The Unstill Ones
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17682-6 (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.
á Night Watch ixCaedmon's Hymn 3On Trans 4Wulf and Eadwacer 6Aloud, Out of Nothing 9The City 10The Ruin 11The Smokewood Tree 13Tabula Rasa 14Good Sleep 15Lies After the War 16The Sky-Stone 18The Woman Who Cannot 19á My Brother Was Missing 23The Vespertines 25Brothers 26Wolf Brother 27Silentium 28The Ruin 29Riddle 82 31The Old English Rune Poem 32The Unmaking 36viRocks 38The Grave 39On Fishing 40Against a Sudden Stitch 42á Natural History 45The Word Again 47Against a Dwarf 49The Grave 50Who People Are 52P. M. 54Riddle 63 55Riddle 97 56Wulf and Eadwacer 57Dear Lengthening Day 58What Is Night 60Words Were Changing 61The Unstill Ones 63Body Walking Through Snow 65Riddle 94 67Voyages 68Riddle 78 70Breakwater 71Acknowledgments 73Notes 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 | 312 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-17682-5 / 0691176825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17682-6 / 9780691176826 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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