Guest Post: Tati Luboviski-Acosta

“A little dispirited”: a eulogy for 2011

18 Comments

1. April 6th, 2012 / 10:18 pm Vomithelmet McGee—

   I have to write a comment because I don’t “like” this, I felt faint reading it and it relieved some despair and it was gross too. Anyway, it’s impressive.

2. April 7th, 2012 / 12:39 pm mimi—

   ASH HAIR

3. April 7th, 2012 / 12:55 pm Molly Brodak—

   awesome so good

4. April 7th, 2012 / 4:27 pm lorian long—

   holy fucks what is this

5. April 7th, 2012 / 5:21 pm Ponsford McQuain—

   sweeeeet

6. April 7th, 2012 / 5:46 pm deadgod—

   Here is ashen hair:  http://www.celan-projekt.de/todesfuge-deutsch.html .

   Here is (I think) the most prominent English version:  http://www.english.txstate.edu/cohen_p/postmodern/Literature/Celan/Hamburger.html .

   wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lueften

   we shovel a grave in the wind

   Here’s an Italian-posing-as-Argentine poet:

   Where everyone grieves, no one hears the crying.  –Antonio Porchia (transl. Merloss)

7. April 7th, 2012 / 7:27 pm mimi—

   damn, deaders, thanks, intense, will give this a few close readings  

   und auch giebt es mir ein Chance to practice mein Deutsch von Gymnasium  

   vielen Dank!

8. April 7th, 2012 / 11:21 pm Matt Zbrog—

   woah.  nice!

9. April 8th, 2012 / 3:05 am Anonymous—

   love the collage work

10. April 8th, 2012 / 3:11 am Mat Gleason—

    How’m I ‘post ta sell this if you’re givin’ it away for free on the internet?

11. April 8th, 2012 / 4:14 am Tati Luboviski-Acosta—

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSMDaewz2A

12. April 8th, 2012 / 11:03 am mimi—

    15-hours-post-script, please to note: no disrespect intended toward you, deaders, or to celan’s beautiful, deeply moving poem, via the goofiness of my lame high school Deutsch remark – again, thanks

13. April 8th, 2012 / 12:21 pm deadgod—

    Celan becomes indispensable to most who read him.  If you’ve not, yet, then Hamburger’s Selected Poems is maybe the most useful place to start — more copious than any other single book I’ve seen in English, and printed bilingually in the practical way (Deutsch and English pages facing each other)–the better for us Hochschule Germanists to crib from.

    Oddly, Celan backed away from Death Fugue as it became popularish.  He found it – as I understand him – to be too theatrical, or maybe just too obvious, in its refraction of “Deutschland”.  I think he wrote poetry differently – more fractured, more piercing and monstrous, (to me) better – in reaction to the fairly rapid approval of Death Fugue.

    Absolutely scarcely on the topic of the notebook images of this blogicle, I was reading reaction to this charming commentary – http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1rSn4JMpN – and I came across this bit of hilarity:  http://www.jest.com/video/165065/porn-stars-against-santorum .  Happy Eastertide!

14. April 8th, 2012 / 8:52 pm mimi—

    looking forward to checking out the Hamburger – the internet tells me two copies ‘on shelf’ at downtown berkeley public library waiting for me to come and find

    derbyshire article – um, erm, makes me squirm

    santorum (ew) vs. pornstars (mmm) – no comment   

    mille grazie!  

    Chag Sameach, חג שמח, shalom, gesund! and all that  

    : )

15. April 9th, 2012 / 2:49 am M. Kitchell—

    you guys need to meet, you’d love one another

16. April 9th, 2012 / 6:06 am Anonymous—

    really like seeing snow-headed doe with tits bathing in roses and pearls

17. April 9th, 2012 / 1:31 pm Tati Luboviski-Acosta—

    i think i need to meet everyone 

18. April 10th, 2012 / 10:21 am iairmaxshoes.com—

    Perhaps this is one of the most interesting blogs that I have ever seen. Interesting article, Funny comment. Keep it up!