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Why I No Longer Write Poems Diana Anphimiadi

Why I No Longer Write Poems By Diana Anphimiadi

Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi


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Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her boldly inventive work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our senses against the limits of sense. Georgian-English dual language edition.

Why I No Longer Write Poems Summary

Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi

Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our senses against the limits of sense. Boldly inventive, prayers appear alongside recipes, dance lessons next to definitions. Her playful, witty lyricism offers a glimpse of the eternal in the everyday. The poems in this selection have been collaboratively translated into English by the award-winning British poet Jean Sprackland and leading Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters. A chapbook selection of their translations of Anphimiadi's work, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 and praised by Adham Smart in Modern Poetry in Translation for capturing the 'electricity of Anphimiadi's language' which 'crackles from one poem to the next in Bukia-Peters and Sprackland's fine translation'. Georgian-English dual language edition. Co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.

About Diana Anphimiadi

Diana Anphimiadi is a poet, publicist, linguist and teacher. She has published four collections of poetry in Georgian: Shokoladi (Chocolate, 2008), Konspecturi Mitologia (Resume of Mythology, 2009), Alhlokhedvis Traektoria (Trajectory of the Short-Sighted, 2012) and Chrdilis Amoch'ra (Cutting the Shadow, 2015). Her poetry has received prestigious awards, including first prize in the 2008 Tsero (Crane Award) and the Saba Prize for the best first collection in 2009. Her chapbook, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 by the Poetry Translation Centre, and Why I No Longer Write Poems, the first full-length Georgian-English selection of her poetry, is published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in 2022, both titles translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters and Jean Sprackland. She lives in Tblisi with her son.

Table of Contents

Introduction Sleeping Beauty Poet in the Shower Prayer Before Bathing Iphigenia Helen of Troy Eurydice Persephone Medusa Cassiopeia (Three Back to Front Songs) Dance Lessons (3/4 Time) Studies Lesson Silent Writing Pompeii Soul Autism: Beginning to Speak Mute Braille Because Prayer Before Taking Nourishment Retrospective Why I No Longer Write Poems Winter Loss Dogs Bond Gardening for Beginners The Snake in the Yard Centaur etc Lost Upside-Down Immune Deficiency The Trajectory of the Short-Sighted Surrogate The Choice Tears in the Glass Evening Children The Forest Near the Window Exchange of Prisoners Entertainment Orchestra Reaping Song July Fair Copy Endangered The Second Coming About the Authors

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GOR013165885
9781780375472
1780375476
Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2022-02-24
160
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