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Dave Awl
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This is really a wonderful edition of Borges' poems — parallel text *and* multiple translators so you can see different approaches to his language. Borges is best known for his stories, or so it seems to me — but if he'd only written these poems in h
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"For me Pilgermann turned out to be a real discovery – I never suspected that it would possess such intellectual and spiritual profundity and be so masterfully written.
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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“There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.”
― The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
― The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
― The Medusa Frequency
― The Medusa Frequency
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The Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF4) happened on October 1-11, 2009, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances ...more
