Hers - Couverture souple

Laina, Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1954218001 ISBN 13 : 9781954218000

Editeur : World Poetry Books, 2022

Synopsis

In HERS, Maria Laina, one of Greece’s most important living poets, taking inspiration from Sappho’s women-centered past and Cavafy’s homoerotic future, presents an ascetic yet autoerotic treatise on love at odds with societal norms.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1947 in Patras, Maria Laina is widely regarded as one of Greece's most important living poets. Her work includes nine poetry collections, eleven plays, five books of prose, four critical studies, and an anthology of twentieth- century poetry in Greek translations. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Greek National Prize for Poetry (1994), the Maria Callas Award (1998), the Cavafy Award (2006), and the Athens Academy Prize (2015) for her book of collected poems, Whatever Happened: People and Ghosts received the Reader's Prize in 2021.

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Karen Van Dyck's books include Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, and the co-edited Norton anthology, The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, LARB, Poiitiki and Tender. She is founding director of Hellenic Studies at Columbia University where she teaches courses on translation, gender and Modern Greek literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Poetry Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1954218001
• ISBN 13: 9781954218000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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