King of a Hundred Horsemen Poems English and French Edition
by [Etienne, Marie]
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Marie Étienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane--the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most "exotic" journeys become ordinary and the most ordinary displacements partake of the strange. King of a Hundred Horsemen--in a brilliant translation by Marilyn Hacker that Robert Hass selected for the National Poetry Series's first Robert Fagles Translation Prize in 2007--is an elegant, deeply affecting work from a master poet.
Product Details
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux Brand
- Oct 27, 2009 Pub Date:
- 9780374531928 ISBN-13:
- 0374531927 ISBN-10:
- 203.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.51 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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