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Cook, Geoffrey.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Afterwords
/ Geoffrey Cook.
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Cook, Geoffrey.
Signal Editions, c2018.
Call #:
819.1 C771a
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781550655087 (hc.)
Description:
72 p. : portrait ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"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?" --Back cover.
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Canadian poetry.
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