Mr. Tarr, right, received the Grand Jury Prize in 2011 at the Berlin International Film Festival from a jury member, Guy Maddin. The award was for Mr. Tarr’s final feature film, “The Turin Horse.”
Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Monday, January 5, 2026
FIVE POEMS OF YAKAMOCHI~
to come but to this,
my wife and I trusted in life
as if it would last
a thousand years.
My wife departed from our home.
I could not hold her back
so I have hidden her
in the mountain,
and my heart has lost its bearing.
Though my mind knows
that life never comes
but to this,
how I cannot bear
these painful feelings!
Each time I see the mist
trailing on Saho Mountain,
I remember my wife —
there is no day
when I do not weep.
In the past
I glanced at it casually,
but now that I realize
my wife's grave is there,
how beloved is Saho Mountain.
_______________________
from The Ten Thousand Leaves
Poems from the Man'yoshu
translated by Ian Hideo Levy
NYRB, 2025
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Saturday, January 3, 2026
GASTON FERNANDEZ ~
Apparent Breviary
2
Every time I see the sun I believe in
an opposite. Necessarily
the true absence that extreme
liberty
my hands, they reply: blood doesn't kill.
It remains the same tiger,
who trembles again
in my hands
27
Desire is no one's
lip worn like
memory
eyes
death ahead
without will
without dilemma
without air
39
To the place
from before
44
To know then
Perhaps because two spaces
is
many
and two times now
(perhaps,
if a single time is already
memory
52
Must say something
Flee from the other's word
Without laughing. The word's
capacity
as water A balance.
The ordering of air
65
Never man
Only
one
78
To look,
without distracted eye
To not look Only there the center will be
a pall
nameless place speech,
so the body remains
without distress
without aura
93
The living.
Light expels travelers permanence
has no edge
like hair
does not wound,
does not present
place incarnates,
in intution
without edges
___________________________________
Gaston Fernandez
Apparent Breviary
translated from the Spanish by KM Cascia
World Poetry 2025
Friday, January 2, 2026
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
HEATHER CHRISTLE ~
Advent
It's hopeless, the stars, the books
about stars, they can't help themselves
and how could you not love them for it
here in the new week with animals
burying food and everything outlined
in cold and even friends, it's hopeless,
this mess, this season, all that
is lost and tickets and strangers,
what can I say, only sitting here
on this dark bench waiting for what
I don't know, I want this world
to remain with me, this holy tumult,
which does not know it loves me
and you, friends, spectacular driveways,
an orange, the vanishing year.
______________________________
Heather Christle
Paper Crown
Wesleyan University Press, 2025
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
O A R (full album) ALL DAY ~
Oar is the only studio album by American singer-songwriter Alexander "Skip" Spence, released on May 19, 1969, by Columbia Records. It was recorded over seven days in December 1968 in Nashville, and features Spence on all of the instruments.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025
BRIGITTE BARDOT ~
Ms. Bardot in a scene from “La Vérité,” Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Oscar-nominated 1960 crime drama. She called it the only good film she ever made.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
1934 ~ 2025
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
Thursday, December 25, 2025
PHILIP KOUTEV CHOIR ~
Author's concert of Georgi Genov, April 7, 2010 Performed at Studio 1 of Bulgarian National Radio by the choir of the Bulgarian National Folklore Ensemble "Philip Koutev" Soloist: Neli Andreeva Music, conductor: Georgi Genov
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