The River and the Black Cat - Couverture souple

Sutherland-Smith, James

 
9781848615830: The River and the Black Cat
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1848615833 ISBN 13 : 9781848615830
Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2018

Synopsis

Sixty-four improvisations, whose principle motifs are a stretch of a small river in Central Europe and a once feral black cat, navigate the language that we inhabit and that inhabits us. Three philosophers or the three musketeers, Boris Karloff, Li Bai and an Indian companion, among others, ghost in and out of poems ordered according to the progress of the seasons. Their moods and perspectives range from the inconsequential and paradoxical to the melancholic and erotic. Almost all the poems are in some measure love poems.


Later the sky will be a light blue yearning
for the transcendence to which the river whispers.
I kiss your throat.
The black cat chases herself up and down the stairs.
Shall we get up, shower and dress
or otherwise, nakedness being no constraint
on the best or worst we can do?

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À propos de l'auteur

James Sutherland-Smith was born in 1948 and lives in Slovakia. He has published six previous collections of his own poetry, the most recent being Mouth, from Shearsman Books in 2014. He has translated a number of Slovak poets and Serbian poets including Mila Haugová, Ivana Milankov and Miodrag Pavlovic. For his translations he received the Slovak Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003 and the Serbian Zlatko Krasni Prize in 2014. Mouth received the Rector's Prize at Presov University in 2015. A selection of his translations of Mária Ferenčuhová's poetry, Tidal Events, are also published by Shearsman Books in 2018.

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Éditeur
Shearsman Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848615833
ISBN 13 
9781848615830
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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