The winged energy of delight : selected translations / [translated by] Robert Bly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bly, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Translations into English.

Poetry.

Poetry--Collections.

Genre:

Collections.

Physical Description:

viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, [2004]

Summary:

Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. For the first time, Robert Bly's brilliant translations, from several languages, have been gathered in one book. Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two poets, some renowned, others lesser known, are brought together.

At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Robert Bly introduced the earthy wildness of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo and the sober grief of Trakl, as well as the elegance of Jimenez and Transtromer. He also published high-spirited versions of Kabir, Rumi, and Mirabai, which had considerable influence on the wider culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Bly's clear translations of Rilke attracted many new readers to the poet, and his versions of Machado have become models of silence and depth. He continues to bring fresh and amazing poets into English, most recently Rolf Jacobsen, Miguel Hernandez, Francis Ponge, and the nineteenth-century Indian poet Ghalib. As Kenneth Rexroth has said, Robert Bly "is one of the leaders of a poetic revival that has returned American literature to the world community."

Contents:

Tomas Transtromer 1

Mirabai 21

Kabir 37

Antonio Machado 57

Juan Ramon Jimenez 81

Francis Ponge 99

Pablo Neruda 111

Georg Trakl 137

Rainer Maria Rilke 155

Basho 179

Rolf Jacobsen 189

Gunnar Ekelof 207

Issa 219

Federico Garcia Lorca 229

Olav H. Hauge 257

Harry Martinson 273

Cesar Vallejo 291

Miguel Hernandez 311

Rumi 331

Horace 349

Ghalib 361

Hafez 377.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0060575824

OCLC:

54006644