"The persona presented in these poems is erratic, self-deprecating, cantankerous and roguish."
- Times Literary Supplement,
The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally “Cloud-Stone”) was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was lost to history until scholarship in the 1970s recognized him as the German language’s first genuinely autobiographical lyric voice. In the hands of the magician-translator Richard Sieburth, working in the spirited tradition of Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn, Wolkenstein’s verse rises from the page like a medieval Bob Dylan. Facsimiles of Wolkenstein’s musical compositions are included.
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Longlisted for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780811229012
Publisert
2019-12-24
Utgiver
Vendor
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Vekt
114 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
64
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Oversetter
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