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John Gallas
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Paperback. A 'wonderfully wonky mix of the popular, mad, cool, merry and ancient' by the New-Zealand born poet and translator, John Gallas. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288. Containing 26 Men and 26 Women in a Double A - Z of European Poets in Translation. 180 pages. A 'wonderfully wonky mix of the popular, mad, cool, merry and ancient' by the New-Zealand born poet and translator, John Gallas. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 19. Weight: 288.
John Gallas, who guided us around the world in his celebrated anthology The Song Atlas, here zooms in on Europe. The poems he perfects in English are chosen from the work of the famous (Akhmatova, Baudelaire, Pasolini) and the still-to-be-known (the Olafsson brothers, Renee Vivien, Yulia Zhadovskaya). Native speakers provide him with literal translations and the poems' sounds. Gallas then 're-poems' them. They constitute an exhilarating poetic journey across a continent and through time. All human life is here: love and despair, wild excess and wistful calm. Gallas understands the many musics of language. His book is a trove ... Read more
John Gallas, who guided us around the world in his celebrated anthology The Song Atlas, here zooms in on Europe. The poems he perfects in English are chosen from the work of the famous (Akhmatova, Baudelaire, Pasolini) and the still-to-be-known (the Olafsson brothers, Renee Vivien, Yulia Zhadovskaya). Native speakers provide him with literal translations and the poems' sounds. Gallas then 're-poems' them. They constitute an exhilarating poetic journey across a continent and through time. All human life is here: love and despair, wild excess and wistful calm. Gallas understands the many musics of language. His book is a trove ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770998
SKU
V9781847770998
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Ref
99-23
About John Gallas
John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He came to England in 1971 to study Old Icelandic at Oxford, and stayed. He has worked for many years as a teacher with the Leicestershire Behaviour Support Team. He has published seven collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and edited the anthology of world poetry THE SONG ATLAS (2002). ... Read more
Reviews for 52 Euros
'Song Atlas presents a scintillating spectrum of voices.'
Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement