STANLEY H. BARKAN [20.060]

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Stanley H. Barkan

Stanley H. Barkan (nacido el 26 de noviembre de 1936) es poeta, traductor, redactor y editor (eg: Comunicaciones transculturales que él fundó en 1971). 

Creció en Brooklyn y recibió una licenciatura en educación de la Universidad de Miami y una maestría en lingüística inglesa de la Universidad de Nueva York. Enseñó inglés en las escuelas secundarias en Brooklyn y Queens a partir de 1964 hasta su retiro en 1991. Fundó Cross-Cultural Communications en 1971 y pasó a publicar obras de Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Isaac Asimov y del poeta ganador del premio Pulitzer y amigo de Barkan, Stanley Kunitz. Cross-Cultural Communications Review Serie de Literatura Mundial y Arte, hasta 2016, su año del 46 aniversario, produjo unos 425 títulos en 58 idiomas diferentes. Su propio trabajo ha sido traducido a 26 idiomas diferentes y publicado en 20 colecciones, varias de ellas bilingües (búlgaro, chino, italiano, polaco, rumano, ruso, siciliano). 

Sus Libros:

No Cats on the Yangtze (The New Feral Press, 2017)

Gambling in Macáu (The Feral Press, 2017)

Brooklyn Poems (The Feral Press, 2016)

Sutter & Snediker (The Feral Press, 2016)

The Machine for Inventing Ideals / Mașina de Inventat Idealuri by Stanley H. Barkan and Daniel Corbu (Editura Princeps Multimedia, 2015)

Sailing the Yangtze (The Feral Press, 2014)

Tango Nights (The Feral Press, 2014)

Raisins with Almonds / Pàssuli cu mènnuli (Legas, 2013)

ABC of Fruits and Vegetables (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2012)

Strange Seasons (AngoBoy, 2007)

Mishpocheh (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2003)

Naming the Birds (ALEKO, 2002)

Bubbemeises & Babbaluci (Coop Ed Sicilian Antigruppo, 2001)

Under the Apple Tree (Oficyna Konfraterni Poetow, 1998)

O Jerusalem (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1996)

The Blacklines Scrawl (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1976, 2010)

Chapbooks 

Butterfly Dreams (The Feral Press, 2016)

Antologías: 

Agenda 2016: Una Antologia Annual de Poetas del Mundo (Santiago, Chile: Movimento Poetas del Mundo & Apostrophes Ediciones, 2016)

Ekphrasia Gone Wild (Ain't Got No Press, 2015)

Bird Poems East and West by John Digby and Hong Ai Bai (The Feral Press, 2015)

World Poetry Anthology (China, 2014)

The Colour of Saying: A Creative Writing Competition in Celebration of Dylan Thomas (The Seventh Quarry & CCC, 2014)

Tokens (P&Q Press, 2014)

Bridging the Waters (KEL & CCC, 2013)

Voices Israel (Voices Israel, 2012)

Toward Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems, Gayl Teller, editor (Writers Ink Press, 2011)

The American Voice in Poetry: The Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg (Paterson, NJ: Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, 2010)

Paumanok: Poems and Pictures of Long Island (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009)

Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009)

Long Island Sounds: From Maspeth to Montauk and Beyond: An Anthology of Poetry (2009)

Long Island Sounds: 2008 (The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2008)

Beacons X (American Translators Association, 2007)

The Artist/L'Artiste (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2005)

Recreando la cultural judeoargentina 1894-2001: en el umbral del segundo siglo (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ensayos, 2001)

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan (1999)

ABC Bestiary (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1990)

South Korean Poets of Resistance (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1980)

Five Contemporary Dutch Poets (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1979)

Five Contemporary Flemish Poets (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1979)

Four Postwar Catalan Poets (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1978)

Sicilian Antigruppo (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1976)

To Struga with Love (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1976)

Sicilian Antigruppo (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1976)

International Festival of Poetry & Art (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1973)

International Poetry Festival (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1972)

Diarios:

Acolada, Arba Sicula, Bitterroot, Confesinui, Confrontation (journal) , Contemporary Poetry, Cyclamens and Swords, El poeta, The Forward , Footwork, Haikuniverse, Home Planet News, Immagine&Poesia, Interdisciplinary Humanities: Interviews. Ithaca 391, The Jewish Week, Korean Expatriate Literature,Krytyka Literacka,The Lips, Make Room for DAda, Margutte, Medicinal Purpose, Paterson Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Performance Poets, POETRY JOURNAL IN PRINT • BÁO GIẤY Vietnamese & English Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Poets e Escritores do Amor e da Paz, Prism Review, Prosopisia, Rattapallax, Revista Poesis, Shabdaguchha, Sicilia Parra, Syndic Literary Journal, The Broome Review, The Drunken Boat, The Muse, The Seventh Quarry, The Washington Square Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Woodstock Times. The Writer , Translation Review, Visions, Voices Israel, Waterways

Premios:

2017, 2016 HOMER - The European Medal of Poetry and Art , June 2016 in China (nomination); January 2017 (ceremony), Brooklyn, New York

2016 Paterson, NJ - The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College Allen Ginsberg 2017 Honorable Mention, at the Hamilton Club, Stanley H. Barkan

2016 [Trapani, Sicily] - L'Occhio di Scammacca" (sculpture) Sicilian award

2014 Canada 4th World Poetry Canada International - Peace, Film and Human Rights Festival Empowered Poet Award (certificate) Stanley H. Barkan "for creating peace through poetry," October 6–26, 2014

2014 Swansea, Wales [The Seventh Quarry] Poetry Magazine - Stanley H. Barkan Special Issue and Plaque "Honors the Publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications for over 40 years of literary excellence... from the CCC Family, April 11, 2014

