TENDER TAXES by Jo Shapcott ( 9780571202522 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TENDER TAXES

By:

Jo Shapcott

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0571202527

ISBN 13:

9780571202522

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

8 October, 2001

Pages:

112

Translated from:

French

Description:

Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote nearly 400 poems in French. The emergence of a French Rilke provides the starting point, rather than a terminus, for Jo Shapcott's new collection.

Synopsis:

Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably the two collections published as Les Fen tres (The Windows) and Les Roses. The emergence of a French Rilke provides the starting point rather than the terminus for Jo Shapcott's new collection, Tender Taxes, which re-imagines Rilke's brief and fugitive lyrics as English poems. The occasion is Rilke, but these are more than versions: Shapcott's poems address this, arguing with the originals, crossing and re-crossing the frontier between translation and origination. Rilke and Shapcott are brought together in the shared incognito of a foreign language, 'speaking English through a French mouth'.

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