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December 10, 2021 | |
9781736656129 | |
English | |
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Proteus Bound
Selected Translations, 2008-2020
Ryan Wilson's first book of poems, The Stranger World - winner of the prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize - explored the ways in which human beings may discover themselves in life's unforseen and unpredictable phenomena. That book, described by poet and professor James Matthew Wilson as "a most astonishing debut" and "maybe the best first book by a poet I've ever read," lays the groundwork for Proteus Bound, in which the author's practice of xenia, or "hospitality," welcomes poems from more than a half dozen languages, spanning nearly three millennia, into English.
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Reviews
"Did Ryan Wilson wager with himself that he could choose some of the most familiar poems in European literature and bring them so freshly into English that they are new again? If so, he owes himself a ten-spot, for Proteus Bound achieves that goal with seeming nonchalance."—Fred Chappell
"Wilson's choices are always responsible and responsive, as manifested in the elegant music of his versification."—David Ferry
"Nothing renews the tradition more certainly than the attentions that a poet-translator of Wilson's caliber gives to the great poems of the past...This is work that both honors the tradition and shows why we would wish to do such a thing."—Charles Martin
"What a treasure! This invigorating book brings us close to some of the most beautiful lyric poems ever written...As implied by the title, Wilson's method is protean: the translator is one who transforms himself into each of the various authors' projections of self, inhabiting the soul of each persona. As a result, these great poets are still with us, and we are with them."—Grace Schulman
"This anthology...represents a sweeping literary education unto itself."—A.E. Stallings
Paperback / softback | |
December 10, 2021 | |
9781736656129 | |
English | |
224 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.65 Pounds (US) | |
$15.00 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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