Research Catalog

Title

Translations : experiments in reading / editor, Don Wellman.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : O.Ars, 1983-1986.
• New York, New York : Segue ; Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.
• ©1983, 1986

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Wellman, Donald, 1944-
• Franzen, Cola
• Turner, Irene
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

3 volumes (278 pages) : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

O.ARS ; 3-5

Uniform Title

• O.ARS.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

Experiments in reading. a-c

Subject

• Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-
• Poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Poetry – 20th century.

Note

• Poems.

Credits (note)

• Editor, Don Wellman ; Associate editors, Cola Franzen, Irene Turner ; Contributing editors, Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A : Dear reader / Don Wellman -- Clotilde -- Umbra / Guillaume Apollinaire (translated by Charles Bernstein) -- Canto General -- Tangles -- Perdition -- Tenebrae -- Multiverso / Saúl Yurkievich (translated by Cola Franzen) -- Almost Russian / Kirk Robertson -- Computer analysis -- Computer remembers -- Computer will tell / Erika Rothenberg -- Document / Gregory Bateson -- Not understanding / Stephen Friedman -- Cipher foresight / John Perlman -- Kurze erfahrung = A brief experience / Klaus Peter Dencker (translated by Don Wellman) -- The infinitely forked mother tongue / Charles Simic -- Iniji / Henri Michaux (translated by Chris Breider, Paul Callahan, and Charles Simic) -- 13427 poèmes métaphisiques, poème no. 60 / Julien Blaine -- from Après coup / Alain Veinstein (translated by Ted Kabza, and Maria Saíz) -- How dead men write to each other / Lori Chamberlain -- So for then also the dragon / Don Wellman -- [untitled] / Kirk Robertson -- Document / Roman Jakobson -- Housing starts -- Furniture / Bob Perelman -- from 21 sonnets / Tom Mandel --
• B : Akhenaton's hymn to the Sun / John Perlman -- from the I Ching / (translated by Martin Anderson) -- Charm of the nine healing herbs / (translated by David Cloutier -- from Clouds over fortjade: Flowers below weigh -- Night hear watchman -- Never reach gathered / Karl Young -- from Hymns and fragments / Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Richard Sieburth -- The thunder perfect mind / Fanny Howe -- [untitled] / Charles Stein -- The eve of St. Venus / Jaime Gordon -- Things seen by the shaman Karawe / the Chuk chee people (translated by Barbara Einzig -- The book of Jonah / Mark Mirsky -- Jonah / (translated by Mark Mirsky) -- from GOD/gods / (translated by Charles Doria) -- Arctos the bear she is north / Edward Kaplan -- The secret history of the Mongols: the origin of Chingris Khan / Paul Kahn -- from Wace's Brut / J. T. Barbarese -- The Ahau Katún wheel / R. Martin Garcia -- from the Chilam balam / (translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno -- Some Iroquois chiefs / Kirk Robertson -- from the Book of the dead / (translated by Normandi Ellis) -- The disappeared ones -- Woman without papers / Marjorie Agosin (translated by Cola Franzen) -- Cris Perdus / Mweya Tol'ande (translated by Marilyn Richardson) -- Kara-te--introspection. second phase -- A reminder: it is still early in the political morning / Carlfriedrich Claus -- from The game of contemporaneity / Kenzaburo Ōe (translated by Michiko N. Wilson -- from Solar throat slashed: Son of thunder -- Ex-voto for a shipwreck -- Millibars of the storm -- Night swamp / Aimé Césaire (translated by Clayton Eshleman, and Annette Smith -- Subway -- Chessboard / Juan Cameron (translated by Cola Franzen) -- A reading of light / Octavio Armand (translated by Carol Maier) -- from The awakening: (Part I: Wu) -- (Part II: Lines where)
• C : Culture & translation / Jerome Rothenberg -- The great lament of my obscurity one -- The grand lament of my obscurity two -- The salt & the wine / Tristan Tzara (translated by Jerome Rothenberg) -- Calculations about what everybody knew / Helmut Heissenbüttel (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop) -- October -- Perspective -- Cicadas say so very close by / Franz Mon (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop) -- Odendichter / Kurt Mautz (translated by Loris Essary -- The French sonnets: Eleventh Franch sonnet -- Twelfth French sonnet -- Thirteenth French sonnet -- Fourteenth French sonnet -- Fifteenth French sonnet -- Sixteenth French sonnet -- Seventeenth French sonnet -- Eighteenth French sonnet -- Nineteenth French sonnet -- Twentieth French sonnet / Jackson Mac Low -- Movement/writing/writing/movement / Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers -- Lack of entrepreneurial thrift / Sally Silvers -- from Unit costs / Bruce Andrews -- Body poetry: towards life transparency -- Elementary body poems -- Teasing release -- Body poetry notation system / Jean-Paul Curtay -- Radio adios / Henry Hills -- A poetic research of linguistic particles / Peter Ganick -- The development of signs in space / Fred Truck -- Visual poetry--what is it actually? / Klaus Peter Dencker (translated by Don Wellman, and Wolfgang Franzen) -- Visual poetry after Rimbaud's Un saison en Enfer / Pierre Joris -- Poesia visiva / Luciano Ori (translated by Don Wellman) -- I. Garcia's log / Paul Zelevansky -- A Sanskrit model for a poetics of presentation / Rarl Jackson, Jr. -- Poets of the Tamil anthology and the continuum of classical Indian thought / Geoffrey Cook ; Index -- Errata.

ISBN

• 0942030044 (A)
• 0942030036 (B)
• 0942030060 (C)
• 0942030036 (set)

OCLC

• 11477019
• SCSB-11181360

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library