| Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems Contributor(s): Faverey, Hans (Author), Jones, Francis R. (Translator), Weinberger, Eliot (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0811215555 ISBN-13: 9780811215558 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: A stunning selection of poems by the great twentieth-century Dutch poet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 839 |
| LCCN: 2003018021 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.4" W x 8.16" (0.49 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Against the Forgetting presents the work of an important twentieth-century Dutch poet, Hans Faverey. The first extensive selection of his poetry in English, this collection brings together poems from his eight published volumes of poetry spanning the years 1968 to 1990--the last volume, Default, he received only two days before his death. In addition, a selection of poems from a posthumous collection, Spring Foxes, first published in Holland in 2000, is also included. The translator Francis Jones writes, Hans Faverey left behind a poetic structure of uniquely subtle richness and beauty, made from so little--a few words, surrounded by silence. Filled with a precision and arresting musicality comparable to the hermetic poems of Celan and Bronk, and as mysterious as the writings of Heraclitus and the German mystic Meister Eckhart, Faverey's poems, like Lichtenberg's lightning frozen in time, lash out, splintering systems and syntax--enlightening. |
Contributor Bio(s): Faverey, Hans: - Hans Faverey (1933-1990) was born in Paramaribo, Surinam and moved to Amsterdam when he was a child. He worked as a clinical psychologist at the University of Leiden and received many literary awards, including the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work as a whole.Jones, Francis R.: - Francis R. Jones lectures in English and applied linguistics at the University of Newcastle. Among his other translations are Ivan V. Lalic's The Works of Love, The Passionate Measure (for which he was awarded the 1991 European Poetry Translation Prize), and The Rusty Needle; Vyacheslav Kupriyanov's In Anyone's Tongue; and Vosko Popa's Complete Poems (with the late Anne Pennington).Weinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City. |