
An Infusion of Violets
Nancy Naomi Carlson(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 17. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-85742-645-1 (ISBN)
Description
Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in An Infusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's "ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones," take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce "so much salt a body floats away," where "music tuned to loss descends with rain," and where hope is placed in the "kill-cure." Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, An Infusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85742-645-1 (9780857426451)
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Person
Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet and translator whose translation of Khal Torabully's Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.