Love in Another Language
Collected Poems and Selected Translations
Published on 30. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-78410-507-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight previous publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as `the leading translator of Persian literature in our time' (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of his celebrated translations.
Davis's original poems evoke the experiences of travel and of living in a culture in which one is a stranger, where empathy is at once difficult and necessary. His translations can be read as a record of his attempts at such empathy, in poetic terms, across centuries and cultures.
Davis's original poems evoke the experiences of travel and of living in a culture in which one is a stranger, where empathy is at once difficult and necessary. His translations can be read as a record of his attempts at such empathy, in poetic terms, across centuries and cultures.
Reviews / Votes
'Our finest translator of Persian poetry' - the TLS; 'It is marvelous to find a poet whose poetry lives through its metre. His handling of it is masterful, and you are never aware of the effort. And the language is exact but relentless, like the perceptions . . . Davis is one of the best poets around.' - Thom Gunn; 'The leading translator of Persian literature in our time.' - The Washington PostMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-507-5 (9781784105075)
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Person
Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth in 1945 and educated at Cambridge (ba and ma in English Literature) and Manchester (PhD. in Medieval Persian Literature). He retired from Ohio State University, where he had been Professor of Persian and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, in 2012. As author, translator, or editor, he has published academic works on American and Persian literature, translations from Italian (prose) and Persian (prose and verse), and books of his own poetry.