Poetry CD Giveaway!

For those of you who may be tuning in to our blog for the first time this year, I have a great treat. FSG has created a CD of some of our favorite poetry recordings from last year, and I'm giving just three away on this blog. The recordings include:

• C. K. Williams reading Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead
• Derek Walcott reading sections from The Bounty
• Debut poet Eliza Griswold reading Tigers
• August Kleinzahler reading one of my favorites, Green Sees Things in Waves

There are lots more tracks, but I need to stop myself before I list all of them! If you're interested in receiving a CD, leave a comment below with the name of your favorite FSG poet. We'll choose three people at random to receive the CD. Let's put the end date on this tomorrow afternoon at 5 PM EST.

"The Otherness Of The Translator"

Here is Yves Bonnefoy reading a second poem in French, 'La Maison Natale.'

I wasn't able to come up with a good title for this poem, and many of the French speakers in the FSG offices were reluctant to translate the title without the body of the poem also translated--further proof that this poetry in translation thing is tricky, very tricky!

So I'll present here 'La Maison Natale' as Bonnefoy read it in the original French, and if you can suggest a title in English, please mention it in the comments below. I'll give a copy of Bonnefoy's The Curved Planks to the title I like the best. (Click here to download the audio directly.)

It’s Only Me, Trying To Get Through

Ringtones say a lot about a person. Are you a vibrate--all-the-time on silent, with the phone secreted in your pocket? Or a top 40--set on single handedly saving the record industry with all the tracks your phone has? Or maybe you’ve even decided to go classic, with a ring that actually sounds like a telephone?

But I bet nobody’s got a ringtone like this: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon has written and recorded an original couplet available for free download to your cell phone. It goes:

“It’s only me, trying to get through

I’d really love to talk to you”

Delivered in a fantastic, soothing Irish brogue. You can listen to it here:

And what will this ringtone say about you? Maybe some of these quotes from reviews of Paul Muldoon’s latest books will help you decide: ‘immense wit;’ ‘a knockout;’ ‘full of manic glee;’ ‘plays guitar in a garage rock band; ‘seriously literary;’ ‘I have always had a soft spot for Paul Muldoon.’ Download it for free to your cell phone here.

And be sure to bring your hot new cell phone ring to our event on April 16th at The Strand, where Paul Muldoon will be locked in a full-tilt poetry battle! You'll be able to buy copies of Horse Latitudes and The End of the Poem at the event, or you can get them online now.

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