{"id":39524,"date":"2011-07-16T21:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=39524"},"modified":"2011-07-17T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T10:12:48","slug":"four-poems-ulf-stolterfoht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/four-poems-ulf-stolterfoht\/","title":{"rendered":"Four poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ulf Stolterfoht.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jargons IV (1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>opens brightly: sentences exist. deduces claims:<br \/>\nfull of words. and that is all there is.<br \/>\nin overtones a merely as what&#8217;s surely commonly:<br \/>\ngood perception of fruit \u2014 may well<br \/>\nstand for other things. complete perception of<br \/>\ngood fruit \u2014 here&#8217;s how it functions:<\/p>\n<p>like apples eyes and. not to mention pears.<br \/>\npresumes pending corroboration: the apple does not<br \/>\nsee itself. in this it&#8217;s like the eye. you can&#8217;t tell from<br \/>\nthe looks of one (please look at this as a sentence)<br \/>\nit&#8217;s being looked at by another. \u201cplease look at this as<br \/>\na sentence&#8221; likewise to be looked at as a sentence etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cis to say&#8221; takes place. aspects apace. one owes\/<br \/>\nthanks\/is obliged. \u201cis to mean&#8221; goes haywire. also<br \/>\n\u201cmore later&#8221; belongs here. strong feelings of happiness<br \/>\nthrough fruit. a newer. a better. a dapper<br \/>\nperhaps. perhaps mere structures but at least crude<br \/>\nand pure. leads from needy to approximate. the word<\/p>\n<p>of fruit in the eye of the beholder. the post as<br \/>\nbeam or mote. the sentence of the hereditary<br \/>\nbranch. the word of trunk a hybrid. first: the<br \/>\nwrong fruit in the right place. then: the tree as<br \/>\nword \u2014 a good sentence. then if I&#8217;m not mistaken<br \/>\nthe whole tree on the left as strongest branch.<\/p>\n<p>translated by Rosemarie Waldrop<\/p>\n<p><strong>mother tongue 1968\/2: ernst mach death league<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>did sense (true to statute: save experience)<br \/>\nrisk its neck for the disproportion touched by<br \/>\nthe guild, spoke of the axe in the cordmaker&#8217;s<br \/>\nhouse: \u2018swung back  \u2013 now hack!&#8217; Too late:<\/p>\n<p>he twists no more \u2013 already strung  his noose<br \/>\nand escaped from the world. is \u2018starting from&#8217;<br \/>\nwhat description can do? answer: \u2018spawn dwell<br \/>\nin even the smallest pond&#8217; shows what can<\/p>\n<p>be done with stump. a naturally leibnizian allusion.<br \/>\ntoday perhaps: how to bring the newt to the<br \/>\ndrain. along the way saved a lot of water by ec-<br \/>\nonomic verse IS CERTAINLY the scholar&#8217;s most  <\/p>\n<p>noble behaviour  the cretan question \u2018earthly burdened&#8217;<br \/>\nin favour of \u2018saturated with language&#8217;. the whole<br \/>\nthing left to its own accord. If words what they themselves<br \/>\nbody but at best feel it in the suffix their reference<\/p>\n<p>must be a taking. on ON you signal un<br \/>\ndaunted: you&#8217;ve corded up \u2013 now tie it off! each time<br \/>\ncomes a drawing. spoke coarsely of \u2018in light of&#8217;:<br \/>\non the foreign knot from the now unavoided swamp. <\/p>\n<p>translated by Brian Currid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jargons (10\/5) [call to all highly armed bohemians]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>call to all highly armed bohemians (four works already<br \/>\nripped to shreds!) in future, the streetwar is to be<br \/>\nfought \u2018away from art&#8217;. lamentation&#8217;s polyvocal ohs and ahs<br \/>\n\u2013 but one was asphalted in the most concrete way. the<\/p>\n<p>village vanguard still that very night. (so-called recognised)<br \/>\nresistance biographies lasting many years. Con-<br \/>\nsidering refractioning. On the one hand, the class-<br \/>\nspecific interest in erecting new weimar (like:<\/p>\n<p>read faster comrade \/ radical chic) at the same time<br \/>\nof course the wish to needlepoint the pillow goes on:<br \/>\nwe will be well-read \/ the text is getting too short<br \/>\nfor us. the hall fight ends refreshingly. committees<\/p>\n<p>formed. what came since, merely: revolution<br \/>\nas pacified stylistic position. interrogation rooms are<br \/>\nthen set up. wimpering about a question of life or<br \/>\ndeath: an I. \u2018if I didn&#8217;t take the side of experiment <\/p>\n<p>the publisher would let me die of hunger, arms outstretched&#8217;.<br \/>\nthe art watchman&#8217;s unsympathetic, but all the same judg-<br \/>\nments based on torturing principles. but \u2013 psychotic<br \/>\nsystems often possess their own persuasive logic: schelling <\/p>\n<p>already complained about h\u00cb\u2020derlin&#8217;s subversive hairdo<br \/>\n\u2013 all that hair and no comb! now we get used to so<br \/>\nmuch more: one outgrew his battle shoes and became<br \/>\nadult. the other got stuck in them, turned into song.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Brian Currid<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIN 2330: concepts and designations general principles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>berlin: hotbed of the best. a healthy word (like bran)<br \/>\nback to basics for the true believers. strip the language<br \/>\nto its roots. good. friday: working on vocabulary.<br \/>\nenter the body of language with a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>saturday: stock up on signs. a pantry of<br \/>\nconcepts. sunday: special lexicon. border terms.<br \/>\napparently names. in the evenings language theory takes<br \/>\na sabbatical. for the good of the community you explain \u2018shoo stick&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>then goodbye. \/\/ vienna. alone at the guesthouse<br \/>\n\u2018mercy option&#8217;. with problems about standards. fear<br \/>\nof failure. come on words: explode! where is<br \/>\nglossolalia when you need her, the glossary<\/p>\n<p>must be produced. only half-hearted agreement on<br \/>\nthe best mnemonic. \/\/ d\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf in autumn.<br \/>\nthe coolest squads for linguistic emergency. pep<br \/>\ntalkers sound spielers. can justify surveillance:<\/p>\n<p>for the first time voice prints will be taken, the<br \/>\nrules seem watertight, yet braille will rescue<br \/>\nthe words. so efficiently sublime: the normmakers<br \/>\nshould not feel all was in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Joanne Burns.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stolterfoht01-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"stolterfoht01\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stolterfoht01-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stolterfoht01.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\nUlf Stolterfoht was born on 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart. He has studied German literature and philology in T\u00c3\u00bcbingen and Bochum. Even before the publication of his debut volume in 1998, his poems already appeared in various journals and anthologies.  From 2008 to 2009 he was professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Stolterfoht lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stolterfoht01-150x150.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"solid black 1px\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>then goodbye. \/\/ vienna. alone at the guesthouse<br \/>\n\u2018mercy option&#8217;. with problems about standards. fear<br \/>\nof failure. come on words: explode! where is<br \/>\nglossolalia when you need her, the glossary<\/p>\n<p>must be produced. only half-hearted agreement on<br \/>\nthe best mnemonic. \/\/ d\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf in autumn.<br \/>\nthe coolest squads for linguistic emergency. pep<br \/>\ntalkers sound spielers. can justify surveillance:<\/p>\n<p>for the first time voice prints will be taken, the<br \/>\nrules seem watertight, yet braille will rescue<br \/>\nthe words. so efficiently sublime: the normmakers<br \/>\nshould not feel all was in vain.<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Ulf Stolterfoht.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenant","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}