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Archive K-L

· Gertrud Kolmar: Der Brief · Audition: A Novel by Katie Kitamura · Keetje Kuipers – New Poems: Lonely Women Make Good Lovers · J.H. Leopold: Gij deed van alle mensen · D. H. Lawrence: New Year’s Eve · J.H. Leopold: O, als ik dood zal zijn · J.H. Leopold: Ik ben een zwerver overal · There was an Old Man with a Beard by Edward Lear · ‘Keen, fitful gusts . . . ’ by John Keats · Gedicht: Märchen von Gertrud Kolmar · Jenny Kiss’d Me by James Henry Leigh Hunt · The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Gertrud Kolmar: Der Brief

Der Brief

Ein Fetzen Weh, vom Wind daher gefegt,
Das war er nun.
Ich hab’ ihn still ins heil’ge Buch gelegt,
Zu ruhn – zu ruhn—–

Und die vergilbten Blätter schlössen ihn
So linde ein,
Wie Totenhülle, weißer denn Jasmin,
Der braune Schrein.

So fern der Unrast, die da draußen tost,
Hat er geruht.
Und war der Klage voll und gab mir Trost
Er war so gut—–

Gertrud Kolmar
(1894 – 1943)
Der Brief

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Audition: A Novel by Katie Kitamura

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two.

An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant.

She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere.

He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son.

Who is he to her, and who is she to him?

In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Audition: A Novel
by Katie Kitamura (Author)
Language: English
Paperback
April 8, 2025
Publisher: ‎Riverhead Books
EAN: 9798217045839
21,95 euro

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Keetje Kuipers – New Poems: Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual.

These unforgettable love poems—queer, complicated, and almost always compromised—engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses of unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question “defined not by what we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves.” These poems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an “I” that is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives with.

In this book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at others self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the difficulties and joys of living in relation.

Keetje Kuipers’ newest collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and POETRY, and have been honored by publication in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. She has been a Stegner Fellow, Bread Loaf Fellow, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. Kuipers lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she is editor of Poetry Northwest.

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
Poems
By Keetje Kuipers
Publisher: ‎ BOA Editions Ltd.
April 8, 2025
Language: ‎ English
Paperback : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10: ‎1960145452
ISBN-13: ‎978-1960145451
Regular price €17,95

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J.H. Leopold: Gij deed van alle mensen

Gij deed van alle mensen

Gij deed van alle mensen mij
De zwaarste pijn,
Van alle mensen zult ge mij
De liefste zijn.

J.H. Leopold
(1865-1925)
Gij deed van alle mensen
Vroege gedichten

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D. H. Lawrence: New Year’s Eve

 

New Year’s Eve

There are only two things now,
The great black night scooped out
And this fire-glow.

This fire-glow, the core,
And we the two ripe pips
That are held in store.

Listen, the darkness rings
As it circulates round our fire.
Take off your things.

Your shoulders, your bruised throat!
Your breasts, your nakedness!
This fiery coat!

As the darkness flickers and dips,
As the fireflight falls and leaps
From your feet to your lips!

D. H. Lawrence
(1885 – 1930)
New Year’s Eve

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J.H. Leopold: O, als ik dood zal zijn

O, als ik dood zal zijn

“O, als ik dood zal, dood zal zijn
kom dan en fluister, fluister iets liefs,
mijn bleeke ogen zal ik opslaan
en ik zal niet verwonderd zijn.

En ik zal niet verwonderd zijn ;
in deze liefde zal de dood
alleen een slapen, slapen gerust
een wachten op u, een wachten zijn.”

En schokkende het grote zwichten
en armen die in vertwijfeling slaan,
een wringen omhoog, een biddend reiken,
een klemmen en jammerend laten gaan.

En een hoofd verwordende en bedolven
in der snikken en in der haren nacht,
wond over ondoorgrondlijke stroomen
vervreemd en doodswit opgebracht.

En een stem verwezen en ingezonken
en die nog stervende aanbad:
ik heb zoo zielsveel van je gehouden,
ik heb je zoo lief, zoo lief gehad.

J.H. Leopold
(1865-1925)
O, als ik dood zal zijn

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J.H. Leopold: Ik ben een zwerver overal

Ik ben een zwerver overal

Ik ben een zwerver overal,
een doler en een vagebond
en een, die uit zich zelf geen pad,
geen ommekeer en geen uitweg vond.

Ik ben een napraatpapegaai,
ik ben een open spiegelrond,
des Eeuwigen gesproken woord,
het hapert in mijn stamelmond.

J.H. Leopold
(1865-1925)
Ik ben een zwerver overal
Oostersch IV

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There was an Old Man with a Beard by Edward Lear

 

There was an Old Man with a Beard

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.

Edward Lear
(1812 – 1888)
There was an Old Man with a Beard

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‘Keen, fitful gusts . . . ’ by John Keats

‘Keen, fitful gusts…’

Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there
Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;
The stars look very cold about the sky,
And I have many miles on foot to fare.
Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air,
Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily,
Or of those silver lamps that burn on high,
Or of the distance from home’s pleasant lair:
For I am brimful of the friendliness
That in a little cottage I have found;
Of fair-hair’d Milton’s eloquent distress,
And all his love for gentle Lycid drown’d;
Of lovely Laura in her light green dress,
And faithful Petrarch gloriously crowned.

John Keats
(1795 – 1821)
‘Keen, fitful gusts…’

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Gedicht: Märchen von Gertrud Kolmar

Märchen

Ich hab vor deinem Hause still gestanden
In einer Nacht.
Und hatte ganz dich lieb und ohne Maßen;
Ich wies zu dir den Sternen goldne Straßen
Und habe selig stumm gelacht.

Ob meinem losen Haar hob ich die Arme
Wie Zweige, schlank und rund.
Da stürzte Regen in das Mainachtschweigen
Und rief sich zage Blüten aus den Zweigen,
Und jede war ein blasser Mund.

Du aber kamst nicht.
So streute ich mit lächelndem Verschwenden
Dem Mond die Blumen her.
Und spürte Treiben herber, dunkler Kräfte,
Mir ward die Frucht voll süßer, süßer Säfte;
Schon fiel sie, duftend, weich und schwer.

Du aber kamst nicht.
Eishagel tanzte höhnend auf den Steinen.
Da klaffte schwarz ein Schacht.
Drein ließ ich die zerbrochnen Arme hangen. –
Geblüht und Frucht getragen – und vergangen
In einer Nacht.

Gertrud Kolmar
(1894 – 1943)
Märchen

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Jenny Kiss’d Me by James Henry Leigh Hunt

Jenny kiss’d Me

Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.

James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784 – 1859)
Jenny kiss’d Me

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The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)
The Arrow and the Song

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