Come to Me (Arc Translations) - Softcover

V¿rdi¿¿, K¿rlis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908376228 ISBN 13: 9781908376220

Verlag: Arc Publications, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

A modern sensibility suffused with urban sophistication. In everyday scenes he shows us what's most noble in human relationships, alongside the basest fears and anxieties. Irony and sarcasm somehow never seem to obscure the warmth of Kārlis's voice and his attention to intimate details. This book represents Kārlis at the peak of his poetic power: gripping, vivid and not a little romantic. Kārlis himself says: I try to say something that I would like to present as beautiful or, on the contrary, something that can not and must not be taken as beautiful.

Gentle, intelligent and tactful, Kārlis Vērdiņs became the leader of his generation. For all of us, his poetry was a refuge - a different world whose chaos was imbued with understanding. He is a role model for poets - but the kind of role model that no one can really match.

-Jānis Joņevs, Writer, recipient of the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature

Kārlis Vērdiņs is funny, clever, quirky, musical, sweet, puzzled, charming, intense, meticulous, whimsical, gentle, and slightly fantastical. So are his poems. He is a master craftsman with a miraculously unique way of seeing the world.

-Gabriel Jackson, Composer

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karlis Verdins was born in 1979 in Riga. He has published five books of poetry: Ledlaui (Icebreakers, 2001), Biezpiens ar krejumu (Cottage Cheese with Sour Cream, 2004), Burtinu zupa (Alphabet Soup, for children, 2007), Es (I, 2008), and Mes: kopota dzeja (We: Collected Poetry, 2012). He is a renowned critic, with an MA in Cultural Theory and a PhD in Philology, and has published many essays on literature as well as translations of European and American poets (including T.S. Eliot, Konstantin Biebl, Georg Trakl, Joseph Brodsky, Walt Whitman), and has also written libretti and song lyrics. His own poetry has been translated in many languages, including collections in Russian and Polish, and appears in the Arc Publications anthologies A Fine Line (2004) and Six Latvian Poets (2011).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arc Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908376228
• ISBN 13: 9781908376220
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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