Otherlands
Translations of Jean Cassou, Rainer Maria Rilke and Other Poets
Published on 16. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-84861-479-6 (ISBN)
Description
Otherlands brings together a compendium of Harry Guest's translations from French, German, Italian and Japanese, although the largest representations are those of Cassou (33 sonnets composed in secret) and Rilke (several pieces, including The Lay of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke von Langenau), and runs from poets of the 16th century to our contemporaries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
148 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-479-6 (9781848614796)
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Persons
Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a his-torical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Time, appeared in 2010, while Shearsman also published a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, in 2008. His many other translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and the Penguin volume, Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shozo, 1972).
Content
Clement Marot About My SelfMellin de Saint-Gelais SonnetMaurice Sceve from Delie, dizain no. CCXVIMaurice Sceve dizain no. CCLVIIMaurice Sceve To the ReaderOlivier de Magny "Hola Charon ...Joachim du Bellay Sonnet LXXVI from L'Olive 16Philippe Desportes Sonnet LI from Les Amours d'HippolytePhilippe Desportes "Love can at the same moment goad and check"Theophile Gautier Preface to Emaux et CameesStephane Mallarme Breeze off the SeaStephane Mallarme RenewalStephane Mallarme AnguishPaul Verlaine Monsieur BourgeoisArthur Rimbaud Ah seasons Ah castles Arthur Rimbaud The Flags of MayArthur Rimbaud SeascapeRainer Maria Rilke EndymionRainer Maria RilkeRainer Maria Rilke People by NightRainer Maria Rilke The Mount of OlivesRainer Maria Rilke The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke von LangenauMarie Luise Kaschnitz SpiralsMarie Luise Kaschnitz UnsaidRolf Haufs Peppino PortiereRolf-Dieter Brinkmann Self-Portrait in the SupermarketRolf-Dieter Brinkmann Even More ShadowsJean Cassou 33 Sonnets composed in secret Notes to the 33 SonnetsAnne Mounic "the duel now more one-sided than before"Anne Mounic "arresting sleights of hand"Anne Mounic "infinity, conceivable florescence"Daniele Serafini A Distant VeniceRyota Haiku Harry Guest Ryota's Twilit HaikuHarry Guest Six Word-SonnetsHarry Guest Quantite InconnueNotes on the Poets 104