Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Balaban, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556591233 ISBN 13: 9781556591235

Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 2017

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Locusts at the Edge of Summer selects generously from four books of poetry by John Balaban. Twice a nominee for the National Book Award, Balaban is also the foremost American translator of Vietnamese poetry. As is fitting for a poet whose work has often examined the effect of violence on public and private lives, this collection opens with a quote from Dante: The proper subjects for poetry are love, virtue, and war. Balaban draws upon his own experiences in Viet Nam to put a human face on the worlds history. Locusts at the Edge of Summer is a late-century American odyssey. - poetry This graceful book...is a powerful testimony to hope. - library journal Balaban s emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human - by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic. His voice is strong; his poems are important harvard review John Balaban s translations of Vietnamese poetry in the volumes CaDao Viet Nam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry and Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Hitting are also available from Copper Canyon Press.

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Reseña del editor:

Interweaving more than two dozen new poems with original poems from four previous volumes, this collection presents the first full assessment of one of the most original and moving voices in contemporary poetry. Balaban's poems reflect a courageous and eloquent search for a moral stance, requiring resolution not merely with the ambiguities of history, but with a deep sense of personal responsibility. The moral imperatives of his earliest poems (and translations from the Vietnamese) inform and clarify the poetry he has written in maturity - as husband, father, and citizen. As Melville and Whitman did in the nineteenth century for survivors of the Civil War, Balaban brings a distinctively elegiac, personal voice to speak for an age.

Biografía del autor:

John Balaban is the author of a dozen books of poetry, prose, and Vietnamese translations whose prizes include the Lamont Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and two National Book Award nominations. His work has been featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," New York Times, and Utne Reader. He teaches at North Carolina State University.

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• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1556591233
• ISBN 13: 9781556591235
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170