Ice Memory, Selected Poems

by Sartorius, Joachim; Dove, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781857548327
• ISBN10: 1857548329
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Ice Memory is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach. His poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth and exhaustion of the world, are magnificently brought into English by translators from Australia, Britain and the United States. In memories and ruins, Joachim Sartorius shows how bridges can be built in a fragmented world. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jaochim Sartorius is an award-winning translator and a professor of cultural theory at the University of Arts–Berlin. He is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature–Darmstadt. Richard Dove is a translator, literary critic, and reviewer. Christopher Middleton has taught at the University of Zurich, King's College in London, and the University of Texas–Austin.

Table of Contents

from Sage ich zu wem
To someone I say (1988)
Umarmung, con affeto
Embrace, con affeto
Richard Dove	2	(2)
Umarmung erinnert
Remembered embrace
Richard Dove	4	(2)
Umarmung der Vögel
Embrace of the birds
Robert Gray	6	(2)
Memento Mori
Memento mori
Richard Dove	8	(2)
Das liebste Spiel
A favourite game
Richard Dove	10	(2)
Liebe and Arbeit
Love and work
Richard Dove	12	(2)
Das Schweigen von Zypern
The Cyprus silence
Michael Hamburger	14	(4)
Der Kultstein von Kouklia
The cultic stone of Kouklia
Richard Dove	18	(2)
Die Nekropole von Nizza
The necropolis of Nice
Robert Gray	20	(2)
100 Bleecker Street
100 Bleecker Street
Richard Dove	22	(2)
Am Arno bei Arezzo
By the Arno near Arezzo
Richard Dove	24	(2)
Portrat des Künstlers als alter Mann
Portrait of the artist as an old man
Michael Hamburger	26	(4)
Der Tod von Manhattan
The death of Manhattan
Richard Dove	30	(2)
Hellblau, mit Mond
Light blue, with moon
Christopher Middleton	32	(4)
from Der Tisch wird kalt
The table grows cold (1992)
Eine Feige für den Heimweg
A fig for the way home
Sibylle Schlesier	36	(2)
Auf Annas Schreibtisch
On Anna's writing table
Richard Dove	38	(2)
Einem Delphin in Batumi
To a dolphin in Batumi
Rosmarie Waldrop	40	(2)
Stambul
Stamboul
Christopher Middleton	42	(2)
Venedig
Venice
Richard Dove	44	(2)
Abermärchen glauben
Believing in make-believe tales
Michael Hamburger	46	(2)
Monate
The months
Robert Gray	48	(2)
(die Liebe)
(love)
Sibylle Schlesier	50	(2)
Der Sphinx
The Sphinx
Andrew Shields	52	(2)
Vorgespräch über Fragment
Preliminary conversation about fragments
Rosmarie Waldrop	54	(2)
Abdo Rimbo
Abdo Rimbo
Michael Hulse	56	(2)
Aus dem Glossar der Prostitution in Algier
From the glossary of prostitution in Algiers
Maccaronic Montage	58	(2)
Kleine Königin der schÖnen Huren
Little queen of the beautiful whores
Rosmarie Waldrop	60	(4)
Ratschlag zum Verzehr der Auster
Advice on how to eat oysters
Robert Gray	64	(2)
Rauhreifuhr
Hoarfrostwatch
Rosmarie Waldrop	66	(2)
In dieser schwarzen Ruhe
In this black stillness
Sibylle Schlesier and Nathaniel Tarn	68	(8)
from Keiner gefriert anders
No one freezes differently (1996)
La cigarette obligatoire
La cigarette obligatoire
Michael Hulse	76	(2)
Gräber
Graves
Andrew Shields	78	(2)
Eine Fotografie von J.P. (1964)
A photograph of J.P. (1964)
Richard Dove	80	(2)
Im Vernichtungsbuch
In the book of annihilation
Richard Dove	82	(2)
Alexandria: Ein Zyklus
Alexandria: A cycle
Hinter der alexandrinischen Bibliothek
Behind the Alexandrian Library
Rosmarie Waldrop	84	(2)
Alexandria
Alexandria
Rosmarie Waldrop	86	(2)
Zerstoben in heißem Dampf
Gone up in hot steam
Michael Hulse	88	(2)
Alexandrie, Boulevard de Ramleh, 1903
Alexandrie: Boulevard de Ramleh, 1903
Christopher Middleton	90	(2)
Haken & Augen
Hooks and eyes
Andrew Shields	92	(2)
Das Zimmer über dem Café
The room above the café
Richard Dove	94	(2)
Kavafis widerspricht Seneca
Cavafy contradicts Seneca
Richard Dove	96	(2)
Wer aus mir trinkt
Whoever drinks from me
Robert Gray	98	(2)
Litanei
Litany
Robert Gray	100	(2)
Alexandria (2)
Alexandria (2)
Robert Gray	102	(2)
Bericht von Rika
Rika's report
Richard Dove	104	(2)
Was übrig blieb
What was left
Christopher Middleton	106	(2)
Alexandria (3)
Alexandria (3)
Michael Hulse	108	(2)
Konstantin K.
Constantine C.
Andrew Shields	110	(2)
Drei unveröffentlichte Gedichte aus dem Nachlaß von Konstantin Kavafis
Three unpublished poems from the estate of Constantine Cavafy
Der Kai
The quay
Robert Gray	112	(2)
Auf dem Spiegel
On the mirror
Christopher Middleton	114	(2)
Poetik
Poetics
Andrew Shields	116
from Ich habe die Nacht
Mine is the night (2003)
Auf dem Weg zum Grabmal des Kleoboulos
On the way to the tomb of Kleoboulos
Christopher Middleton	122	(8)
Intarsien
Inlays
Michael Hulse	130	(2)
Diana
Diana
Richard Dove	132	(2)
Ayios Kassianos
Ayios Kassianos
Richard Dove	134	(2)
In den ägyptischen Filmen
In those Egyptian films
Richard Dove	136	(2)
Über die Bedeutung von Schlaf in Diyarbakir
On the meaning of sleep in Diyarbakir
Richard Dove	138	(2)
In der Art des Abu Nawas
In the manner of Abu Nawas
Christopher Middleton	140	(2)
Elfenbein-Georgette
Ivory georgette
Christopher Middleton	142	(2)
In Tunis lügen die Palmen
The palm-trees tell lies in Tunis
Richard Dove	144	(2)
Abdullah Frères, Constantinople
Abdullah Frères, Constantinople
Andrew Shields	146	(2)
Salz am Hals
Salt from my neck
Richard Dove	148	(2)
Die erste Nacht
The first night
Robert Gray	150	(2)
Auf Salina
On Salina
Andrew Shields	152	(2)
Bei Wiepersdorf, August
Near Wiepersdorf, August
Richard Dove	154	(2)
Freundschaft der Dichter
Friendship between poets
Christopher Middleton	156	(2)
Erholung in Lagos
Recuperating in Lagos
Richard Dove	158	(2)
Ice Memory
Ice memory
Robert Gray	160	(2)
Lilia Brik mit Majakovskij in Samarkand
Lilia Brik with Majakovsky in Samarkand
Robert Gray	162	(4)
Antlitz
Countenance
Andrew Shields	166	(2)
Alterskunde
Gerontological
Michael Hamburger	168	(2)
Weg ins Ende
Path to the end
Richard Dove	170	(2)
Die Schatten unter den Wellen
The shadows under the waves
Andrew Shields	172	(6)
Im Paradies
In paradise
Richard Dove	178	(5)
Notes	183	(3)
Instead of a Postscript: Five Observations
Christopher Middleton	186