Catturare l’istante: un viaggio nel cuore degli haiku - Incontro con Diego Martina

Tutto pronto per Catturare l’istante: un viaggio nel cuore degli haiku l’incontro con Diego Martina, scrittore, yamatologo, e traduttore specializzato in letteratura giapponese. Ecco l’evento organizzato da La Casa della Poesia di Como ODV, Festival Europa in Versi e i Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno, previsto OGGI giovedì 6 marzo ore 18.30, presso Libreria La Ciurma, Viale Lecco 83, Como

Un'occasione imperdibile per scoprire la poesia giapponese, dallo Haiku tradizionale alla modernità di Tanikawa Shuntarō voce significativa della poesia giapponese, attraverso gli occhi di un esperto che in italiano ha già tradotto la raccolta di haiku “Chiodi Battuti” del poeta  Akano Yotsuba*, pubblicata da IQdB.

Conoscerete da vicino Tanikawa Shuntarō , attraverso un’anticipazione della sua raccolta "Alla donna" che uscirà per i tipi di IQdB  e grazie al racconto di aneddoti e curiosità sulla sua vita e poetica.

Diego Martina vi accompagnerà in un'immersione nel mondo degli Haiku, attraverso la lettura e il commento di alcune poesie in lingua originale e in traduzione italiana.

L’autore dialoga con Riccardo Valsecchi, filosofo e socio de La Casa della Poesia di Como ODV

Letture di Jalisco Pineda Vázquez, poeta e socia de La Casa della Poesia di Como ODV

 

*Chiodi Battuti – Scheda libro / Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di premiazione alla 34esima edizione del Premio Nuove Voci dello Haiku Moderno (現代俳句新人賞), il vincitore Akano Yotsuba (1977-) ha definito lo haiku «la forma poetica più bella dopo il silenzio», sottolineando con tali parole quanto la brevità (di fatto quasi prossima al silenzio) giochi in esso un ruolo fondamentale. Yotsuba non è certo il solo: già in passato, infatti, autori come Terayama Shūji avevano definito lo haiku «un ago», rintracciando nella brevità della forma la ragione della sua “puntura poetica”. Tuttavia, è proprio questa brevità concisa a essere talvolta considerata il limite intrinseco dello haiku, in quanto difficilmente ciò che è grande riesce a trovare spazio in ciò che è piccolo. Ma tale assunto – pure ipotizzabile a seconda dei casi – viene del tutto azzerato nei componimenti di Yotsuba, dove lo haiku non è più ciò che intende esprimere, quanto ciò che intende indicare. Proprio come nel celebre insegnamento Zen del dito che indica la luna, dunque, lo haiku si fa dito, e nel leggere i singoli componimenti c’è chi scorgerà la luna di volta in volta indicata e chi, per forza di cose, si fermerà a osservare il dito. (dall’introduzione di Diego Martina)

 

 

La Casa della Poesia di Como ODV

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Info link I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno

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Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations, and Fictions Reprint Edition by Jody Azzouni

Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of. Indeed, references to such nonexistent items-especially in the case of the application of mathematics to the sciences-are indispensable. We cannot avoid talking about such things. Scientific and ordinary languages thus enable us to say things about Pegasus or about hallucinated objects that are true (or false), such as "Pegasus was believed by the ancient Greeks to be a flying horse," or "That elf I'm now hallucinating over there is wearing blue shoes." Standard contemporary metaphysical views and semantic analyses of singular idioms on offer in contemporary philosophy of language have not successfully accommodated these routine practices of saying true and false things about the nonexistent while simultaneously honoring the insight that such things do not exist in any way at all (and have no properties). That is, philosophers often feel driven to claim that such objects do exist, or they claim that all our talk isn't genuine truth-apt talk, but only pretence. This book reconfigures metaphysics (and the role of metaphysics in semantics) in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and so are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them

John Berryman: There Sat Down, Once, a Thing on Henry's Heart.

Copper Yearning by Kimberly Blaese

Copper Yearning invests itself in a compassionate dual vision―bearing witness to the lush beauty of our intricately woven environments and to the historical and contemporary perils that threaten them. Kimberly Blaeser’s fourth collection of poetry deftly reflects her Indigenous perspective and a global awareness. Through vividly rendered images, the poems dwell among watery geographies, alive to each natural nuance, alive also to the uncanny. Set in fishing boats, in dreams, in prisons, in memory, or in far flung countries like Bahrain, the pieces sing of mythic truths and of the poignant everyday injustices. But, whether resisting threats to effigy mounds or inhabiting the otherness of river otter, ultimately they voice a universal longing for a place of balance, a way of being in the world―for the ineffable

Sylvia Plath reads November Graveyard

Greening: Poetry of the Spring by Mandy Whyman

 Una raccolta vivida di poesie, ricca di immagini, che esplora la gioia e la meraviglia della primavera, dal miracolo della Terra che si sveglia alle minuzie del canto degli uccelli e della pioggia primaverile. Una raccolta che traccia la rinascita del mondo naturale e tutta la speranza che rappresenta

