Nothing is Lost (eBook)

Selected Poems

Edvard Kocbek (Autor)

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2004
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2600-1 (ISBN)

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Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books of both poetry and prose followed, including his Collected Poems in 1977, which sealed his reputation as Slovenia's greatest modern-day poet. Michael Scammell, who teaches writing in Columbia University's School of the Arts, has translated widely from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian, including works by Tolstoy and Nabokov. Veno Taufer, the author of sixteen volumes of poetry in his native Slovenia and the translator of more than forty books of poetry, is the recipient of the Preseren Prize and several prestigious international awards. His verse, including the collection Waterlings (Northwestern, 2000), has been translated into numerous languages.

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This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981).The selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of Kocbek's long and distinguished career, starting with the pantheist and expressionist nature poems of his early period and continuing through the politically engaged poetry written during and after World War II, to the philosophical and metaphysical meditations of his fecund late period.Readers will be struck by the originality and freshness of Kocbek's sinewy and intense vision, rendered into fluid and idiomatic English by two experienced translators. The Slovenian texts appear on the facing pages.The opening stanza of "e;Moon with a Halo"e;The man beside me was killed.He had a mother who bore himand a father who made him toys,he had a brother and a playful uncleand a little girl with blond braids,he had a wooden cart and a wooden horse,a trunkful of colored dreamsand a brook where he used to fish.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2004
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Übersetzer: Michael Scammell, Veno Taufer
• Vorwort: Charles Simic
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Act of Violence • Aeschylus • Allegory • ALL THINGS • American poetry • An Enemy of the People • Angelos Sikelianos • assonance • Bedouin • Black Sea • Bourgeoisie • Buckwheat • Calculation • Central and Eastern Europe • Charles Simic • Christian socialism • coffin • Complicity (novel) • courtesan • Croats • Czeslaw Milosz • david hinton • Decorum • Dictatorship • disgrace • Dissident • Drover (Australian) • Edmund Keeley • Edvard Kocbek • Embers • Emblem • erudition • Eugenio Montale • Five-pointed star • fourth wall • Generosity • German Expressionism • guerrilla warfare • Guido Gozzano • Gunnar • hammer and sickle • Ingeborg Bachmann • Intelligentsia • Jean Follain • J. (newspaper) • Leonard Nathan • Lisel Mueller • Literature • Ljubljana • Long poem • Maribor • mary ann caws • Miroslav Holub • Mouth Organ • New Universe • Nonperson • odor • Ox • Pan (god) • Pantheism • Persecution • Philip Sherrard • Philistinism • Pilgrimage • Poetry • Polish poetry • procession • Pseudonym • Pubic hair • Rainer Maria Rilke • Romanticism • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern • S. (Dorst novel) • sensibility • Serbs • Short Story • skepticism • Slovene literature • Slovenes • Slovenia • Smuggling • Solomon Ibn Gabirol • Stalinism • State funeral • Surrealism • Tang Dynasty • The New York Review of Books • The Suppliants (Aeschylus) • torture chamber • Tudor Arghezi • unrequited love • Vasko Popa • Wallace Stevens • War Crime • wild man • Wine Cellar • World War I • World War II • Xue Tao • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2600-4 / 1400826004
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2600-1 / 9781400826001