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A Rusty NeedleIvan V. LalicTranslated by Francis R. Jones
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (200 pages) (Pub. Jun 1996) 9780856462412 Out of Stock
Joanna from Ravenna 1 A ship on the sea, a bird on the runway of wind, Joanna, sister of the years and the towers Joanna, sister of the will-o'-the-wisp – Joanna wrapped in the fish-scales of her gown, Joanna, a fixed star; and rain 2 A ship on the sea, lightning in the year, These words remember her. This wind Joanna between the petals of gold With the fingers of my fire, after me. Translated by Francis R. Jones Ivan V. Lalić was a major Serbo-Croat poet, and thanks to Francis R. Jones’s translations his work can be read as authentic poetry in English. A Rusty Needle traces his development over nearly twenty years, from his first published poems to the end of the sixties. It gives ‘an excellent overview of a remarkable poet’, as Edwin Morgan writes in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin. He continues: ‘Although he has many lyrical poems on themes of love and landscape, the most distinctive part of his work relates to the ebb and flow of historical conquest and change on the northern shores of the Mediterranean … He broods over darkly crucial events like the fall of Byzantium to the Turks, and delivers interesting questions about the ambiguities of memory.’ |
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