Tag: French

• * some origins, manu chao & the friday influence

  In regards to the question “When did you start writing?” I give several answers depending on context. If it’s a professional context, I say seventeen, that being the year that I first typed up, printed, and sent off poems to a real lit mag.  I call it the year I began to take my writing…

  José Angel Araguz

  January 25, 2013

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• * Rilke, winter & the friday influence

  I am almost done with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.  Fascinating stuff.  Rilke wrote something like 400 poems in French towards the end of his life.  Basically a whole Collected Works in another language.  He approached his poems in French in the spirit of starting over in a way that he couldn’t…

  José Angel Araguz

  January 4, 2013

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