INTO THE HEART OF EUROPEAN POETRY by JOHN TAYLOR

A book to treasure.

"An intelligent companion to much twentieth-century and contemporary
European poetry, and some prose.... [John Taylor] offers the non-specialist a series of
practical starting points from which to explore contemporary European poetry." --Times Literary Supplement

"(An) exploratory enthusiasm felt in almost every essay. To us Taylor (. . .) miraculously crosses time and space to suddenly appear in Milan, Ljubljana or Salonica, pulling out not only Bonnefoy, Kaplinsky, Brodsky, Celan, Zagajewski, Nemes Nagy, Sebald, Kassabova, Pavese or Montale, but also Erba, Kocbek, Papadimitrakopoulos, Kielar, the 'Dutch Fiftiers'. . ." --Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, Poetry Wales, Autumn 2009

"An American, long resident in France, John Taylor is one of the critical wonders of the Western European world. Awesomely knowledgeable and invariably fair-minded, his book [Into the Heart of European Poetry] presents essay-length considerations of contemporary poets from Luis Cernuda and Yves Bonnefoy to Radmila Lazic and Marzanna Kielar." --Dennis O'Driscoll, "Tuesday Top Ten", The Book Depository

Available HERE !!!!!!

Nomadosphy - MARGENTO Launch @ Bucharest Slam

Friday December 21, 8 p.m., @ Club A, Old Town Bucharest; co-organized by Slam Poetry Bucharest and Casa de Editura Max Blecher :

NOMADOSOPHY & DRAMADOLL LAUNCH @ LA SCENA, Bucharest

Two poetry collections from Casa de Editura Max Blecher

Poster © Ana Toma

MARGENTO Book Launch - Nomadosophy / Nomadosofia de MARGENTO - @Casa de Editura Max Blecher

Lansarea volumului bilingv de versuri "Nomadosofia / Nomadosophy" - MARGENTO, la Casa de Editura Max Blecher. Prezinta Iulia Militaru si Felix Nicolau. Grafica: Ana Toma. Pictura coperta 1: Grigore Negrescu.

Poetry performance: Chris Tanasescu

25 noiembrie 2012, ora 14:30

Targul de carte Gaudeamus

Editura Herg Benet & Casa de Editura Max Blecher
standul 347B
nivelul 7.70 (ultimul nivel, lângă spațiul central de evenimente)

http://www.hergbenet.ro/programul-evenimentelor-editurilor-herg-benet-%C8%99i-max-blecher-la-gaudeamus-2012.html

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Book launch: bilingual poetry collection - Nomadosofia / Nomadosophy by MARGENTO, from Max Blecher Publishers. Speakers: Iulia Militaru & Felix Nicolau. Designed by Ana Toma. Front cover painting: Grigore Negrescu.

Poetry performance: Chris Tanasescu

November 25, 2012, 2:30 pm

Gaudeamus Bookfair
Herg Benet & Max Blecher Publishers
stand 347B
level 7.70 (top floor, next to the main event area)

http://www.hergbenet.ro/programul-evenimentelor-editurilor-herg-benet-%C8%99i-max-blecher-la-gaudeamus-2012.html

POESIS INTERNATIONAL NEW ISSUE - PI No. 10

AVAILABLE HERE !!!!!!!

A video poem by MARGENTO: from Europe. A Gypsy Epithalamium

ASYMPTOTE 
 
A video poem by MARGENTO: from Europe. A Gypsy Epithalamium

[Music written and played by Costin Dumitrache and Valentin Baicu
Action Painting: Grigore Negrescu
Vocals: Chris Tanasescu
Video Directing, Editing, and Montage: Costin Dumitrache
Shot on the Rooftop of the Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest]

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!!!!!

Asymptote is thrilled to have published the text (Romanian and English translation) of this excerpt in our most recent issue, which you can read here. Here’s a snippet:

I never felt more at home in this world.
Hey, what’s got into you to make you say that? I think
I heard it, but in fact I misheard something
said in the night, in Hungarian…
or maybe it’s the walls’ music in the dark.

MARGENTO Poem & Song on ASYMPTOTE, October issue

Our special feature on English-language poetry considers language itself to be a strange place—uncanny, full of striking familiarities, as concerned with revival as it is with decay. Here we present new work from poets around the world, including Cole Swensen, Ruth Padel and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé. The tension between these English-language poets and the translated poets in our issue is wonderfully keen: as Afzal Syed Ahmed writes, "In your language every line begins from an opposite end." So where indeed does language begin? The question lingers as one reads Lutz Seiler, Eduardo Milàn, Arseny Tarkovsky, and so on. In the case of MARGENTO, language is music, and interrogated as such in the extraordinary recording that accompanies the poem.READ MORE here.