A Nowhere for Vallejo - Couverture souple

Tarn, Nathaniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848619049 ISBN 13 : 9781848619043

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2023

Synopsis

A Nowhere for Vallejo was first published in the UK 1972, and was a major staging post in the author's career, the penultimate volume to appear from a UK publisher before we issued the selected edition, Palenque, in the 1980s.

The dramatic title sequence takes the form of an imaginary journey to the Inca empire, seen through the eyes of the first and last of the Inca emperors and of two great half-Inca writers, both of them exiles: Garcilaso de la Vega and César Vallejo. This sequence and 'Choices' were written in Guatemala during the summer of 1969 by Lake Atitlán where the author had carried out fieldwork as an anthropologist many years earlier. The book is completed by the 'October' sequence, which ends with the moving "in memoriam" poem 'Requiem pro duabus filiis Israel'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Franco-Anglo-American poet Nathaniel Tarn was born in 1928 and educated in France, Belgium and England, obtaining degrees from Cambridge, the Sorbonne and Chicago; he emigrated to the United States in 1970, where he taught at American universities until his retirement. He now lives just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although he is best-known these days as a poet and essayist, he is also an anthropologist, with a particular interest in Highland Maya studies and the sociology of Buddhist institutions, and is a translator of the highest order. His first collection of poetry was 'Old Savage/Young City' (1964), which was followed the next year by his appearance in the seventh volume of the Penguin Modern Poets series. Three more collections followed in London, during which time he also became director of the Cape Goliard press, and editor of the remarkable Cape Editions series of seminal modern texts: poetry, prose, anthropology, drama, many of them in pioneering translations. Thereafter, with the exception of his Shearsman publications and one other volume, the majority of his work has appeared in the USA, most significantly: 'Lyrics for the Bride of God', 'The House of Leaves', 'Atitlan/Alashka' (with Janet Rodney), 'Selected Poems 1950-2000', 'Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers', 'Gondwana' and the recent volume, 'The Hoelderliniae'. There are also two significant volume of essays in 'Views from the Weaving Mountain' and 'The Embattled Lyric', as well as an "auto-anthropology", 'Atlantis' (2022). Tarn's work is remarkable for its expansiveness, and its willingness to absorb material from very disparate sources - in this, it owes something to the examples of Pound and Olson, but also a lot to the author's own anthropological training, his knowledge of other languages and his interest in areas such as archaeology.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848619049
• ISBN 13: 9781848619043
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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