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Overview
This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks ‘What is worthwhile?’ His poems are characterized by simplicity and clarity, narrative and reasoning: he claims they ‘at least promise to be about the important things in everyone’s life.’
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780856464508 |
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| Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2013 |
| Edition description: | None |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator based in Holland. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize and PEN Medallion and is a two-time winner of the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize. His translations include Martinus Nijhoff’s Awater and selections from Ramsey Nasr, Cees Nooteboom and Hugo Claus.
Table of Contents
Introduction David Colmer 9
From First This, Then That
First This, Then That 17
Su Dongpo 18
Shotetsu on Shunzei and Teika 19
If Someone Asked Shotetsu This, This is How He Would Answer 20
Ask Me a Question 21
End of the Visit 22
On Tao Qian 23
Su Dongpo and the Trick He Says He Learnt from Tao Qian 24
Politics as a Profession, Says Max Weber 25
Han Yu and Meng Jiao are Friends; Han Yu Also Becomes Friends with Jia Dao, who Tries to Write like Meng Jiao before Succeeding in Doing it Another Way 26
Otherwise it's Quiet and Empty in Here 27
John of the Cross 28
John of the Cross 29
In My House on the Water 30
Song 31
Quiet 32
First This, Then That 33
Du Fu 34
Poem for a Friend 35
Man in the Mountains 36
Man in the Mountains 37
Su Dongpo 38
From The Life Of
The Life of Kant, of Hegel 41
New Here 42
If I Borrow Enough Money, the Bank Becomes My Slave 44
Over the Water 46
I Try to Talk to You as if I'm Saying This for the First Time and Thought of it When I Saw You 47
When It's Finished 48
What I Ask For 49
Poor Man 50
At the Doctor's 51
At the Doctor's 52
Blue Sky 53
Research Report 54
At the Doctor's 55
Following My Heart Without Breaking the Rules 56
Forgetting to Watch the Sun Go Down 57
Rules 58
If I Talk Like That You'll Think I Come from Granada 59
When I Sit Down at My Table They Bring Me a Cup of Coffee and a Glass of Water 60
At Sea 61
I Know That Story 62
Style 63
In the Middle of the Day 64
What an Actor the World Has Lost in You 65
What Did You Say, Don't Go too Far Away 66
Let Me Win the Lottery and I'll Give Ten Percent to the Poor and if You Don't Believe Me, You Can Deduct That Ten Percent Right Away 68
Someone Who Wants to Blow His Brains Out for Love Takes it Seriously and That is Important 70
Bed and Bath 71
Is That Something I Can Learn? 72
What a Garden is For, Drinking to a Life 73
If It's Up to Me 74
What the Maid Told My Mother About My Grandfather 75
The Christian Comes to Visit 76
My Father and His Brother 77
My Father Says That it is Sensible to Get into Something in Which Mediocrity is No Disaster, Like the Field in Which I am a Professor 78
My Father Goes to America 79
Make a Wish 80
In Two Halves 81
What I am Afraid of and What I Would Like to Have 82
Can I Tell Him, Can I Tell Him? 84
From Songs
Song 89
Song 90
Horace Song 91
Horace Song 92
I Know 93
Song 94
It is Funny Song 95
Song 96
Song 97
Paris Song 98
Song 99
Song 100
Michelangelo Song 101
Song 102
Song 103
Starting Song 104
Song 105
Song 106
Morning and Evening Song 107
Song 108
A Night in Paris Makes Up for Everything 109