Oppressive Light: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Walser, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936873184 ISBN 13 : 9781936873180

Editeur : Black Lawrence Press, 2012

Synopsis

Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. Introduction by Carolyn Forché. OPPRESSIVE LIGHT represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation and an opportunity to experience Walser as he saw himself at the beginning and at the end of his literary career-as a poet. The collection also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions the printed poems represent, which volume of the Werkausgabe the poems were first published in, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Born 1878 in Switzerland, Robert Walser was at various times in his life a bank teller, office clerk, scribe, house servant, machinist's assistant, and archivist. Although he wrote four novels and some poetry, his production consisted mainly of hundreds of small prose pieces. Being small was a key concern. His writing got smaller and smaller until, before he ceased writing altogether, he wrote a tiny script with letters about one millimeter high. By this time he had committed himself to a sanitarium where he remained for 27 years, mostly not writing. Always an avid taker of walks, Walser died in a snowdrift while out for a walk in 1956.

Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, essayist, artist, editor, publisher, scholar, and literary translator born of German and Sicilian parentage in Langenthal, Canton of Bern. His individual poems, essays, and reviews, as well as his translations from the German by Michael Fehr, Robert Walser, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Georg Trakl, have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies worldwide.Pantano's poetry has been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Albanian, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Kurdish, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. Pantano is the founding publisher and faculty advisor of The Lincoln Review (University of Lincoln), Contributing Editor at MAYDAY Magazine, and former editor and publisher of The Black Market Review (Edge Hill University), Härter, em: a review of text and image, The Adirondack Review, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art (University of South Florida), The M.A.G., and Poems Niederngasse: Die Zeitschrift für Lyrik. Pantano curates The Abandoned Playground, TAP Editions, and is founding Director of the Refugee Poetry Project and Co-Director of the International Refugee Poetry Network. He is also the Research Lead and Convenor of the Poetry, Poetics, and Literary Translation Research Group at the University of Lincoln, Member of the Art Committee at the Swiss Church in London, as well as Judge and Series Editor of The Rhine Translation Prize (Black Lawrence Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Lawrence Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936873184
• ISBN 13: 9781936873180
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible