A Key into the Language of America

Rosmarie Waldrop

ISBN 10: 0811212874 / ISBN 13: 9780811212878

Edité par New Directions, New York, NY, 1994

A propos de cet article

8vo. Wrappers. xxvi, 70pp. Illustrated. 'The legacy of cultural imperialism, the consequences of gender, and the marginalization of the conquered'; the collection is based on Rhode Island founder Roger Williams's 1643 guide (of the same name) to Narragansett Indian language and lore. With back cover quotations by Susan Howe and Michael Palmer. Slight fading to the upper wrapper at the head edge and around the spine (not affecting the text), but Very Good nonetheless. This copy has been signed by the author ('Rosmarie') and inscribed to David (Miller) in the year of publication.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Key into the Language of America
• Éditeur: New Directions, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0811212874
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780811212878
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The legacy of cultural imperialism, the consequences of gender, and the marginalization of the conquered are themes that combine and comment, one on the other, in Rosmarie Waldrop's remarkable new work, A Key into the Language of America. As "formally adventurous" (A.L. Nielson, Washington Review) as ever, German-born Waldrop has based her new collection on Rhode Island founder Roger Williams's 1643 guide (of the same name) to Narragansett Indian language and lore.

À propos de l?auteur

Rosmarie Waldrop, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts of Letters, and is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For fifty-six years, she and her husband Keith Waldrop ran one of the country's most vibrant experimental poetry presses, Burning Deck, in Providence, Rhode Island.