Continued: Stories from a Road Less Traveled (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Sommer, Piotr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081956768X ISBN 13: 9780819567680

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 2005

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Book by Sommer Piotr

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"If you admire the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and especially Wislawa Szymborska, seek out Piotr Sommer. Based on Continued, ...Sommer deserves a place alongside these philosophically alert Polish poets."--John Taylor, Antioch Review

Reseña del editor

Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies and rhythms of colloquial speech. Events and objects of ordinary, everyday life are related and described by the speaker in a deliberately deadpan manner. Yet a closer look at the language he uses, with all its ironic inflections and subtle "intermeanings," reveals that the poem's "message" should be identified more with the way it is spoken than with what it says. The poems in this volume were translated into English with the help of other notable poets, writers, and translators, including John Ashbery, D.J. Enright, and Douglas Dunn.

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 081956768X
• ISBN 13: 9780819567680
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144