The Stones of Rio and other poems - Couverture souple

Casseres, Isabel Lattimore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692642935 ISBN 13 : 9780692642931

Editeur : Indigo Hill Books, 2016

Synopsis

This book is the collected poems of the American poet Isabel Lattimore Casseres. It includes original poems and translations from Spanish and French.Several poems, including "The Stones of Rio," are reprinted with the permission of The Hudson Review which owns their copyrights. See the Acknowledgments section for details.Translations include selections from Federico García Lorca, Charles Baudelaire, Joachim du Bellay, Paul Verlaine, and Gabriella Mistral.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Isabel Lattimore Casseres, always called Isabel, was born in Suzhou (then written “Soochow”), China, in 1902. Her American parents, David and Margaret Lattimore, had brought their family to China, where her father became an English professor at a Chinese university. There were five children: Katharine, Owen, Isabel, Eleanor, and Richmond, called Dick. Isabel was the first to be born in China. Isabel spent her childhood drawing, in the company of her younger sister, Eleanor. The two sisters wrote and illustrated poems and fairytales; both were to be lifelong artists and writers. Eleanor Frances Lattimore wrote and illustrated children’s books, while Isabel became a skilled landscape and portrait painter, as well as a poet. The family’s literary bent included Isabel’s brothers. Owen Lattimore was a well-known Asia expert; a journalist, author, and university professor. Richmond Lattimore, a Classics professor, noted scholar, and translator of the Greek Classics, was also a poet. The Lattimores’ China years included time spent in England and in Switzerland. After returning to the United States, aged 17, Isabel attended California College of the Arts, in Oakland, California. She then followed her family to Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father took a teaching post at Dartmouth College. In Hanover, Isabel married Thurston (Tom) Frost. They had two daughters, Marguerite (1924) and Audrey (1926). The marriage didn’t last. In 1934 she married William (Bill) Casseres. In 1937, they all moved to Costa Rica. There a son, David, was born (1941), and a daughter, Maria Isabel (Marisa), in 1943. Isabel delighted in her children, and devoted herself to them. Over the next years, Isabel and Bill traveled widely, due to his job with several agencies of the United Nations. In addition to his country, Costa Rica, they lived in Yugoslavia, Italy, and Brazil. Isabel’s poetry is influenced by her varied experiences, as well as by her deeply studious habits. She had learned French as a child, and Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian during her life abroad. She was widely read in several of these languages, as well as in English. Above all, it is her vivid interest in life, her optimistic outlook, and her generous, loving spirit that illuminate her work. She continued her art until shortly before her death, in 1972.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indigo Hill Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692642935
• ISBN 13: 9780692642931
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 64
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