25 Caprichos After Goya - Softcover

Rothenberg, Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8488290578 ISBN 13: 9788488290571

Publisher: Kadle Books, 2004

Synopsis

Poetry. This collection is comprised of poems by well-known poet andanthologist, Jerome Rothenberg, written in relation to Francisco Goya'sfamous series of prints. Orginally published in Spain in 1799, Goya'sLos Caprichos addressed the grotesque social and religious evils of thattumultuous period. Rothenberg, in turn, addresses the grotesqueries ofour own time in these imaginative, enigmatic works.

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About the Author

Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry including acclaimed volumes such as Poland/1931, Khurbn, and The Lorca Variations (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as "an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present," he has also edited ten major anthologies, including Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and Poems for the Millennium (three volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey C. Robinson). His poetry has been translated extensively into French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Japanese, Lithuanian, Chinese, and Finnish. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and was awarded an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards, among other honors. He was elected to the World Academy of Poetry in 2001. His books available from SPD include GEMATRIA COMPLETE, THREE POEMS AFTER IMAGES BY NANCY TOBIN, CHINA NOTES & THE TREASURES OF DUNHUANG, 25 CAPRICHOS AFTER GOYA, and A BOOK OF CONCEALMENTS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kadle Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8488290578
• ISBN 13: 9788488290571
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 54