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Overview"Growing Back, Rika Lesser's third collection of poetry, is a bridge that spans the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and its work. Written over two decades, many of the poems in this three-part collection predate those found in her acclaimed Etruscan Things and All We Need of Hell. In this latest volume, the well-known translator of Swedish and German poetry offers readers a selection that locates, embodies, and anchors the continuing achievements of her poetic work. In the first section, ""Away,"" Lesser writes of her long relation to Sweden, her adoptive country. In the second, ""The Gifts,"" she records her return home. The last, ""About Men,"" displays her preoccupation with translation--of literature, of life, of ""others"" she finds in need of interpretation, whether they are poets like Ekel�f and Rilke, or quite generally members of the opposite sex. Growing Back, like her other collections, reveals Lesser's poetic undertaking to be a rhythmic making of forms, in which language and content kick against the limit of lines that are most often syllabically determined." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rika LesserPublisher: University of South Carolina Press Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.143kg ISBN: 9781570032332ISBN 10: 1570032335 Pages: 90 Publication Date: 31 October 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRika Lesser is widely known for her prize-winning translations of poetry: Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekel�f, Rilke: Between Roots, and A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of G�ran Sonnevi. What Became Words is her selection of poems by Claes Andersson, Finland's minister of culture. A native of Brooklyn and an alumna of Yale and Columbia Universities, she lives within walking distance of the Brooklyn Bridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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