#Le Castor astral

[mamaasawriter]

Bien sûr que ça finira de cette manière : quelques-uns dans la montagne, avec des sourires très doux et la certitude que le reste ne vaut pas la peine puisque nous ne sommes pas plus féroces que les falaises qui nous maintiennent

Cécile Coulon, Les Ronces

[lesmotsquejauraisaimeecrire]

"Généralement les hommes sont plus riches des mystères qui les constituent que de ceux qu'ils élucident, et les secrets dont on retire l'écorce deviennent de pauvres petites connaissances mises à jour"

"De l'univers", Xavier Deutsch, Le Castor Astral, coll. Escales du Nors, 2006, pp. 28-29

[icariebzh]

 "Il fallait commencer juste avant que ça commence entre la poubelle et la lumière réveiller les oiseaux déplier les ravines trier les épis des épines tâcher de gratterle ventre tiède du mensonge sans le réveiller une goutte de sang jaune dans les yeux aveuglés pour continuer à ne jamais conclure."  Thomas Vinau "Continuer" extrait de: "Debout dans les fleurs sales" 365 poèmes à déployer-Editions "Le Castor Astral  

[annlocarles]

Son corps est une silique Ouverte au vent « Une silique vide de graine On n’avait pas rendez-vous ensemble »             alors toi et moi on doit attendre Le prochain brasier Du monde, de l’univers, Des millions de mondes en flammes             — oh qu’il en soit ainsi

Gary Snyder, Poème pour les oiseaux, extraît - traduit de l’anglais par Marie-Christine Masset, édition bilingue, Le Castor Astral, 202

[aspho-dele]

[…] La traduction de la poésie palestinienne est en pleine expansion. En France, le poète marocain Abdellatif Laâbi poursuit son travail de passeur. Traducteur de Mahmoud Darwich, Samih al-Qassim et Ashraf Fayad, auteur de trois remarquables anthologies, dont la dernière en 2022, il revient avec la traduction d’une sélection de poèmes de Najwan Darwish, l’un des poètes palestiniens les plus remarqués de la nouvelle génération…[…]

Najwan Darwish - Tu n’es pas un poète à Grenade - Trad. de l’arabe par Abdellatif Laâbi. Éditions : Le Castor Astral, 104 p.

[anotherwaytosay]

Join us on Friday, September 27th at 8 PM at Molasses Books for the Fall edition of the series -- an all-alumni event featuring Nicholas Glastonbury debuting his translation of Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet (Soho Press), a gay thriller, "...dishy, suspenseful, boiling over with black humor," "The Birdcage as done by Highsmith," Marine Cornuet with the first English translation of French-Algerian poet Anna Gréki's Algeria, capital: Algiers (forthcoming Pinsapo Press), written in prison after Gréki was arrested for participating in the Algerian liberation movement against French rule, and K. B. Thors with a collection translated from Icelandic: Herostories by poet-historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, and an essay by the same author about a queer turn-of-the-century midwife.

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Nicholas Glastonbury is a writer, translator, and editor from the Florida backwaters. His translations of Turkish and Kurdish fiction and poetry have appeared with or are forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press, Comma Press, Soho Press, Sandorf Passage, Nightboat Books, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and lives in Crown Heights.

Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Algeria, capital: Algiers, her translation of French-Algerian poet Anna Gréki’s collection, is forthcoming with Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found: the CUNY Poetics Document Initiative in the fall of 2024. Recent translations include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar's collection Pilgrim Bell. She is the presse manager and a member of the editorial collective at Ugly Duckling Presse.

K.B. Thors is author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books) and the forthcoming Berserk Her, as well as the translator of five books including poetry, fiction, and art text. Her translation of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning won the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif & Inger Sjöberg Prize and was nominated for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. Her translation of Tómasdóttir’s Herostories was published by Deep Vellum in 2023.

[jeremiekroubodagnini]

LA JAMAIQUE AVANT BOB MARLEY

Radio. Série à écouter en juillet 2024 sur France Musique : La Jamaïque avant Bob Marley.

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Format 8 x une heure pour la série La Jamaïque avant Bob Marley, de Florian Royer. À écouter le samedi et le dimanche sur France Musique, de 18 à 19 heures en juillet 2024.

Avant que l’image et le style de Bob Marley ne s’imposent au monde comme les emblèmes de la musique jamaïcaine, avec leur cortège d’exagérations et de caricatures, l’île était déjà le berceau de nombreux musiciens. Les écrasantes figures de Bob Marley, de Jimmy Cliff et de Peter Tosh, masquent malgré elles les origines de la musique jamaïcaine.

Avant le reggae, des artistes jamaïcains ont inventé le mento, développé le shuffle, d'autres ont suivi les traces des jazzmen américains. En remontant aussi loin que possible, la musique jamaïcaine est indissociable des spiritualités. Celles apportées par les esclaves, celles imposées par le christianisme, jusqu’au rastafarisme créé dans les années 1930 et dont plusieurs musiciens se sont réclamés bien avant Bob Marley, tels que Count Ossie et Don Drummond.

Les 8 épisodes!

=> Livres

-BLUM Bruno, Jamaïque : sur la piste du reggae, Scali, 2007

-BLUM Bruno, Les musiques des Caraïbes : du vaudou au calypso, Le Castor astral, 2021

-KROUBO DAGNINI Jérémie, Les origines du reggae : retour aux sources. Mento, ska, rocksteady et early reggae, Camion blanc, 2013

-KROUBO DAGNINI Jérémie, Rasta et résistance : de Marcus Garvey à Walter Rodney, Camion blanc, 2014

-KROUBO DAGNINI Jérémie, Vibrations jamaïcaines : L’histoire des musiques populaires jamaïcaines au XXème siècle, Camion blanc, 2011

-SIMONS Andrew, Black british swing : the African diaspora’s contribution to England’s own jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, Northway Publications, 2010

-SPRINGER Robert, Nobody knows where the blues come from : lyrics and history, University Press of Mississippi, 2006

=> Articles

-ARAVAMUDAN Srinivas, L'Obeah : magie noire, langage de révolte, ou guérison traditionnelle ?, Africultures, vol. 98, no. 2, 2014, pp. 100-107

-BLACK Roy, Jiving Juniors unleashes Derrick Harriott on the world, The Gleaner, 2014

-BLACK Roy, Vintage Voices : great Jamaican songwriters, The Gleaner, 2019

-MILLER Herbie et MOORE Roberto, Le jazz jamaïcain sur l’île et à l’étranger, Volume !, 2017, pp. 147-161

-SIMPSON Hyacinth M., The BBC’s Caribbean Voices and the Making of an Oral Aesthetic in the West Indian Short Story, Journal of the short story in English, 2011, pp. 81-96

[chsanchez]

Je suis avec Milène TournierÀ faire tourner la ville Comme un manègeAvec le même vertigeDebout sur la moto l’autoOu l’autruche à vouloir Attraper le pomponDe l’instant caché derrière Chaque geste que la ville souffle -(Lisez « Ce que m’a soufflé la ville » de Milène Tournier paru au Castor Astral puis les autres textes parus ou à paraître. J’ai pensé à Marlène Tissot, à Thomas Vinau, plus loin plus loin à Félix Fénéon et ses nouvelles en trois lignes ; puis j’ai arrêté de penser, c’est Milène Tournier, c’est elle, elle si singulière)

http://www.fut-il.net/2023/02/milene-tournier.html

[h-didanart]

:)

Grab a snack and settle down friend. We’ll be here for a while

CAUTION: incoming spoilers for ‘The Sunset and Moonlight Show’, there will be talk about some swaps and plot points

This means I thought this out a while ago. This means that it’s more recent, mostly today since I decided to think through the ScythLux thing more. This means I came up with it on the fly.

