MEMBER BLOG TAG: walter hugo mãe
| Saturday, May 1, 2010 9:11AM | | | | The Big Poetry Reading - part 2 | Tags: Bowery, Pavel Nastin, walter hugo mãe
| | | My last blog was suddenly posted when I was in the middle of writing it - well, it was fresh anyway.
Back to walter hugo mãe:
His poem Dream at Twelve Years Old stood out with evocations of things carried by the wind, like a scarf or...his brother's ashes. This was a lovely poem.
The poem Freud at the Foot of the Bed, an elegy to a lost friend, was bittersweet and amusing. But the highlight of his reading was when he burst into song at the end, a memorably haunting moment.
This was hard act to follow but Pavel Nastin compelled our attention, reading in Russian. Hectic and dramatic, he intoned his poems, layering and building his rhythms, speaking ever... | | | | | | | Saturday, May 1, 2010 8:46AM | | | | The Big Poetry Reading at the BPC | Tags: Nadja Marie Aidt, Barry Gifford, Pavel Nastin, walter hugo mãe
| | | The exhilarating reading Friday night brought together four accomplished poets, three of whose works are difficult to find in English. Nadja Marie Aidt, of Denmark and Greenland, joined valter hugo mãe from Portugal, the American Barry Gifford and Pavel Nastin, from Russia. In the classic venue of the Bowery Poetry Club - brick walls, scarred black-painted stage, club banner - and surrounded by coffee house ambiance, we could have been in Copenhagen, San Francisco, Moscow or Lisbon.
After the bossy announcer (also classic) forced a few cheers from the audience, Nadja Aidt took the stage. We were instantly carried into the world of people who care about poetry. Intimate and vulnerable, Aidt is a poet of exile, with far-ranging interests. A poem taking us... | | | | | |
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