HeyJaredFrank Beck
Writer and translator; reviews new poetry for The Manhattan Review; co-translator of Lou Andreas-Salomé's 'Anneliese's House' (Boydell and Brewer, 2021).
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“I was like a river” (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I was like a river that our stern age of iron pushed aside. My life was displaced. It has flowed on through different channels, far from the first one, and I no longer know my own shores . . .<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zkxS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
Thought for the day (opens the original)
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Let us see whether the vast majority of the so-called “insurmountable barriers” that the world draws are not harmless chalk lines!Lou Andreas-Salomé, in a letter to her former tutor Henrik Gillot, 1882(Translated by Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger)Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" t
Rachmaninoff’s Summer of Love (opens the original)
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“Does [Sergei Vasilyevich] really think we don’t know he’s writing a piano concerto?” Fifteen-year-old Vera Skalon wrote that question in her diary in the summer of 1890.She and her two sisters were staying at Ivanovka, the Satin family estate, some three hundred miles south of Moscow, with the two Satina sisters, and their cousin, a seventeen-year-old music student named Sergei Rachmaninoff.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v7t8!,f_auto,q
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