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Joshua Weiner
HUMAN BEING Along the perimeter of a busy compound, on a sidewalk in front of a high black iron fence, two women are standing in a drizzle without umbrellas. Early fall, before trees turn, with the stubborn warmth of […]
Silent The Bird In The Wood: A Goethe Translation-Erasure By Joshua Weiner
SILENT THE BIRD IN THE WOOD The video below animates a translation-erasure of Wanders Nachtlied (Wanderer’s Nightsong) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated, erased and read by Joshua Weiner. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ JOSHUA WEINER is the author of […]
SILENT THE BIRD IN THE WOOD: A GOETHE TRANSLATION-ERASURE BY JOSHUA WEINER
SILENT THE BIRD IN THE WOOD The video below animates a translation-erasure of Wanders Nachtlied (Wanderer’s Nightsong) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated, erased and read by Joshua Weiner. Having trouble viewing the video? Click here to […]
Joshua Weiner
[Omitted from the Text] Black shadow hangs over the dust of my beloved; So I turned myself into dust, but the shadow left me behind. —J.W. v. Goethe […]
Joshua Weiner: Berlin Alexanderplatz, April 2016
The following essay is an excerpt from Joshua Weiner’s Berlin Notebook (available on Amazon) out now from the Los Angeles Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________ The best time to catch a bus is about 10 minutes before it departs. A […]
Friday Pick Classics: The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish By Joshua Weiner
The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish By Joshua Weiner The University of Chicago Press 2013, 68 pages The promise of a poem that could incorporate every relevant historical allusion and emotional resonance, a poem as faithful […]
Joshua Weiner
CANTO In the orchard when you reached your mother’s hand to pick a blushing pear, or her shoulder tensed — you, searching your bag for something you need down there somewhere. When you caught me having gained my […]
Re: Word: Joshua Weiner’s “To Disturb Profoundly The Senses”
“To Disturb Profoundly the Senses” ‘an unclassified narrative’ from the Office of Legal Counsel, for the President August 2002 – May 2005 “You have asked for the standards of conduct. For an act to constitute it must inflict […]
Emily Berry reading with Joshua Weiner
Watch Joshua Weiner and Emily Berry read and answer questions during a live-streamed online Transatlantic Poetry reading hosted by B O D Y Transatlantic Poetry is an innovation in poetry readings, allowing poets in different locations to read together […]
Re: Word: Joshua Weiner
– These poems originally appeared in the September 2012 issue of B O D Y A PAINTER, ON HER ANNIVERSARY My first painting, that one. I remember the feeling that the light was creating the shade, somehow, of coming […]
