
Cold Water Shielded
Selected Poems
Salah Stetie(Author)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-85224-487-3 (ISBN)
Description
Salah Stetie (1929-2020) was a French Lebanese poet and essayist of international renown. In his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension while never ceasing to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is 'hanging on the other side of being' - 'the great soft lion's track in the invisible' - while still capturing the swarming particularities of our daily presence in the world. Salah Stetie was born in Beirut. After studies in Lebanon and France, he turned his attention towards the problems of contemporary poetry, establishing exchanges and friendships with writers such as Jouve, Mandiargues, Ungaretti, Bonnefoy, Du Bouchet and David Gascoyne. After launching the cultural weekly L'Orient litteraire in Beirut, he developed two parallel careers, as a writer and as a distinguished diplomat, in Paris, Morocco, The Hague and elsewhere. He published over 40 books, and was awarded Le Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Academie Francaise in 1995. Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 10. French-English bilingual edition.
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Edition
Bilingual 'facing page' edition
Language
English
French
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-487-3 (9781852244873)
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Salah Stetie (1929-2020) was born in Beirut. After studies in Labanon and France, he turned his attention towards the problems of contemporary poetry, establishing exchanges and friendships with writers such as Jouve, Mandiargues, Ungaretti, Bonnefoy, Du Bouchet and David Gascoyne. After launching the cultural weekly L'Orient litteraire in Beirut, he developed two parallel careers, as a writer and as a distinguished diplomat, in Paris, Morocco, The Hague and elsewhere. He served as Lebanon's ambassador to France, and spent much of his life in France. He published over 40 books, and was awarded Le Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Academie Francaise in 1995. His bilingual edition Cold Water Shielded: Selected Poems, translated by Michael Bishop, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2000.