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A little tour through European poetry /

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1412854830 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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9781412854832 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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A little tour through European poetry /

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John Taylor

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x, 288 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index

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On the Strassenbahn with Klaus Merz's Poetry -- Friedrich Hölderlin, Our Contemporary -- German Poetry beyond Rilke, Benn, and Brecht -- The Unexpected Compassion of Gottfried Benn -- Reading Contemporary Poetry in Weimar -- Translating Swiss Poetry in Looren -- The Italian Poets Are Coming! -- Meeting up with Lorenzo Calogero in Florence -- "Guardami, dimmi, è così per te" : Alfredo de Palchi -- Sandro Penna's Secret Poems -- The Dark of Love : Patrizia Cavalli -- Poetic Ljubljana -- Edvard Kocbek, Emmanuel Mounier, the French Review Esprit, and Personalism -- Questions of Daily Life and Beyond : Milan Djordjević -- The Tiger Is the World : Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić -- The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry -- Standing by Pointlessness : Kiki Dimoula -- Manolis Xexakis's Captain Super Priovolos : Notes for an Exegesis -- A Panorama of Turkish Love Poetry : Birhan Keskin and Other Contemporary Women Poets -- The Seventh Gesture : Tsvetanka Elenvoka -- The Wonder-like Lightning of Prose Poetry -- Love According to Luca -- Discovering Benjamin Fondane -- The Desire to Affirm : George Szirtes -- Prague as a Poem : Vítězslav Nezval and Emil Hakl -- A Rather Late Letter from Wrocław -- The Self and Its Selves : A Journey through Poetic Northern Climes -- The Russian Poets Are Coming! -- The Five Angles of the Golden Rectangle : Tomas Venclova -- Telling Dichotomies : María do Cebreiro and Kristiina Ehin -- The Metaphysics of the Kiss : Vicente Aleixandre -- A Spanish Metaphysical Poet Searching for Songs of Truth : José Ángel Valente -- The Passion and the Patience of Eugénio de Andrade -- The Past Hour, the Present Hour : Yves Bonnefoy

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"This book is both a sequel to author John Taylor's earlier volume, Into the Heart of European Poetry, and something different. It is a sequel because this volume expands upon the base of the previous book to include many more European poets. It is different in that it is framed by stories in which the author juxtaposes his personal experiences involving European poetry or European poets as he travels through different countries where the poets have lived or worked. Taylor explores poetry from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Lithuania, Albania, Romania, Turkey, and Portugal, all of which were missing in the previous gathering, analyzes heady verse written in Galician, and presents an important poet born in the Chuvash Republic. His tour through European poetry also adds discoveries from countries whose languages he reads fluently--Italy, Germany (and German-speaking Switzerland), Greece, and France. Taylor's model is Valery Larbaud, to whom his criticism, with its liveliness and analytical clarity, is often compared. Readers will enjoy a renewed dialogue with European poetry, especially in an age when translations are rarely reviewed, present in literary journals, or studied in schools. This book, along with Into the Heart of European Poetry, motivates a dialogue by bringing foreign poetry out of the specialized confines of foreign language departments."--Publisher's Web site

European poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism

European poetry-- 21st century-- History and criticism

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Taylor, John,1952 September 30-

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20151029090618.0

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