Category: poetry
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Both Edmond Jabès’s The Book of Questions and Jacques Derrida’s “Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book” convoke with “imaginary rabbis”[1]in a lexical Ouroboros: the disembodied voices spread like… more ›
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“…Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.” – S. Plath Last night he found himself in an impromptu Plath-a-thon, reciting “Daddy” at a pub that served the worst version of a… more ›
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In her recent introduction to the poetry of Dr. Kristina Zolatova, Per Caritatem blogger Cynthia R. Nielsen writes, Zolatova describes herself as an “impure” boundary-transgressing philosopher, who takes no offence… more ›
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Wisława Szymborska (July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012). Rest in peace. more ›
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Seventy years ago today a small group of people meet for ninety minutes at a lovely villa in a Berlin suburb to articulate how they would systematically murder another “group”… more ›
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Erinnerung Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine, das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt; das Mächtige, Ungemeine, das Erwachen der Steine, Tiefen, dir zugekehrt. Es dämmern im Bücherständer die Bände in Gold… more ›
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In eins Dreizehnter Feber. Im Herzmund erwachtes Schibboleth. Mit dir, Peuple de Paris. No pasarán. 5 Schäfchen zur Linken: er, Abadias, der Greis aus Huesca, kam mit den Hunden über… more ›
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Schibboleth Mitsamt meinen Steinen, den großgeweinten hinter den Gittern, schleiften sie mich 5 in die Mitte des Marktes, dorthin, wo die Fahne sich aufrollt, der ich keinerlei Eid schwor. Flöte,… more ›
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The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction next month. I’ll… more ›
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How does a poet write history? I once began with this question. But after several years of focusing on the first part of my questionable query, I find myself now… more ›