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Bandung is the Indonesian city where on 18-24 April 1955 a meeting of twenty-nine Asian-African states took place with the view of opposing colonialism or neo-colonialism, dissociating from the Cold War, and promoting Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation, as well as Neutralism and the Non-Aligned Movement. The two boys quoted in the poem - the Indian Revi and the Kenyan Davidson - appear as characters, respectively, in the travel notebook "L'odore dell'India" (1961) and in the screenplay "Il padre selvaggio" (on which Pasolini began to work in 1962). 'L'uomo di Bandung' was published first in the journal "Julia Gens" in 1964. This is the first time the poem appears in English and the translation is by Robert S.C. Gordon.
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.
Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mo'ambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.
Busfahrt mit Rilke
(2016)
Gedicht über Rainer Maria Rilke von Luca Buonaguidi
Der Ausdruck 'Ideenfluchten' ist mehrdeutig. Einmal bezeichnet er die Flucht in die Ideen, Anzeige eines gepeinigten Daseins, sodann die Flucht der Ideen, ihre tendenzielle Entleerung durch ein sich überstürzendes Denken. Schließlich kann man ihn so verstehen, wie man von 'Zimmerfluchten' spricht: als eine Anordnung, in der jeder Raum – jede Idee – zunächst dazu einlädt, sich aufzuhalten, während das uneinsehbare Ganze unwiderstehlich zur Progression drängt... Der flüchtige Aufenthalt, das Kokettieren einmal mit dieser, einmal mit jener Ideenverbindung, die perspektivische Verkürzung und der aus ihr resultierende Vorgriff, der den Rückzug als die angemessene Weise voraussetzt, mit einer bestimmten Aufgabe zu einem Ende zu kommen, dies alles sind Erscheinungsformen eines Denkens, das sich an der Zeit weiß, die es primär als vergehende benennt.
Verschiedene Gedichte Rilkes mit englischer Übersetzung, darunter "Poem of Capri I", "Der Ursprung der Chimäre" / "The Origin of the Chimera", "Lied" / "Song" und eine Auswahl der "Uncollected Poems".