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| A Life in Invisibility (Women in Yemen) |
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Today ten years ago
Today ten years ago, "out of the blue" my friend Jams died, seven days before his 50th birthday.
I am still sad. And grateful.
Thanks for being, Jams.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Beers & Books CCCXXII – Fundamentalism against Women
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| The Nawal El Saadawi reader |
Nawal El Sadawy (22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021)
Beers & Books CCCXXI – Things Fall Apart
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| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013
Friday, March 17, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Laughing Lhursday*
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| Another torn knee patch. The third in two months. What luck that granny lives vis-a-vis. |
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| Let's see how long this one lasts. |
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Beers & Books CCCXX – Small Anthology of Poetry in Spanish
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| This small anthology of poetry in Spanish makes me looking forward to July 19th when the following will be published: Surveying a poetic continent. |
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Monday, March 13, 2023
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Beers & Books CCCXVII – Good Climate, Nice Neighbours
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| Stories [engl.: Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants] |
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Friday, March 10, 2023
Thursday, March 09, 2023
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Monday, March 06, 2023
Mo(o)nday Poetry
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| Cuando sale la luna se pierden las campanas y aparecen las sendas impenetrables.* |
Sunday, March 05, 2023
Saturday, March 04, 2023
Friday, March 03, 2023
Thursday, March 02, 2023
In memoriam Claude
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| Claude, February 2020 |
A MAN MUST FACE HIMSELF
I hung two sealskins on my wall....
Some people say
'Oh! the poor dear things!'
with pity in their hearts,
while chewing bloody steak
and cuddling in fur coats.
And I think of **
Jonahsie
magnificently himself: a Man,
hunter by destiny
spearing the seals,
with no guilt in his soul,
no pity in his heart,
but beaming pride
that his day-work was done:
the best for his kin---
and that's all he could do...
And I think of
Kakee, his wife,
cleaning, stretching, smoothing, sewing the skins
with a skill
as old as the Woman called Eve,
and bringing me the gift
with beaming pride:
the best for a friend---
and that's all she could give...
And I wonder why
we worry about who eats whom
when Life is a cycle?
We all prey, and we grow
feeding on each other.
A seal
a breathing tomato
an egg that could be born
a drink of pure water
a flower for a vase
some grass to walk upon
the warmth of the sun, of a smile, of a body
a poem for a soul
and stars to fill a dream.
I hung two sealskins on my wall...
A Man must face himself
and accept it!
Claude Prévost Gamble
(June 1970)
** And I think of Claude who died today two years ago.
Thanks for all. De tout coeur!
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| Claude during a storm on Moose River, whilst working as a nurse at an Indian hospital; James Bay, Winter 1955 |
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Monday, February 27, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Friday, February 17, 2023
Beers & Books CCXCVII – Lucia Berlin: Selected Stories
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| What will you do when you leave? * A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories. |
Lucia Berlin (12 November 1936 – 12 November 2004)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Monday, February 13, 2023
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Unforgettable Carlos Saura
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| ¡Esa Luz! / This Light! |
In one of his late interviews, Carlos Saura asked that when he died, no one should remember him. It was only important for him to be remembered as long as he lived.
Ah, Señor Saura, this wish will remain unfulfilled.
Thanks a lot. Rest in peace.
Carlos Saura (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023)
Friday, February 10, 2023
Thursday, February 09, 2023
Beers & Books CCXCI – Brendan Behan 100
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| Borstal Boy, The Hostage and other plays, Confessions of an Irish Rebel |
Brendan Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)
The Quare Fellow
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Beers & Books CCXC – Frans Eemil Sillanpää
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| Hurskas kurjuus (1919) Should be translated a Pious Misery |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964)
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
Beers & Books CCLXXXIX – The Road to Brightcity
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| Nine stories, translated by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, in 1981 made accessible for the first time to an English speaking readership exquisite masterpieces of Ó Cadhain's writings. |
Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
Monday, February 06, 2023
Mo(o)nday Poetry
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| Colmena iVivimos en celdas de cristal, en colmena de aire! Nos besamos a través de cristal. iMaravillosa cárcel, cuya puerta es la luna! - - - Beehive We live in cells of crystal in a beehive of air! We are kissing each other through crystal.* Wonderful prison, the door of which is the moon! |
Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Beers & Books CCLXXXVIII – An Eochair / The Key
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| A mixture of kafka-esque satire, farce, black comedy and tragedy. |
Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
Saturday, February 04, 2023
Friday, February 03, 2023
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