<P>Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these ’talk poems’ are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies and rhythms of colloquial speech. Events and objects of ordinary, everyday life are related and described by the speaker in a deliberately deadpan manner. Yet a closer look at the language he uses, with all its ironic inflections and subtle ‘intermeanings, ‘ reveals that the poem’s ‘message’ should be identified more with the way it is spoken than with what it says. The poems in this volume were translated into English with the help of other notable poets, writers, and translators, including John Ashbery, D.J. Enright, and Douglas Dunn.</P>
Inhoudsopgave
<P>Acknoledgments<BR>Foreword – August Kleinzahler<BR>From Shepherd’s Song / Piosenka pasterska (1999)<BR>Morning on Earth<BR>Yesterday<BR>Visibility<BR>Municipal Services<BR>Continued<BR>i.m. Milton Hindus<BR>Short Version<BR>Tomorrow<BR>Shepherd’ Song<BR>From elsewhere<BR>Sometimes, Yes<BR>From Lyric Factor and Other Poems / Czynnik liryczny i inne wiersze (1988)<BR>Indiscretions<BR>Candle<BR>Amnesia<BR>Station Lights<BR>Landscape with Branch<BR>Transparencies<BR>Innocence<BR>Believe me<BR>Home and Night<BR>Guesswork<BR>Days of the Week<BR>Travel Permit, Round Trip<BR>Leaves and Comes Back<BR>Medicine<BR>According to Brecht<BR>A Certain Tree in Powazki Cemetery<BR>Fragile<BR>Don’t Sleep, Take Notes<BR>Third State<BR>Liberation, in Language<BR>Landscape with the Wind<BR>Worldliness<BR>Neolith<BR>Talkativeness<BR>Grammar<BR>Ah, Continuity<BR>Lighter, Darker<BR>Proofs<BR>Apoliticial Poem<BR>Ode to the Carnival<BR>Don’t Worry, It Won’t Get Lost<BR>Receding Planets of the Rowan Tree<BR>Out of Town<BR>Prospects in Prose<BR>A Small Treatise on Non-Contradiction<BR>A Maple Leaf<BR>From elsewhere<BR>Little Graves<BR>From A Subsequent Word</P>
Over de auteur
<P>PIOTR SOMMER is a poet and translator of English, Irish, and American poetry. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including one in English, Things to Translate (1991), and two books of essays. Sommer lives outside Warsaw and works for a magazine of international writing. AUGUST KLEINZAHLER is a widely-published poet whose most recent book is The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (2003).</P>
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