Sisyphus and I
A Glance into Ilja Kostovski's Selected PoetryIt is a slightly smirking smile that accompanies the voice calling on Muses in Ilja Kostovski's epic poetry and final book, Sisiphus and I. In this seminal production of the poet's work, an eager, if slightly sarcastic, voice cries out from the woodpile of modernity:Don't tarry You envious GodThis minute I will go Into the deep forestsAnd will chop for you Firewood in piles.As for Kostovski's readers, they are the connoisseurs of sorrow, the suicide...leaning on the railings of bridges, the self-despisers, for he is a poet of the lone wolves, the melancholy wanderer we read about in Blake and imag…
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Weitere Autoren: Hirschman, Jack (Übers.) / Hitchcock, Donald (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-951508-15-9
- EAN: 9781951508159
- Produktnummer: 35377803
- Verlag: Plamen Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 785 KB
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Ilja Kostovski was born in 1933. He was a Macedonian refugee from the Greek Civil War. As an illiterate 14 year old child he fled northern Greece to Czechoslovakia where at the age of 27 he received a PhD in Russian literature at Charles University in Prague. Throughout his tenure he taught at universities in Prague, Potsdam, Heidelberg. He received invitations to teach at the University of Maryland and the College of William and Mary. He was one of the visiting poets of the 1977 International Poetry Festival in San Francisco where he he formed a life long friendship with San Francisco's Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlingetti. He died in Washington DC in 2017.Jack Hirschman is a San Francisco poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the '60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, America's most important living poet. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol.Donald Hitchcock received his Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught Russian Literature and Old Church Slavonic at the University of Maryland for over 40 years, until his death in 2017.
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