Gedicht an die Dauer/To Duration by Peter Handke
On 11 March, 2023 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments
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Dutch filmmaker Pat van Boeckel responds to some lines by the controversial Austrian writer and Nobel laureate Peter Handke, with music by Dario Marionelli. For German speakers, here’s a version without the subtitles.
This is a great example of a poem I wouldn’t spend much time with on the page, given its high level of abstraction—not something I generally look for in poetry. So van Boeckle’s images rescue the poem for me, which is great because in fact the passage of time is a mystery of perennial interest… and also because it seems axiomatic that any argument about duration must take some time to digest.
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.
