From Library Journal It's hard to imagine two poets farther apart in time and space than Simonides, who lived in fifth century B.C.E. Carson is an acclaimed poet herself (her Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, was nominated last year for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), and if her subject is daunting and her style elliptical, at l
| Title | : | Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Martin Classical Lectures) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691091757 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
From Library Journal It's hard to imagine two poets farther apart in time and space than Simonides, who lived in fifth century B.C.E. Carson is an acclaimed poet herself (her Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, was nominated last year for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), and if her subject is daunting and her style elliptical, at least she counters scholarly woolgathering with lapidary anecdote: of Simonides leaving a banquet after being told by a stingy host that his fee would be halved only to witness the collapse of the roof and the death of everyone inside; of Celan fleeing before Nazi exterminators and returning to find his house sealed and his parents taken to the camp where they would die. Yet Carson connects them through the idea of economy, the management of resources that determines the nature of one's poetry as well as one's life. . In their work, both writers not only measured off the area "within which word holds good," writes Carson, but also discovered that "it is a limited area." For academic collectio
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