Harry Guest

Broschiertes Buch

Comparisons & Conversions

Beschreibung

Comparisons considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in events separated by the gap of years-since, sometimes when we journey, we are "hoping by space to leave / the faults of time behind". Conversions contains the poetry translated since Versions appeared from Odyssey in 1999. Harry Guest regards the effort of translation as a vital complement to creative writing, providing not only a technical challenge but also the strange effect of inhabiting another's consciousness for a while.

Autor

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cam-bridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in France, Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, an historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Time, appeared in 2010, while Shearsman also published a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, in 2008. His many other translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and the Penguin volume, Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shozo, 1972).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9781848610194
• ISBN-10: 184861019X
• Artikelnr.: 25721239