Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry

von Louis Zukofsky

384 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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     Anew, sun, to fire summer     leaves move toward the air     from the stems of the branches           fire summer fire summer                  -from AnewHere is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky's shorter verse collected in one volume: lyrical love poems written to his wife Celia and son Paul; the groundbreaking "Poem Beginning 'The,' " "which sends up 'The Waste Land' and its cultural vision in a cloud of bricolage, a hilarious pastiche of quotes, canon and kitsch, high and low hopelessly intertwined" (Michael Palmer); the boisterous, riotous translations of Catullus; spare, brilliant nature poems as if written by an ancient hokku master; his genius " 'Mantis' " sestina; the enigmatic, spiraling, and beautiful last poems, "80 Flowers." Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry is a book of blessings and gifts for any poetry lover.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9780811218726
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2011
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation