Poems, Imitations & Translations

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Saturday

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I am eighteen years old and I have the whole world staring at me
– Britney Spears

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Language doesn’t just build bridges into the world, but into loneliness

– Paul Celan

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keith partridge y yo


that other partridge
cassidy he’s the
one things happen
to record deals money
marriages childbirth
i continue to ex
ist however in
sulated from his
whining in the
flicker of a late
night cathoid tube be
getting what?

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Poems: gifts … gifts to the attentive

– Paul Celan

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Gedichte, das sind auch Geschenke – Geschenke an die Aufmerksamen

Mai 1960

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ISBNs should not be given to ephemeral printed materials such as diaries, theatre and concert programmes, prospectuses, etc.
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Nouvelle vague



whenever &take spirite hottest
peep showeverywherebrothers and sisters
we the workersin townwe can
oobs buttsmeet ourand the poor
best friendwilld something
in betweennaturedestroy to
createnbelievabletake a
magic momentsgrip ofunlock the labs
steeringopen doorpeeps

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My main focus are my fans. Not some 40-year-old fart

– Britney Spears

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Poems are sketches for existence: the poet lives up to them
– Paul Celan

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Isn’t this ‘Britney Spears’ some sort of sixteen-year-old pop idol with a pretty face and plastic voice? I think I noticed a lot of 9-year-old girls on a documentary going on about how she was their heroine and ultimate symbol of everything good in life. Oh yeah, more’s beginning to come back to me ... she’s impertinently sexy, licks her lips and looks like she’s just come in from an all-night party at the local brothel, and proclaims she’s a virgin and gives lectures about traditional family values. She the one?

– Letter to the author (29 October, 2000)

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Poetry no longer
imposes itself, it exposes itself
– Paul Celan

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La poésie ne s’impose plus, elle s’expose

26.3.69

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About 20 April 1970, around Passover, Celan went from the bridge into the Seine and, though a strong swimmer, drowned unobserved. ... Mail piled up under the door of his barely furnished flat. Gisèle called a friend to see if perhaps her husband had at last gone to Prague. On 1 May a fisherman came on his body seven miles downstream. …
People have said that Celan took his own life at forty-nine because valid speech in German was impossible after or about Auschwitz. Yet this was the impossibility that incited him … And he did speak – more validly than could ever have been imagined.
Maybe he felt too alone: “no one / witnesses for the / witness.”

– John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (1995)

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It’s always too late
when you got nothing

– Nine Days

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You can be a good person and still be sexy

– Britney Spears

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when is it
not a question of last things?
– Paul Celan