Зарубежные стихи
1249 кн.
Breyten Breytenbach se nuwe bundel is in ’n sekere sin ’n terugskouing op die lewe en die digkuns van die digter en het sterk outobiografiese elemente. Die tema van verganklikheid en oud-word loop sentraal, en daarmee saam die wisseling van plek en landskap. Die deernis en empatie met die mens en sy vreemde lewensverlope is aangrypend. Nog selde by hierdie digter het die landskap so ’n primêre en so ’n verhelderende rol gespeel as in hierdie bundel.Eerlike en ongesmukte poësie, kompleks én...
| Автор | Breyten Breytenbach |
Waar sy debuut hoofsaaklik handel oor die verbrokkeling van ’n huwelik in Duitsland – sy “break-up album” – is Al is die maan ’n misverstand ’n tuiskoms, nie net op eie bodem nie, maar ook in ’n nuwe verhouding. Tog is Marais se poësie allermins geluksalig – verlorendheid is steeds die gevoel wat sy digterlike instink onderlê. Hier is praatverse, verse wat doelbewus ingeskryf is teen die gedrae en verhewe metriese trant wat tradisioneel die Afrikaanse poësie kenmerk. Soos die poësie van Raymond...
| Автор | Danie Marais |
A Hundred Silencesis the third collection of poetry by Gabeba Baderoon – recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry in 2005. In this new selection of poems the poet explores how every room has its own silences, its own memories and secrets. She speaks of the quiet, gnawing loneliness of hotel rooms in ‘Sleeping in hotels’, of the ache of longing and how sometimes ‘love is in the going away’. She also does not steer away from what is not said, from the silences between words,...
| Автор | Gabeba Baderoon |
Danie Marais se derde digbundel, Solank verlange die sweep swaai, is ’n mymerende, soms prewelende, plek-plek tierende besinning oor die Suid-Afrikaanse middelklas-weergawe van die menslike toestand. Dit gaan oor die “roaring 40s” en die eerste onheilspellende tekens van middeljarigheid, oor egskeiding, enkelvaderskap, ontnugtering, ’n geliefde ma wat by die dood omdraai en die skrikwekkende relevansie van gruwelrolprente en popkultuur. Die geweld van die liefde en die verraderlike lugspieëlings...
| Автор | Danie Marais |
Karnaval en Lent word gekenmerk deur die opheffing van die skeiding of grens tussen die digter en die mense en dinge waartussen hy lewe, tot by die punt van volledige vereenselwiging: Die digter staan tussen medeskepper én medevernielers van die aarde; staan voor die kleinste mier én die oorweldigende kosmos. Filosofies en literêr is dit ’n besonder byderwetse en aktuele uitgangspunt, hierdie afbreek van die skanse tussen die een wat kyk en dit wat bekyk word. Maar benewens hierdie...
| Автор | T.T. Cloete |
Die poësie is per definisie iets buitengewoons, dit is waaraan Charl-Pierre Naudé se digkuns by uitstek gestalte gee. Die poësie is ’n ander manier van kyk – die metafoor laat jou iets deur die lens van iets anders sien, en so word die wêreld iets anders, dit word nuut, iets wat van voor ontdek moet word. Die poësie, wys Naudé, is iets wat algemeen aanvaarde waarhede problematiseer, dit vreemd maak sodat dit weer beleef kan word. In Naudé se poësie is die vreemde belangrik. Vreemde ruimtes,...
| Автор | Charl-Pierre Naudé |
Ná veertig jaar is daar weer ’n Afrikaanse digbundel deur Adam Small. Ná Oos Wes Tuis Bes Distrik Ses (1973) het hy demonstratief net in Engels begin dig, en ná sy drama Krismis van Map Jacobs (1983) het sy skrywerstem stil geword. Daar was altyd die vermoede dat hierdie stilte grootliks toegeskryf kon word aan die verwerping wat hy aan die hand van taalgenote ervaar het. Verlede jaar is die Hertzogprys uiteindelik aan hom toegeken, en vanjaar verskyn nie net hierdie digbundel nie, maar ook sy...
| Автор | Adam Small |
Met Blom en baaierd (1956) bou Opperman deur die reeksstruktuur, parallelismes, sirkulering van simbool en beeld en tipografiese rangskikking ʼn hegte bundeleenheid op. In hierdie bundeleenheid verteenwoordig “Oud-digter” en “Paddas” onderskeidelik futiliteit en die bose teenoor sinvolheid en die goeie. Al die gedigte tot “Nagwag” staan in die teken van die Suid-Afrikaanse “kleur”-aktualiteit, terwyl die lyding in die tweede helfte van die bundel op ʼn universeler vlak verken word. – J C...
