Miller Oberman The Unstill Ones (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: The Unstill Ones Condition: New Subtitle: Poems ISBN-10: 0691176825 EAN: 9780691176826 ISBN: 9780691176826 Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 10/10/2017 Description: An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman's startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse. Shaped by Oberman's scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. "Wulf and Eadwacer," a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as "On Trans" draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity.Richly combining scholarly rigor, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, The Unstill Ones marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 312g Author: Miller Oberman Genre: Poetry & Drama Book Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Release Year: 2017 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
