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New European Poets is a collection whose publication is long overdue. Where else can you read contemporary poetry from Malta, Hungary, Iceland, and Belarus, not to mention Ireland, Italy, and Poland, all between the same two covers? The editors have done a fine job of selecting poets of wide-ranging sensibilities, and translations by poets and scholars who know what they're doing. Passionate, moving, intimate, horrifying, and playful — it's all here. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of Europe New European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional editors to select 270 poets whose writing was first published after 1970. These poets represent every country in Europe, and many of them are published here for the first time in English and in the United States. The resulting anthology collects some of the very best work of a new generation of poets who have come of age since Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, Federico García Lorca, Eugenio Montale, and Czeslaw Milosz. The poetry in New European Poets is fiercely intelligent, often irreverent, and engaged with history and politics. The range of styles is exhilarating &mdash from the lyric intimacy of Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to the profane prose poems of Romanian poet Radu Andriescu, from the surrealist bravado of Czech poet Sylva Fischerová to the survivor's cry of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya. Poetry translated from more than thirty languages is represented, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and more regional languages such as Basque, Irish Gaelic, and Sámi. In its scope and ambition, New European Poets is destined to be a seminal anthology, an important vehicle for American readers to discover the extraordinary poetry being written across the Atlantic. Review:"Tasked with representing European poets who began publishing after 1970, poets and editors Miller and Prufer recruited 24 regional editors — including Marilyn Hacker (Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland) and Rika Lesser (Finland and Sweden) — to select and translate 270 contemporary versifiers. The resulting anthology — designed to emphasize poets not already well represented in English — is sure to be a boon to all kinds of poetry lovers and an important reference for decades to come. From Valzhyna Mort of Belarus ('Outside your borders/ they built a huge orphanage,/ and you left us there, belarus') to Poland's Adam Wiedemann ('Imagine a situation where it never occurs to you/ to think of any other situation'), Norway's Cathrine Grndahl ('...the most frightening thing is simply/ to be named John Doe and to land in Smalltown') to Portugal's Rui Pires Cabral ('Great city/ of the missing, so often I didn't have/ the vigor to take pleasure in/ your small, deserted/ gardens'), these poets range from the surreal to the all-too-real, portraying decades of sweeping political change throughout Europe and rendering inner lives shaped by circumstances and places as varied as the languages in which they write. American readers are sure to find many new favorites among those included, and they may even find their whole conception of contemporary European literature upturned." