#174: REM, “Radio Free Europe”
A track from Murmur, one of the strongest recording debuts ever.
youtu.be/njoIPDlA7gs
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Radio Free Europe (Remastered 2006)
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
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Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
![Osip Mandelstam, “Nowhere Air”
Like water trickling from the highest ice
Its bracing ache, its brain-shard sweetness,
Its nowhere air of utter now,
So my sigh has lost its source,
And I live by meanings I cannot comprehend,
For every instant I must taste the instant that I end.
[Tr. C Wiman]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreid45x3jhrmqwaurhd2x4wagmbdc4kj6bdf5edc5pxxuce6d65kdze)
![Cristina Peri Rossi
Which home is mine?
Where do I live?
My home is writing
I dwell in her like the house
of the errant daughter
the prodigal
who always returns to see familiar faces
the only fire that never dies.
My home is writing
house of one hundred doors and windows
alternately opening and closing
When I lose one key
I find another
when a window closes
I break down a door
[Tr. Elizabeth Rose]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreianhiaxdtocx7qphthp5viy3m6yiy7vqz4267jgyu373c6bpe2ojy)
![Po Chu-i
Ten thousand threads of thought, two sheets written:
before sealing them, I read them over, wonder if they’ll do.
The palace water clock has just sounded the fifth watch,
the lamp in the window, my one light, about to go out.
[Tr. Burton Watson; Painting by Wu Ynan Zhi]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreih3bmk5q4dnjgpvtwq647bm53maemxe3aeocebtqqcgp6h4dzpzoa)
