P/P NEWSLETTER | II.26.2007

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Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego

In every picture,
there's a poem;
In every poem,
a picture.

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Dear Friends:

Here's what's new on the Picture/Poem website
the first week of March 2007

Picture/Poems: Central Display (and follow links to...)

http://www.picture-poems.com

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NEW MUSIC SPECIAL

*ETUDE FOR KEYBOARD *

(after Domenico Scarlatti)

http://cs-music.com/keyboard/keyboard-etude_1.mp3 [2.5]

Download a PDF of the score at:
http://cs-music.com/keyboard/keyboard-etude_1.pdf [104 K]

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Featured photograph/poems from "Images of the Natural Year":

*Images from the Periphery of Time*

This week, two new translations from the
GERMAN:

Death Experience

We know nothing of this going away, that
shares nothing with us. We have no reason,
whether astonishment and love or hate,
to display Death, whom a fantastic mask

of tragic lament astonishingly disfigures.
Now the world is still full of roles which we play
as long as we make sure, that, like it or not,
Death plays, too, although he does not please us.

But when you left, a strip of reality broke
upon the stage through the very opening
through which you vanished: Green, true green,
true sunshine, true forest.

We continue our play. Picking up gestures
now and then, and anxiously reciting
that which was difficult to learn; but your far away,
removed out of our performance existence,

sometimes overcomes us, as an awareness
descending upon us of this very reality,
so that for a while we play Life
rapturously, not thinking of any applause.

Rainer Maria Rilke (c. 1907) (tr. Cliff Crego)

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/glaciermelt.html

Or visit the P/P nested website for RILKE'S poetry
in new English translations at:

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke

Or go to the PhotoWeek Archive at:

http://cs-music.com/features/photos/photoweek-archive.html

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Featured Miniatures:

*BURDEN OF THE PAST*

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/poster_burden-of-the-past.html

[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

Purchace online glossy A4 (8 x 10") Posters $4.99:

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf73536aeff1

Or go to the P/P Miniatures Archives at:

http://cs-music.com/features/cards/archive-miniatures.html

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Featured Picture/Poem:.

A GATHERING PLACE

In a far
corner, glass
opaque and crusty with old manure,

the messy backyard
of the barn's windowsill. Dark. Still,
a gathering place
of the preterite,
for those

used-up,
empty, broken accessories,

containers
of a farmer's life;
During

cleaning time, a place
passed over,
a bit out of reach,
but still too close, to put out of
mind.

http://www.picture-poems.com/week3/sheep.html

Part of ON PATHS: download as ebook / or pdf at: [1 Mb]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
http://picture-poems.com/ebooks/on-paths.pdf

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Featured COMPOSITION:

Stone Song—

Based on eight English translations by Cliff Crego of poems
by the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg

Stone Song

Words going backwards
are on their way to you:
so that you may hear
your ears are gone.

Sentences inside out
because your knowing is gone.
Song to surround you
stone against stone.

Gerrit Achterberg
(tr. from the Dutch by Cliff Crego)

DOWNLOAD MP3 at:
http://picture-poems.com/mp3/stonesong.mp3 [6.7 Mb]

Or listen in streaming RealAudio at:
http://picture-poems.com/realaudio/stonesong.ram

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As always, your comments and
suggestions are welcome.

All the best.
Cliff Crego
Northwest Ohio, USA
crego@picture-poems.com

Get the new Picture/Poem Calendar at:

http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_magnolia-I-2007.html

Or DOWNLOAD as PDF at: [to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]

http://cs-music.com/features/calendars/calendar_magnolia-I-2007.pdf

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http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?auto=1&aid=768a5498cf470f2def95&idx=-1

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