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The FSG Poetry Anthology (Paperback)
Various; Edited by Jonathan Galassi, Robyn Creswell; Various Authors
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Poetry has always been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's
identity, ever since Robert Giroux first brought T. S. Eliot to the
company. FSG's personality and literary profile have been defined
by both the poets and the prose writers who have made it an imprint
with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology
includes work by every one of the more than one hundred poets FSG
has published in its seventy-five-year history. Robert Lowell,
Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, and Randall Jarrell were central
to the first generation of those poets, followed by the
international figures and Nobel laureates Nelly Sachs, Seamus
Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, and Derek Walcott. Over time the list
expanded to include James Schuyler, John Ashbery, C. K. Williams,
Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, Grace Paley, Gjertrud
Schnackenberg, Yehuda Amichai, Paul Valery, Marianne Moore, Mina
Loy, Ted Hughes, and Adam Zagajewski. Today Carl Phillips, Maureen
N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Ishion Hutchinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips,
Frederick Seidel, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, and Valzhyna Mort
are among the poets who continue FSG's tradition as a premier
discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished
contemporary poetic voices. Poetry and prose are two indissoluble
sides of the same coin. This anthology offers a unique perspective
on the best of contemporary literature over the past three
generations. FSG president and long-time poetry editor Jonathan
Galassi contributes a lively history of the role of poetry in the
publishing house.
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The Clash of Images (Paperback)
Abdelfattah Kilito; Translated by Robyn Creswell; Designed by Chris Wren
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The Tongue of Adam (Paperback)
Abdelfattah Kilito; Translated by Robyn Creswell; Designed by Chris Wren
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That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim's modernist masterpiece and one
of the most influential novels written in Arabic since WWII.
Composed after a five-year term in prison, the
semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political
prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city.
Living under house arrest, he tries to write of his tortuous
experience, but instead smokes, spies on the neighbors, visits old
lovers, and marvels at Egypt's new consumer culture. Published in
1966, That Smell was immediately banned and the print-run
confiscated. The original, uncensored version did not appear in
Egypt for another twenty years.
For this edition, translator Robyn Creswell has also included an
annotated selection of the author's Notes from Prison, Ibrahim's
prison diaries--a personal archive comprising hundreds of
handwritten notes copied onto Bafra-brand cigarette papers and
smuggled out of jail. These stark, intense writings shed unexpected
light on the sources and motives of Ibrahim's groundbreaking novel.
Also included in this edition is Ibrahim's celebrated essay about
the writing and reception of That Smell.
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the
twentieth century and beyond City of Beginnings is an exploration
of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut
during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial
Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn
Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement
that will be uncannily familiar-and unsettlingly strange. He also
provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold
War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies
and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic
modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi'r ("Poetry"),
which sought to put Arabic verse on "the map of world literature."
The Beiruti poets-Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj chief
among them-translated modernism into Arabic, redefining the very
idea of poetry in that literary tradition. City of Beginnings
includes analyses of the Arab modernists' creative encounters with
Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, and Antonin Artaud, as well as their
adaptations of classical literary forms. The book also reveals how
the modernists translated concepts of liberal individualism,
autonomy, and political freedom into a radical poetics that has
shaped Arabic literary and intellectual debate to this day.
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