Afterwords
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The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into English poems in their own right, but enrich and expand his uniquely prismatic voice. Cook brings a contemporary and Canadian tone to his adaptations, which also showcase the exacting craftsmanship for which his first collection, Postscript, was praised. Afterwords is a book that daringly celebrates authorship as a shared project. "Do you not feel," writes Goethe, "that, in my songs, I am one and the other, too?"
Book information
ISBN: | 9781550655087 |
Publisher: | Vehicule Press |
Imprint: | Signal Editions |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 2019 |
DEWEY: | 811.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 91 |
Weight: | 132g |
Height: | 141mm |
Width: | 216mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |