Description: Further DetailsTitle: After Every WarCondition: NewSubtitle: Twentieth-Century Women PoetsAuthor: Eavan BolandContributor: Eavan Boland (Edited and translated by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691127794EAN: 9780691127798ISBN: 9780691127798Publisher: Princeton University PressGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Date: 10/15/2006Description: They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose Auslander, Elisabeth Langgasser, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schuler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dagmar Nick, and Hilde Domin. Several of the writers are Jewish and, therefore, also witnesses and participants in one of the darkest occasions of human cruelty, the Holocaust. Their poems, as well as those of the other writers, provide a unique biography of the time--but with a difference. These poets see public events through the lens of deep private losses. They chart the small occasions, the bittersweet family ties, the fruit dish on a table, the lost soul arriving at a railway station; in other words, the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.They reclaim these moments and draw the reader into them. The poems are translated and introduced, with biographical notes on the authors, by renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland. Her interest in the topic is not abstract. As an Irish woman, she has observed the heartbreaking effects of violence on her own country. Her experience has drawn her closer to these nine poets, enabling her to render into English the beautiful, ruminative quality of their work and to present their poems for what they are: documentaries of resilience--of language, of music, and of the human spirit--in the hardest of times.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 198gBook Series: Facing PagesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: After Every War
Title: After Every War
Subtitle: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
Contributor: Eavan Boland (Edited and translated by)
ISBN-10: 0691127794
EAN: 9780691127798
ISBN: 9780691127798
Release Date: 10/15/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Facing Pages
Book Title: After Every War : Twentieth-Century Women Poets
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: European / German, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2006
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 7 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Eavan Boland
Item Width: 4.9 in
Book Series: Facing Pages Ser.
Format: Perfect
