As I look back on my website and blog, launched in August 2021, I cannot improve on my statement in the first blogpost, “Strange Arts and Visual Delights / Kunst- und Wunderkammer":
“I hope [the blogposts] will be various and curious, touching on any topics that interest me at a given moment, including poetry, regional and family history, politics, culture. I hope to be an observer of the passing (and many passed) scenes, good natured by preference but acidic when called for. You may disagree with me, but friends are those we love and respect, not those we agree with.” My Translations and Poems • French Poems by Rilke: “’Mensonge II' (Lie II),” “Rilke’s Beetles,” “Rilke’s Cornucopia,” “Rilke’s Beau Papillon,” “Rilke's 'le noyer' (walnut tree),” “Four Versions of Rilke’s Rose (XXI),” |