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Trilogy
Aliki H. D.. Ed(S): Barnstone
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Description for Trilogy
Paperback. Editor(s): Barnstone, Aliki. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though "we have no map; / possibly we will reach haven,/ heaven." "Tribute to Angels" describes new life springing from the ruins, and finally, in "The Flowering of the Rod"—with its epigram "...pause to give/ thanks that we rise again from death and live."—faith ... Read more
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though "we have no map; / possibly we will reach haven,/ heaven." "Tribute to Angels" describes new life springing from the ruins, and finally, in "The Flowering of the Rod"—with its epigram "...pause to give/ thanks that we rise again from death and live."—faith ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811213998
SKU
V9780811213998
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About Aliki H. D.. Ed(S): Barnstone
A feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama. Aliki Barnstone’s translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. An editor and critic, she lives in Las ... Read more
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