Translations from memory / Fred D'Aguiar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Genre:

Guyanese poetry.

English poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2018.

Summary:

Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His new book recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Museum Gilgamesh; Greek & Latin; Greco-Roman; Homer; Diderot, One; After Horace; Before Ovid; Sappho, Oh Sappho; Aeschylus; Africa; Milesians; Heraclitus Meets Parmenides Meets Empedocles; Protagoras; Socrates Plato Aristotle; Archimedes; Hellenists Versus Hedonists; Cynics & Skeptics; Epicureans & Stoicism; Romany; Plotinus; Catholics & Jews; St Benedict; Gregory The Great; Dark Ages; Islam; Hannibal; St Thomas Aquinas; Franciscans; Renaissance; Galileo's Snowflake; Machiavelli; Erasmus; More; Reformation; Burton's Anatomy

Slavery IntroTidal; Francis Bacon; Heads, Hobbes; Tails, Descartes; Spinoza; Leibniz; Liberals; Locke Meet Hume; Hume Meet Locke; Romantics; Pushkin; Rousseau; Kant; Hegel; Equiano; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; Utilitarian; Marx; Sojourner Truth; Bergson; Marie Curie; Douglass; Tagore; Einstein; Phenomenology; Levi-Strauss; Fanon; Barthes; W.E.B. DuBois; Malcolm; MLK Intro; The Sirens' Song by Romare Bearden; Wilson Harris; Dante; Pushkin Redux; Anna Akhmatova; Lighthouse; George Seferis; Lorca; Hitchcock's Vertigo; Aime Cesaire; Calvino; Our King James; Martin Carter; Sargasso Sea; Mandela

Diderot, TwoWalter Rodney; Trans Coda; Yeats, Eliot, Pound; DW; KB; About the Author; By the Same Author; Copyright

ISBN:

1784106062

9781784106065

OCLC:

1010583471