Sylvia Plath Reads 'Daddy'

Poesie nuove e selezionate | Marie Howe | WW Norton & Company

Poesie nuove e selezionate | Marie Howe | WW Norton & Company

Allen Ginsberg Reading Howl (Part 2)

Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems: A Satirical Look At The Bible by Philip Appleman and Dan Barker

 This collection of satirical poems homes in on the inconsistencies and downright perversities of what passes in our culture as "Holy Writ." Turning to satire, with its long and distinguished record of exposing folly and bringing enlightenment through humor, the author leaves no doubt that primitive religion posing as eternal truth is just the sort of folly that satire is meant to correct.He lets his poetic imagination roam widely, as he takes on the roles of Eve, Noah, Sarah, Jonah, David, Mary, Jesus, Judas, and even the biblical Jehovah Himself, ("I never apologize, never explain."). We also hear from priests, televangelists, and faith healers, as well as some sensible contemporaries, commenting on what it means to live a life of reason. At the conclusion to the introduction, the author says: "Intelligent and well-meaning people have argued for centuries against the fatal attraction of foolishness, but their efforts have been largely unproductive, partly because many people seem impervious to rational discussion. So perhaps satire is our most effective way of lighting candles in the darkness and communicating effectively to those who are immune to reason. That is, at any rate, the hope, and the rationale, of this book."In this age of suicide bombers and resurgent fundamentalism, we need these lighted candles like never before

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein | Goodreads

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein | Goodreads

The Descent: Poems by Sophie Cabot Black

 "Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life."-Stanley Kunitz

I have not handled the ordinary well

And wandered into much time spent

Taking on the unfaithful,

Blunder and flaw. --from "Heaven, Which Is"

Sophie Cabot Black's anticipated follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Misunderstanding of Nature, describes a restless spirit at the crossroads of love and damage, rapture and disenchantment, the mountain and the descent. The voices of these poems struggle through the hesitancies of doubt and loss to end at more than survival or witness; they achieve clarity by singing of the resiliencies of the known world, after paradise inevitably fails

Irma Kurti interviews Allison Grayhurst. Canada – Alessandria Today Italia News Media

Irma Kurti interviews Allison Grayhurst. Canada – Alessandria Today Italia News Media

Jack Kerouac - "San Francisco Scene"

Wild Civility (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) by David Biespiel

 David Biespiel's long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. "I've come to imagine the nine-line sonnet to be like one of those classic Thunderbirds," says Biespiel, "something distinctly American: wide, roomy, and with a robust engine."

The vastly varied voices within the poems are united by a wonderfully limber diction. Using with revelatory precision the vocabularies of history, science, art, sport, philosophy, religion, literature, government, and domestic life, Biespiel has crafted a hip, melodic, elastic language that travels the registers of expression: lush and coarse, gaudy and austere, pliant and rigidly tough. The civility of the poems is the form; the wildness is the bristling energy of the language.

Passionate, resilient, rich with wit and word play, these poems affirm David Biespiel's increasing stature as a poet of remarkable accomplishment and promise

Kerouac - October in the Railroad Earth

Allen Ginsberg reads America

Poems About Work by Miles Ridley

Poems About Work is a collection of themed poetry. It's an assembly of uncomfortable truths, proud proletariat rebellion, and whispers from dirty hand prophets. It's wisdom from deep trenches. Poems About Work is 30+ honest poems that transport the reader to the filthy underground of America that only its unknown heroes can teach

Empatia di Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

 The groundbreaking poetic work by our “Mondrian in verse” (Susan Barba, Boston Review), now back in print in a newly revised edition with a new preface by the author.

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once philosophical, lush, and rhythmic. As she writes in the new note for this edition, “I started to feel my way toward an intuited subliminal wholeness of composition.” In these poems, empathy not only becomes the space of one person inside another, but of one element (water, or fog), one place (tundra or desert mesa), one animal (the swan) as the locus of human illumination and desire

Anne Sexton at home reading Wanting to Die

Il poeta di Miami RM Drake rivitalizza l'entusiasmo per la poesia attraverso Instagram | Miami Herald

Il poeta di Miami RM Drake rivitalizza l'entusiasmo per la poesia attraverso Instagram | Miami Herald

19 Year Old Debuts Poetry Book, Becomes Bestseller Ahead of The Holidays | Miami Herald

19 Year Old Debuts Poetry Book, Becomes Bestseller Ahead of The Holidays | Miami Herald

Opinion | Is poetry useless?

Opinion | Is poetry useless?

Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein

 Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics.

Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative nature of abstract art. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on—or “pitches” for—a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Leslie Scalapino. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake.

Pitch of Poetry makes an exhilarating case for what Bernstein calls echopoetics: a poetry of call and response, reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration.

