Messing About in Boats

Messing About in Boats
Michael Hofmann
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 128pg
11 Mar 2021 UK
9780198848042
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An approachable and companionable book that honours and illuminates its subjects. Based on Michael Hofmann' s Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French, Italian, and English, by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie. All four poems are on the subject of boats: ' Emigrant Ship' , the ' Bateau Ivre' , ' Boats on the Marne' , and ' The World' . The volume suggests an affinity between boats and poems, offersa partial lineage of boats in poems, and pursues four variant destinies: the boat that stays in port, the boat that gives itself to the world, the boat that is washed away down the river, and the onethat goes manically and hubristically on forever.
Michael Hofmann is Professor of English at the University of Florida. His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in the Guardian, London Review of Books, Modern Painters, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of critical writing, Behind the Lines (2001) and Where Have You Been? (2014) and six books of poems, most recently, OneLark, One Horse (2018). He has edited selections of John Berryman, W. S. Graham, Robert Lowell, and Malcolm Lowry. He has translated some 80 books from German, poetry (Gottfried Benn, Gunter Eich, Durs Grunbein), plays (BertoltBrecht and Patrick Suskind), and fiction (all of Peter Stamm, most of Joseph Roth and Wolfgang Koeppen, large parts of Hans Fallada, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, and Wim Wenders, and single books by many more, including Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Ernst Junger, Irmgard Keun, Herta Muller, and Jakob Wassermann).
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ISBN-13: 9780198848042
Published: 11 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 128

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