So it all started with a little joke I made to myself while I was walking outside, I dunno what I was thinking but I remembered the existence of the BloodLux fic collection and remembered my swap au and I was like ‘oh hey a rare pair replaced a rare pair, that’s neat, BloodLux Yuri for the win lol’, and then that got stuck in my head. BloodLux Yuri. BloodLux Yuri. Bouncing around in my brain for about a minute. I thought about it, about how they’d know one another, about how their relationship would develop. The first concept was ProjectBM meeting a Gemini that’s being kept in a tube and examined by Kill_Code for star related reasons. I’d imagine ProjectBM just glaring at the star being god thing cuz they are too bright and annoying, meanwhile Gemini is just sitting there unamused by everything the metallic mortals are doing. And then Gemini would get pissed at Lunar Eclipse bonding their souls together, cuz now they can’t just leave back to the other astrals cuz the little shit’s with them, so they have to stick around and deal with Lunar Eclipse possessing them once in a while and being generally a nuisance. And then LE gets the Star and all that happens, blah, blah. The treat comes at ProjectBM Scythe and Fang’s redemption arc. (Which actually happens before LE binds their soul to Gemini) They’d be struggling to reconcile what they’ve done with the way they think now that their bloodlust has been dulled, it was bad yeah but they didn’t have a choice, they were made like that, but they enjoyed it didn’t they? She taunted and tortured, she didn’t have to do that yet she did, she hadn’t even cared about being a bad person! All she wanted was fun, freedom! That’s what they had for a while and it was great! They had a father and a reluctant sibling figure who tried to understand them. But they didn’t anymore. Father was dead, LE said it never cared for them, and they refused to listen to that, but then the Morning Star went back on their word, attacked them, hurled insults at them, treated them as if they were some monster. And maybe they were. No, they were. Because only a monster would find joy amongst all the killing, would mercilessly slaughter children in a body that wasn’t their own, would be chained up and left to rot in the deepest end of someone’s mind, would be lied to just so they could do everyone else’s dirty work. They didn’t deserve what they had lost, and they didn’t deserve what they wanted. She truly was just a lost cause. She sat in a log in some forest at nighttime, curled up with Sun’s her knees up to her chest. And then there’s a sound like a wind chime, and Scythe and Fang look up and they see the star person who Father had been studying for some time. And presumably Gemini talks to her and they bond and stuff but I didn’t actually think that through, sorry. At this point I made a doodle of them both and came up with some names for the ship and decided that Scythe and Pollux would be the ones dating one another while Fang and Castor were just buddies. I also finally came up with dialogue and a way to go about Sunset’s death//sacrifice, but that’s not very relevant save for the fact that Scythe and Fang feel terribly guilty over it and have bowed to not let Sun’s death be in vain. And then I forgot about this silly ship.

As a side note, in part 2 of Lord Bloodmoon simulation I was just thinking ‘BloodLux toxic yaoi’ during that whole interaction between Castor and Lord BM. Dear Void, I spend too much time in this site. Anyways—

The next big wave of ScythLux thoughts came from the silly Hamilton crossover reference thing I made a few days ago. I was like, ‘cool! This is silly, I do not need to think about it more, sure is a shame Eclair won’t sing You’ll be back though, but I’d love to see Scythe perform First Burn! But who would it be directed to though? Oh right, Gemini. Oh shit Hamilton Gemini. Then who’s Burr, Gea? Oh shit Burr Gea. OH SHIT MARIA SAWBLADE—[insert more thinking about the thing I did not need to think about, I swear that whole scenario deserves its own post]’ and so, more ScythLux content was thought through. For this silly scenario in specific, Gemini would’ve dropped by to check on the funky metal mortals and Fang Scythe and discovered them discussing performing a so called musical, and they were curious so they asked about it and Eclair made them listen to the whole thing, and they were like looks fun! And they kept on watching everyone discuss it and come to the conclusion they had to have their own illegal performance of the show. Scythe (and Fang by extension) was casted as Eliza, though they didn’t have a Hamilton yet, and with her as Eliza the options were not many so she was given a choi— Gemini. They chose Gemini. So Gemini is Hamilton in that silly thing, which takes place in the ‘no one dies!’ Timeline. More things of note in this scenario are the fact Scythe and Fang were performing while mostly blind only ever being able to see when there wasn’t bright lights in the stage, so Satistied and Burn were mostly easier to perform. During Helpless Fang would separate from Scythe due to a really violent repulsion to romance (Fang grimaces through the whole song only participating cuz twin needs the physical support and is having fun), and Fang alongside their little Roderick plush would be near Scythe to help them move since they cannot move their legs very well. Gemini (Pollux specifically) would pick up Scythe right before the last chorus where Hamilton is giving his little speech//promise to Eliza and spin around a bit with her in their arms. And they wouldn’t kiss but they’d bonk their foreheads together.

