Quote of the Day
If it were not for Carcanet, my library would be unbearably impoverished.
Louis de Bernieres
|
|
Book Search
Subscribe to our mailing list
|
|
Order by 16th December to receive books in time for Christmas.
Please bear in mind that all orders may be subject to postal delays that are beyond our control.
| |
CavalcantyPeter Hughes
Categories: 21st Century, British, Italian, Language, Medieval, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (72 pages) (Pub. May 2017) 9781784103880 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. May 2017) 9781784103897 £7.99 £7.19 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
The thirteenth-century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary intensity and craft to his explorations of the social and psychological dimensions of love. Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcanti’s groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who translated Cavalcanti for the nineteenth century, and Ezra Pound, who translated him for the twentieth, Peter Hughes invites us to consider Cavalcanti’s lustrous Tuscan songs afresh.
'Uncompromisingly vivid.'
London Magazine 'This coruscating and athletic détournement of the Italian is an audacious and seductive display that leaves us wanting more.' John James 'enough vim and versatility to launch a thousand poems, let alone fifty-two. Purists will object vigorously to this version; impurists will object vigorously to any other.' Rod Mengham 'The crucial preoccupation of Cavalcanti's poetry - how do I overcome the distance between me and what is not me - translates easily into a world where being plugged in is not the same as being connected.' Harry Cochrane, TLS 'What an erotic and libidinous bonanza ... These are the songs my ears are still ringing to, tinnitus the price of love.' Simon Smith 'Peter Hughes's vulgar eloquence fuses earthy, contemporary imagery with Cavalcanti's "elevated" elusive themes, converting his verses to an utterly original contemporary language ... and affording exquisite, tactile pleasure.' Lou Rowan |
Share this...
Quick Links
Carcanet Poetry
Carcanet Classics
Carcanet Fiction
Carcanet Film
Lives and Letters
PN Review
Video
Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years!
The Carcanet Blog
One Little Room: Peter McDonald
read more
Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati
read more
Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn
read more
Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry
read more
Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas
read more
Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi
read more
|
We thank the Arts Council England for their support and assistance in this interactive Project.
|
|
This website ©2000-2024 Carcanet Press Ltd
|