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorWayne Miller is the author of a book of poems, Only the Senses Sleep, and co-translator of I Don’t Believe in Ghosts by Moikom Zeqo. Kevin Prufer is the author of four books of poems, including National Anthem. Table of ContentsPORTUGAL ROSA ALICE BRANCO Mornings on the Ground The Highest Branch Between Yesterday and Your Mouth ADÍLIA LOPES Elisabeth Doesn't Work Here Anymore JOSÉ TOLENTINO MENDONÇA Calle PrÍncipe The White Road Stonecrop RUI PIRES CABRAL Polish Restaurant Lost Friends This Way Out Our Turn City of the Missing SPAIN BERNARDO ATXAGA The Tale of the Hedgehog Life CHUS PATO [you can't see the battle because it's far off in Eritrea] [and now the panopticion is a ruin] LUIS GARCÍA MONTERO Poetry Poetics JOSÉ MANUEL DEL PINO The Evening The Sweet Arms of Inspiration ANNA AGUILAR-AMAT Orpheus Relativity ROGER WOLFE Wisdom Words The Last Night of Earth VIOLETA RANGEL [I pray to heaven your house] [Night, every night,] [It's true everything you touch] [Spidery light scratches the crystal] KIRMEN URIBE Visit Cardiogram Loren PABLO GARCÍA CASADO Ford Father FRANCE PAUL DE ROUX Figure in a village Waiting (1) Waiting (2) MARIE ÉTIENNE from The Ebony Mare GABRIELLE ALTHEN Rooms EMMANUEL HOCQUARD from The Invention of Glass HÉDI KADDOUR Spiritual Distress Treason ANDRÉ VELTER Red or Nothing ABDELWAHA MEDDEB from The 99 Yale Stations GUY GOFFETTE So Many Things Around the Flames The Number FRANCK ANDRÉ JAMME from How Long? HABIB TENGOUR Conversation with Mohammed Dib AMINA SAÏD On the seventh day of my birth JEAN-BAPTISTE PARA Svetla Tomorrow ARIANE DREYFUS Rosas 1998 EMMANUEL MOSES Souvenir of Liège BRUNO GREGOIRE White Siestas Sanctuary CHRISTOPHE LAMIOT ENOS Night II Night III VALÉRIE ROUZEAU Won't see you soon: Takeaway Gather me some Fido LUXEMBOURG ANISE KOLTZ From The Fire Eater JEAN PORTANTE from The Desert SWITZERLAND ELISABETH WANDELER-DECK from controcantos URS ALLEMANN For the Lyre PIERRE VOÉLIN from Lents passages de l’ombre SYLVIANE DUPUIS from Musicales KURT AEBLI An Old Gaping Wound Wheedling Out An Unmasked Smile FABIO PUSTERLA Saturday in Sintra Star, Meteor, Some Shooting Thing CHRISTIAN UETZ And From You ANDREAS NEESER Mirandouro de São Pedro de Alcântara CLAIRE GENOUX from Saisons du corps RAPHAEL URWEIDER [in the mildness of the afternoon the] [brown dustbeetles everywhere brown] ITALY RAFFAELLO BALDINI The Knife Picking GIAMPIERO NERI [seeing him again has not been pleasant.] Overlappings DARIO BELLEZZA [I believe I should have a child: ] [I licked you between dirty sheets,] MAURIZIO CUCCHI Letter and Player [From the Cairo to Loreto] [He left throwing us] [Why do you breathe on my head?] VIVIAN LAMARQUE At Vacation's End To Pasolini Little Girl The Lady of the Snow PATRIZIA CAVALLI [To simulate the burning of the heart, the humiliation] [The rain brings me back] [Almost always he who is content is also vulgar;] FRANCO BUFFONI [Techniques of criminal investigation] [If you don't know what it means in English to maroon] ANTONELLA ANEDDA from Winter Dwellings Earth VALERIO MAGRELLI [I have often imagined that glances] [I have from you this red] [Evenings, when the light dims] DAVIDE RONDONI An Italian Evening Michelangelo's Pietà, Carriage MALTA IMMANUEL MIFSUD The Day of the Dead (in Bratislava) The Twentieth of September ROMANIA DANIEL BANULESCU You'll Shrivel Up You'll Be an Exotic Fruit RADU ANDRIESCU Bloody Bad Shit RUXANDRA CESEREANU The Killer MILAIL GALATANU At the Virgin's Breast O. NIMIGEAN The Barren Woman 11 May 1998 IOANA NICOLAIE Suspended DAN SOCIU As Big as China Tenderly Caressed Sucked Licked and Spanked MOLDOVA EMILIAN GALAICU-PAUN Pietà (Ivy on the Cross) ALEXANDRU VAKULOVSKI Amputated Homeland Bessarabia go home GREECE YIORGOS CHOULIARAS Occupied City Refugees Borges in Crete Pencil in the Bread LIANA SAKELLIOU The Lion, the Sleeping Woman, and the Island Variations HARIS VLAVIANOS De Imagine Mundi Hotel Athena Gloriana MARIGO ALEXOPOULOU Chinese Woman's Spirit Manuscripts of Autumn Small Prayer One Night with Seferis CYPRUS STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES Ars Poetica: Sacred or Daemonic LYSANDROS PITHARAS Green Line GÜR GENÇ Kiss My Corpse I Worshipped Too Many Gods What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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