Aimee Chor
@rosydotes.bsky.social
Literary translation from German. Seattle. (Elsewhere: Commonplaces)
I'm so pleased that my translations of Nadja Küchenmeister's gorgeous poems appear in THE OPPOSITE OF SEDUCTION, alongside so many others to explore and discover. Do read! More translation!
The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German, Alexander Kappe, Nicola Thomas & Jana Maria Weiß (eds)(Shearsman)
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
WINNER, English PEN Award.
Translated by various hands.
First major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for 40 years +.
www.shearsman.com/store/alexan...
May 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm so pleased that my translations of Nadja Küchenmeister's gorgeous poems appear in THE OPPOSITE OF SEDUCTION, alongside so many others to explore and discover. Do read! More translation!
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I don’t want to go to bed because then it will be tomorrow, it’s like the opposite of Christmas
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I don’t want to go to bed because then it will be tomorrow, it’s like the opposite of Christmas
Remarkable.
I wrote about simon critchley’s mysticism, a book I found so perplexing on the sentence level that the only cure for it was to reread william james
Patricia Lockwood · That Shape Am I: Among the Mystics
Doubt is the dimension of the religious experience that brings it into reality, gives it that voluptuousness which...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Remarkable.
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There's been a lot of terrible stuff lately so here's a seal enjoying life.
おやすみなさい
おやすみなさい
January 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
There's been a lot of terrible stuff lately so here's a seal enjoying life.
おやすみなさい
おやすみなさい
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i would do anything for love, but i won’t douthat
January 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
i would do anything for love, but i won’t douthat
Disappointing.
Washington’s next governor is striking a different tone than his fellow Democrats on how to tackle the state's looming budget gap.
Ferguson 'skeptical' of wealth tax, pitches broad cuts to address WA budget gap
Washington's incoming governor is breaking from some key members of his party on how to tackle the state's looming budget shortfall, as he unveils his plans on future state spending.
www.kuow.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Disappointing.
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The fact that Alice Weidel – co-leader of Germany's far-right extremists – calls Hitler a "communist" and compares Nazis to "leftish Palestinian" antisemites in ONE sentence epitomizes exactly the type of distorted discourse the liberal center in Germany has helped normalize over the past 15 months.
January 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The fact that Alice Weidel – co-leader of Germany's far-right extremists – calls Hitler a "communist" and compares Nazis to "leftish Palestinian" antisemites in ONE sentence epitomizes exactly the type of distorted discourse the liberal center in Germany has helped normalize over the past 15 months.
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A poem by the slanderous bard Leigh Bell for Merrick Garland, our coward-in-chief, who belongs not in hell but wandering around outside, lost, hesitant, indecisive
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A poem by the slanderous bard Leigh Bell for Merrick Garland, our coward-in-chief, who belongs not in hell but wandering around outside, lost, hesitant, indecisive
Today I went through the sightread-piano-version-of Frozen-soundtrack phase of translation.
about-to-attempt-self-bang-trim phase of writing
January 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Today I went through the sightread-piano-version-of Frozen-soundtrack phase of translation.
I have reached the point at which being this mother-in-law is high on my list of life goals.
Hello from Hudson, WI, where I’m visiting my in-laws with my husband, and will risk fate hundreds of times over the next five days in the presence of my mother-in-law’s Christmas cookies.
December 23, 2024 at 5:23 AM
I have reached the point at which being this mother-in-law is high on my list of life goals.
Didn’t take long for this post to become newly relevant.
really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school
December 16, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Didn’t take long for this post to become newly relevant.
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really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school
December 11, 2024 at 10:58 PM
really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school
I dwell on this daily for the sake of my mental health.
Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."
December 10, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I dwell on this daily for the sake of my mental health.
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This banger is more than a century old: it’s a 1923 textile design in gouache by the Constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)
December 8, 2024 at 11:35 PM
This banger is more than a century old: it’s a 1923 textile design in gouache by the Constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)
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bringing back a Christmas classic
December 8, 2024 at 10:51 PM
bringing back a Christmas classic
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The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show
December 6, 2024 at 7:11 AM
The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show
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A nurse's statement about United Health Care (sorry about Twitter post, but I felt this one was important).
December 6, 2024 at 12:20 AM
A nurse's statement about United Health Care (sorry about Twitter post, but I felt this one was important).
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"UnitedHealthcare makes its money by denying necessary care to people who need. Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He killed adults, he killed children. He murdered them with spreadsheets and contracts. He did it for money. Thompson was...a very well paid killer." Via @matthewcort.land
December 5, 2024 at 7:45 AM
"UnitedHealthcare makes its money by denying necessary care to people who need. Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He killed adults, he killed children. He murdered them with spreadsheets and contracts. He did it for money. Thompson was...a very well paid killer." Via @matthewcort.land
This year I am not fucking around.
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 PM
This year I am not fucking around.
Yes, yes, politics and violence and coups, but the issue truly preoccupying me today: where can I get fresh parsley root?
December 4, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Yes, yes, politics and violence and coups, but the issue truly preoccupying me today: where can I get fresh parsley root?