Aperture
Published on 27. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-938890-94-9 (ISBN)
Description
The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects - internet culture, science, postmodern architecture - even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged objects in this bilingual (Polish/English) collection. Dehnel's range of style and diction includes poems based on the classic Polish thirteen-syllable line and intricate rhyming stanzas, to prose poems and freer lyrics. "My restlessness... is one of my strongest traits-that insatiability for places, books, paintings, people," he says.
Reviews / Votes
The poems are translated with the same loving gaze: Kovacik has entered so successfully into the world of the poet that much of this work honestly seems poetry of a very high order in English. - Sasha Dugdale, EuroLitNetwork(http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingreviews-sasha-dugdale-reviews-aperture-by-jacek-dehnel/)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
147 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938890-94-9 (9781938890949)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jacek Dehnel is a poet, writer, translator and painter who was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1980. The winner of the 2005 Koscielski Foundation Award and the 2006 Polityka Passport Award, he has written seven volumes of poetry and a dozen books of novels and short stories. His first volume of poetry received an enthusiastic endorsement by Czeslaw Milosz. Dehnel is also a painter, and the translator of works by Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, George Szirtes, Osip Mandelstam and others into Polish.
Content
Contents
Translator's Introduction
1 A Razor-Sharp Glance
Brzytwa okamgnienia
A Razor-Sharp Glance
Mile zlego porzadki
Small Efforts at Order
Macewy
Matzevot
Czerwiec.Lipiec
June.July.
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo
Biedny chrzescijanin patrzy na gabinet Peggy Sage
A Poor Christian Looks at the Peggy Sage Salon
Albert Watson, Golden Boy (New York, 1990)
Albert Watson, Golden Boy (New York, 1990)
Odkopanie posagu Antinousa w Delfach, 1894
Unearthing a Statue of Antinous in Delphi, 1894
2 Aperture
Wizjer
Aperture
Muzeum anatomii: sarna
Museum of Anatomy: Deer
Rys. 370. Garb wskutek gruzlicy kregoslupa
Fig. 370. Hunchback due to tuberculosis of the spine
Bazant
Pheasant
Bajka o hurtowniku pietruszki
Fable of the Parsley Dealer
Czeresnie
Cherries
Niewdziecznosc
Ungratefulness
8.5 x 13, '84
4 x 6, '84
Hoer ich das Liedchen klingen
Hoer ich das Liedchen klingen
Stary czlowiek w oknie palacu
Old Man in a Palace Window
3 Posterity
Posterity
Posterity
Sebastiano del Piombo, Wskrzeszenia Lazarza
Sebastiano del Piombo, The Raising of Lazarus
Zolty dom
Yellow House
Urartu
Urartu
Plesn (Warszawa Centralna)
Mold (Warsaw Central Station)
Big Splash
Big Splash
Przebicie
Flashover
Space Oddity
Space Oddity
4 Symmetry
Symetria
Symmetry
Apetyt
Appetite
Korytarz, pozna jesien
Train Corridor, Late Fall
Odwilz
Thaw
www.gaydar.pl
www.gaydar.pl
Szczescie
Happiness
Nurt
Current
"Jesli nieszczesliwa milosc konczy sie..."
"If unhappy love ends..."
Notes on the poems
Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
1 A Razor-Sharp Glance
Brzytwa okamgnienia
A Razor-Sharp Glance
Mile zlego porzadki
Small Efforts at Order
Macewy
Matzevot
Czerwiec.Lipiec
June.July.
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo
Biedny chrzescijanin patrzy na gabinet Peggy Sage
A Poor Christian Looks at the Peggy Sage Salon
Albert Watson, Golden Boy (New York, 1990)
Albert Watson, Golden Boy (New York, 1990)
Odkopanie posagu Antinousa w Delfach, 1894
Unearthing a Statue of Antinous in Delphi, 1894
2 Aperture
Wizjer
Aperture
Muzeum anatomii: sarna
Museum of Anatomy: Deer
Rys. 370. Garb wskutek gruzlicy kregoslupa
Fig. 370. Hunchback due to tuberculosis of the spine
Bazant
Pheasant
Bajka o hurtowniku pietruszki
Fable of the Parsley Dealer
Czeresnie
Cherries
Niewdziecznosc
Ungratefulness
8.5 x 13, '84
4 x 6, '84
Hoer ich das Liedchen klingen
Hoer ich das Liedchen klingen
Stary czlowiek w oknie palacu
Old Man in a Palace Window
3 Posterity
Posterity
Posterity
Sebastiano del Piombo, Wskrzeszenia Lazarza
Sebastiano del Piombo, The Raising of Lazarus
Zolty dom
Yellow House
Urartu
Urartu
Plesn (Warszawa Centralna)
Mold (Warsaw Central Station)
Big Splash
Big Splash
Przebicie
Flashover
Space Oddity
Space Oddity
4 Symmetry
Symetria
Symmetry
Apetyt
Appetite
Korytarz, pozna jesien
Train Corridor, Late Fall
Odwilz
Thaw
www.gaydar.pl
www.gaydar.pl
Szczescie
Happiness
Nurt
Current
"Jesli nieszczesliwa milosc konczy sie..."
"If unhappy love ends..."
Notes on the poems
Acknowledgments