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Against Translation

Af: Alan Shapiro Engelsk Paperback

Against Translation

Af: Alan Shapiro Engelsk Paperback
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We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation--not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language--where "the signs loosen, fray, and drift"--Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn't yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking "girly"; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss--moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.
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We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation--not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language--where "the signs loosen, fray, and drift"--Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn't yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking "girly"; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss--moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9780226613505
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 022661350X
Udg. Dato: 8 mar 2019
Længde: 7mm
Bredde: 217mm
Højde: 142mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 8 mar 2019
Forfatter(e): Alan Shapiro
Forfatter(e) Alan Shapiro


Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter


ISBN-13 9780226613505


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 96


Udgave


Længde 7mm


Bredde 217mm


Højde 142mm


Udg. Dato 8 mar 2019


Oplagsdato 8 mar 2019


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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