King of a Hundred Horsemen - Brossura

Etienne, Marie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374531927 ISBN 13: 9780374531928

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009

Riassunto

Marie Étienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane—the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most "exotic" journeys become ordinary and the most ordinary displacements partake of the strange. King of a Hundred Horsemen—in a brilliant translation by Marilyn Hacker that Robert Hass selected for the National Poetry Series's first Robert Fagles Translation Prize in 2007—is an elegant, deeply affecting work from a master poet.

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L'autore

Marie Étienne is a poet and novelist who lives in Paris, where she is a frequent contributor to literary and book review journals.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of eleven books of poems and seven books of translations from the French.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0374531927
• ISBN 13: 9780374531928
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 203