http://www.odeo.com/channels/30358-Rattapallax no The best in innovative poetry, literature and ideas from around the world. Audio and video podcast. More information at www.rattapallax.com The best in innovative poetry, literature and ideas from around the world. Audio and video podcast. More information at www.rattapallax.com Some of the best audio tracks from Rattapallax magazine featuring leading contemporary poets and translators reading and performing their work in multiple languages. More information at rattapallax.com en 40 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:38:46 -0700 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:38:46 -0700 Literature http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277542-Jovens-brasileiras-realizam-filme-em-Bollywood tag:odeo.com,2009-10-13,25277542 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:38:46 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277543-Beatriz-Seigner-on-TV-Bahia “Bollywood Dream – O Sonho Bollywoodiano” – interview with the director Beatriz Seigner, for TV Bahia. “Bollywood Dream – O Sonho Bollywoodiano” – interview with the director Beatriz Seigner, for TV Bahia. “Bollywood Dream – O Sonho Bollywoodiano” – interview with the director Beatriz Seigner, for TV Bahia. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-13,25277543 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:34:06 -0700 no Rattapallax News http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240653-World-Social-Forum Leading International Poets Fight for Social Justice and Arms Control at World Social Forum. South African activist and writer Breyten Breytenbach is part of the international delegation of poets and writers attending the World Social Forum (WSF) to fight for social justice and progressive change. The group worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms campaign and participated in several readings. In addition, Rattapallax magazine filmed indigenous people at the WSF reading and performing their poetry for an online library and future film on endangered languages. The World Social Forum is a major assembly of progressive organizations and was held in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 26 to 31, January 2005. Rattapallax’s reading was on Thursday, Jan 27th, at 6:30pm at the Palco José Marti. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. He is the author of The True Confessions of an Albino Ter... Leading International Poets Fight for Social Justice and Arms Control at World Social Forum. South African activist and writer Breyten Breytenbach is part of the international delegation of poets and writers attending the World Social Forum (WSF) to fight for social justice and progressive change. The group worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms campaign and participated in several readings. In addition, Rattapallax magazine filmed indigenous people at the WSF reading and performing their poetry for an online library and future film on endangered languages. The World Social Forum is a major assembly of progressive organizations and was held in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 26 to 31, January 2005. Rattapallax’s reading was on Thursday, Jan 27th, at 6:30pm at the Palco José Marti. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. He is the author of The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and other collections. Other participants include Palestine poet Nathalie Handal, editor of the anthology, The Poetry of Arab Women (PEN Oakland award winner); and Rattapallax editor Ram Devineni. They will be joined by Brasilian poets Fabrício Carpinejar, author of Cinco Marias and Biografia de uma árvore; Johnny Lorenz, Professor of English at Montclair State University and a Fulbright Scholar; Flávia Rocha, co-founder of Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Curitiba and an editor at Rattapallax; and Marlon de Almeida. Oxfam, Amnesty International, and IANS’ Control Arms campaign educates the public and lobbies governments to take action against the illicit trade of small arms, which fuel violent conflict, state repression, crime, and domestic abuse. “We are providing the arms for the next generation of people who are going to commit genocide. Let’s not fool ourselves. It needs to stop,” comments Breyten Breytenbach. He adds, “The ban of anti-personnel mines was the first step and I think the control of arms is the next. We hope writers, artists, and musicans will join the global challenge to educate the public on this issue.” DJ Each tours Brazil in aid of Control Arms. In an effort to raise the profile of the Control Arms Campaign in Brazil, London-based DJ Each took the message across the country throughout September 2004. Starting closer to home with London’s Brazilian community, DJ Each kicked off at Rattapallax Poetry & Music Party @ Blag Club in Notting Hill, garnering extensive coverage in the bilingual British/Brazilian ‘Jungle Drums’ magazine in its 16th edition. Following this hugely successful launch, which saw many people actively discussing the issues and queuing up to join the Million Faces Petition, the tour moved onto Brazil. A packed-out saturday night at ‘Off Road Project’ in Bahia was the first port of call. Club Owner Marcia Franco was so impressed with Each’s electro-house grooves and the clubbers’ response to the Control Arms message, she invited us back in February for another night of campaign clubbing! Next up was a storming night at the famous ‘Spin Club’ in Porte Alegre, alongside award-winning Brazilian electro DJ Oscar Bueno. Local Fashion Designer / Promoter Marquinhos Rocha did such an outstanding job building support for the event that the overwhelming numbers of people queuing to get in proved to be far in excess of what the club could actually hold! Hearing of this, prominent Brazilian fashion house ‘Zapping’, who had the club booked for the next night, stepped in and invited us to share the venue with them! The follow-up night was another huge success, with as many people eager to learn about the campaign and join the Petition, as there were getting busy on the dancefloor. ‘D-EDGE’ in Sao Paulo is widely regarded as among the finest clubs in Brazil and as such, Each’s & Control Arms campaign finale received a lot of media attention, including a two-page spread in the popular ‘Beatz’ magazine, in its 12 edition. The line-up was again with Oscar Bueno and this time, together with another Brazilian electro-music star, Dj Magal and Freakplasma Band, under the promotion of Dj Glaucia ++ & Simone Sutilli. Although officially finished after this last big night, Each has been invited by Oscar Bueno to extend the tour with a final FINAL performance at D-EDGE top after-hours, ‘Paradise’. No Forum Social Mundial, Poetas Internacionais Participam da Luta por Justiça Social e Contra o Tráfico de Armas. Breyten Breytenbach, ativista e escritor da África do Sul, faz parte da delegação internacional de poetas e escritores, participando do Fórum Social Mundial (FSM) na luta por justiça social e por um mundo melhor. O grupo vai colaborar com a campanha “Control Arms” (da organização OXFAM) e vai apresentar poemas e palestras. A revista RATTAPALLAX vai filmar comunidades indígenas no FSM participando em vários eventos, com o objetivo de fazer uma biblioteca virtual e também um filme sobre idiomas em perigo. O FSM é um encontro importante de organizações progressistas e vai acontecer em Porto Alegre, Brasil, de 26 a 31 de janeiro de 2005. Opositor do “apartheid” na África do Sul, Breyten Breytenbach foi um prisioneiro político (passando dois anos em detenção solitária). Ele é autor de The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist e várias coletâneas. Outros participantes serão a poetisa palestina Nathalie Handal, editora de The Poetry of Arab Women (que ganhou o prêmio PEN Oakland) e autora de The NeverField, e Ram Devineni, editor da revista RATTAPALLAX. Johnny Lorenz, poeta e tradutor do gaúcho Mario Quintana (bolsa Fulbright), também vai apresentar os seus poemas. Três poetas brasileiros maravilhosos vão participar do evento, incluindo o Fabrício Carpinejar (Biografia de uma árvore, Caixa de Sapatos, e Cinco Marias), Flávia Rocha (fundadora da Academia Internacional de Cinema em Curitiba, poeta e jornalista), e o poeta Marlon de Almeida (Malabares). O evento de poesia no Fórum Social tem como título “Poesia Internacional” (da organização RATTAPALLAX). OXFAM, Anistia Internacional, e a campanha “Control Arms” têm como objetivo educar o público e influenciar governos para proibir o tráfico de armas pequenas. Breytenbach comenta: “Neste momento, a sociedade está fornecendo armas para a próxima geração de pessoas que vão fazer genocídio; não devemos nos enganar, porque temos de acabar com isto… Proibir as minas “anti-pessoal” foi o primeiro passo e acho que o próximo vai ser proibir as armas pequenas. Esperamos que escritores, artistas, e músicos participem do desafio global para educar o público sobre esta luta.” Leading International Poets Fight for Social Justice and Arms Control at World Social Forum. South African activist and writer Breyten Breytenbach is part of the international delegation of poets and writers attending the World Social Forum (WSF) to fight for social justice and progressive change. The group worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms campaign and participated in several readings. In addition, Rattapallax magazine filmed indigenous people at the WSF reading and performing their poetry for an online library and future film on endangered languages. The World Social Forum is a major assembly of progressive organizations and was held in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 26 to 31, January 2005. Rattapallax’s reading was on Thursday, Jan 27th, at 6:30pm at the Palco José Marti. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. He is the author of The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and other collections. Other participants include Palestine poet Nathalie Handal, editor of the anthology, The Poetry of Arab Women (PEN Oakland award winner); and Rattapallax editor Ram Devineni. They will be joined by Brasilian poets Fabrício Carpinejar, author of Cinco Marias and Biografia de uma árvore; Johnny Lorenz, Professor of English at Montclair State University and a Fulbright Scholar; Flávia Rocha, co-founder of Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Curitiba and an editor at Rattapallax; and Marlon de Almeida. Oxfam, Amnesty International, and IANS’ Control Arms campaign educates the public and lobbies governments to take action against the illicit trade of small arms, which fuel violent conflict, state repression, crime, and domestic abuse. “We are providing the arms for the next generation of people who are going to commit genocide. Let’s not fool ourselves. It needs to stop,” comments Breyten Breytenbach. He adds, “The ban of anti-personnel mines was the first step and I think the control of arms is the next. We hope writers, artists, and musicans will join the global challenge to educate the public on this issue.” DJ Each tours Brazil in aid of Control Arms. In an effort to raise the profile of the Control Arms Campaign in Brazil, London-based DJ Each took the message across the country throughout September 2004. Starting closer to home with London’s Brazilian community, DJ Each kicked off at Rattapallax Poetry & Music Party @ Blag Club in Notting Hill, garnering extensive coverage in the bilingual British/Brazilian ‘Jungle Drums’ magazine in its 16th edition. Following this hugely successful launch, which saw many people actively discussing the issues and queuing up to join the Million Faces Petition, the tour moved onto Brazil. A packed-out saturday night at ‘Off Road Project’ in Bahia was the first port of call. Club Owner Marcia Franco was so impressed with Each’s electro-house grooves and the clubbers’ response to the Control Arms message, she invited us back in February for another night of campaign clubbing! Next up was a storming night at the famous ‘Spin Club’ in Porte Alegre, alongside award-winning Brazilian electro DJ Oscar Bueno. Local Fashion Designer / Promoter Marquinhos Rocha did such an outstanding job building support for the event that the overwhelming numbers of people queuing to get in proved to be far in excess of what the club could actually hold! Hearing of this, prominent Brazilian fashion house ‘Zapping’, who had the club booked for the next night, stepped in and invited us to share the venue with them! The follow-up night was another huge success, with as many people eager to learn about the campaign and join the Petition, as there were getting busy on the dancefloor. ‘D-EDGE’ in Sao Paulo is widely regarded as among the finest clubs in Brazil and as such, Each’s & Control Arms campaign finale received a lot of media attention, including a two-page spread in the popular ‘Beatz’ magazine, in its 12 edition. The line-up was again with Oscar Bueno and this time, together with another Brazilian electro-music star, Dj Magal and Freakplasma Band, under the promotion of Dj Glaucia ++ & Simone Sutilli. Although officially finished after this last big night, Each has been invited by Oscar Bueno to extend the tour with a final FINAL performance at D-EDGE top after-hours, ‘Paradise’. No Forum Social Mundial, Poetas Internacionais Participam da Luta por Justiça Social e Contra o Tráfico de Armas. Breyten Breytenbach, ativista e escritor da África do Sul, faz parte da delegação internacional de poetas e escritores, participando do Fórum Social Mundial (FSM) na luta por justiça social e por um mundo melhor. O grupo vai colaborar com a campanha “Control Arms” (da organização OXFAM) e vai apresentar poemas e palestras. A revista RATTAPALLAX vai filmar comunidades indígenas no FSM participando em vários eventos, com o objetivo de fazer uma biblioteca virtual e também um filme sobre idiomas em perigo. O FSM é um encontro importante de organizações progressistas e vai acontecer em Porto Alegre, Brasil, de 26 a 31 de janeiro de 2005. Opositor do “apartheid” na África do Sul, Breyten Breytenbach foi um prisioneiro político (passando dois anos em detenção solitária). Ele é autor de The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist e várias coletâneas. Outros participantes serão a poetisa palestina Nathalie Handal, editora de The Poetry of Arab Women (que ganhou o prêmio PEN Oakland) e autora de The NeverField, e Ram Devineni, editor da revista RATTAPALLAX. Johnny Lorenz, poeta e tradutor do gaúcho Mario Quintana (bolsa Fulbright), também vai apresentar os seus poemas. Três poetas brasileiros maravilhosos vão participar do evento, incluindo o Fabrício Carpinejar (Biografia de uma árvore, Caixa de Sapatos, e Cinco Marias), Flávia Rocha (fundadora da Academia Internacional de Cinema em Curitiba, poeta e jornalista), e o poeta Marlon de Almeida (Malabares). O evento de poesia no Fórum Social tem como título “Poesia Internacional” (da organização RATTAPALLAX). OXFAM, Anistia Internacional, e a campanha “Control Arms” têm como objetivo educar o público e influenciar governos para proibir o tráfico de armas pequenas. Breytenbach comenta: “Neste momento, a sociedade está fornecendo armas para a próxima geração de pessoas que vão fazer genocídio; não devemos nos enganar, porque temos de acabar com isto… Proibir as minas “anti-pessoal” foi o primeiro passo e acho que o próximo vai ser proibir as armas pequenas. Esperamos que escritores, artistas, e músicos participem do desafio global para educar o público sobre esta luta.” tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,25240653 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:51:54 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240654-Brazil Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território... Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território neutro, distante das querelas de grupos que insistem em ressuscitar disputas estéreis entre credos tardo-vanguardistas. Talvez seja, pelo contrário, um fenômeno de internacionalização da poesia brasileira, semelhante ao que aconteceu com as artes plásticas a partir dos anos 50/60, quando o legado modernista deixou de ser um interlocutor compulsório para nomes como Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Pape, que abriram um canal com vertentes de outros países. Parece ser esta a proposta de Flávia Rocha, jornalista e poeta responsável pela seleção publicada na “Rattapallax”: “Se no berço do modernismo brasileiro os antropofágicos deitavam um apetite voraz sobre as culturas estrangeiras, tomando-as como ingrediente para uma refeição de caráter nacional, os poetas de hoje tratam o estrangeiro como ente menos estranho, de fácil acesso”. Obviamente, não se pode comparar a recepção externa de nossa poesia com o modo pelo qual artistas plásticos como Cildo Meireles, Waltércio Caldas e Vik Muniz se impuseram no circuito internacional. No caso da literatura, a língua é e será sempre um obstáculo, não obstante a proposta da “Rattapallax” de incluir em seus próximos números uma seção dedicada à poesia brasileira. O fato é que essa antologia bilíngüe tem um significado muito maior aqui do que lá. “Rattapallax” reuniu trabalhos de 22 poetas. Muitos deles estão presentes em coletâneas semelhantes e representam algumas linhas de força da poesia contemporânea. Arnaldo Antunes mantém viva a experimentação concretista em seus poemas impressos e na oralidade de suas participações no CD, em que o vocal espasmódico se transforma em ícone sonoro. Claudia Roquette-Pinto tem um lirismo disciplinado, dentro da melhor tradição modernista, consignado pela imagem do “poema-lucidez”. E Tarso de Melo sustenta um diálogo pessoal com a Language Poetry que confirma a proposta dos poetas dessa antologia: “a apropriação do que quer que esteja disponível”, segundo expressão de Flávia Rocha que também vale para as correspondências entre Rodrigo Garcia Lopes e a poesia norte-americana. O grande mérito da coletânea, contudo, está em enfatizar a importância de autores cuja produção mereceria maior atenção da crítica: a dicção intensa e melancólica de Fabio Weintraub, a poesia voluptuosa de Donizete Galvão, o surrealismo de Ruy Proença, a expressividade precisa de Fabiano Calixto, os silogismos poéticos de Paulo Ferraz e as fantasias pop de Joca Reiners Terron. Outra virtude é divulgar nomes pouco conhecidos, como Rodrigo Petrônio e Dirceu Villa. Estou omitindo muitos poetas importantes, que todavia já circulam há mais tempo em revistas, sites e coleções de livros. O que importa, aqui, é salientar que a “Rattapallax” conseguiu um difícil equilíbrio ao apostar na diversidade. Nesse sentido, a feliz inclusão da canção “Fora da Ordem” no CD é não apenas o reconhecimento de Caetano Veloso como um de nossos grandes poetas, mas também uma apologia dessa liberdade pós-moderna de escolher seus interlocutores poéticos: “Eu não espero pelo dia em que todos os homens concordem/ Apenas sei de diversas harmonias bonitas possíveis sem juízo final.” Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território neutro, distante das querelas de grupos que insistem em ressuscitar disputas estéreis entre credos tardo-vanguardistas. Talvez seja, pelo contrário, um fenômeno de internacionalização da poesia brasileira, semelhante ao que aconteceu com as artes plásticas a partir dos anos 50/60, quando o legado modernista deixou de ser um interlocutor compulsório para nomes como Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Pape, que abriram um canal com vertentes de outros países. Parece ser esta a proposta de Flávia Rocha, jornalista e poeta responsável pela seleção publicada na “Rattapallax”: “Se no berço do modernismo brasileiro os antropofágicos deitavam um apetite voraz sobre as culturas estrangeiras, tomando-as como ingrediente para uma refeição de caráter nacional, os poetas de hoje tratam o estrangeiro como ente menos estranho, de fácil acesso”. Obviamente, não se pode comparar a recepção externa de nossa poesia com o modo pelo qual artistas plásticos como Cildo Meireles, Waltércio Caldas e Vik Muniz se impuseram no circuito internacional. No caso da literatura, a língua é e será sempre um obstáculo, não obstante a proposta da “Rattapallax” de incluir em seus próximos números uma seção dedicada à poesia brasileira. O fato é que essa antologia bilíngüe tem um significado muito maior aqui do que lá. “Rattapallax” reuniu trabalhos de 22 poetas. Muitos deles estão presentes em coletâneas semelhantes e representam algumas linhas de força da poesia contemporânea. Arnaldo Antunes mantém viva a experimentação concretista em seus poemas impressos e na oralidade de suas participações no CD, em que o vocal espasmódico se transforma em ícone sonoro. Claudia Roquette-Pinto tem um lirismo disciplinado, dentro da melhor tradição modernista, consignado pela imagem do “poema-lucidez”. E Tarso de Melo sustenta um diálogo pessoal com a Language Poetry que confirma a proposta dos poetas dessa antologia: “a apropriação do que quer que esteja disponível”, segundo expressão de Flávia Rocha que também vale para as correspondências entre Rodrigo Garcia Lopes e a poesia norte-americana. O grande mérito da coletânea, contudo, está em enfatizar a importância de autores cuja produção mereceria maior atenção da crítica: a dicção intensa e melancólica de Fabio Weintraub, a poesia voluptuosa de Donizete Galvão, o surrealismo de Ruy Proença, a expressividade precisa de Fabiano Calixto, os silogismos poéticos de Paulo Ferraz e as fantasias pop de Joca Reiners Terron. Outra virtude é divulgar nomes pouco conhecidos, como Rodrigo Petrônio e Dirceu Villa. Estou omitindo muitos poetas importantes, que todavia já circulam há mais tempo em revistas, sites e coleções de livros. O que importa, aqui, é salientar que a “Rattapallax” conseguiu um difícil equilíbrio ao apostar na diversidade. Nesse sentido, a feliz inclusão da canção “Fora da Ordem” no CD é não apenas o reconhecimento de Caetano Veloso como um de nossos grandes poetas, mas também uma apologia dessa liberdade pós-moderna de escolher seus interlocutores poéticos: “Eu não espero pelo dia em que todos os homens concordem/ Apenas sei de diversas harmonias bonitas possíveis sem juízo final.” tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,25240654 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:49:44 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277544-Brazil1 Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território... Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território neutro, distante das querelas de grupos que insistem em ressuscitar disputas estéreis entre credos tardo-vanguardistas. Talvez seja, pelo contrário, um fenômeno de internacionalização da poesia brasileira, semelhante ao que aconteceu com as artes plásticas a partir dos anos 50/60, quando o legado modernista deixou de ser um interlocutor compulsório para nomes como Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Pape, que abriram um canal com vertentes de outros países. Parece ser esta a proposta de Flávia Rocha, jornalista e poeta responsável pela seleção publicada na “Rattapallax”: “Se no berço do modernismo brasileiro os antropofágicos deitavam um apetite voraz sobre as culturas estrangeiras, tomando-as como ingrediente para uma refeição de caráter nacional, os poetas de hoje tratam o estrangeiro como ente menos estranho, de fácil acesso”. Obviamente, não se pode comparar a recepção externa de nossa poesia com o modo pelo qual artistas plásticos como Cildo Meireles, Waltércio Caldas e Vik Muniz se impuseram no circuito internacional. No caso da literatura, a língua é e será sempre um obstáculo, não obstante a proposta da “Rattapallax” de incluir em seus próximos números uma seção dedicada à poesia brasileira. O fato é que essa antologia bilíngüe tem um significado muito maior aqui do que lá. “Rattapallax” reuniu trabalhos de 22 poetas. Muitos deles estão presentes em coletâneas semelhantes e representam algumas linhas de força da poesia contemporânea. Arnaldo Antunes mantém viva a experimentação concretista em seus poemas impressos e na oralidade de suas participações no CD, em que o vocal espasmódico se transforma em ícone sonoro. Claudia Roquette-Pinto tem um lirismo disciplinado, dentro da melhor tradição modernista, consignado pela imagem do “poema-lucidez”. E Tarso de Melo sustenta um diálogo pessoal com a Language Poetry que confirma a proposta dos poetas dessa antologia: “a apropriação do que quer que esteja disponível”, segundo expressão de Flávia Rocha que também vale para as correspondências entre Rodrigo Garcia Lopes e a poesia norte-americana. O grande mérito da coletânea, contudo, está em enfatizar a importância de autores cuja produção mereceria maior atenção da crítica: a dicção intensa e melancólica de Fabio Weintraub, a poesia voluptuosa de Donizete Galvão, o surrealismo de Ruy Proença, a expressividade precisa de Fabiano Calixto, os silogismos poéticos de Paulo Ferraz e as fantasias pop de Joca Reiners Terron. Outra virtude é divulgar nomes pouco conhecidos, como Rodrigo Petrônio e Dirceu Villa. Estou omitindo muitos poetas importantes, que todavia já circulam há mais tempo em revistas, sites e coleções de livros. O que importa, aqui, é salientar que a “Rattapallax” conseguiu um difícil equilíbrio ao apostar na diversidade. Nesse sentido, a feliz inclusão da canção “Fora da Ordem” no CD é não apenas o reconhecimento de Caetano Veloso como um de nossos grandes poetas, mas também uma apologia dessa liberdade pós-moderna de escolher seus interlocutores poéticos: “Eu não espero pelo dia em que todos os homens concordem/ Apenas sei de diversas harmonias bonitas possíveis sem juízo final.” Antologia da revista “Rattapallax” é poesia sem juízo final MANUEL DA COSTA PINTO. Colunista da Folha de S.Paulo. Algumas das melhores antologias de poesia brasileira contemporânea têm sido publicadas fora do Brasil. Foi assim com “Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain” (lançada nos EUA por Michael Palmer, Nelson Ascher e Régis Bonvicino), “Correspondencia Celeste” (coletânea espanhola de Adolfo Montejo Navas) e “Poesia Brasileira do Século 20 dos Modernistas à Actualidade” (editada em Portugal pelo paraense Jorge Henrique Bastos). O caso mais recente é a antologia da revista “Rattapallax”, de Nova York, que chega simultaneamente às livrarias de EUA e Brasil e inclui um CD com leituras de poemas de autores brasileiros e norte-americanos, além de músicas de Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Bebel Gilberto e do grupo Zuco 103. É difícil avaliar esse fenômeno editorial. Tal profusão talvez se deva à necessidade de buscar um território neutro, distante das querelas de grupos que insistem em ressuscitar disputas estéreis entre credos tardo-vanguardistas. Talvez seja, pelo contrário, um fenômeno de internacionalização da poesia brasileira, semelhante ao que aconteceu com as artes plásticas a partir dos anos 50/60, quando o legado modernista deixou de ser um interlocutor compulsório para nomes como Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Pape, que abriram um canal com vertentes de outros países. Parece ser esta a proposta de Flávia Rocha, jornalista e poeta responsável pela seleção publicada na “Rattapallax”: “Se no berço do modernismo brasileiro os antropofágicos deitavam um apetite voraz sobre as culturas estrangeiras, tomando-as como ingrediente para uma refeição de caráter nacional, os poetas de hoje tratam o estrangeiro como ente menos estranho, de fácil acesso”. Obviamente, não se pode comparar a recepção externa de nossa poesia com o modo pelo qual artistas plásticos como Cildo Meireles, Waltércio Caldas e Vik Muniz se impuseram no circuito internacional. No caso da literatura, a língua é e será sempre um obstáculo, não obstante a proposta da “Rattapallax” de incluir em seus próximos números uma seção dedicada à poesia brasileira. O fato é que essa antologia bilíngüe tem um significado muito maior aqui do que lá. “Rattapallax” reuniu trabalhos de 22 poetas. Muitos deles estão presentes em coletâneas semelhantes e representam algumas linhas de força da poesia contemporânea. Arnaldo Antunes mantém viva a experimentação concretista em seus poemas impressos e na oralidade de suas participações no CD, em que o vocal espasmódico se transforma em ícone sonoro. Claudia Roquette-Pinto tem um lirismo disciplinado, dentro da melhor tradição modernista, consignado pela imagem do “poema-lucidez”. E Tarso de Melo sustenta um diálogo pessoal com a Language Poetry que confirma a proposta dos poetas dessa antologia: “a apropriação do que quer que esteja disponível”, segundo expressão de Flávia Rocha que também vale para as correspondências entre Rodrigo Garcia Lopes e a poesia norte-americana. O grande mérito da coletânea, contudo, está em enfatizar a importância de autores cuja produção mereceria maior atenção da crítica: a dicção intensa e melancólica de Fabio Weintraub, a poesia voluptuosa de Donizete Galvão, o surrealismo de Ruy Proença, a expressividade precisa de Fabiano Calixto, os silogismos poéticos de Paulo Ferraz e as fantasias pop de Joca Reiners Terron. Outra virtude é divulgar nomes pouco conhecidos, como Rodrigo Petrônio e Dirceu Villa. Estou omitindo muitos poetas importantes, que todavia já circulam há mais tempo em revistas, sites e coleções de livros. O que importa, aqui, é salientar que a “Rattapallax” conseguiu um difícil equilíbrio ao apostar na diversidade. Nesse sentido, a feliz inclusão da canção “Fora da Ordem” no CD é não apenas o reconhecimento de Caetano Veloso como um de nossos grandes poetas, mas também uma apologia dessa liberdade pós-moderna de escolher seus interlocutores poéticos: “Eu não espero pelo dia em que todos os homens concordem/ Apenas sei de diversas harmonias bonitas possíveis sem juízo final.” tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,25277544 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:49:44 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240655-Brazil-Events Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM.... Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM. WhiteBox Gallery, 525 W. 26th St., NYC. Free . Hosted by Edwin Torres & Flávia Rocha. DJ Derek Beres. Featuring Cecilia Vicuña, Todd Colby, Willie Perdomo, Brian Stefans, Marcella Durand, Ange Mlinko, Rodrigo Toscano, Paul Skiff, Chris Daniels, Magdalena Zurawski, Jena Osman, Matias Mariani, and many others. Rattapallax Poetry Reading and Brazilian Party in London. Sept. 5, 2004 at 7 PM. Blag Club, 1st floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Featuring Roger Robinson, Pascale Petit, Jacob Sam La Rose, Todd Swift, and others. Hosted by Rajesh Bhardwaj & Ram Devineni. Film showing by caraballo-farman, and Fernando Severo. DJs and Brazilian music. Proceeds benefit ABC: Action for Brazils Children. Co-sponsored with Jungle Drums magazine. Also, worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms program. Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. / Rattapallax at World Social Forum, Brazil Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM. WhiteBox Gallery, 525 W. 26th St., NYC. Free . Hosted by Edwin Torres & Flávia Rocha. DJ Derek Beres. Featuring Cecilia Vicuña, Todd Colby, Willie Perdomo, Brian Stefans, Marcella Durand, Ange Mlinko, Rodrigo Toscano, Paul Skiff, Chris Daniels, Magdalena Zurawski, Jena Osman, Matias Mariani, and many others. Rattapallax Poetry Reading and Brazilian Party in London. Sept. 5, 2004 at 7 PM. Blag Club, 1st floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Featuring Roger Robinson, Pascale Petit, Jacob Sam La Rose, Todd Swift, and others. Hosted by Rajesh Bhardwaj & Ram Devineni. Film showing by caraballo-farman, and Fernando Severo. DJs and Brazilian music. Proceeds benefit ABC: Action for Brazils Children. Co-sponsored with Jungle Drums magazine. Also, worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms program. Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. / Rattapallax at World Social Forum, Brazil tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,25240655 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:13:27 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277545-Brazil-Events1 Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM.... Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM. WhiteBox Gallery, 525 W. 26th St., NYC. Free . Hosted by Edwin Torres & Flávia Rocha. DJ Derek Beres. Featuring Cecilia Vicuña, Todd Colby, Willie Perdomo, Brian Stefans, Marcella Durand, Ange Mlinko, Rodrigo Toscano, Paul Skiff, Chris Daniels, Magdalena Zurawski, Jena Osman, Matias Mariani, and many others. Rattapallax Poetry Reading and Brazilian Party in London. Sept. 5, 2004 at 7 PM. Blag Club, 1st floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Featuring Roger Robinson, Pascale Petit, Jacob Sam La Rose, Todd Swift, and others. Hosted by Rajesh Bhardwaj & Ram Devineni. Film showing by caraballo-farman, and Fernando Severo. DJs and Brazilian music. Proceeds benefit ABC: Action for Brazils Children. Co-sponsored with Jungle Drums magazine. Also, worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms program. Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. / Rattapallax at World Social Forum, Brazil Rattapallax Poetry Reading in Brazil. Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, Jussara Salazar, Robert Minhinnick, Iwan Llwyd, Ricardo Corona, Jussara Salazar, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes & Flávia Rocha. December 2, 2004 at 8pm at Teatro Paiol, Curitiba, Brazil. Sponsored by Rattapallax & Travessa Dos Editores . December 7, 2004 at 8pm at Centro Cultural, São Paulo. Sponsored by Rattapallax, Poetry Wales, Editora34 & Cult. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha in Brazil. Pulitzer prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Flávia Rocha, Anna Ross, and 16 leading Brazilian poets. November 11, 2003 at 7:00 PM: Sesc Pompeia, Rua Clelia, 93 Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 13, 2003 at 8:00 PM: Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Rua Maria Antonia, 294 Sao Paulo, Brasil. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwin Torres, Bruno Tolentino & Flávia Rocha. Translations of poems were read. Rattapallax 9 Launch Party! Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. May 9, 2003 at 7:30 PM. WhiteBox Gallery, 525 W. 26th St., NYC. Free . Hosted by Edwin Torres & Flávia Rocha. DJ Derek Beres. Featuring Cecilia Vicuña, Todd Colby, Willie Perdomo, Brian Stefans, Marcella Durand, Ange Mlinko, Rodrigo Toscano, Paul Skiff, Chris Daniels, Magdalena Zurawski, Jena Osman, Matias Mariani, and many others. Rattapallax Poetry Reading and Brazilian Party in London. Sept. 5, 2004 at 7 PM. Blag Club, 1st floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Featuring Roger Robinson, Pascale Petit, Jacob Sam La Rose, Todd Swift, and others. Hosted by Rajesh Bhardwaj & Ram Devineni. Film showing by caraballo-farman, and Fernando Severo. DJs and Brazilian music. Proceeds benefit ABC: Action for Brazils Children. Co-sponsored with Jungle Drums magazine. Also, worked with Oxfam’s Control Arms program. Featured in Folha de S.Paulo. / Rattapallax at World Social Forum, Brazil tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,25277545 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:13:27 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240657-On-the-Road-with-Bob-Holman “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights suc... “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights success stories of near-dead languages like Welsh, which have been saved through government intervention and the enthusiastic support of the Welsh people. We’ll visit the griots of West Africa who sing their poems while playing the kora, an ancient stringed instrument, the Muskogee medicine men who keep the tribe in line at festivals, the children in a Welsh school whose parents were forbidden to speak their mother tongue. Off to the Amazon, where the Pirahã’s tonal language is so defined you can whistle it, a stone age language that is first ever to contradict Chomsky’s linguistic theories. Then to Israel and Palestine and the story of the resurrection of the holy language of Hebrew and its effect on Yiddish, Ladino and Arabic in the region. EPISODE 1: ISRAEL and WEST BANK. In the beginning there was the WORD and from there many languages were created in the Holy Land. When Israel was created, the government initiated a rigorous and controversial plan to make Hebrew the official language in order to unify the populace and to find a pure, holy language for the Promised Land. Alas, this has resulted in the near extinction of Yiddish, Ladino and other languages spoken by Jewish people from around the world. Today, Israelis are discovering their other mother languages and the unique cultures, food, music, and stories that resulted from them. Additionally, Palestinians try to preserve their own language and culture in a divided country. Bob Holman also explores the role two monumental poetic figures, Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai, who attempted to create understanding and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. EPISODE 2: WEST AFRICA The episode is about Alhaji Papa Susso, a Gambian folk poet, and Bob Holman, a contemporary US poet, who are long-time friends. They travel to Africa to discover the oral traditions of language and storytelling that are quickly disappearing. Along with their disappearance is the loss of an entire culture and the history of people dating thousands of years. Through their travels in Gambia, Senegal, and Mali, they also explore African music and its influence on contemporary American jazz, rock n’ roll, and blues and how traditional African music is being displaced by urban hip-hop, whose roots are in Africa. Throughout West Africa, they meet many different Griots, or storytellers, whose vast memories include the history of their tribes retold through songs and epic poems. The film intercuts between Papa and Bob’s travels in rarely visited parts of West Africa including a boat trip up the Niger River to Timbuktu, the iconic site of the Farthest Away, a city that was once the capital of learning of Africa and is still filled with ancient lore. Bob also visits the Dogon tribe, the renowned mask-makers of Central Africa. By listening to the poets, those who use language to make beauty, we hear the true value of a language — not simply as a communication device, but as the connector between people, and between people and their world. Not the purveyor of commerce, but the evocation of the soul. “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights success stories of near-dead languages like Welsh, which have been saved through government intervention and the enthusiastic support of the Welsh people. We’ll visit the griots of West Africa who sing their poems while playing the kora, an ancient stringed instrument, the Muskogee medicine men who keep the tribe in line at festivals, the children in a Welsh school whose parents were forbidden to speak their mother tongue. Off to the Amazon, where the Pirahã’s tonal language is so defined you can whistle it, a stone age language that is first ever to contradict Chomsky’s linguistic theories. Then to Israel and Palestine and the story of the resurrection of the holy language of Hebrew and its effect on Yiddish, Ladino and Arabic in the region. EPISODE 1: ISRAEL and WEST BANK. In the beginning there was the WORD and from there many languages were created in the Holy Land. When Israel was created, the government initiated a rigorous and controversial plan to make Hebrew the official language in order to unify the populace and to find a pure, holy language for the Promised Land. Alas, this has resulted in the near extinction of Yiddish, Ladino and other languages spoken by Jewish people from around the world. Today, Israelis are discovering their other mother languages and the unique cultures, food, music, and stories that resulted from them. Additionally, Palestinians try to preserve their own language and culture in a divided country. Bob Holman also explores the role two monumental poetic figures, Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai, who attempted to create understanding and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. EPISODE 2: WEST AFRICA The episode is about Alhaji Papa Susso, a Gambian folk poet, and Bob Holman, a contemporary US poet, who are long-time friends. They travel to Africa to discover the oral traditions of language and storytelling that are quickly disappearing. Along with their disappearance is the loss of an entire culture and the history of people dating thousands of years. Through their travels in Gambia, Senegal, and Mali, they also explore African music and its influence on contemporary American jazz, rock n’ roll, and blues and how traditional African music is being displaced by urban hip-hop, whose roots are in Africa. Throughout West Africa, they meet many different Griots, or storytellers, whose vast memories include the history of their tribes retold through songs and epic poems. The film intercuts between Papa and Bob’s travels in rarely visited parts of West Africa including a boat trip up the Niger River to Timbuktu, the iconic site of the Farthest Away, a city that was once the capital of learning of Africa and is still filled with ancient lore. Bob also visits the Dogon tribe, the renowned mask-makers of Central Africa. By listening to the poets, those who use language to make beauty, we hear the true value of a language — not simply as a communication device, but as the connector between people, and between people and their world. Not the purveyor of commerce, but the evocation of the soul. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,25240657 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:58:09 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277546-On-the-Road-with-Bob-Holman1 “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights suc... “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights success stories of near-dead languages like Welsh, which have been saved through government intervention and the enthusiastic support of the Welsh people. We’ll visit the griots of West Africa who sing their poems while playing the kora, an ancient stringed instrument, the Muskogee medicine men who keep the tribe in line at festivals, the children in a Welsh school whose parents were forbidden to speak their mother tongue. Off to the Amazon, where the Pirahã’s tonal language is so defined you can whistle it, a stone age language that is first ever to contradict Chomsky’s linguistic theories. Then to Israel and Palestine and the story of the resurrection of the holy language of Hebrew and its effect on Yiddish, Ladino and Arabic in the region. EPISODE 1: ISRAEL and WEST BANK. In the beginning there was the WORD and from there many languages were created in the Holy Land. When Israel was created, the government initiated a rigorous and controversial plan to make Hebrew the official language in order to unify the populace and to find a pure, holy language for the Promised Land. Alas, this has resulted in the near extinction of Yiddish, Ladino and other languages spoken by Jewish people from around the world. Today, Israelis are discovering their other mother languages and the unique cultures, food, music, and stories that resulted from them. Additionally, Palestinians try to preserve their own language and culture in a divided country. Bob Holman also explores the role two monumental poetic figures, Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai, who attempted to create understanding and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. EPISODE 2: WEST AFRICA The episode is about Alhaji Papa Susso, a Gambian folk poet, and Bob Holman, a contemporary US poet, who are long-time friends. They travel to Africa to discover the oral traditions of language and storytelling that are quickly disappearing. Along with their disappearance is the loss of an entire culture and the history of people dating thousands of years. Through their travels in Gambia, Senegal, and Mali, they also explore African music and its influence on contemporary American jazz, rock n’ roll, and blues and how traditional African music is being displaced by urban hip-hop, whose roots are in Africa. Throughout West Africa, they meet many different Griots, or storytellers, whose vast memories include the history of their tribes retold through songs and epic poems. The film intercuts between Papa and Bob’s travels in rarely visited parts of West Africa including a boat trip up the Niger River to Timbuktu, the iconic site of the Farthest Away, a city that was once the capital of learning of Africa and is still filled with ancient lore. Bob also visits the Dogon tribe, the renowned mask-makers of Central Africa. By listening to the poets, those who use language to make beauty, we hear the true value of a language — not simply as a communication device, but as the connector between people, and between people and their world. Not the purveyor of commerce, but the evocation of the soul. “In the Beginning was the Word.” Languages are the tools that define who we are, and without the word — who would ever know? Ideas so basic we have forgotten them. While endangered plants and animals are protected by law, who is looking out for the cultures and ways of life held in the words of these dying languages? “On the Road with Bob Holman” will introduce viewers to the extraordinary richness of the world’s cultures as spoken, sung, intoned, rapped, danced and gestured via the literatures, oral and written, which both contain and define them. Simultaneously, experiencing these works of art will alert us to how much we lose when we lose a language, and how close we are to extinguishing whole systems of consciousness. Through interweaving stories, the 30-minute travel show explores language in relationship to culture, food, art, music and personal stories. Besides focusing on languages that are going extinct and their impact on indigenous societies, the show highlights success stories of near-dead languages like Welsh, which have been saved through government intervention and the enthusiastic support of the Welsh people. We’ll visit the griots of West Africa who sing their poems while playing the kora, an ancient stringed instrument, the Muskogee medicine men who keep the tribe in line at festivals, the children in a Welsh school whose parents were forbidden to speak their mother tongue. Off to the Amazon, where the Pirahã’s tonal language is so defined you can whistle it, a stone age language that is first ever to contradict Chomsky’s linguistic theories. Then to Israel and Palestine and the story of the resurrection of the holy language of Hebrew and its effect on Yiddish, Ladino and Arabic in the region. EPISODE 1: ISRAEL and WEST BANK. In the beginning there was the WORD and from there many languages were created in the Holy Land. When Israel was created, the government initiated a rigorous and controversial plan to make Hebrew the official language in order to unify the populace and to find a pure, holy language for the Promised Land. Alas, this has resulted in the near extinction of Yiddish, Ladino and other languages spoken by Jewish people from around the world. Today, Israelis are discovering their other mother languages and the unique cultures, food, music, and stories that resulted from them. Additionally, Palestinians try to preserve their own language and culture in a divided country. Bob Holman also explores the role two monumental poetic figures, Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai, who attempted to create understanding and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. EPISODE 2: WEST AFRICA The episode is about Alhaji Papa Susso, a Gambian folk poet, and Bob Holman, a contemporary US poet, who are long-time friends. They travel to Africa to discover the oral traditions of language and storytelling that are quickly disappearing. Along with their disappearance is the loss of an entire culture and the history of people dating thousands of years. Through their travels in Gambia, Senegal, and Mali, they also explore African music and its influence on contemporary American jazz, rock n’ roll, and blues and how traditional African music is being displaced by urban hip-hop, whose roots are in Africa. Throughout West Africa, they meet many different Griots, or storytellers, whose vast memories include the history of their tribes retold through songs and epic poems. The film intercuts between Papa and Bob’s travels in rarely visited parts of West Africa including a boat trip up the Niger River to Timbuktu, the iconic site of the Farthest Away, a city that was once the capital of learning of Africa and is still filled with ancient lore. Bob also visits the Dogon tribe, the renowned mask-makers of Central Africa. By listening to the poets, those who use language to make beauty, we hear the true value of a language — not simply as a communication device, but as the connector between people, and between people and their world. Not the purveyor of commerce, but the evocation of the soul. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,25277546 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:58:09 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24728863-Gutavo-Barrera-The-Rest-Rattapallax-11-English-Translation [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_The-Rest_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “The Rest” from Rattapallax 11, English Translation [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_The-Rest_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “The Rest” from Rattapallax 11, English Translation [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_The-Rest_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “The Rest” from Rattapallax 11, English Translation tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,24728863 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:57:37 -0700 no Rattapallax audio http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24728864-Gutavo-Barrera-El-Resto-Rattapallax-11-Spanish [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_El-Resto_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “El Resto” from Rattapallax 11 [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_El-Resto_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “El Resto” from Rattapallax 11 [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Barrera-Gustavo_El-Resto_Rattapallax_2002.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300] Gutavo Barrera reading “El Resto” from Rattapallax 11 tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,24728864 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:54:59 -0700 no Rattapallax audio http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24728865-Zoe-Anglesey-Zaffre-Rattapallax-5 [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Anglesey-Zoe_Zaffre_Rattapallax_1999.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300]Zoe Anglesey reading “Zaffre” from Rattapallax 5 [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Anglesey-Zoe_Zaffre_Rattapallax_1999.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300]Zoe Anglesey reading “Zaffre” from Rattapallax 5 [video:http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Rattapallax/Anglesey-Zoe_Zaffre_Rattapallax_1999.mp3;image:http://www.rattapallax.com/mp3_files/pod_logo.jpg;w:300;h:300]Zoe Anglesey reading “Zaffre” from Rattapallax 5 tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,24728865 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:36:35 -0700 no Rattapallax audio http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240658-Words-to-Comfort October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word... October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word That Comfort benefit at San Francisco’s Main Library featured San Francisco Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani and award-winning poets Kim Addonizio, Chana Bloch, and Ruth Daigon. The reading Boston featured X.J. Kennedy, Frank Bidart, Boston Fire Commissoner Paul A. Christian, and others. The New School reading was sponsored by the New School Writing Program and Rattapallax Press. The San Francisco Main Library was sponsored by Poets-for-Peace and the San Francisco Public Library. The Boston co-sponsors are William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Tapestry of Voices and Rattapallax Press. NYC School Children reading at the New School. The purpose of the World Trade Center Relief Fund is to assist the families and dependents of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. This fund is for the benefit of all victims both injured and deceased, including innocent civilians, the dedicated firefighters, policemen, Port Authority officers, Emergency Medical Personnel and relief workers. After the monetary needs of these affected people have been addressed, consideration may be given to other related relief and recovery expenses. October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word That Comfort benefit at San Francisco’s Main Library featured San Francisco Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani and award-winning poets Kim Addonizio, Chana Bloch, and Ruth Daigon. The reading Boston featured X.J. Kennedy, Frank Bidart, Boston Fire Commissoner Paul A. Christian, and others. The New School reading was sponsored by the New School Writing Program and Rattapallax Press. The San Francisco Main Library was sponsored by Poets-for-Peace and the San Francisco Public Library. The Boston co-sponsors are William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Tapestry of Voices and Rattapallax Press. NYC School Children reading at the New School. The purpose of the World Trade Center Relief Fund is to assist the families and dependents of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. This fund is for the benefit of all victims both injured and deceased, including innocent civilians, the dedicated firefighters, policemen, Port Authority officers, Emergency Medical Personnel and relief workers. After the monetary needs of these affected people have been addressed, consideration may be given to other related relief and recovery expenses. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,25240658 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:23:28 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25277547-Words-to-Comfort1 October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word... October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word That Comfort benefit at San Francisco’s Main Library featured San Francisco Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani and award-winning poets Kim Addonizio, Chana Bloch, and Ruth Daigon. The reading Boston featured X.J. Kennedy, Frank Bidart, Boston Fire Commissoner Paul A. Christian, and others. The New School reading was sponsored by the New School Writing Program and Rattapallax Press. The San Francisco Main Library was sponsored by Poets-for-Peace and the San Francisco Public Library. The Boston co-sponsors are William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Tapestry of Voices and Rattapallax Press. NYC School Children reading at the New School. The purpose of the World Trade Center Relief Fund is to assist the families and dependents of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. This fund is for the benefit of all victims both injured and deceased, including innocent civilians, the dedicated firefighters, policemen, Port Authority officers, Emergency Medical Personnel and relief workers. After the monetary needs of these affected people have been addressed, consideration may be given to other related relief and recovery expenses. October 17, 2001:The New School, Tischman Auditorium at 66 West 12th St. from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM October 17, 2001:San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM November 30, 2001:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Musician Lou Reed, actor Claire Danes, poet Sharon Olds, novelist Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60 other readers joined NYC Firefighters, Police Officers, and grade-school children for two major community poetry readings in New York and San Francisco to benefit the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund. The readings, entitled Words to Comfort, took place at the New School Tischman Auditorium in New York City and at San Francisco’s Main Library on October 17, 2001. Many of the poems read were selected from the enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous other memorial sites around the city. The Word That Comfort benefit at San Francisco’s Main Library featured San Francisco Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani and award-winning poets Kim Addonizio, Chana Bloch, and Ruth Daigon. The reading Boston featured X.J. Kennedy, Frank Bidart, Boston Fire Commissoner Paul A. Christian, and others. The New School reading was sponsored by the New School Writing Program and Rattapallax Press. The San Francisco Main Library was sponsored by Poets-for-Peace and the San Francisco Public Library. The Boston co-sponsors are William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Tapestry of Voices and Rattapallax Press. NYC School Children reading at the New School. The purpose of the World Trade Center Relief Fund is to assist the families and dependents of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. This fund is for the benefit of all victims both injured and deceased, including innocent civilians, the dedicated firefighters, policemen, Port Authority officers, Emergency Medical Personnel and relief workers. After the monetary needs of these affected people have been addressed, consideration may be given to other related relief and recovery expenses. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,25277547 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:23:28 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24726465-William-S-Burroughs%E2%80%99-%E2%80%9CThe-Bunker%E2%80%9D tag:odeo.com,2009-06-18,24726465 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:10:05 -0700 no Rattapallax films http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25240659-Alien-Roadkill Synopsis: A documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe and his search for the aliens who abducted him in Philadelphia. Steptoe is an American Book Award winner and suffering from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the Vietnam War. In 2008, he taveled to Roswell, New Mexico to the Roswell UFO Festival to find the aliens he encountered and seek spiritual solace at the famed crash site. While at Roswell, he meets other people who were also abducted by aliens and soon discovers that he is not “alone.” Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films. WITH EVERY BREATH. (5:00 MIN, NTSC) A short documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe, who is a long time resident of Philadelphia and Vietnam War Veteran. Steptoe, an American Book Award winner, deals with the many aspects of his life through his poetry from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the war to his life as a gay man of color. This short poetic film encapsulates ... Synopsis: A documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe and his search for the aliens who abducted him in Philadelphia. Steptoe is an American Book Award winner and suffering from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the Vietnam War. In 2008, he taveled to Roswell, New Mexico to the Roswell UFO Festival to find the aliens he encountered and seek spiritual solace at the famed crash site. While at Roswell, he meets other people who were also abducted by aliens and soon discovers that he is not “alone.” Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films. WITH EVERY BREATH. (5:00 MIN, NTSC) A short documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe, who is a long time resident of Philadelphia and Vietnam War Veteran. Steptoe, an American Book Award winner, deals with the many aspects of his life through his poetry from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the war to his life as a gay man of color. This short poetic film encapsulates a compelling literary figure and his thirty-year life in Philadelphia. Premiered on WYBE’s Philadelphia Stories. Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films. Screened at 14th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2008 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 16th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival LAMONT B. STEPTOE is a poet, photographer, journalist, and activist based in Philadelphia. His collection of poems, A Long Movie of Shadows, was awarded a 2005 American Book Award. Lamont is the founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He was a Combat Army Sergeant in Vietnam and was decorated with the Bronze Star. Lamont has won the 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson, and was a Discipline Winner in the Literature Category of the Pen Fellowship Program in Philadelphia. His other books of poetry include Mad Minute, Crimson River, and Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare. His work has been anthologized in Life on the Line: Poems of Healing, Brother to Brother, In Search of Color Everywhere, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, among others. Synopsis: A documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe and his search for the aliens who abducted him in Philadelphia. Steptoe is an American Book Award winner and suffering from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the Vietnam War. In 2008, he taveled to Roswell, New Mexico to the Roswell UFO Festival to find the aliens he encountered and seek spiritual solace at the famed crash site. While at Roswell, he meets other people who were also abducted by aliens and soon discovers that he is not “alone.” Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films. WITH EVERY BREATH. (5:00 MIN, NTSC) A short documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe, who is a long time resident of Philadelphia and Vietnam War Veteran. Steptoe, an American Book Award winner, deals with the many aspects of his life through his poetry from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the war to his life as a gay man of color. This short poetic film encapsulates a compelling literary figure and his thirty-year life in Philadelphia. Premiered on WYBE’s Philadelphia Stories. Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films. Screened at 14th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2008 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 16th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival LAMONT B. STEPTOE is a poet, photographer, journalist, and activist based in Philadelphia. His collection of poems, A Long Movie of Shadows, was awarded a 2005 American Book Award. Lamont is the founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He was a Combat Army Sergeant in Vietnam and was decorated with the Bronze Star. Lamont has won the 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson, and was a Discipline Winner in the Literature Category of the Pen Fellowship Program in Philadelphia. His other books of poetry include Mad Minute, Crimson River, and Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare. His work has been anthologized in Life on the Line: Poems of Healing, Brother to Brother, In Search of Color Everywhere, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, among others. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-11,25240659 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:58:39 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24689860-%E2%80%9CO-Sonho-Bollywoodiano%E2%80%9D-on-TAM-Airlines tag:odeo.com,2009-06-11,24689860 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:19:09 -0700 no Rattapallax News http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24689861-%E2%80%9CO-Sonho-Bollywoodiano%E2%80%9D-on-TV-Globo tag:odeo.com,2009-06-11,24689861 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:17:16 -0700 no Rattapallax News http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25283038-O-Sonho-Bollywoodiano1 Selected for competition for the 33rd Mostra Internacional de Cinema em Sao Paulo (2009) Synopsis: Luna, Ana and Sofia, are three actress friends who decide to go to India after receiving an invitation from a Bollywood film producer they meet at a film festival in Brazil. They leave their families, children and lives in Brazil to follow this opportunity, but once they arrive in India, they discover that the producer is a farce, who sent them to Chennai in southern India and learn that Bollywood is in Mumbai, on the other side of the country. Without loosing their sense of humor they start playing Brazilian music at a piano bar, working in a community health center and prepare for an audition in Mumbai by taking Bollywood dance lessons from a young boy they hire and traditional Indian acting with a old Indian actress. Little by little, the people they meet and the places they are living in bring to their lives the presence of their mythology with newer questions about their existence... Selected for competition for the 33rd Mostra Internacional de Cinema em Sao Paulo (2009) Synopsis: Luna, Ana and Sofia, are three actress friends who decide to go to India after receiving an invitation from a Bollywood film producer they meet at a film festival in Brazil. They leave their families, children and lives in Brazil to follow this opportunity, but once they arrive in India, they discover that the producer is a farce, who sent them to Chennai in southern India and learn that Bollywood is in Mumbai, on the other side of the country. Without loosing their sense of humor they start playing Brazilian music at a piano bar, working in a community health center and prepare for an audition in Mumbai by taking Bollywood dance lessons from a young boy they hire and traditional Indian acting with a old Indian actress. Little by little, the people they meet and the places they are living in bring to their lives the presence of their mythology with newer questions about their existences, common on that ancestral culture. While trying to get to Mumbai, they take the wrong train and end up in Varanasi. In the holy city by the riverbanks of the Ganges, they witness death being seen as liberation and life being celebrated by small everyday rituals. When they finally arrive in Mumbai for the big audition, their dreams have entirely changed, their lives transformed and the wish to make the audition disappeared. In the midst of Holi, the festival of life and colors, they dance for the last time together before getting separated to go after new dreams, as they get colored by the festival’s vibrant powder colors flung into the air. [ website ] Actress, filmmaker and writer, BEATRIZ SEIGNER is the director of the short films “Uma menina como outras Mil” and “Roda Real” (Sao Paulo’s International Short Film festival 2001 and 2004) and “Indias”, about the traditions that are disappearing in India, and writer of the documentaries “Refugee Diaries” and “On the Griot Trail”, about endangered languages and storytelling traditions in Africa and Brazil. As an actress she was in “The Seekers”, directed by Frank Megna and in the new film by the acclaimed Brazilian director Walter Salles’s and Daniela Thomas, “Linha de Passe”. Cast: Paula Braun, Lorena Lobato and Nataly Galleazzo Cabanas Director: Beatriz Seigner Screenplay: Beatriz Seigner Producers: Ram Devineni and Beatriz Seigner Executive Producer: Santosh Sivan Time: 90 Minutes / Color Brazil and India. Portuguese, English and Tamil (English subtitles) Status: 2009. TIMES OF INDIA: Latinas love Chennai! As the Brazilian heroines practice their steps, director Beatriz Seigner is busy capturing their moves even as she teaches them to improvise. The young Brazil filmmaker is in the city to shoot a film titled The Bollywood Dream, which will also be extensively shot at places like Pondicherry, Varanasi, Mumbai and Ladakh. “Chennai is such a beautiful city. Here, we still see kolams out on the street,” she explains, “It’s such a perfect marriage of tradition and modernity.” These were the primary reasons