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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon (edizione 2018)di Don Paterson (A cura di)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now di Nick Laird (Editor)
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'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and place in which they were written, however distant and however foreign they may be, feel utterly here and now in the 21st Century. This book is the condensed result of that search. It stretches as far back as Sappho and as far forward as the recent award-winning work of Denise Riley, taking in poets as varied as Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks along the way. Here, the mournful rubs shoulders with the celebratory; the skulduggerous and the foolish with the highfalutin; and tales of love, loss and war with a menagerie of animals and objects, from bee boxes to rubber boots, a suit of armour and a microscope. Teeming with old favourites and surprising discoveries, this lovingly selected compendium is sure to win lifelong readers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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From the Introduction:
It's just a book of things we love, which we thought you might love, too. Its 'zoo-ness' consists in the variety and strangeness of the poems, and its newness in the apparently inexhaustible ability of those poems to surprise, delight, or shock us, no matter how many times we read them.
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The title comes from Sylvia Plath's poem 'Child, included here...
The price of entry here is simply that the poem had to feel exceptional to us in some way...
Ground rules:
-agree on every poem
-no poets under 60 (recognizing that women and poets of color are a 'casualty' of this decision...roughly 1 in 4.5 poems in this anthology are written by women)
Poems are organized alphabetically by title (or first line, if no title). Index of poets and poems in back.
Poems
"Child" by Sylvia Plath, p. 52
"Epic" by Patrick Kavanagh, p. 101-102
"...Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind
He said: I made the Illiad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.
"Escape" by Elinor Wylie, p. 105
"But first I'll shrink to fairy size,
With a whisper no one understands,
Making blind moons of all your eyes,
And muddy roads of all your hands."
"Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert, 109-110
"I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph."
"Field Guide" by Tony Hoagland, p. 112
"...I mention this the same way
that I fold down the corner of a page
in certain library books,
so that the next reader will know
where to look for the good parts."
"Nostos" by Louise Gluck, p. 246
"We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory."
"The Sloth" by Theodore Roethke, p. 318
"In moving-slow he has no Peer.
You ask him something in his Ear,
He thinks about it for a Year..."
"Snow' by Louis MacNeice, p. 320
"World is crazier and more of it than we think..."
"The soul selects her own society" by Emily Dickinson, p. 334
"I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone,"
"Special Orders" by Edward Hirsch, 224-225
"I don't understand this uncontainable grief.
Whatever you had that never fit,
whatever else you needed, believe me..."
"The Spoonbait" by Seamus Heaney, 335
"Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime...
Exit, alternatively, a toy of light,
Reeled through him upstream, snagging on nothing."
"There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart" by John Berryman, 355
"Nobody is ever missing."
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, 368-369
"What my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 410
"...but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight..."
"Wolves" by Louis MacNeice, 425
"Come then all of you, come closer, form a circle,
Join hands and make believe that joined
Hands will keep away the wolves of water
Who howl along our coast. And be it assumed
That no one hears them among the talk and laughter.
Surprised at the absence of "The Second Coming" and "The Hollow Men" (though other Yeats poems are included).