And then we get to today. Oh boy, today. Not only did you get me to draw for about four hours but you got me investigating too! I didn’t have a design for Swap!Gemini in the morning, but now I do.

Greek inspired Gemini, their hair is like the nebulas the JWST has photographed, clouds of protostars and gasses, the cloth over their body being inspired by a toga I think, long sleeves cuz they looked cool and gave them an airy feel like the sign, star like jewels around their body organized in a really smart way that I’m incredibly proud of, they oversee others traveling and often send winds and messages of good luck to them, they’re an observer by nature, rather curious and often impulsive, out of the both of them Castor is the physically weaker twin but brains of them both, Pollux is the fighter built to withstand harsher damages, being made of a stable yellow-orange star gives her more strength than the combination of blue giants and red dwarves Castor is comprised of, these aspects have also been included due to the Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology, one mortal son of a king another immortal son of Zeus. I think they appear like this cuz it’s an amalgamation of the most known aspects of them in Earth (dw, the peacocks and goat thing are also referenced but in their individual designs) and being a godly being they kinda have to assume a form a mortal could comprehend.

Then we have the Bloodmoon twins whose appearances vary between the physical and mental realms. Physically stuck in Sun, the most they can change their appearance is in their clothes, with some rays sticking out more than others and a pupil change to signify who’s fronting, fangs are also common but I forgot to draw them with them. In the mental realm they look like themselves, a more demonic looking bot, with cat like legs and mostly black and red clothes. Just out of frame is their own body which I will not show yet but is actually kinda really funny and cool and stuff.

As for their new dynamic, things would start off differently. Gemini is just overseeing Earth, watching the metallic mortals try to comprehend Star Power and stuff, it’s a bit annoying, they prefer to study Earthling culture more, but there’s one mortal that does tend to catch their attention, that Bloodmoon one. They’re amusing, running around, making a deal to have their family, and so. And they’re two people, just like them! How cool is that? Anyways they watch the idiots a bit more and decide that maybe they should investigate more closely, so they start talking to ProjectBM, and freak them out, of course. But they interact more and more, and Pollux gets attached to them! And ProjectBM also starts liking them! And then the Lunar stuff and blah blah. But after that stuff is over with and the BM twins have had their redemption arc, Gemini still hangs out around them, they watch as she goes around doing odd jobs, trying to make up for what she’s done or something, she tries to get them to fight her since she’s good at that and Castor made a comment about Pollux liking it too, so Pollux and the twins start having friendly boxing matches once in a while. And it’s all fun. And at some point Scythe realizes that she kinda probably accidentally fell in love with Pollux, and once the feelings of crushes and love are explained to her Pollux might realize that she too might’ve fallen in love. And so they start dating. And it’s cute, and Pollux often turns into her animal form, a yellow and orange peacock, and stands in BM’s shoulder as they go about their day (Castor being there too, as a kinda blue kinda cream goat), and they’re cute together, and they hug, and they cuddle, and it’s very fluffy.

And that’s it, I think.

Oh, right, should probably clarify who’s who. The ScythLux ship would be the swap version of the FlareCode ship. Bloodmoon and KillCode have swapped places, Gemini and SolarFlare have swapped places too.

Thoughts are welcome :3

Is that confusion over the ship’s existence or confusion over my statement about my au?

Oh no, no no no, I’m just actually interested in the swap au even more (I actually think the ship is cute)

[mamaasawriter]

Elle coupe l'air Et le geste balaie Tout Commence et finit Là Dans ce geste où tout Commence et finit Dans ce geste où tout s'arrête et Rien n'existe et Tout commence Avec elle D'un simple coup de bras

Marie Testu, Marie-Lou-Le-Monde

[poipoi-illustration]

[tournevole]

LES RÊVEURS AU CHÔMAGE

J’ai de la peine pour les gens qui ne sont pas employés à rêver.

