Mark Strand Tribute
Mark Strand Tribute Trước khi về Lào ăn Tết Mít với lũ nhỏ, GCC đọc vội tờ NYRB, bài tưởng niệm nhà thơ Mẽo mới mất. Và có đi vài hàng về bài này. Về lại Canada, nhân cái chân trái đang làm eo, bèn nằm 1 chỗ, và lôi tờ báo ra đọc tiếp, thì phát giác ra 1 bài thần sầu: How Envy of Jews Lay Behind It “Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust” The historian George Mosse liked to tell a hypothetical story: if someone had predicted in 1900 that within fifty years the Jews of Europe would be murdered, one possible response would have been: “Well, I suppose that is possible. Those French or Russians are capable of anything.” In Memory of Joseph Brodsky It could be said, even here, that what remains of the self Unwinds into a vanishing light, and thins like dust, and heads To a place where knowing and nothing pass into each other, and through; That it moves, unwinding still, beyond the vault of brightness ended...