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Eugène Marais-prys (2007), Ingrid Jonker-prys (2007), Universiteit van Johannesburg-debuutprys (2007). In die buitenste ruimte handel oor gedigte wat o.a. inspeel op ‘n verblyf in Duitsland en die mooi komiekstrip-buiteblad van Karlien de Villiers vang iets van die vervreemding van die gedigte op. Die titel speel eweneens in op Jacques Derrida, die dekontruksie-filosoof, se siening van teks: dat daar geen buite-teks bestaan nie en elke gedig van Danie Marais praat met ‘n bekende popliedjie,...
| Автор | Danie Marais |
"As ’n mens Diederik Johannes Opperman (1914-1985) se poësie met dié van die Dertigers vergelyk, is dit opvallend dat hy van die begin af ’n veel minder belydende inslag toon en veel meer oopgestel is vir die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid in sy verskillende geledinge. Daarby groei sy poësie, ten spyte van hierdie aardsheid en konkreetheid, uit tot ’n stryd tussen die hemelse en aardse, tusssen die goeie en die bose en tussen orde en chaos, ’n gegewe waarmee die taak van die kunstenaar ten...
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
The Skin of Meaning is award-winning poet Keith Flynn’s sixth and most wide-ranging collection, seeking to find the tangible analogs and visceral meanings hidden behind the daily bombardment of digital information and hoping to restore the mystery in our involvement with language. From the etymologies of pop culture, history, astronomy, and rock and roll, these poems fan out into a bold multiplicity of voices and techniques. Flynn’s work illustrates the meaning that is also...
| Автор | Keith Flynn |
Body of Render explores the internal and external impacts on our humanity when political, national, and societal decisions strip away our basic human rights. What does it mean to be an underrepresented individual in a country where the most powerful seat in the land unashamedly perpetuates racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and classist behaviors? The voices document a journey before and after the last presidential election. These poems cry out for reconsideration of our broken systems to find...
| Автор | Felicia Zamora |
A beautiful study of the incredible life of Nontsizi MgqwethoFor nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu, the first and only female poet to produce a substantial body of work in Xhosa. Apart from what is revealed in these writings, very little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene with her swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman's poetry on 23 October 1920, sends poems to the newspaper regularly throughout the three...
| Автор | Isabel Hofmeyr |
E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren as a poet to watch. Commando is an aesthetic stick up, hallelujahs in a handbag with a handgun. The first collection from the city's first youth poet laureate is a...
| Автор | E'mon Lauren |
<P>The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent Death Tratates, offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter. Informed in part by Gnostic concepts of the separate soul in search of its divine origins («spirit held by matter»). This dualistic vision is cast in contemporary terms and seeks resolution of these tensions through...
| Автор | Brenda Hillman |
<P>Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas—a play on «elegy» and «Eleggua,» the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad—is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of...
| Автор | Kamau Brathwaite |
<P>Since issuing its first volumes in 1959, the Wesleyan poetry program has challenged the reigning aesthetic of the time and profoundly influenced the development of American poetry. One of the country's oldest programs, its greatest achievement has been the publication of early works by yet undiscovered poetry who have since become major awarded Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, National Book Awards, and many other honors. At a time when other programs are being phased out,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
<P>James Dickey: The Selected Poems is the first book to collect James Dickey's very best poems. Like many visionary poets of the ecstatic imagination, Dickey experimented in a wide variety of literary styles. This volume brings together the finest work from each of the periods in Dickey's extremely controversial career. For over three decades, until his death in 1997, Dickey was one of the nation's most important poets; these are the poems that brought him a popular...
| Автор | James Dickey |
<P>Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first full portrait of Ceravolo's aesthetic trajectory, bringing to light the highly original voice that was operating at an increasing remove from the currents of the time. From a poetics associated with Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative, deeply visionary...
| Автор | Joseph Ceravolo |
<P>Public Figures is an essay-poem with photographs and text that begins with a playful thought experiment: statues of people in public spaces have eyes, but what are they looking at? To answer that question, Jena Osman sets up a camera to track the gaze of a number of statues in Philadelphia—mostly 19th century military figures carrying weapons. How does their point of view differ from our own? And how does it compare, say, to the point of view of other watchful military figures,...
| Автор | Jena Osman |
<P>Turning bare description into a luxuriance, The Known World looks at the complex relationship of past and present, creating energetic juxtaposition between different historic periods to envision life at the end of our own century. Don Bogen calls the work an archeology, and uses details f life in past eras as a way of penetrating the surfaces of history. In his account, everything known is both encumbered with and defined by the past. Short poems in this collection cohere around...
| Автор | Don Bogen |
<P>About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the...
| Автор | Peter Gizzi |
<P><B>Winner of the Laurence L. &amp; Thomas Winship / PEN New England Award (2012)</B></P><P>Address draws us into visible and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public address. These poems are concentrated, polyvocal, and sharply attentive to acts of representation; they take personally their politics and in the process reveal something about the way civic structures inhabit the imagination. Poisonous...
| Автор | Elizabeth Willis |
<P>Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised – love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar – are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life. </P><P>Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is...
| Автор | Brenda Hillman |