Benjamin Fondane, Leonard Schwartz

Cinepoems and Others

Herausgeber: Schwartz, Leonard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style; a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy; a Romanian poet who wrote in French; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of a plenitude, an overflowing. After Fondane's death, the poetry might have been forgotten had not writers like E. M. Cioran kept the memory of the work alive, and in France today, Fondane's poetry is again widely available. This first American collection of Fondane's poetry includes his surrealist "Cine-poems," philosophical meditations, and poems that, in their secular/mystical Judaism, confront the calamity--and imaginative triumph--of European Jewry. Poems included in this collection are translated by Mitch Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E.M. Cioran, Joseph Donahue, Eric Freedman, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and Leonard Schwartz"--

Produktdetails

• Nyrb Poets
• Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 113mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781590179000
• ISBN-10: 1590179005
• Artikelnr.: 42198674

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Fondane, edited and translated from the French by Leonard Schwartz

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction   2
Three Cine-Poems:
Maturing Eye-Lids   13
Mtasipol   19
Horizontal Bar   26
From Ulysses
VII   31
XXI   33
XXXVII   36
From Titanic (X)   38
The Sorrows of Ghosts 49
From Exodus   70
From Belshazzar's Feast   94
From Refusal of the Poem:
In the Time of the Poem  119
Refusal of the Poem   128
Fallen Snow   130
Elegies   132
Untitled
Post-face:
Interview with E. M. Cioran