Balzac's Horse

Arts & Photography

Middleton, Christopher

Hofmann, Gert (Author)

Hofmann, Michael (Translators)

History & Criticism

Secker Warburg

A companion volume to Gustfasson's popular collection, The Stillness of the World before Bach (New Directions, 1988). Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden's leading and most prolific men of letters; a poet, philosopher, and fiction writer with dozens of books to his credit since his literary debut, at the age of twenty, in 1956. Although known in the English-speaking world primarily for his novels, Gustafsson is nevertheless one of the most frequently translated of contemporary Swedish poets. Elegies and Other Poems is a companion volume to The Stillness of the World before Bach (New Directions, 1988). As in that earlier volume, editor Christopher Middleton has made his selection from several of the poet's books and included his own translations as well as those of others, Yvonne Sandstroem, Bill Brookshire, and Philip Martin. Readers of Gustafsson's fiction will recognize in his verse the elegant mix of intellect and sheer play, the ruminations of a mind that apprehends humanity in the riddles of the universe.

Elegies and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Gustafsson, Lars

Poetry

New Directions

"These thirty-three prose inventions of Christopher Middleton constitute the fourth pillar of an extraordinary literary oeuvre, the other three being his poetry, translations, and literary essays. Whatever one chooses to call these often astonishing miniatures, they are certainly Middleton's wildest, most accessible, and most entertaining work, and they count as some of his very finest writing."-- August Kleinzahler, Foreword These uncategorizable writings by a distinguished poet and translator are lively, erudite, and creative. Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions. This extensive collection is the perfect addition to every student's, scholar's, and avid reader's bookshelf.

Loose Cannons: Selected Prose (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

Essays & Correspondence

University of New Mexico Press

Bolshevism in art, and other expository writings

distributed by Dufour Editions

Essays discuss death, magic, fiction, the imagination, city life, friendship, nature, and art

The Figure on the Boundary Line: Selected Prose (English and German Edition)

Meckel, Christoph

British & Irish

Carcanet Pr

Two Horse Wagon Going By

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Selected Writings

Carcanet Press

Famed for his translations of Nietzsche, Goethe, and Hlderlin, variously mislabeled modernist, post-Surrealist, even an involuntary Marxist, Christopher Middleton has been hailed by John Lucas as "easily the most intelligent and serious of our English innovators, a poet with a disconcerting knack of making new in almost every poem.

The Balcony Tree

Sheep Meadow Pr

Andalusian Poems

David R. Godine, Publisher

Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets. He was writing (not for publication) his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, where he had taught German and Comparative Literature since 1966. The journal appears here in conjunction with conversations tape-recorded by Marius Kociejowski in London during October 2002 and June 2003. In both areas Middleton attends eloquently to his concerns as poet, translator, and essayist: values intrinsic and peculiar to poetry, the fundamental human aptitude (and craving) for aesthetic expression, and the reading of sign-systems usually deemed haphazard (e.g., a Turkish sea-mew, a soccer match, the aprons of waiters, rubbish in the Paris Metro, and a fresco in Cappadocia). Also included here, by way of introduction to the volume, is a brief but entertaining reminiscence of his first encounters with Christopher Middleton by Marius Kociejowski.

Palavers, And A Nocturnal Journal

Biographies & Memoirs

Kociejowski, Marius

Arts & Literature

Shearsman Books

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