Many Glove Compartments: Selected Poems
by Oskar Pastior
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Poetry/Prose. Translated from the German by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, and Rosmarie Waldrop. "An Oskar-Pastior-poem is like life. As soon as you think you've got hold of it, it has already moved you ahead by the fraction of a hair"-Klaus Hensel. "For Pastior, language itself is the stuff of life.He explores it through puns, lists, strings, heaps, fields, dictionaries, alphabets, collage, montage, potpourris-all in orgiastic expansion. The result is 'thought-music as a leaping show more perspective'-a perspective, in which a successful 'nonsensical' text like 'ur-cur trusts sulfur baths: plush' (p. 90) 'is infinitely more precise than this kind of statement'"-from the Introductory Note by Rosmarie Waldrop. show lessTags
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Oskar Pastior writes:
Carnal Pleasure (senior) and Carnal Pleasure (junior) are rowing across a lake in a boat. The boat is made of white cottonwool. They are on a firm excursion, because Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure are in business together. They are rowing for publicity, because Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure manufacture cottonwool, for various ends. Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure in a cottonwool boat, it might be a game of clouds played in a mirror, a card game peculiar to the Lake of the Four Forests, up and down. Who’ll sting? Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure are bathed in a rosy hue; that is due to rowing and to the effulgence of the bights they are rowing in. Even the distant glaciers proclaim the firm’s show more flesh; even the industrious cows, now glazed with lilac, made of deseeded cottonwool, graze on their behoof. Father and son row with Tampax and Q-Tips. They are highly satisfied, it was a great publicity campaign. In the water a light rises up; then something in the sky goes strange.
(Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton.)
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Carnal Pleasure (senior) and Carnal Pleasure (junior) are rowing across a lake in a boat. The boat is made of white cottonwool. They are on a firm excursion, because Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure are in business together. They are rowing for publicity, because Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure manufacture cottonwool, for various ends. Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure in a cottonwool boat, it might be a game of clouds played in a mirror, a card game peculiar to the Lake of the Four Forests, up and down. Who’ll sting? Carnal Pleasure and Carnal Pleasure are bathed in a rosy hue; that is due to rowing and to the effulgence of the bights they are rowing in. Even the distant glaciers proclaim the firm’s show more flesh; even the industrious cows, now glazed with lilac, made of deseeded cottonwool, graze on their behoof. Father and son row with Tampax and Q-Tips. They are highly satisfied, it was a great publicity campaign. In the water a light rises up; then something in the sky goes strange.
(Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton.)
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- 831.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German poetry 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2676 .A75 .M3613 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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