Paralogues
Published on 26. October 2012
64 pages
978-1-84777-641-9 (ISBN)
Description
Paralogues, which takes its title from the Greek word for 'ballads', is the British debut of an original Canadian poet and editor. Evan Jonesexplores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways, and Paralogues concludes with a sequence retelling the Byzantine folk ballad 'Constantine and Arete'.
Translation is central to the collection, from the modern Greek of Miltos Sachtouris to the Austrian German of Raoul Schrott. Readers encounter people and places real and imagined: the lonely figure of the poet Cavafy in Victorian Liverpool, God in post-war Paris, the landscapes of Europe and North America at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Translation is central to the collection, from the modern Greek of Miltos Sachtouris to the Austrian German of Raoul Schrott. Readers encounter people and places real and imagined: the lonely figure of the poet Cavafy in Victorian Liverpool, God in post-war Paris, the landscapes of Europe and North America at once familiar and unfamiliar.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-641-9 (9781847776419)
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Paralogues
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Canadian poet Evan Jones [????????? ???????] lives in Manchester. His first collection of poetry, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (2010) and has since published Paralogues (2012) and Later Emperors (2020). His translation from the Modern Greek, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose of C.P. Cavafy (2020), was a TLS Book of the Year.
Content
Self-portrait with Argus the Hundred-Eyed
Little Notes on Painting
Portrait (Artist's Model, Sleeping Nude)
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant
Letter to Sofia
Cavafy in Liverpool
The Intercity Express Passes Guenzburg
Sheep or Llama
Burgau to Ulm, Bundesland Bavaria
Bundesland Bavaria, between Deffingen and Denzingen
God in Paris, 1945
Santorini
The Devoted Widow
Justinian's Advisors Recall Him Prophesying
Journey
Three Actaeons
How I Became one of my Poems
I Went Down to the Sea
Prayer to Saint Agatha
For One Whose Name God Knows
Lines Attributed to Michael Psellus Concerning the Deaths of Twelve Apostles
Constantine and Arete: an autobiography
Little Notes on Painting
Portrait (Artist's Model, Sleeping Nude)
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant
Letter to Sofia
Cavafy in Liverpool
The Intercity Express Passes Guenzburg
Sheep or Llama
Burgau to Ulm, Bundesland Bavaria
Bundesland Bavaria, between Deffingen and Denzingen
God in Paris, 1945
Santorini
The Devoted Widow
Justinian's Advisors Recall Him Prophesying
Journey
Three Actaeons
How I Became one of my Poems
I Went Down to the Sea
Prayer to Saint Agatha
For One Whose Name God Knows
Lines Attributed to Michael Psellus Concerning the Deaths of Twelve Apostles
Constantine and Arete: an autobiography