‘The Study’ Review: A Book-Lined Retreat - WSJ

‘The Study’ Review: A Book-Lined Retreat - WSJ

‘Poet in the New World’ Review: Czesław Miłosz Crosses Over - WSJ

‘Poet in the New World’ Review: Czesław Miłosz Crosses Over - WSJ

‘Love and Need’ Review: Robert Frost’s Dark Journey - WSJ

‘Love and Need’ Review: Robert Frost’s Dark Journey - WSJ

Expect Delays by Bill Berkson

Praise for Bill Berkson:

"A serene master of syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous."—Publishers Weekly

"That was Bill through and through, still curious and receptive after a lifetime of glamorous soldiering through the fields of art and poetry.” —City Lights, "Homage to Bill Berkson"

Wide-ranging and experimental, Expect Delays confronts past and present with rare equilibrium, eyeballing mortality while appreciating the richness and surprise, as well as the inevitable griefs, inherent in the time allowed.

Dress Trope

Critics should wear

white jackets like

lab technicians;

curators, zoo

keepers' caps;

and art historians,

lead aprons

to protect them from

impending

radiant fact.

Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute

How to read more this year: Tips to get books into your life

How to read more this year: Tips to get books into your life

How Talking Animal Books is bringing a love of reading to Texas

How Talking Animal Books is bringing a love of reading to Texas

10 new books by Black authors to read this Black History Month

10 new books by Black authors to read this Black History Month

"A Study Guide for David Berman's ""Snow""" (Poetry for Students)

 "A Study Guide for David Berman's ""Snow"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs."

Visual poetry through music - Los Angeles Times

Visual poetry through music - Los Angeles Times

Hanif Abdurraqib's new book shows basketball can be poetry - Los Angeles Times

Hanif Abdurraqib's new book shows basketball can be poetry - Los Angeles Times

Visitations by John Bensko

 Winner of the Anita Claire Scharf Award Robert Morgan describes John Bensko's collection, Visitations, as "a book of portraits and voices, many voices, all of them vivid and memorable. Rivers speak, weeds speak, and figures from American history tell us their stories . . . Both the atrocities and glories of our world come to life in these poems of witness, lament, celebration, and the often painful mystery of love." In Visitations, Bensko pushes readers to enlarge their vision through imaginative leaps; his poems are visitations to multiple times and places, indwelling bodies and circumstances. He allows us to inhabit both sides of a war, to move from the Hudson River Valley to Mississippi, or to draw our souls through sheep, oxen, and shark; we are unmoored from time and place to explore what it means to be fully human

Naiver di Stefano Lorefice (La Gru)

 Un libro di passaggi in prosa poetica e versi. Un “racconto” che si svela con geometrie interne a ogni sezione; collegamenti, richiami. Luoghi alpini, storie di frontiera. Confini e persone che li attraversano, strane creature, leggende e contrade abbandonate. Le increspature feroci dell’amore. Una geografia che quieta, fotogramma dopo fotogramma, si apre al lettore. Vette e quote dove ancora c’è la neve perenne, che bisbigliano la loro antica lingua primordiale

A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics) by David Grundy and Daniel Katz

 A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde.

Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry

Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words by Tanner Olson

 Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words is a book of hope, honesty, and joy by Tanner Olson. This collection of more than 60 poems and writings will invite you to slow down, lean in, hold fast, and to keep going. In the midst of the uncertainty and unknown, the already and not yet, the hopes and fears, we can easily forget that life was meant to be enjoyed. Tanner Olson’s writing weaves together faith, questions, humor, and hope as he encourages you to walk a little slower

March Book (Grove Press Poetry) Part of: Grove Press Poetry (12 books) | by Jesse Ball

 March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of a simple succession of individual, barely-linked poems. Craftsmanship defines this collection; it is full of perfect line-breaks, tenderly selected words, and inventive pairings. Just as impressive is the breadth and ingenuity of its recurring themes, which crescendo as Ball leads us through his fantastic world, quietly opening doors.

In five separate sections we meet beekeepers and parsons, a young woman named Anna in a thin, linen dress and an old scribe transferring the eponymous March Book. We witness a Willy Loman-esque worker who "ran out in the noon street / shirt sleeves rolled, and hurried after / that which might have passed" only to be told that there's nothing between him and "the suddenness of age." While these images achingly inform us of our delicate place in the physical world, others remind us why we still yearn to awake in it every day and "make pillows with the down / of stolen geese," "build / rooms in terms of the hours of the day." Like a patient Virgil, insistent and confident, Ball escorts us through his mind, and we're lucky to follow.

Words for My Daughter (National Poetry Series) by John Balaban

A National Poetry Series title, selected by W.S. Merwin. "These stunning and courageous poems haunt us with their compassion. Balaban is the master of juxtapositions. As the landscape of a ravaged Vietnam melts into the American Southwest we are reminded that there are no national boundaries to the human spirit."--Maxine Kumin