Anita Diamant's the Red Tent A Reader's Guide |
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Author:
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Series title: | Continuum Contemporaries Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8264-1574-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Imprint: | Continuum |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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This cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. #145;Variations on the Right to Remain Silent’ is an essay on the stakes involved when translation happens, ranging from Homer through Joan of Arc to Paul Celan; it includes the author’s seven translations of a poetic fragment from the Greek poet Ibykos. #145;By Chance the Cycladic People’ is a poem about Cycladic...
More DescriptionThis cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. #145;Variations on the Right to Remain Silent’ is an essay on the stakes involved when translation happens, ranging from Homer through Joan of Arc to Paul Celan; it includes the author’s seven translations of a poetic fragment from the Greek poet Ibykos. #145;By Chance the Cycladic People’ is a poem about Cycladic culture where the order of the lines has been determined by a random number generator. The cahier is illustrated by Lanfranco Quadrio.