Galway Kinnell reads Paul Celan

Poet Galway Kinnell reading
Sunday, March 23, 2008
at the
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 20-23, 2008
Washington, DC

In this clip Kinnell reads an
anti-war poem by Paul Celan titled
"Black Milk of Daybreak."


For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org

2008's inaugural festival featured poets
Grace Cavalieri, Dennis Brutus, Mark Doty, Naomi Shihab Nye, Brian Gilmore, Alex Olson, Martin Espada, Carolyn Forche, Kenneth Carroll, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Galway Kinnell, Coleman Barks, Pamela Chris August, Princess of Controversy, Joel Dias Porter (aka DJ Renegade), Ishle Yi Park, Steve Kuusisto, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, E. Ethelbert Miller, Alicia Ostriker, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith, Susan Tichy, Pamela Uschuk, Belle Waring.

For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org

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[satansprick13]

i actually do know his grandchild,and she hates this version.she hates also her own...h-sabo-.tage.none as smrt asmee.haha fuckyall

[satansprick13]

@Durhandoni oh you think you are so clever moise.shut the fuck up,bigmouth and start learnin from a great asshole

[satansprick13]

@nogocologne is that true or are only a trendy germany-hater

???

[nogocologne]

did Celan also wrote a poem about the nearly 1 Million german and hungarian who lived in the same "Rumanian" area who were expelled & killed & enslaved by the glorious bolsheviks after WW2? or the 7 million ukrainians which were massacred during the 30´s under Stalins regime. of course not. Except jews anyone else is second class victim.

Ask the "holocaust priest" Ellie Wiesel about Nikolaus Gruner..LOL

[Jadabh3]

DARK SPELLS MR CELAN, DARK SPELLS

Rob x

[Durhandoni]

I don´t like this reading. This isn´t a poem of horror. Celan was far behind being frightened, when he wrote this, he went through horror and felt ashamed he survived and others didn´t, like many who survived. That´s the point, where to find an access in reading this poem to audience.

[bobtheantman1]

@podarades I find that very few poems read aloud offer the deeper elements of a poem, with some exceptions, because I have been deeply moved by some works recited or read aloud. So I agree with you, most of my deepest experiences with poetry are private, solitary, internal, quiet.

[podarades]

@bobtheantman1--- Better than most, but I have not been as moved as in my own introspective, private reading.

[bobtheantman1]

@podarades How did you feel about this reading?

[TedMichaelMorgan]

Thank you for posting this fine reading.