POETS HOUSE – Friday, November 11, 7:00pm
An Evening with Hungarian Poet Dénes Krusovszky
Poet and translator Dénes Krusovsky reads his poetry and discusses his recent investigations into diverse definitions of the human body, from the poet Hart Crane to performance artist Chris Burden.
Co-sponsored By CEC artslink, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Poetry Society of America.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
Hart Crane throws himself over the handrail
Leaning over the water, I don’t see
a face reflected. All that I could love
has seeped away from me, and what is left
doesn’t add up to an excuse. In front
of me what could have been my Doppelgänger
constantly rises up, the two of us
are incomprehensibly far away
from one another, only scorn could tell
how far. That’s all I have to say, and keep
on saying till my centre of gravity
touches the node, what we can henceforth term
a balustrade I don’t catch hold of. We
two jump, but only I produce a splash,
we two grow dumb as I alone arrive.
(translated by Christopher Whyte)
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