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INSTRUMENTS TO PLAY MEDIEVAL MUSICS

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:54:14 -0700

Arab-Spanish-Moorish music . Text mostly French and Spanish but there are concessions to the English speakers too!

Beatrice dEste (died 1226) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:00:20 -0700

JB Mon Restaur ("My Refreshment" in Occitan)

Beatrice the Blest
Bonked with the best of 'em
But escaped from the taint
When they made her a saint.

Factoid: tradition says that when anything important was about to befall the family of Este, Beatrix would turn in her grave, and the noise could be heard throughout the churchyard

Hartmann von Aue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:33:37 -0700

Hartman von Aue - Good name for a troubadour heartman of the water meadow! < a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmann_von_Aue"> ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aimeric_de_Pegulhan.jpg

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:14:44 -0700

Amoroso Aimericus:

This may be described as 'bland' troubadour poetry but if it really is I'll eat his hat. I like it for its passion -- not least his early use of the shipwreck-in-bed (la naufrage ineffable) so beloved of Robert Desnos. Also the language wavers between Spanish, Latin, French and Italian and combines the silky sinuous sonants of all four.

Cambridge Poetry - AREHOUSE, publishers of poetry

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:40:33 -0700

From the page:

"Word is Born

King Henry the Young King - Richard the Lionheart's troublesome brother

"thanks to the love / I reft with war" (MK) V "non-Combat is blasphemy" (RP)

WORD IS BORN from Arehouse Press: a collection from REITHA PATTISON (her first) and MICHAEL KINDELLAN (Charles Baudelaire, Bad Press 2005) containing duelling translations of eight lyric poems by the 13th century troubadour poet, heterosexual and murderer Bertrand de Born, who co-owned a castle, and died in 1215.

He says about her: "Frank O'Hara in tights". She says about him: "Bucaneer/faux romantik, one more low-grade, low-slung, shiny-epauleted noxious Casanova with a curious pecadillo: a top-hole miasma of a philology".

They're not wrong. Buy now & see who wins. "

Archive of the Now

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:16:37 -0700

"You get the same pattern of effects whether you're reading Kafka or experiencing a breakdown in your sense of identity,"

http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/glossator/article/viewFile/506/558

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:04:38 -0700

Tintern Abbey, Revisited

As usual, the best lit crit, is by a practicing poet, shortcircuiting critical discourse to arrive at new insights. JH Prynne, a lyric poet, is rightly suspicious of the lyric mode's high falutin' privileged right to a hearing, which is the one underlying assumption of Romantic poetry. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His essay on New Songs from a Jade Terrace, an anthology of early Chinese love poetry, was included in the second edition of the book from Penguin 1982. He has written poetry in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en.

Jacket 24 - Kevin Nolan: Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:38:10 -0700

Prynne and Celan

Archive of the Now

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:55:21 -0700

This procedure articulates a widening and intensifying of analogous muscular activity: running, stumbling, breaking, stifling, releasing; all of which can also be felt through the presencing -- in its inflections and gesturings -- of a voice...

The Flowers of Evil By Charles Baudelaire. Translated by Keith Waldrop. - Books - Review - New York Times

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:26:25 -0700

From the page: "Which of us, in his moments of ambition, has not dreamed of a poetic prose, musical, without rhythm and without rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the jibes of conscience?.... It was, above all, out of my exploration of huge cities, out of the medley of their innumerable interrelations, that this haunting ideal was born."