Descriere: The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time.Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Bly introduced Neruda, Vallejo, Trakl, Jimenez, Trastromer, and Rumi. His most recent translations include Rolf Jacobsen, Francis Ponge, and the nineteenth-century Indian poet Ghalib. Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two renowned and lesser-known poets from around the world are brought together. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Robert Bly "is one of the leaders of a poetic revival that has returned American literature to the world community."
| Editura: Harper Perennial | Anul aparitiei: 2005 | ISBN: 9780060575861 | Numar de pagini: 416 | Categorie: Poetry
Mart (Author)
3,"There are fevers you still wish to forget," writes Eduardo Mart?nez-Leyva, but how fortunate for the rest of us that he remembers. These tenderly crafted autobiographical poems pierce through to the heart of pain, love, loss, and the ongoing search for salvation--or at least a salve. Housed in the lived experiences of a queer Latinx person born and raised in the border town of El Paso, Cowboy Park seamlessly blends themes of masculinity, identity, and the immigrant experience, offering a new perspective on the iconic image of the cowboy and a deeper understanding of the complexities of human experience. The detainment and deportation of Mart?nez-Leyva's brother grounds this exquisite collection in the all-too-common familial tragedy of political violence and discrimination. Mart?nez-Leyva honors the people, language, culture, and traditions that shaped him, revealing the indignities, large and small, experienced by a community that is too often misrepresented and maligned. "My voice was the only thing keeping us warm," he writes, and the warmth from this striking debut collection is beautiful to behold.
Cynthia Woodman Kerkham (Author)
I find my bearings by clouds of moon jellies / afloat beneath my anchored boat, / pulsing the sea's
Peter Dale Scott (Author)
so the long stretch of life / reveals its curvature / by those widely separated // moments when we a