Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - General

"A unique tour de force" --The New York Times Book Review

"One of the most remarkable books that I have read in a long time." --Kenneth Rexroth

"Mr. Connell's NOTES are what one intelligent, sensitive artist has been able to salvage from all experience as testimony to the rather pathetic integrity of the human species in the face of extinction. The book is no manual or tract, however, although its political meaning is unmistakable, but a work of art, even a work of high art." --Hayden Carruth

On connait depuis longtemps l'etat peu satisfaisant des editions des romans de Chretien de Troyes. D'un cote les editions composites de Foerster et de Hilka, d'autre cote les editions "Bedieristes" de la copie de Guiot preparees par M. Roques, A. Micha et F. Lecoy. En ce qui concerne le "Perceval (Le Conte du Graal)," l'edition Hilka n'est pas exempte d'erreurs et le savant allemand n'avait pas consulte tous les manuscrits; en plus, le texte a ete reecrit dans un dialecte suppose champenois dont on peut douter l'existence. La copie de Guiot (B. N. fr. 794), editee par Lecoy, n'est...

Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Elena Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories--and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature.

Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have...

"Henrik Nordbrandt's poems pour out as cold, clear, and mineral-tanged as spring water. . . . Nordbrandt is a master, masterfully reborn in English. This is a book of signal beauty and mystery."--Rosanna Warren

Although most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denmark's very best contemporary poets. If it was Paul Celan who first claimed that poetry was "a message in a bottle, sent out in the--not always greatly hopeful--belief that somewhere...