Comments on: Post-Postmodernism and Hope

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:01:44 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I enjoy Saba’s work. There is a sonnet of his at the bottom of this page:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~nwreview/recentissue.htm

and my own re-translation of his poem “The Goat” is here:

http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/366-Umberto-Sabas-Bleat.html

By: Andrew Philip

Andrew Philip — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:31:53 +0000

Thank you for this post, Robert. I’ve heard Saba’s name, I think, but I’ve never read him. Celan I do know. His work has always gripped me powerfully. I’ll have to balance that with Saba now.

(The word verification is “covered hospital”. How apt.)

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:32:14 +0000

p.s. to say thanks to Brian Salchert for his link to a fascinating article on Performatism (a.k.a. Post-Postmodernism):

http://tinyurl.com/4htpky

I have yet to read it all properly, but was intrigued to see /American Beauty/ listed in the filmography. Intuitively, this makes sense.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:16:43 +0000

Thanks, Brian, for posting this thoughtful comment. I visited your blog, and was going to reply there, but it seems the AOL Journal requires an AOL account to post? In any case, thanks again for stopping by – don’t be a stranger.

By: Brian Salchert

Brian Salchert — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:13:25 +0000

By a fortuitous chain over at PF’s Harriet,
beginning with a post by Linh Dinh to a
post by Reginald Shepherd to a comment
by Jilly Dybka beneath RS’s post, I
arrived here late last night where this
Post-Postmodernism-And-Hope entry won
my attention.

I am a somewhat reclusive older (67)
writer who due to health and present
location facts would be even more
reclusive than I had chosen to be
were it not for Internet access.
Because few read what I post on my weblogs,
I have been most visible in comments I’ve made.
My aesthetics is rather open, and so I
do not favor any particular poetics.

I am with you when you write:
My belief is that it is time for a
reconciliation and integration like
that which Saba found in his poems.

This in spite of (and more accurately
because of) these difficult years for
humanity, beset as they are by resource
depletions, heavy-handed nationalisms
(U.S. / Iran / China / and) and
philosophies/theologies which promote
divisiveness.

(Umberto Saba is new to me. Thank you
for the introduction.)