Tag: Friedrich Holderlin

• * stepping out with rita dove & holderlin

  My translation of Borges two weeks ago received a great response on here - thank you all for your kind words! This week’s poem, “Reading Holderlin on the Patio with the Aid of a Dictionary” by Rita Dove, evokes some of the fascination and thrill of working out a poem from one language to another, how […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 28, 2014

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  arts, astrology, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Friedrich Holderlin, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poetry, Pisces, poetry, Rita Dove, the friday influence, translation, Virgo, writing

• * Holderlin, details, and making time stop

  “Poetry is the establishment of Being by means of the word” (Heidegger) *** Now there is a definition and defense of the lyric poem if there ever was one. Heidegger said the above statement in an essay on the work of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1842). This week, at the insistence of a new acquaintance, I have […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 20, 2012

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  Friedrich Holderlin, Heidegger, Jose Angel Araguz, Ozymandias, poetry, Shelley