2013 Paterson, NJ - The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College Allen Ginsberg 2013 Honorable Mention (certificate), at the Hamilton Club, Stanley H. Barkan

2013 Queens, NYC - Shabdaguchha, an international poetry journal, Lifetime Achievement Award (plaque) presented to Stanley H. Barkan, poet and publisher, "for his outstanding contribution to poetry and publishing poets from around the world," at International Poetry Festival in Queens Central Public Library, Jamaica, New York, August 24, 2013

2011 Paterson, NJ -The Poetry Center of Pasaaic County Community College is proud to present to Stanley Barkan The Paterson Literary Review Award Award, [Plaque], "for Lifetime Service to Literature," November 5, 2011

2011 Blairstown, NJ - The Seventh Biennial Warren County Poetry Festival Honors Stanley Barkan "in recognition of 40 years as Publisher & Editor of Cross-Cultural Communications and world-wide promotion of poets," September 24, 2011

2011 LA Korean Expatriate Literature Association - Certificate of Appreciation, Plaque, presented to Stanley H Barkan "for his promotion of the globalization of Korean literature through exchanges of Korean and American poetry," July 26, 2011

2011 Sienna College - NY Plaque Award, The Faculty of the Creative Arts Department at Sienna College are proud to present this award to Stanley H. Barkan "in sincere appreciation of 40 years of success in the Art of Publishing

2004 - NYC World Congress of Poets for Poetry Research and Recitation Diploma Prize and Silla Gold Crown World Peace Literature Prize, December 16, 2004

1998 Long Island, NY - Award for Poetry from the Brandeis National Women's Association

1996 - Poor Richard's Award, a bust of Benjamin Franklin , The Best of the Small Presses, "for 25 years of high quality publishing,"

1991 - New York City Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by the New York City Board of Education and Poet's House)

Aún no nacida

Oh ser Adán

de nuevo

con todas sus costillas

anhelando una mujer

aún no nacida,

libre la boca

del sabor a manzanas,

ajenas las orejas

al silbo de la serpiente,

despreocupado de

la desnudez y la vergüenza

en el jardín

de las amables criaturas

esperando tener nombre

Traducción Germain Droogenbroodt – Rafael Carcelén

AS YET UNBORN 

Oh to be Adam 

again 

with all his ribs 

yearning for a woman 

as yet unborn, 

mouth free 

of the taste of apples, 

ears without 

the hiss of snakes, 

mindless of 

nakedness and shame 

in the garden 

of gentle creatures 

waiting for a name.

Poems from ABC of Fruits and Vegetables collection.

CHREYN

                     for Max Schwartz

Grandfather liked

white horseradish,

chreyn,

on his gefilte fish

because it was strong

like the Limburger cheese

he spread on the large

oval slice of pumpernickel

he covered with heavy sweet cream

thick from the top of the tin milkcan

delivered at predawn to the grocery store

he opened at the crack of every morning.

Horseradish, after all, is just a weed

whose roots in the earth

you may, by chance,

spread as topsoil on your lawn.

It can grow through sand, asphalt—even cement.

It is strong in any form—red or white.

But chreyn is good on flanken and fish,

especially on gefilte.

If he were still here,

you could ask my grandfather.

FIG LEAVES

It was the leaves of the fig

that covered them in their nakedness,

hiding the shame of their opened eyes.

So close they were, those happy leaves,

to the source of pain and pleasure

to follow expulsion from the garden.

Perhaps it is thus why the fig itself

—when opened—spreads to receive

the tongue that delights in exploration.

Luscious fruit, open to willing mouths,

so full of transient solace, momentary bliss,

opening and closing to the curious.

JALAPEÑOS

When the Devil

fell to earth,

cast out of the light

into supernal darkness,

some of his tainted blood

spilled upon the ground,

and, like dragon’s seed,

sprouted into peppers—

black & red & green

chili peppers, paprika,

but, most of all, jalapeños!

They spread on the winds

of khamsin, scirocco, mistral,

all over the equatorial lands,

providing fire with fire

to sere the tongues

like the seven deadly sins.

When you spice your meals,

oh, sinners of the world,

not only your mouth is burning!

PICKLE

A kosher pickle

is a cucumber with taam.

Eaten with roast chicken

or Romanian tenderloin steak,

preferably with corned beef

or pastrami on club bread

—ah, that was my ambrosia.

The pickle store on Blake Avenue

was my Paradise in Brooklyn.

It lured me by the nose,

wafted such sweet scents

through childhood’s summer air

I was transported out of

the crush and chaos of pushcarts

and burnt odor of flicked chicken feathers.

The walls of the pickle place

were covered with calendar girls,

but it was the brine in the barrels

that drew me to their salty pleasures.

No toilet water or perfume

could compare with that aroma.

In the East New York of my childhood,

kosher pickles were my garden of roses,

my eau de Cologne, my Deli No. 5.

RICE KRISPIES VANILLA SQUARES

Once Mother made a confection

out of the Rice Krispies

which snapped, crackled, popped

in the bowls of our childhood

(my brother’s and mine)

in old East New York, Brooklyn.

She took the recipe

from the side of the box

but added her special magic:

the extract of vanilla beans.

It was so-o-o good

my brother and I

could only take a square

at a time from the large

whole pan-filled candy cake.

We savored it

treasured each bite,

wishing it to last

as long as possible.

We hid it in the ice-box,

hoping to have it always,

a bit of vanilla each day

to sweeten our leftover lives.

But, kept for so long,

most of it spoiled,

most of it had to be

thrown away.

It was one of the only things

My brother and I shared

Without a fistfight,

And we both lost.

Still we remember

the special crunch

with the fantastic flavor

we both can never forget—

crispy squares with the tang

cf vanilla-bean extract!

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