Self Portrait With A Swarm of Bees

Wagner, Jan

ISBN 10: 1908376821 / ISBN 13: 9781908376824

Verlag: Arc Publications, 2015

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Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events - plants, animals, landscapes - with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd, the precarious balance. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability. Intensely curious, constantly attentive to novel or unanticipated possibilities afforded by traditional forms, Wagner's poems celebrate what he has called 'our steaming, glowing, odorous, noisy world'. Jan Wagner's poems start in particular things, creatures, persons, circumstances and, with wit and compassion, open into novelty. In the reader's mind they are still opening as they end. Furthermore, even by Arc's high standards this is an exceptionally successful face-to-face of poet and poet-translator. Look left, look right: pleasure on both sides! David ConstantineWhether his subject is fennel or frogs, the Amish or Evel Knievel, Jan Wagner's combination of wit, irony, lyrical genius and philosophical legerdemain illumine and renew our world in the most surprising ways. Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, daringly and imaginatively translated from the German by Iain Galbraith, confirms Wagner as one of Europe's finest poets, a true magus of language. John Burnside

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Iain Galbraith lived in Scotland for much of his life before moving to Germany, where he still lives. He has edited five poetry anthologies and is highly respected as a translator of both literary works and poems, for which he has won multiple awards, such as the John Dryden Translation Prize in 2004, the Stephen Spender Prize for Translation in 2014 and the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize in 2015. His own poetry has been featured in publications such as The Edinburgh Review and The Times Literary Supplement. He has translated works both to and from English, and has conducted research and lectures on poetry at the University of Edinburgh and the University of the Applied Arts in Vienna, respectively.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Self Portrait With A Swarm of Bees
Verlag: Arc Publications
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New