Veronika Fuchs
@veronikafuchs.bsky.social
Sometimes I write. Mama. Dreamer. Occasional painter.
This book holds a special place in my heart
Frank Beck@diehoren.bsky.social · last wk.More than a century after it appeared, 'Le Grand Meaulnes' is still one of the most popular classics in France. I wrote an introduction to the book and its author for The Manhattan Review: themanhattanreview.com/reviews/a-tr...
I like that poem, too -- a very early one for Rilke. Here's my English version of it: translations.diehoren.com/2015/04/you-...
"You know I'd like to slip"
You know I'd like to slip from the loudly buzzing room when the first pale stars, high above the darkened oaks, catch fi...
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Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen leise aus lautem Kreis, wenn ich erst die bleichen Sterne über den Eichen blühen weiß. Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt in blassen Abendwiesen— und keinen Traum, als diesen: Du gehst mit. Rainer Maria Rilke
On my (free) Substack, I wrote an essay about reading poetry on a train journey, and the disruption of that journey. Content warning: suicide. drewdaniel.substack.com/p/scorpion-m...
Scorpion Mind
On Byron, Mental Freedom, and Suicide
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Burnout recovery 🔥 Just having fun here. Apologies to Rilke: I'm reading his poem, "Again & again, even though we know love's landscape" (tr. Edward Snow) after seeing an art exhibit of poetry & American landscapes. Your longest relationship will always be with yourself. Keep showing up. #PoemsAloud
A much needed weekend—a much needed change of scenery and physical exhaustion to "undo this creature". (📷 Greg M.)
Sort of day when things seem capable of being improved by adding a pair of fake wings to your younger self
We're so full of sugar, honey, ice & tea feeding my alter ego tonight 🖤 youtu.be/-iM83TiKdY0?...
Bring Me The Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea (Official Video)
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© Manuel Amado. 'Fernando Pessoa's Room.' Oil on canvas, 1993. 116 × 89 cm.
Dreaming toward cooler days... On a winter's morning a couple of years back.
I have new work at Trampoline Poetry - "Poet at Home, Shares Reflection". Thanks to Barnali Ray Shukla (amazing filmmaker, poet) for creating the photo that inspired the poem, and to Ed. Justin Lacour for believing in the piece. @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social www.trampolinepoetry.com
Trampoline Poetry
Trampoline Poetry
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"There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself— Finite infinity." Emily Dickinson
Stephen D. Dowde in "Poetry as Embodied Language in Rilke" ”It may well be that we reach out with speech much as we use our hands. "I relate to the word," says Merleau-Ponty, "just as my hand reaches for the place on my body being stung."“
MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 4w agoOut now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
“One writes like a rescue effort to oneself in the dark: an act of despair because we know there is a treasure to which we will never have access. How ignorant we are about ourselves! And yet we sign.”—Hélène Cixous
"Endless, would it be mine, form of my form? Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field." -- Ulysses, James Joyce #reading
Tonight, as I was rereading Anne Carson "Mom, so you're reading The Beauty of the Dog..."
Favorite lines by Mary Oliver for the morning "The dream of my life Is to lie down by a slow river And stare at the light in the trees— To learn something by being nothing A little while"
Out now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
Anna Rose Welch ♥️ from WE, THE ALMIGHTY FIRES and one of my favorite poems! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Returning to this Pessoa quote: "To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. [...] Needlework of things… Intervals… Nothing…" (in the The Book of Disquiet, tr. by Richard Zenith)
as always my eyes catching anything that looks like a seascape but beautifully fooled here by a scrap of fabric stuck on a bench 🔷
Louise Glück ♥️ “You see again how far away / each thing is from every other thing.” from AVERNO
