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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

John Stuart Mill


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Saturday, July 13th, 2013

🦋 Lectura

Escrita libremente: ando siguiendo a ciegas senderos bifurcados de asociación viniendo últimamente de una línea al principio de La reina isabel cantaba rancheras.

te arrastra neurálgicamente
—como aguja de tocadiscos—
a través de la línea que nos separa
uno del otro a nosotros humanos

te convierte en un yo u en
algún otro si prefieres. Te
identifica como los que encuentres.

en todo,
tu hermano

Nosotros hicimos viaje tu y yo: nos encontramos encima de las montañas en el sudeste de Oaxaca, encantados de las vistas y el aire y aunque no tan seguros de nuestra futura como pareja, en todos casos felices y sólidos los dos.

El sol brilliante por encima de Hierve el Agua lustraba hermoso sobre las cataratas de piedra.

Las parejas y los muchachos jugueteaban en la piscina que borda la punta de vista y los observé meditando sobre nuestra aventura hasta ahora. Me había dado cuenta de la frecuencia de los grupos que en caminata aventuraban subir al cerro al borde del acantilado, en contravención por supesto de los avisos que no pise el precipicio... Decidimos no mucho peso dar las advertencias cuando ví los números de caminantes.

Dormimos aquella noche a la punta de salida de la catarate de cal y el amanecer estuvo estupendo.

la ficción como la poesía es experimento en perspectiva. O mejor "la poesía como la ficción".

Eres piedra que piso. Mira ahora arriba a mi esquéleto, a mis genitales y otros huecos, otros rastros, no discutimos de quien, tu cara fría y rígida.

Miraste fuerte y paciente a bajo mientras escudriñaba el paisaje curiosamente estérilo y artificial buscando presa.
Caíste en picada y te despertaste del sueño.

posted evening of July 13th, 2013: Respond
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

🦋 The Unknown University

Wow! Laura Healy's translation of The Unknown University has been published! Go buy it and read it, everybody!

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Friday, July 5th, 2013

Aquí que tengas tinta y secante
pluma negra de cuervo ya largo tiempo
muerto a tu naciemiento
pido
pido que me escribas
a mí
me dice
tus relatos complicados y lejos
de aquí
tus pretextos más
bien hechos
que tendría a leer
algo divertido
algo
últimamente
sin sentido.

posted evening of July 5th, 2013: 4 responses
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🦋 From Albion

Christine is in England, learning about Rare Books cataloging. She sends along this lovely photo, of a betuxed jazz band covering John Denver:

Happy trails, CK!

posted afternoon of July 5th, 2013: Respond

🦋 Chestnut smoke

Today I am submitting my translation of Marta Aponte's story "1955: Lavender Mist" (edited by Scott Esposito) to the Close Approx­imations contest. I want to thank Marta for the story, which is magnificent, and for her readings and corrections of my translation; also to thank Scott for his invaluable suggestions which (IMO of course) have turned a good translation into a great one -- I am billing the piece as translated by me in collaboration with Scott. Very excited -- I could imagine this story being selected; and if that does not happen, as of course it may well not, I believe it will be relatively easy to find another publisher. Beautiful images abound in this story; here is one of my favorites. Señor Suárez is in the vestibule of the unfamiliar Museum of Modern Art, making his way to the exhibit whose opening he has been invited to:

Outside, the chestnut smoke was thickening, the space seeming to gain in scope what it lost in sharpness. It gave the impression of a canvas that you've covered with a layer of gray paint, in hopes that from the stillness of this interior, from the depths of this lake will burst forth some new, some unexpected creation. Something fashioned from the shards of memory, which darken and fade but are never lost; which will take you by surprise as they now took him by surprise, looking down at his orphan hands, blue and knotty. He might have fallen useless at the feet of these barbaric columns, had he not suddenly overheard someone saying the name — it was like a change of scenery coming in from the wings — of Pollock; had he not seen the two women walking, with the assurance of sturdy windmills, toward the elevator.

posted morning of July 5th, 2013: 2 responses
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Thursday, July 4th, 2013

🦋 practice podcast: Experiment in Perspective


Mountain Station jams
on some favorites --
June 30, 2013
6/30 practice jam.
1. Helpless
2. Swing Low Jam
3. Stagger Lee
4. Green Eyes

posted afternoon of July 4th, 2013: 1 response
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Saturday, June 29th, 2013

🦋 The Tin Man's Lament

diví­deme por favor
exactamente por el medio
despégame con tus manos la piel
y arranca los huesos
con tus dedos
es mi carne, cómela, digo,
pero déjame por favor la sangre.

sepárame por supuesto
de todo conocido
llevaré en cubos la sangre
mi sangre olorosa mientras busco
corazón
(y ¿cómo vas llevarlos sin huesos? preguntas y te pido permiso)
y hacemos viajes y aventuras sobre continentes
obscenos y ridículos

posted morning of June 29th, 2013: 3 responses
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Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

🦋 Dress Rehearsal Podcast

Today's Mountain Station practice tape has no annoying video, just audio of four fine songs.
Download from box and put it on your pod...


Mountain Station covers
a couple of the greats --
June 23, 2013

This tape has a little homage to two of our favorite songwriters, plus an original.
  1. All men are liars, by Nick Lowe
  2. All I want to do is fall in love, by Robyn Hitchcock
  3. Chinese Bones, by Robyn Hitchcock
  4. Clean Break, by Jeremy

posted evening of June 23rd, 2013: Respond
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

🦋 Un Sentido del Lugar

Un Sentido del Lugar

por Félix Fojas
tr. Jeremy Osner

Cada poema necesita
un sentido de época y lugar.
Cada poema debe existir
en el lugar nativo de su
corazón o de su pensaje

En un momento determinado y
una fecha memorable que rebosa
de cosas actuales prolongadas
como una mosca que aterriza en una fruta
o un joven mientras besa la primera:

un perro que busca a un hueso seco
o un gato aullante
que da zarpazos a una rata aterrada.
O tal vez se esculpe el poema
simplemente del aire enrarecido

y se halle simplemente a ninguna parte.
Tenga siempre en cuenta que
El lector medio tiene miedo
de explorar a un pueblo
fantasma
y prefiere siempre oler

la aroma de alguna flor salvaje,
el sabor jugoso de una naranja,
o la lluvia de la primavera que se moje
y sus hojas verdes que hagan rumores
y bailen en las brisas.

posted evening of June 22nd, 2013: 1 response

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

🦋 Asemic translation


Translation, by Peggy Schutze Shearn;
via The New Post-literate.

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