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), in Pourquoi les poètes inconnus restent inconnus / recueil posthume de poèmes inédits, traduits de l’américain par Thierry Beauchamp et Romain Rabier / Ed. Le Castor Astral, 2003.

[lesamisdelalibrairiediderot]

Printemps des poètes

Le 28 mars la librairie devait organiser une rencontre lecture autour du printemps des poètes. Le thème de cette année était le courage Ce moment d’échange et de convivialité se déroulera virtuellement! Pour continuer ce printemps des poètes, voici quelques liens:

Le site du printemps des poètes

Bruno Doucey sur le site des éditions Bruno Doucey, propose chaque jour un menu poésie avec des lectures (écrit ou vidéo)

c Menu poésie du site des éditions Bruno Doucey

Une très belle initiative de Wajdi Mouawad,  directeur du théâtre de la Colline, Paris 20, dans les Poissons pilote de la colline:

#Au creux de l'oreille : Il propose un rendez téléphonique pour une lecture de poésie ou de théâtre de quelques minutes.

#Tous les jours à 11h un journal de confinement audio

La page Facebook de La Factorie-Maison de  poésie / Normandie propose depuis deux jours des "poèmes à crier par la fenêtre"

Vous pouvez participer si vous le souhaitez, en vous filmant et en envoyant la vidéo. La deuxième lecture de poème était de Francis Combes, d'un extrait de son recueil "Si les symptômes persistent, consulter un poète"

Quelques lectures:

Collectif, Le courage, éditions Bruno Doucey,

Collectif, Nous, avec le poème comme seul courage, éditions du Castor Astral

Sophie Nauleau, Espère ton courage, Actes Sud

Francis Combes, Si les symptômes persistent, consulter un poète, Le Merle Moqueur

Notre initiative du Printemps des poètes, devait se dérouler samedi 28 mars, à la librairie.

Nous pouvons le faire virtuellement! Quel serait votre lecture de poème?

Nous pourrions les partager ensuite ici!

Vous pouvez nous l'envoyer sur l'adresse de la librairie: librairie.diderot@orange.fr

A très vite....

[juvancy]

« Si les œuvres des artistes tiennent en vie et alimentent nos cerveaux, pourquoi ne tiendraient-elles pas en vie notre organisme et n'alimenteraient-elles pas notre corps ?

Une œuvre, aujourd'hui, se doit d'être à la portée de tous et non pas seulement de quelques uns.

Elle se doit d'être indéfiniment répétée de façon à ce qu'elle ne représente plus que le prix de ce qu'elle porte en son message universel. »

extrait de « Manifeste et boules de gomme «  de Jean Luc Parant aux Éditions Héros-Limite.

"If artists' works keep alive and feed our brains, why would not they keep our bodies alive and nourish our bodies? A work today must be accessible to everyone, not just a few. It must be repeated indefinitely so that it only represents the price of what it carries in its universal message. "

excerpt from "Manifesto and balls of gum" by Jean Luc Parant at Éditions Héros-Limite.

about Jean-Luc Parant: jevousecrisduboutdumonde.wordpress.jean-luc-parant

bibliothèque personnelle...Jean Luc Parant essayant de trouver le sommeil...extrait de “cent mille et une boules Parant &Co aux éditions le castor astral 1985...

[arnosabatier]

Le belge .. mange sa pizza italienne à Mons ! Not nee echte Bruseler Pizza .. bon vivement que les cours de néerlandais commencent (mardi en huit) nivel B1 ...

[ftbugatti]

Le mot Révolution n'est pas pour nous, Français, un mot vague. Nous savons que la Révolution est une rupture, la Révolution est un absolu. Il n'y a pas de révolution modérée, il n'y a pas de révolution dirigée – comme on dit l'Économie dirigée.

Georges Bernanos, in “La France contre les Robots”, I. (5 Janvier 1945), p. 26, éd. Castor Astral