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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Phoenix Poets |
| Release date: |
March 2019 |
| Authors: |
Alan Shapiro
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
96 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-61350-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-226-61350-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226613505 |
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