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Bezdelki
eBook - Small things, The Emma Press Picks
ISBN/EAN: 9781910139790
Umbreit-Nr.: 2461884
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 36 S., 4.78 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 12.10.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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Format: EPUB
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- Zusatztext
- In Carol Rumens's Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isn't purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through incidental artefacts found in a toolbox ('defiant old metals, coupled/irrefutably and awkwardly for life') or by revisiting works of Russian literature that both members of the couple admired. In Rumens's pamphlet, translations and imitations of Osip Mandelstam share space with fragments of Egyptian mythology and'a wardrobe of old sweat-shirts' to convey the powerful, and moving, impulse to'live with your death unburied at my core'.
- Autorenportrait
- Carol Rumens is originally from South London and now lives in North Wales, where she teaches creative writing at Bangor University. She has published sixteen collections of poetry, most recently Animal People (Seren, 2016). Her work appears in many anthologies, including The Best British Poetry (2014) and The Forward Anthology (2016). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.