that the filmmaker chose the city to shoot parts of her film, which deals with the experiences of three young Brazilian women in a country they have always wished to explore. The Bollywood Dream tells the story of three women who are stuck in their lives in their home country and wander to India to explore. “This is my first film and I’m already shooting abroad,” quips an excited Nataly Cabanas, who is an aspiring filmmaker in the film. “My character requires me to be an excited girl just out of high school and I fit the bill perfectly.” The other lead actors in the film are Lobato Lorena, who plays a girl who communicates through music, and Paula Braun, who has a vital role as well. Which Indian filmmaker do they admire the most? “Santosh Sivan,” says Beatriz immediately, “I still remember the day I watched The Terrorist. It was my birthday and my friends dragged me out of the screening and so, I missed the climax. Many years later, when the film was screened at a film festival in Brazil, I watched the climax. I loved that film.” Beatriz wishes that her country were more like Chennai. “We’re not keeping track of our traditions,” she explains, “We seem to be blindly going the American way. Instead, Brazil should look at India and we should take the good things from each other. There is so much in common between the two countries. For instance, I feel at home here — the people, the smells… they are so much like my hometown.” Five weeks of continuous shooting in the city and its outskirts have left them with almost no time to rest and chill out. “When we found time, we just wandered into the city,” they say in unison. Viva La Brazil! Selected for competition for the 33rd Mostra Internacional de Cinema em Sao Paulo (2009) Synopsis: Luna, Ana and Sofia, are three actress friends who decide to go to India after receiving an invitation from a Bollywood film producer they meet at a film festival in Brazil. They leave their families, children and lives in Brazil to follow this opportunity, but once they arrive in India, they discover that the producer is a farce, who sent them to Chennai in southern India and learn that Bollywood is in Mumbai, on the other side of the country. Without loosing their sense of humor they start playing Brazilian music at a piano bar, working in a community health center and prepare for an audition in Mumbai by taking Bollywood dance lessons from a young boy they hire and traditional Indian acting with a old Indian actress. Little by little, the people they meet and the places they are living in bring to their lives the presence of their mythology with newer questions about their existences, common on that ancestral culture. While trying to get to Mumbai, they take the wrong train and end up in Varanasi. In the holy city by the riverbanks of the Ganges, they witness death being seen as liberation and life being celebrated by small everyday rituals. When they finally arrive in Mumbai for the big audition, their dreams have entirely changed, their lives transformed and the wish to make the audition disappeared. In the midst of Holi, the festival of life and colors, they dance for the last time together before getting separated to go after new dreams, as they get colored by the festival’s vibrant powder colors flung into the air. [ website ] Actress, filmmaker and writer, BEATRIZ SEIGNER is the director of the short films “Uma menina como outras Mil” and “Roda Real” (Sao Paulo’s International Short Film festival 2001 and 2004) and “Indias”, about the traditions that are disappearing in India, and writer of the documentaries “Refugee Diaries” and “On the Griot Trail”, about endangered languages and storytelling traditions in Africa and Brazil. As an actress she was in “The Seekers”, directed by Frank Megna and in the new film by the acclaimed Brazilian director Walter Salles’s and Daniela Thomas, “Linha de Passe”. Cast: Paula Braun, Lorena Lobato and Nataly Galleazzo Cabanas Director: Beatriz Seigner Screenplay: Beatriz Seigner Producers: Ram Devineni and Beatriz Seigner Executive Producer: Santosh Sivan Time: 90 Minutes / Color Brazil and India. Portuguese, English and Tamil (English subtitles) Status: 2009. TIMES OF INDIA: Latinas love Chennai! As the Brazilian heroines practice their steps, director Beatriz Seigner is busy capturing their moves even as she teaches them to improvise. The young Brazil filmmaker is in the city to shoot a film titled The Bollywood Dream, which will also be extensively shot at places like Pondicherry, Varanasi, Mumbai and Ladakh. “Chennai is such a beautiful city. Here, we still see kolams out on the street,” she explains, “It’s such a perfect marriage of tradition and modernity.” These were the primary reasons that the filmmaker chose the city to shoot parts of her film, which deals with the experiences of three young Brazilian women in a country they have always wished to explore. The Bollywood Dream tells the story of three women who are stuck in their lives in their home country and wander to India to explore. “This is my first film and I’m already shooting abroad,” quips an excited Nataly Cabanas, who is an aspiring filmmaker in the film. “My character requires me to be an excited girl just out of high school and I fit the bill perfectly.” The other lead actors in the film are Lobato Lorena, who plays a girl who communicates through music, and Paula Braun, who has a vital role as well. Which Indian filmmaker do they admire the most? “Santosh Sivan,” says Beatriz immediately, “I still remember the day I watched The Terrorist. It was my birthday and my friends dragged me out of the screening and so, I missed the climax. Many years later, when the film was screened at a film festival in Brazil, I watched the climax. I loved that film.” Beatriz wishes that her country were more like Chennai. “We’re not keeping track of our traditions,” she explains, “We seem to be blindly going the American way. Instead, Brazil should look at India and we should take the good things from each other. There is so much in common between the two countries. For instance, I feel at home here — the people, the smells… they are so much like my hometown.” Five weeks of continuous shooting in the city and its outskirts have left them with almost no time to rest and chill out. “When we found time, we just wandered into the city,” they say in unison. Viva La Brazil! tag:odeo.com,2009-06-11,25283038 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:49:12 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25283039-Ginsberg%E2%80%99s-Karma1 A documentary about the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg and his mythical journey to India in the early 1960s that transformed his perspective on life and his work. Ginsberg traveled to India with Peter Orlovsky, to escape the media pressure of being an icon of the “Beat Generation” and to recover from writer’s block after writing several of the most important poems of the 20th Century including “Howl.” He hoped to re-create the hallucinatory “William Blake” vision that inspired his earlier work and search for a new muse other than drugs. Poet Bob Holman traces the two years Ginsberg spent in India by visiting the places where he stayed and talk with the people he met and influenced, as well as, intimate interviews with Beat poets Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, John Giorno and others. The film is inspired by Ginsberg’s collection, “Indian Journals,” and Deborah Baker’s book, “A Blue Hand: The Beats in Ind... A documentary about the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg and his mythical journey to India in the early 1960s that transformed his perspective on life and his work. Ginsberg traveled to India with Peter Orlovsky, to escape the media pressure of being an icon of the “Beat Generation” and to recover from writer’s block after writing several of the most important poems of the 20th Century including “Howl.” He hoped to re-create the hallucinatory “William Blake” vision that inspired his earlier work and search for a new muse other than drugs. Poet Bob Holman traces the two years Ginsberg spent in India by visiting the places where he stayed and talk with the people he met and influenced, as well as, intimate interviews with Beat poets Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, John Giorno and others. The film is inspired by Ginsberg’s collection, “Indian Journals,” and Deborah Baker’s book, “A Blue Hand: The Beats in India.” By discovering Ginsberg’s experiences in India, Bob Holman traces how Ginsberg effected the counter-culture movement of the 1960s and Buddhism in America. Edited, produced and directed by Ram Devineni. Format: NTSC / HDV 1080i / Color Time: 30 minutes India and USA, English and Bengali (English subtitles) Status: July 2009. A documentary about the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg and his mythical journey to India in the early 1960s that transformed his perspective on life and his work. Ginsberg traveled to India with Peter Orlovsky, to escape the media pressure of being an icon of the “Beat Generation” and to recover from writer’s block after writing several of the most important poems of the 20th Century including “Howl.” He hoped to re-create the hallucinatory “William Blake” vision that inspired his earlier work and search for a new muse other than drugs. Poet Bob Holman traces the two years Ginsberg spent in India by visiting the places where he stayed and talk with the people he met and influenced, as well as, intimate interviews with Beat poets Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, John Giorno and others. The film is inspired by Ginsberg’s collection, “Indian Journals,” and Deborah Baker’s book, “A Blue Hand: The Beats in India.” By discovering Ginsberg’s experiences in India, Bob Holman traces how Ginsberg effected the counter-culture movement of the 1960s and Buddhism in America. Edited, produced and directed by Ram Devineni. Format: NTSC / HDV 1080i / Color Time: 30 minutes India and USA, English and Bengali (English subtitles) Status: July 2009. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-11,25283039 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:26:44 -0700 no Rattapallax main http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24633291-Bollyworld-Trailer Bollyworld trailer from Ram Devineni on Vimeo. Bollyworld trailer from Ram Devineni on Vimeo. Bollyworld trailer from Ram Devineni on Vimeo. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-30,24633291 Sat, 30 May 2009 20:41:45 -0700 no Rattapallax films http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24633292-O-Sonho-Bollywoodiano “Bollywood Dream”, “O Sonho Bollywoodiano” - Trailer with English subtitles from Beatriz Seigner on Vimeo. Three Brazilian actreeses decide to break into Bollywood, but once inside the heart of the Indian mythology and culture, their dreams and wills start to change on the contrast between the East and the West, the ancient and contemporary values, the individual and collective yearning. “Bollywood Dream”, “O Sonho Bollywoodiano” - Trailer with English subtitles from Beatriz Seigner on Vimeo. Three Brazilian actreeses decide to break into Bollywood, but once inside the heart of the Indian mythology and culture, their dreams and wills start to change on the contrast between the East and the West, the ancient and contemporary values, the individual and collective yearning. “Bollywood Dream”, “O Sonho Bollywoodiano” - Trailer with English subtitles from Beatriz Seigner on Vimeo. Three Brazilian actreeses decide to break into Bollywood, but once inside the heart of the Indian mythology and culture, their dreams and wills start to change on the contrast between the East and the West, the ancient and contemporary values, the individual and collective yearning. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-30,24633292 Sat, 30 May 2009 18:07:30 -0700 no Rattapallax films http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24600802-On-the-Road-with-Bob-Holman tag:odeo.com,2009-05-23,24600802 Sat, 23 May 2009 11:50:58 -0700 no Rattapallax films http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24600113-On-the-Road-with-Bob-Holman tag:odeo.com,2009-05-23,24600113 Sat, 23 May 2009 07:35:48 -0700 no Rattapallax FILM http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23767318-Rhina-P-Espaillat-On-Hearing-My-Name-Pronounced-Correctly-Unexpectedly-for-Once Listen to audio of Rhina P. Espaillat reading “On Hearing My Name Pronounced Correctly, Unexpectedly, for Once” from Rattapallax   ON HEARING MY NAME PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY, UNEXPECTEDLY, FOR ONCE   The voice over the wire trills my R, snares me with soft diminutives, and waits for me, in our shared language, to allow my words to trace, like fingers down a scar, stories we’ve known since childhood, places, dates in brackets on worn stones. He tells me how “our old ones” slip away, forgetting, now, faces and names. My cousin hesitates; I take this name again and say goodnight. Odd how the gringo tongue that shifts, translates you into something it can say, but far from what you were, that never gets you right, rolling you round too long, too smooth, too light, loves you at last to who it says you are.   Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic, has lived in the U. S. since the age of 7, and taught high school English in NYC for several years. She writes poetry ... Listen to audio of Rhina P. Espaillat reading “On Hearing My Name Pronounced Correctly, Unexpectedly, for Once” from Rattapallax   ON HEARING MY NAME PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY, UNEXPECTEDLY, FOR ONCE   The voice over the wire trills my R, snares me with soft diminutives, and waits for me, in our shared language, to allow my words to trace, like fingers down a scar, stories we’ve known since childhood, places, dates in brackets on worn stones. He tells me how “our old ones” slip away, forgetting, now, faces and names. My cousin hesitates; I take this name again and say goodnight. Odd how the gringo tongue that shifts, translates you into something it can say, but far from what you were, that never gets you right, rolling you round too long, too smooth, too light, loves you at last to who it says you are.   Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic, has lived in the U. S. since the age of 7, and taught high school English in NYC for several years. She writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including “Poetry,” “Sparrow,” “The Formalist” and “The American Scholar,” as well as in some two dozen anthologies, including An Introduc-tion to Poetry (Longman, 2001) edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, and The Beacon Best of 2001 (Beacon, 2001) edited by Junot Diaz, A Formal Feeling Comes (Story Line Press, 1994) In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States (Arte Publico Press, 1994), and Landscapes with Women: Four American Poets (Singular Speech Press, 1999. Espaillat has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace (Bennett & Kitchel, 1992); Where Horizons Go (Truman State University Press, 1998) which won the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize; “Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word,” a bilingual chapbook (Oyster River Press, 2001); and Rehearsing Absence, (University of Evansville Press, 2001), which won the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award. She also won the 1998 Howard Nemerov Award, the “Sparrow” Sonnet Prize for 1997, three yearly prizes from the Poetry Society of America, including the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in the year 2000, and the 2001 Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize from the New England Poetry Club, among other awards. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F17%2Frhina-p-espaillat-on-hearing-my-name-pronounced-correctly-unexpectedly-for-once%2F'; addthis_title = 'Rhina+P.+Espaillat%3A+On+Hearing+My+Name+Pronounced+Correctly%2C+Unexpectedly%2C+for+Once+'; addthis_pub = ''; Listen to audio of Rhina P. Espaillat reading “On Hearing My Name Pronounced Correctly, Unexpectedly, for Once” from Rattapallax   ON HEARING MY NAME PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY, UNEXPECTEDLY, FOR ONCE   The voice over the wire trills my R, snares me with soft diminutives, and waits for me, in our shared language, to allow my words to trace, like fingers down a scar, stories we’ve known since childhood, places, dates in brackets on worn stones. He tells me how “our old ones” slip away, forgetting, now, faces and names. My cousin hesitates; I take this name again and say goodnight. Odd how the gringo tongue that shifts, translates you into something it can say, but far from what you were, that never gets you right, rolling you round too long, too smooth, too light, loves you at last to who it says you are.   Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic, has lived in the U. S. since the age of 7, and taught high school English in NYC for several years. She writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including “Poetry,” “Sparrow,” “The Formalist” and “The American Scholar,” as well as in some two dozen anthologies, including An Introduc-tion to Poetry (Longman, 2001) edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, and The Beacon Best of 2001 (Beacon, 2001) edited by Junot Diaz, A Formal Feeling Comes (Story Line Press, 1994) In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States (Arte Publico Press, 1994), and Landscapes with Women: Four American Poets (Singular Speech Press, 1999. Espaillat has four poetry collections in print: Lapsing to Grace (Bennett & Kitchel, 1992); Where Horizons Go (Truman State University Press, 1998) which won the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize; “Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word,” a bilingual chapbook (Oyster River Press, 2001); and Rehearsing Absence, (University of Evansville Press, 2001), which won the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award. She also won the 1998 Howard Nemerov Award, the “Sparrow” Sonnet Prize for 1997, three yearly prizes from the Poetry Society of America, including the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in the year 2000, and the 2001 Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize from the New England Poetry Club, among other awards. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F17%2Frhina-p-espaillat-on-hearing-my-name-pronounced-correctly-unexpectedly-for-once%2F'; addthis_title = 'Rhina+P.+Espaillat%3A+On+Hearing+My+Name+Pronounced+Correctly%2C+Unexpectedly%2C+for+Once+'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2008-12-17,23767318 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:25:44 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23767319-Kate-Light-Rules-of-Sleep Listen to audio of Kate Light reading “Rules of Sleep”  from Rattapallax. RULES OF SLEEP Where the legs entwine to keep the body warm Against the winter night, some cold seeps through — It is the future … Howard Moss, Rules of Sleep With each of the men I’ve loved, a collection not meant to be a collection, an unmatched set, there has been some symbol of tender intersection – in the sleep of us — that I wil l never get over, some resting of limb on limb, or sideward view; but never one so lingering as this with you, where the legs entwine to keep the body warm – yours so long and softened by hair, and strong, and completely let go on mine. A barber-pole form flashes to mind, because we seem entirely intertwined, though you travel as you dream. Asleep, you speak in mutant tongues I try to interpret, and though you unconsciously supply repetitions for my “What? What?”, no matter how I try I cannot catch the lyrics of your son... Listen to audio of Kate Light reading “Rules of Sleep”  from Rattapallax. RULES OF SLEEP Where the legs entwine to keep the body warm Against the winter night, some cold seeps through — It is the future … Howard Moss, Rules of Sleep With each of the men I’ve loved, a collection not meant to be a collection, an unmatched set, there has been some symbol of tender intersection – in the sleep of us — that I wil l never get over, some resting of limb on limb, or sideward view; but never one so lingering as this with you, where the legs entwine to keep the body warm – yours so long and softened by hair, and strong, and completely let go on mine. A barber-pole form flashes to mind, because we seem entirely intertwined, though you travel as you dream. Asleep, you speak in mutant tongues I try to interpret, and though you unconsciously supply repetitions for my “What? What?”, no matter how I try I cannot catch the lyrics of your songs. Rules of sleep where I’m concerned (and concerned is a good word for it): Some cold seeps through. And not just chill to that hint of neck I’ve learned to pull the errant comforter up onto – but some future where no legs, at any rate, not yours, entwine; some tragedy the silver night ignores.   Kate Light’s first collection, The Laws of Falling Bodies, co-winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize, was published by Story Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Janus, Wisconsin Review, The Formalist, Western Humanities Review, The Christian Science Monitor and Feminist Studies, and was featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Ms. Light is a violinist in New York City. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F17%2Fkate-light-rules-of-sleep%2F'; addthis_title = 'Kate+Light+%3A+Rules+of+Sleep'; addthis_pub = ''; Listen to audio of Kate Light reading “Rules of Sleep”  from Rattapallax. RULES OF SLEEP Where the legs entwine to keep the body warm Against the winter night, some cold seeps through — It is the future … Howard Moss, Rules of Sleep With each of the men I’ve loved, a collection not meant to be a collection, an unmatched set, there has been some symbol of tender intersection – in the sleep of us — that I wil l never get over, some resting of limb on limb, or sideward view; but never one so lingering as this with you, where the legs entwine to keep the body warm – yours so long and softened by hair, and strong, and completely let go on mine. A barber-pole form flashes to mind, because we seem entirely intertwined, though you travel as you dream. Asleep, you speak in mutant tongues I try to interpret, and though you unconsciously supply repetitions for my “What? What?”, no matter how I try I cannot catch the lyrics of your songs. Rules of sleep where I’m concerned (and concerned is a good word for it): Some cold seeps through. And not just chill to that hint of neck I’ve learned to pull the errant comforter up onto – but some future where no legs, at any rate, not yours, entwine; some tragedy the silver night ignores.   Kate Light’s first collection, The Laws of Falling Bodies, co-winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize, was published by Story Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Janus, Wisconsin Review, The Formalist, Western Humanities Review, The Christian Science Monitor and Feminist Studies, and was featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Ms. Light is a violinist in New York City. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F17%2Fkate-light-rules-of-sleep%2F'; addthis_title = 'Kate+Light+%3A+Rules+of+Sleep'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2008-12-17,23767319 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:10:49 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23767320-James-Ragan-The-Hunger-Wall James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+%3A+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+%3A+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+%3A+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23767320 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:24:11 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry, global http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298463-James-Ragan-The-Hunger-Wall James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; James Ragan reading “ The Hunger Wall ” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjames-ragan-the-hunger-wall%2F'; addthis_title = 'James+Ragan+The+Hunger+Wall'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23298463 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:24:11 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry, global http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23767321-Jeanne-Marie-Beaumont-Hotel-Grimm Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+... Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+Marie+Beaumont+%3A+Hotel+Grimm'; addthis_pub = ''; Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+Marie+Beaumont+%3A+Hotel+Grimm'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23767321 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:16:15 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298470-Jeanne-Marie-Beaumont-Hotel-Grimm Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+... Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+Marie+Beaumont+Hotel+Grimm'; addthis_pub = ''; Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “ Hotel Grimm ” from Rattapallax 6 , Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper’s, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fjeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm%2F'; addthis_title = 'Jeanne+Marie+Beaumont+Hotel+Grimm'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23298470 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:16:15 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23767322-Meena-Alexander-Bengali-Market Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+%3A+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+%3A+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+%3A+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23767322 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:07:29 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry, India http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298474-Meena-Alexander-Bengali-Market Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; Meean Alexander reading “ Bengali Market ” from Rattapallax 10 . Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmeena-alexander-bengali-market%2F'; addthis_title = 'Meena+Alexander+Bengali+Market+'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-25,23298474 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:07:29 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, magazine, poetry, India http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298483-Alberto-Martins-em-Transito Alberto Martins’ solo show “Eem Transito” at Estacao Pinacoteca” in Sao Paulo, Brasil in September 2007. Download for ipod. Alberto Martins is a poet and visual artist. His books include Cais (poetry, Editora 34, 2002), Goeldi: história de horizonte (MAC/Paulinas, 1995 – winner of Jabuti Prize for best literature book for young adults), and Poemas (poetry, Ed. Duas Cidades, 1990). addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F23%2Falberto-martins-em-transito%2F'; addthis_title = 'Alberto+Martins+em+Transito'; addthis_pub = ''; Alberto Martins’ solo show “Eem Transito” at Estacao Pinacoteca” in Sao Paulo, Brasil in September 2007. Download for ipod. Alberto Martins is a poet and visual artist. His books include Cais (poetry, Editora 34, 2002), Goeldi: história de horizonte (MAC/Paulinas, 1995 – winner of Jabuti Prize for best literature book for young adults), and Poemas (poetry, Ed. Duas Cidades, 1990). addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F23%2Falberto-martins-em-transito%2F'; addthis_title = 'Alberto+Martins+em+Transito'; addthis_pub = ''; Alberto Martins’ solo show “Eem Transito” at Estacao Pinacoteca” in Sao Paulo, Brasil in September 2007. Download for ipod. Alberto Martins is a poet and visual artist. His books include Cais (poetry, Editora 34, 2002), Goeldi: história de horizonte (MAC/Paulinas, 1995 – winner of Jabuti Prize for best literature book for young adults), and Poemas (poetry, Ed. Duas Cidades, 1990). addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F12%2F23%2Falberto-martins-em-transito%2F'; addthis_title = 'Alberto+Martins+em+Transito'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-12-23,23298483 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:00:45 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, brazil, films, global, latin america http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298487-Anne-Waldman-with-Pavla-Jonssonova   [ Pressure ]     When I see you climb the walls I climb them too No way out of the cosmic mudhole! No way out of the telephone booth The classroom, the igloo No way out of the church, the temple, the mosque The A train the D train the noisy bar the department store No way out of the tunnel Out of the river the lake the ocean the bay Of the movie theater the motion picture screen No way out of the doctorate the M.A. the B.A. the PhD. The toolshed, the library No way out of Africa, of Europe, out of Asia, No escape from the guitar, the bassguitar No escape from the mailman, the endless mail, No way out of Christmas, of New Year´s No way out of the sleeping bag no way no way No way out of the organic vegetable garden The deep ravine, The glistening valley, The starry night, The zoo, no escape The coat hangers no escape The history of Russia no escape No way out of prison No way no way Out of money even if you’re out of it The Great Chain of Being, no escape The Magnetic Field, ...   [ Pressure ]     When I see you climb the walls I climb them too No way out of the cosmic mudhole! No way out of the telephone booth The classroom, the igloo No way out of the church, the temple, the mosque The A train the D train the noisy bar the department store No way out of the tunnel Out of the river the lake the ocean the bay Of the movie theater the motion picture screen No way out of the doctorate the M.A. the B.A. the PhD. The toolshed, the library No way out of Africa, of Europe, out of Asia, No escape from the guitar, the bassguitar No escape from the mailman, the endless mail, No way out of Christmas, of New Year´s No way out of the sleeping bag no way no way No way out of the organic vegetable garden The deep ravine, The glistening valley, The starry night, The zoo, no escape The coat hangers no escape The history of Russia no escape No way out of prison No way no way Out of money even if you’re out of it The Great Chain of Being, no escape The Magnetic Field, no escape, No escape no escape No way out of brain chemistry Or pain killers or pain No way off pleasure The rainbow, no escape The World Trade Center no escape My window no escape No return no way off No way out of midnight black midnight now coaxing midnight gentle midnight no escape   Audio sample: Anne Waldman with Pani Pavlova Band performing ‘Pressure’, with Arjana Shameti on Czech vocals. Track adapted by Arjana Shameti.     [ Pratitya Samutpada ] Do you know this term, my friend? Which describes the coarising & interconnectedness of all living things? If you do this to that, this happens Or that to that, that happens Or this to this to that to this to that to that to this to this to that to that to that, this happens The sun shines The dreamer lies down in a suit of fresh clothes The rain falls on her book of runes The book gets wet The seasons come round again The weapon she dreams of turns back on her in the hands of the person she never considered in her plot to save the world Ah, web-life, I bow to the book- magical syllables waiting to be caught I bow to the mind behind it, the tender grass I bow to the weapon, to the person who wields it so it dissolves in the hand This to that to this to that to that to that to this to that To that to this to this to this to that to that to this to that By this merit may all obtain omniscience.             addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Fanne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova%2F'; addthis_title = 'Anne+Waldman+with+Pavla+Jonssonova'; addthis_pub = '';   [ Pressure ]     When I see you climb the walls I climb them too No way out of the cosmic mudhole! No way out of the telephone booth The classroom, the igloo No way out of the church, the temple, the mosque The A train the D train the noisy bar the department store No way out of the tunnel Out of the river the lake the ocean the bay Of the movie theater the motion picture screen No way out of the doctorate the M.A. the B.A. the PhD. The toolshed, the library No way out of Africa, of Europe, out of Asia, No escape from the guitar, the bassguitar No escape from the mailman, the endless mail, No way out of Christmas, of New Year´s No way out of the sleeping bag no way no way No way out of the organic vegetable garden The deep ravine, The glistening valley, The starry night, The zoo, no escape The coat hangers no escape The history of Russia no escape No way out of prison No way no way Out of money even if you’re out of it The Great Chain of Being, no escape The Magnetic Field, no escape, No escape no escape No way out of brain chemistry Or pain killers or pain No way off pleasure The rainbow, no escape The World Trade Center no escape My window no escape No return no way off No way out of midnight black midnight now coaxing midnight gentle midnight no escape   Audio sample: Anne Waldman with Pani Pavlova Band performing ‘Pressure’, with Arjana Shameti on Czech vocals. Track adapted by Arjana Shameti.     [ Pratitya Samutpada ] Do you know this term, my friend? Which describes the coarising & interconnectedness of all living things? If you do this to that, this happens Or that to that, that happens Or this to this to that to this to that to that to this to this to that to that to that, this happens The sun shines The dreamer lies down in a suit of fresh clothes The rain falls on her book of runes The book gets wet The seasons come round again The weapon she dreams of turns back on her in the hands of the person she never considered in her plot to save the world Ah, web-life, I bow to the book- magical syllables waiting to be caught I bow to the mind behind it, the tender grass I bow to the weapon, to the person who wields it so it dissolves in the hand This to that to this to that to that to that to this to that To that to this to this to this to that to that to this to that By this merit may all obtain omniscience.             addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Fanne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova%2F'; addthis_title = 'Anne+Waldman+with+Pavla+Jonssonova'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-11-22,23298487 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:33:56 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, poetry, global http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23298495-Anne-Waldman-with-Pavla-Jonssonova-2   [ Verses For The New Amazing Grace ] The grace of all the bards who pen Their words do transport me Sweet vowels & consonants strengthen Goddess Poesy’s legacy Heart-pearls roll off the poets’ tongues Who chant in praise of Love Troubadours blest with hearty lungs Esoterics zapped from above Sapho’s bite & Shakespeare’s wit & Dante’s mystical climb Dickinson’s rhyme, bearded Whitman’s breath Are etched in genetic spine And if the planet cease to spin Sad universe go silent, dark Ancient poetry’s echoes will make a din Rekindle the primordial spark O I bow down to Christ’s thorny crown All sacraments meant to heal The Buddha’s smile, old Yaweh’s frown And Allah’s consummate zeal But poetry’s a Goddess sent To save a wretch like me She strums the strings of life’s desperate edge With her haunting melody. Audio sample: Anne Waldman with Pavla Jonssonova performing ‘Verses For The ...   [ Verses For The New Amazing Grace ] The grace of all the bards who pen Their words do transport me Sweet vowels & consonants strengthen Goddess Poesy’s legacy Heart-pearls roll off the poets’ tongues Who chant in praise of Love Troubadours blest with hearty lungs Esoterics zapped from above Sapho’s bite & Shakespeare’s wit & Dante’s mystical climb Dickinson’s rhyme, bearded Whitman’s breath Are etched in genetic spine And if the planet cease to spin Sad universe go silent, dark Ancient poetry’s echoes will make a din Rekindle the primordial spark O I bow down to Christ’s thorny crown All sacraments meant to heal The Buddha’s smile, old Yaweh’s frown And Allah’s consummate zeal But poetry’s a Goddess sent To save a wretch like me She strums the strings of life’s desperate edge With her haunting melody. Audio sample: Anne Waldman with Pavla Jonssonova performing ‘Verses For The New Amazing Grace’ by Anne Waldman (track in English and Czech) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Fanne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova-2%2F'; addthis_title = 'Anne+Waldman+with+Pavla+Jonssonova+2'; addthis_pub = '';   [ Verses For The New Amazing Grace ] The grace of all the bards who pen Their words do transport me Sweet vowels & consonants strengthen Goddess Poesy’s legacy Heart-pearls roll off the poets’ tongues Who chant in praise of Love Troubadours blest with hearty lungs Esoterics zapped from above Sapho’s bite & Shakespeare’s wit & Dante’s mystical climb Dickinson’s rhyme, bearded Whitman’s breath Are etched in genetic spine And if the planet cease to spin Sad universe go silent, dark Ancient poetry’s echoes will make a din Rekindle the primordial spark O I bow down to Christ’s thorny crown All sacraments meant to heal The Buddha’s smile, old Yaweh’s frown And Allah’s consummate zeal But poetry’s a Goddess sent To save a wretch like me She strums the strings of life’s desperate edge With her haunting melody. Audio sample: Anne Waldman with Pavla Jonssonova performing ‘Verses For The New Amazing Grace’ by Anne Waldman (track in English and Czech) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Frattapallax.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Fanne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova-2%2F'; addthis_title = 'Anne+Waldman+with+Pavla+Jonssonova+2'; addthis_pub = ''; tag:odeo.com,2007-11-22,23298495 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:20:13 -0800 no Rattapallax podcasts, poetry, global http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1745890-A-storytelling-session-between-Patrick-Rosal-and-his-father-Nicholas-Rosal tag:odeo.com,2006-08-18,1745890 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:20:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1745889-Patrick-Rosal-s-Picture-of-My-Grandmother-Running-on-a-Beach tag:odeo.com,2006-08-18,1745889 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:15:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1745888-Ishle-Yi-Park-s-Korean-Fishing-Women tag:odeo.com,2006-08-18,1745888 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:11:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1745887-Regie-Cabico-s-Mango-Poem tag:odeo.com,2006-08-18,1745887 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:08:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349649-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,349649 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:36:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/16655393-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,16655393 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:35:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349648-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,349648 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:35:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/16655373-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,16655373 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:34:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349647-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,349647 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:34:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349646-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,349646 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:24:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/16655353-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-28,16655353 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:24:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349645-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-10,349645 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:30:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349644-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-10,349644 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:29:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349643-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-10,349643 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:27:00 -0700 no Rattapallax http://www.odeo.com/episodes/349641-Untitled tag:odeo.com,2005-10-10,349641 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:26:00 -0700 no Rattapallax