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Simpson, L: Voices in the Distance de Louis Simpson

Simpson, L: Voices in the Distance

Autor Louis Simpson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2010
Louis Simpson is one of America's most distinguished poets, the winner of many literary awards including a Pulitzer Prize. Voices in the Distance is the first selection of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 25 years. His earlier books were published in the UK by Oxford University Press and Secker and Warburg.
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ISBN-13: 9781852248611
ISBN-10: 1852248610
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD

Notă biografică

Louis Simpson was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1923, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 17, studied at Columbia University, then served in the Second World War with the 101st Airborne Division on active duty in France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany. After the war he continued his studies at Columbia and at the University of Paris. While living in France he published his first book of poems, The Arrivistes (1949). He worked as an editor in a publishing house in New York, then earned a Ph.D. at Columbia and went on to teach at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1975 the publication of Three on the Tower, a study of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams, brought Simpson wide acclaim as a literary critic. His other books of criticism include Ships Going Into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry (1994), The Character of the Poet (1986), A Company of Poets (1981), and A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell (1978). Louis Simpson has published numerous books of poetry, most recently The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 (BOA Editions, 2003), which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize; a new collection, Struggling Times (BOA Editions, 2009); and his first UK edition for over 25 years, Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010). His earlier books include In the Room We Share (1990), Collected Poems (1988), People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-83 (1983), The Best Hour of the Night (1983), Caviare at the Funeral (1980), Armidale (1979), Searching for the Ox (1976), Adventures of the Letter I (1971), Selected Poems (1965), At the End of the Open Road (1963) and A Dream of Governors (1959). At the End of the Open Road won him a Pulitzer Prize. His other books include a memoir, The King My Father's Wreck (Story Line, 1995), Selected Prose (1989), and Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology (Story Line Press), winner of the Academy of American Poets' 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Among his many other honours are the Prix de Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Columbia Medal for Excellence. Louis Simpson lives in Setauket, Long Island, New York.

Recenzii

'Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways - of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry' - Seamus Heaney. 'Simpson's entire oeuvre can be seen as, among other things, a prolonged fight for America - a struggle for everything that it claims to stand for, and for the real goodness at the heart of many of its people, against all things that are mean, stupid, easy or tawdry - For all his mordant wit, he has never lost his ability to see through to the underlying reality of the human heart and the rolling years' - Bruce Bawer, Hudson Review. 'It's pleasant to be in the company of this vigorous humanist, who seems to fathom the importance of experience down to a marvelous, irreducible core. His illuminating, unfussy stories about Russian pogroms, lonely immigrants, belly dancers, lost soulsA" and plain-facedA" schlemiels, document a hidden, vanished side of American urban life. What Simpson hears in a rain storm describes his own vision: Be afraid / and know yourselvesA" ' - Frank Allen, Library Journal.