Generations of Trees

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A review of Olga Tokarczuk's novel Flights

A review of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights

Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights,

being a book of diversions, of anything but the straight and narrow; a book bound by water, in that it is fluid, unfixed, and preoccupied with the very stuff, and the whales within; an interminable book, in which numerous stories never finish (for what is an ending but a wall to be destroyed or circumnavigated by time and other stories), but also a terminal book, in…

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A review of Olga Tokarczuk's novel "Flights"

A review of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Flights”

Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights,

being a book of diversions, of anything but the straight and narrow; a book bound by water, in that it is fluid, unfixed, and preoccupied with the very stuff, and the whales within; an interminable book, in which numerous stories never finish (for what is an ending but a wall to be destroyed or circumnavigated by time and other stories), but also a terminal book, in…

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Time of Change – Morris Graves Time of Change, 1943 by Morris Graves (1910-2001)

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The Lone Scout – Albert Pinkham Ryder

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Alla Tha’s All Right, but – June Jordan

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Creation – Kenneth Patchen

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An Interview with Novelist Brian Hall about His Contribution to Waywords and Meansigns, the Unabridged Musical Adaptation of Finnegans Wake

An Interview with Novelist Brian Hall about His Contribution to Waywords and Meansigns, the Unabridged Musical Adaptation of Finnegans Wake

Author Brian Hall is known for his diverse subject matter. His 2003 novel I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company is a fictionalized account of Lewis and Clark, and his 2008 novel The Fall of Frost re-imagines Robert Frost’s personal life and inner world. Hall’s writing has received significant praise over the years; his 1997 coming-of-age novel The Saskiadhas been translated into twelve…

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Pasteque no. 2 – Rufino Tamayo

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The Hatred of Music / The Hatred of Poetry

The Hatred of Music / The Hatred of Poetry

  The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard, translated by Matthew Amos and Fredrik Rönnbäck, Yale Margellos World Republic of Letters (Yale University Press). Published March 2016.

The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner, FSG. Out June 7, 2016. Read an excerpt in the April 2016 issue of Poetry magazine (not yet online, but will eventually be here).

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"We've Only Just Begun," more new fiction from Anne Carson

“We’ve Only Just Begun,” more new fiction from Anne Carson

They got into our car at a stoplight. It was cold. We never lock the doors in back. There were two of them. At the apartment they terrorized us. It took all day, most of the night. There was beating and thrashing and scorn and damage and fear. Sounds I didn’t know could come out of us. Above all it was boring. In the sense that it was all actions and all bad; there is no life of the mind…

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I have a bad cold – Fernando Pessoa / Álvaro de Campos (Translation: Richard Zenith.)

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A daily diet of morning mist - from Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines

A daily diet of morning mist – from Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines

  It was nonsense, Dr Vrba continued, to study the emergence of man in a vacuum, without pondering the fate of other species over the same time-scale. The fact was that around 2.5 million, just as man took his spectacular ‘jump’, there was a ‘tremendous churning over of species’. ‘All hell’, she said, ‘broke loose among the antelopes.’ Everywhere in eastern Africa, the more sedentary browsers…

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Interview with Richard Zenith In July, I spoke to Richard Zenith in Lisbon about his work translating Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Sophia de Mello Breyner, and many other spectacular Portuguese-speaking poets. Read our conversation in the hot-off-the-press fall issue of  Asymptote. (Available in English and Spanish!)

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Interview with David Shook

Interview with David Shook

Dear Biblioklepters,

I recently had the chance to interview the marvelous David Shook about the equally marvelous Like a New Sun, a book of contemporary indigenous Mexican poetry, which he edited and co-translated. You can read the interview over at Asymptote’s blog.

I first read about Asymptote here on Biblioklept a few years ago. I’m happy to share that I have joined their ranks as Interview…

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La Ville entière (The Entire City) — Max Ernst

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Cave Bird – Leonard Baskin From Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama. Poems by Ted Hughes, illustrations by Leonard Baskin.

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Cave Bird – Leonard Baskin