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Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered to @7StoriesPress! Excited for you all to see it in early 2028– and also with @7storiespressuk!
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She is investigating the small white gourd I bought specifically to match her.
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I have to do more grading but my desk chair is blocked. Oh no.
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A.V. Marraccini retweeted
A.Rihn@RihnAndrewOct 24
“The failure of the Paris Commune—and its brief moments of triumph—are something we always look to as leftists, and always mourn.”
A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftnessOct 24
Thinking of the Commune and the contemporary tonight, a new translation of Louise Michel’s “Red Carnations” from the French. Link in reply.
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Thinking of the Commune and the contemporary tonight, a new translation of Louise Michel’s “Red Carnations” from the French. Link in reply.
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Solidarité avec les lycéens 🤍 (I may love translating German but I’m glad I read French so I can watch the world they grow up to better)
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Seriously anyone who has spent time in a classroom at the university level even knows everything’s falling apart for these kids. They don’t have adequate high school education and when they graduate, they have no future. Who wouldn’t be angry? Not just in France.
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Cannot express how much I love this. Insomnia love levels. It’s Vienna Secession and Influences Autumn officially now, none of us can stop it.
Simon MacEwan@theblastedheathOct 23
A little signal to noise homage to Klimt for the enjoyment of @saintsoftness
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One of the very salient things that also strikes me about translating Trakl is that given that he died of suicide at 27, he will never have what we could call a mature literary voice. Schiele too, his visual mirror to me, died of Spanish Flu at 28. Perpetually early work…
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Unlike say Rilke, I think someone even in their 30’s or 40’s like me has to be very careful about back-projecting on historical figures for whom age was constructed very differently, but also who just didn’t have that much time to form a coherent corpus of work and reception.
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My current book in edits is a lot about lateness, but perpetual earliness, cut off by death, is an interesting aesthetic problem too. We will never get a late Trakl or a late Schiele.
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This article by @Delistraty on Schiele for the Paris Review in 2018 sensitively treats a topic I think has a lot of dimension-- and consequences for Trakl too, who I'm working on a new translation from tonight: theparisreview.org/blog/2018…

Rethinking Schiele by Cody Delistraty

December 3, 2018 – The passage of time tends to either confirm the supposed transgressions of historical figures, or absolve them. But Egon Schiele, whose centenary is being celebrated at museums...

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Thinking about Trakl's "An Den Knaben Elis" as I write this, which has a mirror in Schiele's use of young, nude bodies. Cultural anxiety around the arousal of the adult self, and the effective creation of childhood as a category at the time both worked is important here.
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There are lots of scholarly articles on this in both English and German, about both Trakl and Schiele. This is a public facing literary essay that also features a nice analysis of the retrospectives of the 2010’s and how they addressed it. In translating Trakl, it’s inevitable.
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Window Plin receiving adoration:
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I'm so sorry to everyone at Catapult, in what is clearly a nasty response to workers unionizing that only hurts everyone. In this era of austerity, losing another indie is sickening- please, authors, keep us updated on how we can support your books, and staff on what we can do.
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A certain genre of spaceship image is to me, also inherently autumnal feeling somehow. (of course thinking of you, @sevensixfive)
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Today’s leg warmers are red and sparkly. Leg warmer season continues apace. Another beloved autumnal thing…
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I'm writing about the nature of autumn and the autumnal more broadly as a sensibility. My references are Trakl, Schiele, Rilke, and Hölderlin-- but what are yours? What is the essence of a fall thing, or feeling for you? Bonus for pictures or oddities.
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The next piece is for a magazine and will be much more opaque in relation to its sources (and borders on fiction/prose poetry) but the last time I did autumnal Schiele and Trakl was for Substack: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/…
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