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Luke Fischer

Luke Fischer is a poet and scholar. His publications include three authored books: the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015), and the book of bedtimes stories The Blue Forest (Lindisfarne Books, 2015). He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, was twice shortlisted in the 2012 Newcastle Poetry Prize, and commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award. He was awarded a PhD in 2008 and is an honorary associate in the philosophy department at the University of Sydney.

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Rilke, Cavafy, Hölderlin: Simeon Kronenberg Interviews Luke Fischer

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Luke Fischer

The following interview mostly took place between June and October 2015, mainly via email. Luke was traveling in Europe during much of this period.

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Rilke and the Buddha: 3 Translations

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Luke Fischer

These poems instantiate a significant cross-cultural and intermedial dialogue between West and East, Europe and Asia, sculpture and poetry, the founder of Buddhism and a Modernist poet. Rilke’s interest in the Buddha was stirred by an Indonesian statue in Auguste Rodin’s garden in Meudon which the French sculptor had procured (along with other Buddha statues) from the 1900 World Expo in Paris.

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Dealing with Early Spring

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Luke Fischer

           Hamburg, 2012   A beggar cups his hands and pleads for change while the sun gilds his palms and fingers like a bowl possessed by Charlemagne, standing now in a museum’s vitrine. This gold is superfluous to him but I …

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