‘Tranströmeration’ of the Nobel
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Amatoritsero Ede
Mar 18, 2012, 3:41:14 PM3/18/12
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I remember walking through the rather sparse poetry section of Chapters bookstores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas Tranströmer collection – probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet the galloping demands attending a Nobel moment. My instinct was to buy a copy of the collected works. But I demurred.
You can access the rest here: http://mtls.ca/issue11/editorial
Amatoritsero
Cornelius Hamelberg
Mar 26, 2012, 10:19:20 AM3/26/12
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The beginning of a convesration which places AE centre stage :
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/26/a-short-rejoinder-to-some-negative-pontifications-about-our-tomas-trasnstromer/
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/26/a-short-rejoinder-to-some-negative-pontifications-about-our-tomas-trasnstromer/
Amatoritsero Ede
Mar 26, 2012, 1:02:46 PM3/26/12
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But the conversation has to be taken to the pages of mtls by whoever wrote that blog piece for me to be able to engage it.
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Amatoritsero Ede
Mar 26, 2012, 1:55:51 PM3/26/12
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Also Cornelius,
my little quip on Transtroemer has noting to do with the poet himself so much as with the politicization of the prize which has gone on for a long long time: Take a look at this other essay:
How (Alfred) Noble is the Nobel Prize at <http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php>
In a café at the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris one afternoon in October of 1964, Jean Paul Sartre, that doyen of twentieth century French intellectual life, sat down to his usual aperitif when he saw his own face staring back at him from the pages of Le Figaro. The disappointment was so numbing that the drink slipped from grip halfway to his lips. The shattering of glass on polished wooden floor blended with the clash of the jazz drums that was playing in the background. The baguette-munching, tea-sipping clientele moved as one body with the slightest and the most polite turn in sympathy with the usually serene head now shaking from side to side in mock shock at the newspaper. Such was the weight he felt that the café itself seemed to turn slightly on its waist with the drag of his body as he read the newspaper. Sartre had just won the Nobel Prize for literature.
see the rest: http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php
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On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
Cornelius Hamelberg
Mar 27, 2012, 11:12:01 AM3/27/12
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Whenever and wherever two or three Africans are gathered together in
the name of Africa / humanity – it's politics & Africanisation –
always ( Africa with a cee – in more extreme cases , with a kay)
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/27/re-tt-tomas-transtromer-continued/
On Mar 26, 7:55 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also Cornelius,
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> my little quip on Transtroemer has noting to do with the poet himself so
> much as with the politicization of the prize which has gone on for a long
> long time: Take a look at this other essay:
>
> How (Alfred) Noble is the Nobel Prize at <http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php>
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> In a café at the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris one afternoon in
> October of 1964, Jean Paul Sartre, that doyen of twentieth century French
> intellectual life, sat down to his usual aperitif when he saw his own face
> staring back at him from the pages of Le Figaro. The disappointment was so
> numbing that the drink slipped from grip halfway to his lips. The
> shattering of glass on polished wooden floor blended with the clash of the
> jazz drums that was playing in the background. The baguette-munching,
> tea-sipping clientele moved as one body with the slightest and the most
> polite turn in sympathy with the usually serene head now shaking from side
> to side in mock shock at the newspaper. Such was the weight he felt that
> the café itself seemed to turn slightly on its waist with the drag of his
> body as he read the newspaper. Sartre had just won the Nobel Prize for
> literature.
> see the rest: http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php
>
> Amatoritsero
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the name of Africa / humanity – it's politics & Africanisation –
always ( Africa with a cee – in more extreme cases , with a kay)
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2012/03/27/re-tt-tomas-transtromer-continued/
On Mar 26, 7:55 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also Cornelius,
>
> my little quip on Transtroemer has noting to do with the poet himself so
> much as with the politicization of the prize which has gone on for a long
> long time: Take a look at this other essay:
>
> How (Alfred) Noble is the Nobel Prize at <http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php>
>
> In a café at the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris one afternoon in
> October of 1964, Jean Paul Sartre, that doyen of twentieth century French
> intellectual life, sat down to his usual aperitif when he saw his own face
> staring back at him from the pages of Le Figaro. The disappointment was so
> numbing that the drink slipped from grip halfway to his lips. The
> shattering of glass on polished wooden floor blended with the clash of the
> jazz drums that was playing in the background. The baguette-munching,
> tea-sipping clientele moved as one body with the slightest and the most
> polite turn in sympathy with the usually serene head now shaking from side
> to side in mock shock at the newspaper. Such was the weight he felt that
> the café itself seemed to turn slightly on its waist with the drag of his
> body as he read the newspaper. Sartre had just won the Nobel Prize for
> literature.
