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52 Euros: Containing 26 Men and 26 Women in a Double A – Z of European Poets in Translation
Author(s): John Gallas (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770991
- ISBN-13: 9781847770998
Book Description
John Gallas, who guided us around the world in his celebrated anthology The Song Atlas, here zooms in on Europe. The poems he perfects in English are chosen from the work of the famous (Akhmatova, Baudelaire, Pasolini) and the still-to-be-known (the Olafsson brothers, Renee Vivien, Yulia Zhadovskaya). Native speakers provide him with literal translations and the poems’ sounds. Gallas then ‘re-poems’ them. They constitute an exhilarating poetic journey across a continent and through time. All human life is here: love and despair, wild excess and wistful calm. Gallas understands the many musics of language. His book is a trove of the purest currency of Europe, poetry.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Song Atlas presents a scintillating spectrum of voices.’ –Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He came to England in 1971 to study Old Icelandic at Oxford, and stayed. He has worked for many years as a teacher with the Leicestershire Behaviour Support Team. He has published seven collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and edited the anthology of world poetry The Song Atlas(2002). Swims like a fish, cycles like a windmill.
