| Afterwords Contributor(s): Cook, Geoffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550655086 ISBN-13: 9781550655087 Publisher: Signal Editions OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2019393601 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into English poems in their own right, but enrich and expand his uniquely prismatic voice. Cook brings a contemporary and Canadian tone to his adaptations, which also showcase the exacting craftsmanship for which his first collection, Postscript, was praised. Afterwords is a book that daringly celebrates authorship as a shared project. "Do you not feel," writes Goethe, "that, in my songs, I am one and the other, too?" |