Comment in Motion, No. 5 (May 1968) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

This number makes Louise Labé the center of its experiment, carrying 14 poems—from Sonnet I to Sonnet XXV—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rosalía Castro broaden the comparison, so the issue reads as a set of practical tests rather than a single showcase. Reactions to Fluctuant Syllabic Verse and Comment in Motion supplies the turning point, explaining what the verse itself is trying to preserve: movement, stress, and rhetorical force across languages. The result is both a small anthology and a compact demonstration of translation as an argument about poetic time.

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Grover Jacoby

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Publication details

Journal: Comment in Motion
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 5
Issue date: May 1968
Editor: Grover Jacoby
Publisher: Variegation Publishing Company
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 25 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 41 pages.
Record ID: ttj-comment-in-motion-no-05-may-1968

Full contents

Reactions to Fluctuant Syllabic Verse and Comment in Motion [Essay]
Foreword [Essay, p. 122]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 125]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 126]
To the Moon — Giacomo Leopardi [Poem (translation), p. 127]
Initium — Paul Verlaine [Poem (translation), p. 128]
From “The Regrets” — Joachim du Bellay [Poem (translation), p. 129]
Sonnet I — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 130]
Sonnet IV — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 131]
Sonnet VI — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 132]
Sonnet VIII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 133]
Sonnet X — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 134]
Sonnet XI — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 135]
Sonnet XIV — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 136]
Sonnet XV — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 137]
Sonnet XVI — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 138]
Sonnet XVII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 139]
Sonnet XX — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 140]
Sonnet XXII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 141]
Sonnet XXIV — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 142]
Sonnet XXV — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 143]
Apology — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 146]
Curtailment — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 147]
The Unpardonable — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 148]
Evening Phantasy — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 149]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 150]
From “Die Heimkehr” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 151]
From “Verschiedene” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 152]
The Lotus Flower — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 153]
Psyche — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 154]
From “Lyrisches Intermezzo” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 155]
From “Lyrisches Intermezzo” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 156]
Moon Night — Joseph von Eichendorff [Poem (translation), p. 157]

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The issue bears a 1968 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Comment in Motion*, no. 5, May 1968. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.