Eric Selland

Broschiertes Buch

Beethoven's Dream

Beschreibung

Beethoven's Dream completes the cycle of hybrid works which includes "The Condition of Music" and "Arc Tangent". As in these other works, Selland extracts fragments from a working notebook, juxtaposing appropriated text with his own extemporaneous writing to produce these meditations on daily life, memory, desire and loss. The book contains two long works, "Sketches" and "Beethoven's Dream", where Selland's interests in music, philosophy, and painting - and the love of Beethoven that he shared with his father - merge with the workaday world of Silicon Valley's high-tech factories; the tension between dissatisfaction with that world and the desire to inhabit more completely life as it actually has become is a major concern. Both works explore the intersecting points of past and present, dream and reality, internal and external, where identity emerges "as a cluster of unstable boundaries", in language whose resonances and silences are haunted by the internal transformations of which they are the traces. Forrest Gander wrote of "Arc Tangent", Eric Selland's previous Isobar book: "For all its formal dazzle, this is a deeply expressive book, often tinged with sadness. The first part shifts between prose, haibun, line-broken normative statements, and more intensely elliptical and syntactically acrobatic lyric. The second section then draws together much of the fracture of the earlier poems into an assemblage of observations on loss, distance, age, and stretched connections. A stunningly accomplished book."

Autor

Eric Selland is an American poet and translator living in Tokyo. He is the author of six books or pamphlets of poetry, including Object States (Theenk Books, 2018), Beethoven's Dream (Isobar Press, 2015), and Arc Tangent (Isobar Press, 2013). His translation of The Guest Cat, a novel by Takashi Hiraide, was on the New York Times bestseller list in early 2014, and his translation of poems by Kiwao Nomura, The Day Laid Bare, was chosen as a Recommended Translation by The Poetry Book Society, UK, for their winter 2020 season. His most recently published book-length poetry translation is of Minoru Yoshioka's late-modernist masterpiece Kusudama (Isobar Press, 2021). Selland has co-edited an anthology of twentieth-century Japanese experimental poetry with poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu, which is scheduled to appear from New Directions Books in 2024. He makes his living as an independent translator of Japanese economic research reports.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Isobar Press
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 106g
• ISBN-13: 9784907359102
• ISBN-10: 4907359101
• Artikelnr.: 63763509