Guest and Host: Poems from Calcutta - Couverture souple

Winter, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0856463515 ISBN 13 : 9780856463518

Editeur : Anvil Press Poetry, 2003

Synopsis

"Guest and Host" records the experience of being welcomed into the household of a foreign country. At some distance from the travel-book viewpoint of the outsider-looking-in, Winter is able to capture the country in a deeper light through staying rather than travelling, and living rather than merely observing. The sonnet-sequence "Guest and Host" is complemented by a powerful poem on the 2001 earthquake at Kutch; a fascinating sequence based on the reminiscences of an infantry officer of the British Raj; and, a dramatic poem on Durga, the goddess of Calcutta's annual festival of Durga Puja.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Winter, born in London in 1943, taught English in secondary schools in London from 1967 to 1994. Anvil publishes his translations of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Song Offerings' (Gitanjali) and a selection of fifty poems by Jibanananda Das, 'Naked Lonely Hand'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anvil Press Poetry
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0856463515
• ISBN 13: 9780856463518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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