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Renditions / Reginald Gibbons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbons, Reginald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Way Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- An energetic exploration of the expanse of language translated and otherwise transformedIn Renditions Reginald Gibbons conducts an ensemble of poetic voices, using the works of a varied, international selection of writers as departure points for his translations and transformations. The collection poses the idea that all writing is, at least abstractly, an act of translation, whether said act "translates" observation into word or moves ideas from one language to another. Through these acts of transformation, Gibbons infuses the English language with stylistic aspects of other languages and poetic traditions. The resulting poems are imbued with a sense of homage that allows us to respectfully reimagine the borders of language and revel in the fellowship of idea sharing. In this tragicomedy of the human experience and investigation of humanity's effects, Gibbons identifies the "shared underthoughts that we can (all) sense: " desire, love, pain, and fervor.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- One
- Swear-
- Honeycombs and Cobwebs
- Anemone
- Boy, Hiding
- Paris . . . Moscow, 1925
- The God Eros, Who Cannot Be Thwarted
- One Leaf, Two Leaves
- But What Does He Do?
- But A Guy Goes By
- Elegy: Green We Love You Green
- Back to the Village
- On the Continent's Far Edge
- Spell
- Afterward
- Bow Seven Times
- Triage
- Two
- On Song
- Pieces of Ancient Life
- Obscure Heralds Robed All in Black
- Audacity &
- Apogee
- On Argyle Street
- View from an Oklahoma Hilltop
- Lesson
- Lurid and Lunatic
- What Remains
- Lips, Hands, Eyes
- Hyssop Garden on the Shore of Midnight
- Mirrors
- December Streetcar Ticket, 1920s Madrid
- The Names of Everyone
- Ambular y deambular
- On Sleep
- Elderly Greek Scribe at a Temple of the Muses
- Discus
- Three
- My Greco-Russian Investigation (after Pindar's Third Pythian Ode)
- Sources
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
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