Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Visible Poets)
Language: English
Published by ARC Publications, 2015
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- Title
- Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Visible Poets)
- Author
- Jan Wagner
- Publisher
- ARC Publications
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1908376821
- ISBN 13
- 9781908376824
- Item weight
- 191 grams
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events - plants, animals, landscapes - with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd, the precarious balance. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability. Intensely curious, constantly attentive to novel or unanticipated possibilities afforded by traditional forms, Wagner's poems celebrate what he has called 'our steaming, glowing, odorous, noisy world'.
Jan Wagner's poems start in particular things, creatures, persons, circumstances and, with wit and compassion, open into novelty. In the reader's mind they are still opening as they end. Furthermore, even by Arc's high standards this is an exceptionally successful face-to-face of poet and poet-translator. Look left, look right: pleasure on both sides!David Constantine
Whether his subject is fennel or frogs, the Amish or Evel Knievel, Jan Wagner's combination of wit, irony, lyrical genius and philosophical legerdemain illumine and renew our world in the most surprising ways. Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, daringly and imaginatively translated from the German by Iain Galbraith, confirms Wagner as one of Europe's finest poets, a true magus of language.John Burnside
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