
Why I No Longer Write Poems
[Bilingual Georgian-English]
Diana Anphimiadi(Author)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 24. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78037-547-2 (ISBN)
Description
Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our senses against the limits of sense. Boldly inventive, prayers appear alongside recipes, dance lessons next to definitions. Her playful, witty lyricism offers a glimpse of the eternal in the everyday. The poems in this selection have been collaboratively translated into English by the award-winning British poet Jean Sprackland and leading Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters. A chapbook selection of their translations of Anphimiadi's work, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 and praised by Adham Smart in Modern Poetry in Translation for capturing the 'electricity of Anphimiadi's language' which 'crackles from one poem to the next in Bukia-Peters and Sprackland's fine translation'. Georgian-English dual language edition. Co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
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Edition
Bilingual 'facing page' edition
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
211 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-547-2 (9781780375472)
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Persons
Diana Anphimiadi is a poet, publicist, linguist and teacher. She has published four collections of poetry in Georgian: Shokoladi (Chocolate, 2008), Konspecturi Mitologia (Resume of Mythology, 2009), Alhlokhedvis Traektoria (Trajectory of the Short-Sighted, 2012) and Chrdilis Amoch'ra (Cutting the Shadow, 2015). Her poetry has received prestigious awards, including first prize in the 2008 Tsero (Crane Award) and the Saba Prize for the best first collection in 2009. Her chapbook, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 by the Poetry Translation Centre, and Why I No Longer Write Poems, the first full-length Georgian-English selection of her poetry, is published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in 2022, both titles translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters and Jean Sprackland. She lives in Tblisi with her son.
Content
Introduction
Sleeping Beauty
Poet in the Shower
Prayer Before Bathing
Iphigenia
Helen of Troy
Eurydice
Persephone
Medusa
Cassiopeia (Three Back to Front Songs)
Dance Lessons (3/4 Time)
Studies
Lesson
Silent Writing
Pompeii
Soul
Autism: Beginning to Speak
Mute
Braille
Because
Prayer Before Taking Nourishment
Retrospective
Why I No Longer Write Poems
Winter
Loss
Dogs
Bond
Gardening for Beginners
The Snake in the Yard
Centaur
etc
Lost
Upside-Down
Immune Deficiency
The Trajectory of the Short-Sighted
Surrogate
The Choice
Tears in the Glass
Evening
Children
The Forest Near the Window
Exchange of Prisoners
Entertainment
Orchestra
Reaping Song
July
Fair Copy
Endangered
The Second Coming
About the Authors
Sleeping Beauty
Poet in the Shower
Prayer Before Bathing
Iphigenia
Helen of Troy
Eurydice
Persephone
Medusa
Cassiopeia (Three Back to Front Songs)
Dance Lessons (3/4 Time)
Studies
Lesson
Silent Writing
Pompeii
Soul
Autism: Beginning to Speak
Mute
Braille
Because
Prayer Before Taking Nourishment
Retrospective
Why I No Longer Write Poems
Winter
Loss
Dogs
Bond
Gardening for Beginners
The Snake in the Yard
Centaur
etc
Lost
Upside-Down
Immune Deficiency
The Trajectory of the Short-Sighted
Surrogate
The Choice
Tears in the Glass
Evening
Children
The Forest Near the Window
Exchange of Prisoners
Entertainment
Orchestra
Reaping Song
July
Fair Copy
Endangered
The Second Coming
About the Authors