Well, the book with Robert Kely's translation of "Enführung" is easily
available as the latest volume of "Poets for the Millennium," the
series Jerome Rothenberg & I edit for U of California Press: -- details
here:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9036.html
Good writing on RK is more (most) difficult to find. There is a book by
Edward Schel, The Traffic of Names, forthcoming from James Taylor's
imprint, Monogene in Australia (that's an offshoot of the excelletn
Boxkite magazine). I have been at work for a long time editing a book
of essays on Kelly's work, to be entitled "A City Full of Voices" with
contributions by a number of poets & writers, but no date of completion
is set yet.
Yes, indeed, LAPIS -- now out some 3 years late given the demise of the
original Black Sparrow Press -- is a superb book -- I have been reading
through it on a daily basis since it came out -- homeopathic dosis when
i can control the greed for all at once to cure me of the tristesse of
this country at this time.
Pierre
On Apr 24, 2005, at 7:07 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> A translation of Engführung by Robert Kelly! Now that would impel me
> to get absorbed in Celan in translation. No disrespect to anyone here
> who has translated Celan, but Kelly is one of my favourite poets & had
> done some brilliant (quasi-Zukovskian) work on Hölderlin. I'm just
> digesting *Lapis*. By the way, I do not read very much literary
> criticism, but I would be interested in reading criticism or reviews
> of Kelly's work & can't seem to find anything more than cursory
> remarks on the net - any recommendations?
> mj
>
> Pierre Joris wrote:
>
>> Mark -- as editor I guess I have always gone out and asked for
>> specific
>> translations from specific translators I knew and trusted -- and then
>> wld correct typos but not meddle with the translation per se. For
>> example, for my latest Celan, I wanted a new translation of
>> ENGFUHRUNG,
>> and so I asked Robert Kelly, whose sense of the poem & whose language
>> abilities I trust completely.
>
>
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