Give me your hand and give me your love,
give me your hand and dance with me.
A single flower, and nothing more,
a single flower is all we'll be.
Keeping time in the dance together,
singing the tune together with me,
grass in the wind, and nothing more,
grass in the wind is all we'll be.
I'm called Hope and you're called Rose:
but losing our names we'll both go free,
a dance on the hills, and nothing more,
a dance on the hills is all we'll be.
--Gabriela Mistral (tr. Ursula K. Le Guin)
At last, it's publication day for the 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection in the Modern Languages Open journal edited with an intro by yours truly -- and all available Open Access.
Allow me to share each paper in this thread as they get published one by one.
First up,
“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
by David Miranda-Barreiro
Abstract
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. [...] Drawing on studies on state nationalism (Billig 1995) and Spanish nationalism (Taibo 2014, Delgado 2014) this article examines not only Camba’s own views but the response from contemporary scholarship to his texts.
The fourth article is
“A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England
by Marija Bergam Pellicani
Abstract
This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. [...] In their engagement with the Welsh and English “Elsewhere” these poems ultimately participate in transvaluation of the relationship between centre and periphery, a dynamics that marked the most significant Anglophone literary currents in the second part of the twentieth century.
Fibers twisted into filaments, made into a mother thread. Your life. Your days. Measured and given length. Tailored and trimmed. Unalterable. Inflexible. Bespoke. And, there’s nothing you can do. No other way for things to be. All of your best intentions turn to vanity, to naivety, a grasping at the wind...
@bookstodon Are there any #poetry fans here? Who are your favorite 21st century poets?
Right now, I'm digging these fine folks, but I'm looking to expand:
Morgan Parker
Warsan Shire
Melissa Broder
torrin a. greathouse
Ama Asantewa Diaka
Kate Baer
Maya C. Popa
Valzhyna Mort
Amanda Gorman
Nikolai Alexsander Sidriov
Airea Dee Matthews
Jorie Graham
Clint Smith
Ross Gay
Rita Dove
Good morning!
Here are a few #poetry collections I’ve been reading lately. When everything was online, I was able to attend the Cuirt Festival. There, I was introduced to Kei Miller and Carolyn Forche. https://www.youtube.com/live/QLBR__dXbGY?feature=share
I do consider myself a newbie when it comes to #Poetry. I find reading annotated collections helps a lot with understanding poetry and introduces me to new poets. Here are two collections I recommend, bearing in mind that 100 Poems to Break Your Heart covers a range from the 19th to the 21st century.
Lastly, this collection is on my bedside table, On Balance by Sinead Morrissey. Her poem “Receiving the Dead” just gives me the shivers. Technology and the spirit world collide. Magic!
Dark & twisty - you may enjoy some of the Sinead Morrissey poems. The way they crisscross subject matter - The Beatles and the book Perfume, for example - get under the skin.
Have you read Changeling by Clare Pollard? The whole collection twists myths and fairy tales.
I haven’t read Ocean Vuong (yet 😉), but have enjoyed the direct style of Billy Ray Belcourt. I heard or read Belcourt say that you can’t hide things under language.