Book by Friebert, Stuart, Young, David

A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Friebert, Stuart

Young,David

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

This collection is a balanced survey of some of the best American poetry written since World War II.

Longman Anthology of Contemporary Poetry The (2nd Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pearson/Education

Uncertain health: Poems

Woolmer/Brotherson

Uncertain health : poems

Up in Bed

Poetry

Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

Decanting: Selected & New Poems, 1967-2017 is a poetic biography of arachnids, boats, cemeteries, damfoolskis, eggs, funerals, grandparents, hairy woodpeckers, innocent gazing, jabalinas, Kornjuden, lilies, marbles, Nazis, oysters, proximodistal, questions, rocking chairs, submarines, telephonographs, understanding poetry, Virginia Woolf's diaries, wigs, X-rays, Yad Vashem, Zurich, and the poet himself!

Decanting: Selected & New Poems, 1967-2017

Lost Horse Press

Stuart Friebert’s First and Last Words entwines memoir and stories, shifting seamlessly between first and last person, as memoir in 1949, an American exchange student shipping to Allies-occupied Germany,
“Moonily in love, I was largely oblivious to most of what had happened as a result of Nazi crimes, not to mention the German I was taking in with every breath, trying to navigate its foreign waters.”
A year abroad in Europe changes his life.
“Of course, my year in Germany did bring forces and facts gradually to bear on my cloistered mind, living as I did in a dorm among ‘the walking dead,’ as fellow German students referred to themselves. Many had lost body parts, so watching the men wash in the communal bathroom brought on fits of flinching.”
His memoir becomes back stories in third person, as he remembers his ancestors: Eddie and his spunky fiancé, Gertie, who prepare for their adult lives in Milwaukee, on November 11, 1918, almost out of high school, when Germany signs the Armistice agreement after World War I. Into stories of campus life and fishing,
“The next morning, at the office, David said they cooked the crappie too long, turned it to mush. But the pickerel, in spite of all its bones, that strong gamey odor, the fish almost no one bothers with, was wonderful.”
In Czechoslovakia shortly after The Prague Spring of 1968, Russian tanks invaded Czechoslovakia in a show of force against anyone who wanted to democratize. Stuart is there not long after, working on a book of translations. The times are repressive but, thanks to folks like Stuart, the literature secure. Stuart’s book echoes the early James Joyce and reminds us that war and intelligence continue.

First and Last Words: Memoir & Stories

Pinyon Publishing

“As recounted in the memoir-essays and poignant late poems in A Double Life, the distinguished co-founding editor of Field and poet-translator, Stuart Friebert, has led the kind of globe-trotting “double life” that makes for the stuff of legend. There are fabled meetings with the likes of Günter Grass in Berlin and Paul Celan in Paris (not to mention the stray run-in with secret police in Bucharest before the fall of Ceausescu!). But Friebert also includes a sparkling homage to his late colleague, the co-founder of Umbra (with Langston Hughes and Alice Walker), Calvin Hernton. The volume richly concludes with an expert’s guide to teaching literary translation. Friebert sweeps us off to another time, a parallel universe where societies heed writers and their words, and in that, he has wrought something extraordinary. ‘Do you know where this is going?’ as one poem playfully asks. I urge you to read it and see!” • Cynthia Hogue, author of Revenance and In June the Labyrinth

A Double Life: In Poetry and Translation

In The Language of the Enemy, Stuart Friebert gives us something precious: a fictionalized, detailed view of the past that is wondrously free of sentimentality or nostalgia. Friebert's stories are simply told, but each of them has a bite. A young man's love of flying whisks him into a wartime disappearance; the big adventure of retrieving a mobster's body from a lake leads one rescuer to death from an infection; a revered German scholar breaks down as he recalls how he hurled into a bonfire books written by Jews. The Language of the Enemy illuminates-over and over-how cultural, natural, and historical forces can threaten an individual or community. The people in this book pick their way through a landscape filled with small joys (fishing, love, a piece of bread smeared with animal fat) and big dangers. Friebert imbues his characters with a beautiful dignity, giving each of them a nod of respect across societies and generations. I love this book.--Martha Moody

The Language of the Enemy

Literary

Black Mountain Press

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