Light That Burns Us (2nd Edition)

Khaleed, Jazra; Van Dyck, Karen (EDT); Constantine, Peter (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1954218249 / ISBN 13: 9781954218246

Edité par World Poetry, 2024

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• Titre: Light That Burns Us (2nd Edition)
• Éditeur: World Poetry
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1954218249
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781954218246
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The English-language debut of one of Greece's most radical poetic voices, now in an expanded edition.

Jazra Khaleed's poetry is electrifying, an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization. Born in Chechnya in 1979, Khaleed is a poet who seems very Greek and not Greek at all; his language is sharp, refined, and controlled, with elegant rhythms and contemporary street speech that often has an undertow of a sophisticated language with moments of Byzantine and New Testament Greek. In his poetry there is a power, erudition, and control that Greek readers have trouble equating with a man named Jazra. The poems are always political, vehement, written at times from a very personal perspective, and at others from that of an objective outsider. It is a poetry that tears the untroubled reader back to a reality that may well be dangerous.

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Jazra Khaleed is an Athens-based poet, translator, and filmmaker whose works focus on issues of working-class experiences and cultures, homeland and origin, immigration and war, and are an indictment of racism, social injustice, and classism in contemporary Greece. English translations of his poems have appeared in The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of the Athenian magazine Teflon. The Light That Burns Us is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. Karen Van Dyck is the editor of Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, which introduced Jazra Khaleed to a wider readership. She has written about the anthology and Khaleed’s poetry in The Guardian and PN Review. Other translations include Margarita Liberaki’s novel Three Summers, Maria Laina’s poetry collection Hers, and the co-edited anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Peter Constantine’s recent translations include works by Augustine, Solzhenitsyn, Rousseau, Machiavelli, Gogol and Tolstoy. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. He was an editor of A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900–2000, and the anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. He is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut and the publisher of World Poetry Books.