edited translated william jay smith (9 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. A very nice copy.

First edition, first printing Fine bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Fine work throughout and gift quality.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Advance Review Copy. Covers have a browned spine, sticker residue on the front, a small tear to the front top spine edge, a couple creases, and light smudging. Brief notation written on front cover. ; Uncorrected proof.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 287 pp. No DJ. First edition, #526/1000 first copies. Cover shows some wear and discolouration of spine. Binding is good, text block seems unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Reprint. 287pp. Corners bumped, near fine. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page with his penned correction made on copyright page. Additionally, Inscribed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman by William Jay Smith. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cloth bound. Frontis. Illus. xiv, 287 pages, bibliography. Limited edition. Number 331 of 1000 copies. Previous owner's bookplate. Spine sun faded. Cloth somewhat worn in places. Binding is tight and book is solid.

New Rivers Press. 1996. Printed wrappers. 207 (1) pp. Very good condition.

FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, patterned pale blue boards. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and blotched, uneven bands of offsetting to boards, extremities bruised, corners worn. Edges toned. Front joint tender, ownership signature of "W. J. Smith" inscribed to ffep in black biro, rusty echo of a paperclip and kidney bean-shaped stains to reverse, and faintly visible on endpaper and through to title page, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean. Dust jacket supplied: printed in black, illustrated and lettered in blue, yellow, green and white: wear and chipping to spine ends, some rubbing, nicking and spotting, short closed tear to top of front panel. Good/ good+ A well-handled contemporary poetic association copy of the first US edition of Elizabeth Bishop's translation of the diary of a Brazilian girl in the "far-off" provincial diamond-mining town, Diamantina: the American poet, William Jay Smith's copy. A near contemporary and a fellow prize-winning American poet, William Jay Smith (19182015) also followed Bishop in being appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1968-1970 (the nineteenth appointee; Bishop was eighth, serving 1949-50). He later described her as a "tutelary spirit," alongside Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke and Louise Bogan; Smith had first come across Bishop's poetry as a college freshman in 1935, and, like Bishop (and Moore), he "adore[d] particulars and exact observation" and "emphasize[d] wit and the skillful use of traditional forms" (Frank, 1998). He was not, however, a fan of her prose, observing much later in a CPR interview: "Elizabeth Bishop wrote a few essays but they were much inferior stylistically to her poems. It was clear that she had devoted less time and attention to them than she had to her poems"; sadly, no notes or marginalia feature here to hint at his thoughts on her work as a translator. We do, however, have Bishop's thoughts on Smith's translation of Jules Laforgue (and the impossibility of translating poetry); her mostly favourable review, 'The Manipulation of Mirrors,' had been published the year before in New Republic. A Brazilian literary favourite, which had been repeatedly recommended to Bishop, in her introduction the poet likens sections to Chaucer and "Wordsworth's poetical children and country people, or Dorothy Wordsworth's wandering beggars," whilst "occasionally entries referring to slavery seemed like notes for an unwritten, Brazilian, feminine version of Tom Sawyer". It did not sell well, nor bring in the income for which Bishop had wished. MacMahon A4; Elizabeth Frank (1998) 'The Pleasures of Formal Poetry,' The Atlantic; CRP Interview.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Page edges toned, else near fine in spine-toned, very dust jacket. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page and additionally Inscribed by him to noted poetry editor and designer Harry Ford: "For Harry and Elizabeth Ford with affectionate greetings and best wishes, Bill Smith. Florence. September 1956.".