{"id":152766,"date":"2021-05-28T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=152766"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:24:04","slug":"poets-on-couches-rita-dove-reads-ingeborg-bachmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/28\/poets-on-couches-rita-dove-reads-ingeborg-bachmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets on Couches: Rita Dove Reads Ingeborg Bachmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dove_bachman_titles5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-152767 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dove_bachman_titles5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dove_bachman_titles5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dove_bachman_titles5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dove_bachman_titles5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The second series of Poets on Couches continues with Rita Dove reading Ingeborg Bachmann\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2985\/ten-poems-ingeborg-bachmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Bird<\/a>,\u201d translated from the German by Mark Anderson. In these videograms, poets read and discuss the poems<\/em><em> that are helping them through\u2014broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across distances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRyxqdc1-T4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2985\/ten-poems-ingeborg-bachmann\">My Bird<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nby Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Mark Anderson<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 92 (Summer 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever comes to pass: the devastated world<br \/>\nsinks back into twilight,<br \/>\nthe forest offers it a sleeping potion,<br \/>\nand from the tower the watchman\u2019s forsaken,<br \/>\npeaceful and constant the eyes of the owl stare down.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever comes to pass: you know your time,<br \/>\nmy bird, you put on your veil<br \/>\nand fly through the mist to me.<\/p>\n<p>We peer into the haze where the rabble houses.<br \/>\nYon follow my nod and storm out<br \/>\nin a whirl of feathers and fur\u2014<\/p>\n<p>My ice-gray shoulder companion, my weapon,<br \/>\nadorned with that feather, my only weapon!<br \/>\nMy only finery: your veil and your feather.<\/p>\n<p>And even when my skin burns<br \/>\nin the needle dance beneath the tree,<br \/>\nand the hip-high shrubs<br \/>\ntempt me with their spicy leaves,<br \/>\nwhen my curls dart like snake tongues,<br \/>\nsway and long for moisture,<br \/>\nthe dust of distant stars still falls<br \/>\nright on my hair.<\/p>\n<p>When I, in a helmet of smoke,<br \/>\ncome back to my senses.<br \/>\nmy bird, my nighttime ally,<br \/>\nwhen I\u2019m ablaze in the night<br \/>\nthe dark grove crackles<br \/>\nand I hammer the sparks from my limbs.<\/p>\n<p>And when I stay ablaze as I am,<br \/>\nloved by the flame<br \/>\nuntil the resin streams out of the trunks,<br \/>\ndrips over the wounds and<br \/>\nspins the earth warm into thread<br \/>\n(and though you rob my heart at night,<br \/>\nmy bird of belief, my bird of faith!)<br \/>\nthe watchtower moves into brightness<br \/>\nwhere you, tranquil now,<br \/>\nalight in magnificent peace\u2014<br \/>\nwhatever comes to pass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet to have been honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. A professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, she lives in Charlottesville. Her poems \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7630\/postlude-rita-dove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postlude<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7631\/naji-14-philadelphia-rita-dove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naji, 14. 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