> see the rest: http://mtls.ca/issue8/editorial.php
>
> Amatoritsero
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> On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>wrote:
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Mar 30, 2012, 3:09:30 PM3/30/12
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I notice that you have unbefriended me on Facebook-
Possibly based on your notions on the theory and practice of poetry
the past 30 good years?
On 26 mar, 19:02, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the conversation speed to Be ceilings to the pages of mtls by whoever wroteThat blog piece for me to be variable to commit it.
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> On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@ gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 18, 9:41 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@ gmail.com> wrote:>> I remember walking through the ratherkool sparse poetry section of the Chapter>> book stores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas>> Tranströmer collection - probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet>> the gallo ping demands attending a Nobel moment.My instinct was to buy a>> copy of the Collected Works.But in demurred.
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Possibly based on your notions on the theory and practice of poetry
the past 30 good years?
On 26 mar, 19:02, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the conversation speed to Be ceilings to the pages of mtls by whoever wroteThat blog piece for me to be variable to commit it.
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> On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@ gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 18, 9:41 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@ gmail.com> wrote:>> I remember walking through the ratherkool sparse poetry section of the Chapter>> book stores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas>> Tranströmer collection - probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet>> the gallo ping demands attending a Nobel moment.My instinct was to buy a>> copy of the Collected Works.But in demurred.
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Ayo Obe
Mar 30, 2012, 5:38:21 PM3/30/12
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The word is 'unfriended'. From 'unfriend'. In 21st century cyberspeak.
Ayo
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
Ayo
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Mar 31, 2012, 6:39:08 AM3/31/12
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Don't “put words” in my mouth Mam,
I'm the poet here, not the formal grammarian, I
remember Paul Simon singing ( “Lincoln Duncan”)
“And just like a dog I was befriended, I was befriended.”
Is re-friend possibly in the Facebook dictionary?
Any suggestions from Farooq Kperogi?
On Mar 30, 11:38 pm, Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The word is 'unfriended'. From 'unfriend'. In 21st century cyberspeak.
> Ayo
> I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
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I'm the poet here, not the formal grammarian, I
remember Paul Simon singing ( “Lincoln Duncan”)
“And just like a dog I was befriended, I was befriended.”
Is re-friend possibly in the Facebook dictionary?
Any suggestions from Farooq Kperogi?
On Mar 30, 11:38 pm, Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The word is 'unfriended'. From 'unfriend'. In 21st century cyberspeak.
> Ayo
> I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
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> On 30 Mar 2012, at 20:09, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Possibly based on your notions on the theory and practice of poetry
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> > On 26 mar, 19:02, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But the conversation speed to Be ceilings to the pages of mtls by whoever wroteThat blog piece for me to be variable to commit it.
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> >> On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@ gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Mar 18, 9:41 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@ gmail.com> wrote:>> I remember walking through the ratherkool sparse poetry section of the Chapter>> book stores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas>> Tranströmer collection - probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet>> the gallo ping demands attending a Nobel moment.My instinct was to buy a>> copy of the Collected Works.But in demurred.
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> > On 26 mar, 19:02, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But the conversation speed to Be ceilings to the pages of mtls by whoever wroteThat blog piece for me to be variable to commit it.
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> >> On 26 March 2012 10:19, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@ gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Mar 18, 9:41 pm, Amatoritsero Ede <esula...@ gmail.com> wrote:>> I remember walking through the ratherkool sparse poetry section of the Chapter>> book stores downtown recently and stopping for a moment before a Tomas>> Tranströmer collection - probably fresh off the press, rushed out to meet>> the gallo ping demands attending a Nobel moment.My instinct was to buy a>> copy of the Collected Works.But in demurred.
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