The Unstill Ones
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17683-3 (ISBN)
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman's startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse. Shaped by Oberman's scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. "Wulf and Eadwacer," a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as "On Trans" draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity.
Richly combining scholarly rigor, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, The Unstill Ones marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry.
Miller Oberman has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a 92Y Discovery Prize, and Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His work has appeared in Poetry, London Review of Books, the Nation, Boston Review, Tin House, and Harvard Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Night Watch ix
Caedmon's Hymn 3
On Trans 4
Wulf and Eadwacer 6
Aloud, Out of Nothing 9
The City 10
The Ruin 11
The Smokewood Tree 13
Tabula Rasa 14
Good Sleep 15
Lies After the War 16
The Sky-Stone
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The Woman Who Cannot 19
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My Brother Was Missing 23
The Vespertines 25
Brothers 26
Wolf Brother 27
Silentium 28
The Ruin 29
Riddle 82 31
The Old English Rune Poem 32
The Unmaking 36
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Rocks 38
The Grave 39
On Fishing 40
Against a Sudden Stitch 42
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Natural History 45
The Word Again 47
Against a Dwarf 49
The Grave 50
Who People Are 52
P. M. 54
Riddle 63 55
Riddle 97 56
Wulf and Eadwacer 57
Dear Lengthening Day 58
What Is Night 60
Words Were Changing 61
The Unstill Ones 63
Body Walking Through Snow 65
Riddle 94 67
Voyages 68
Riddle 78 70
Breakwater 71
Acknowledgments 73
Notes 75
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 142 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-17683-3 / 0691176833 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17683-3 / 9780691176833 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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