Nameless Country: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Jacobs, A.C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784106755 ISBN 13 : 9781784106751

Editeur : Northern House, 2018

Synopsis

Nameless Country gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur 'A.C.' Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has gained new resonance for twenty-first-century readers. Writing in the shadow of the Holocaust, Jacobs in his poems confronts his complex cultural identity as a Jew in Scotland, as a Scot in England, and as a diaspora Jew in Israel, Italy, Spain and the UK.

A self-made migrant, Jacobs was a wanderer through other lands and lived in search, as he puts it, of the 'right language', which 'exists somewhere / Like a country'. His poems are attuned to linguistic and geographic otherness and to the lingering sense of exile that often persists in a diaspora. In his quiet and philosophical verse we recognise an individual's struggle for identity in a world shaped by migration, division and dislocation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A.C. (Arthur) Jacobs was born in Glasgow into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1937 and grew up under the shadow of the Holocaust. An erudite and committed poet from a young age, he became a self-made migrant, a wanderer through countries and through other people's more settled lives. He was a Jew in Scotland, a Scot in England, and a diaspora Jew wherever he travelled. Nameless Country returns selections of A.C. Jacobs' poetry to a 21st-century audience. His poems compel our attention because they bear the stamp of their long-ago moment but in their embrace of complex identities, speak clearly to our own.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northern House
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784106755
• ISBN 13: 9781784106751
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Bachman Merle, Rudolf Anthony
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible