King of a Hundred Horsemen - Poems

Informationen zum Autor Marie Étienne; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker Klappentext Marie Étienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane-the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most "exotic" journeys become ordinary and the most ordinary displacements partake of the strange. King of a Hundred Horsemen -in a brilliant translation by Marilyn Hacker that Robert Hass selected for the National Poetry Series's first Robert Fagles Translation Prize in 2007-is an elegant, deeply affecting work from a master poet.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Etienne, Marie/ Hacker Etienne
• Assisted by: Marilyn Hacker (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2009
• EAN: 9780374531928
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53192-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama