following the Opening Night on 13 June the 50th Poetry International Festival will presents three days packed with readings, concerts, workshops, specials, poetic city walks, interviews, award ceremonies and book presentations. Check the changing starting times beforehand! Almost all programs take place or depart from De Doelen, in the heart of the city within a 5-minute walk of Rotterdam Central Station.
The 50th Poetry International Festival will kick-off on 13 June in the Main Auditorium of de Doelen. On 14, 15 and 16 June most events will take place in or around the Jurriaanse zaal. De Doelen is situated within walking distance of Rotterdam Central Station
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