Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook, 969) - Softcover

Faverey, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811215555 ISBN 13: 9780811215558

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The work of twentieth-century Dutch poet Hans Faverey is brought together in an extensive selection of eight published volumes of poetry, spanning from 1968 to 1990, as well as poems from his posthumous collection Spring Foxes. Original.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hans Faverey (1933-1990) was born in Paramaribo, Surinam and moved to Amsterdam when he was a child. He worked as a clinical psychologist at the University of Leiden and received many literary awards, including the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work as a whole.

Francis R. Jones lectures in English and applied linguistics at the University of Newcastle. Among his other translations are Ivan V. Lalic's The Works of Love, The Passionate Measure (for which he was awarded the 1991 European Poetry Translation Prize), and The Rusty Needle; Vyacheslav Kupriyanov's In Anyone's Tongue; and Vosko Popa's Complete Poems (with the late Anne Pennington).

Eliot Weinberger's books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz's In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgiafor Death, and Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811215555
• ISBN 13: 9780811215558
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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