"The world is gone, I have to carry you"
Caravaggio, Amichai, Owen, Celan, Lasker-Schüler, Cohen
Caravaggio:
Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Chana Bloch):
Wilfred Owen:
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Paul Celan (tr. from German by Pierre Joris):
Else Lasker-Schüler (tr. from German by Audri Durschslag-Litt and Jeanette Litman-Demeestère):
Leonard Cohen. “Story of Isaac:”
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Hard to do much of anything for a long while after reading and listening to this Sharpener. . . . I hheard the Cohen songs for many many decades. I wish I could get the link for the song into the inbox or Putin, Biden, Giamattai, Xi Jinping , all of them, strap them to something and make them hear. Guess its the time of year for those kind of fantastical wishes.
Thanks again Sean, for conceiving this post, collecting the poems and getting it to each of us. You make the world a better place, for your subscribers at least.
I love Cohen!!!!!