The Sonnets
Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare
Will be published approx. on 22. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-937658-07-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal Telephone, pairs 154 poet-translators with each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets-literally rewriting history, or at least the great Bard's poetic oeuvre. This collection of English-to-English "translations" includes work by Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Jen Bervin, Paul Celan, Tan Lin, Harryette Mullen, Ron Padgett, Donald Revell, Jerome Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, and many others.
In the tradition of Ezra Pound's Cathay or Jack Spicer's After Lorca, these versions explore the themes of their originals while completely re-authoring them-imagining a new Shakespeare, self-described in his dedication to The Sonnets as:"THE WELL-WISHING. ADVENTURER ... SETTING FORTH."
In the tradition of Ezra Pound's Cathay or Jack Spicer's After Lorca, these versions explore the themes of their originals while completely re-authoring them-imagining a new Shakespeare, self-described in his dedication to The Sonnets as:"THE WELL-WISHING. ADVENTURER ... SETTING FORTH."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-937658-07-6 (9781937658076)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sharmila Cohen, a poet and translator, lives between Brooklyn and Berlin. Paul Legault, author of three collections of poems, including The Other Poems, lives in Brooklyn.