The Sweetness of Demons

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

209 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Anne Pia's responses to Baudelaire's poetry is not only emotional and intellectual but also linguistic. It comes from her profound love for France's language and culture, particularly when it looks beyond nationhood. As she writes in her passionate and illuminating introduction, "[Baudelaire] luxuriates and furiously dismisses. He rages and yet he speaks soft words. He is tender. He yearns, aches and seductively persuades. A creator of vivid visuals and sublimely evocative music, a conjuror of mist, soft light and of exotic scents, a sculptor and a weaver of tapestry and texture through a mere interplay of words and skilful verse and stanza, Baudelaire - whether jubilant or bitter - is never light-hearted, always honest, intense, disturbing."The challenge Pia set herself was to recreate some of this powerful mix in our English language, which has perhaps ceased to look for inspiration beyond itself since it became so dominant. And she has succeeded in this challenge quite remarkably, drawing the reader into the intimacy of her own intellectual and artistic journey with deep European roots.In this volume we have published the original French poems Pia has chosen and her poetic responses in English, along with her literal translations of the originals. It is a bold move in a "language not of its time", which demands our engagement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-03-29
Mått140 x 210 x 55 mm
Vikt104 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor70
FörlagVagabond Voices
ISBN9781913212322
UtmärkelserWinner of Premio Internazionale Flaiano di Linguistica for its contribution to Italian culture in the world. 2017

Tillhör följande kategorier

Anne Pia lives in Edinburgh. She is the grandchild of Italian immigrants and was raised surrounded by the culture, traditions and dialect of southern Italy. Education was the means by which she achieved professional success, retiring as an HM Inspector of Education in 2009 with a specialism in adult literacy. The Doctorate in Education she achieved in 2008 provided the opportunity to live and study in Italy and France.Pia's creative memoir, Language of My Choosing (Luath Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Saltire Award for Best New Book of 2017, and awarded the Premio Internazionale Flaiano di Linguistica for its contribution to Italian culture in the world. Its Italian translation, Ho scelto la mia lingua, was published in 2018, as was her first poetry collection, Transitory. Over the years, Pia's poetry and essays have appeared in many publications, among others The Blue Nib, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Lunar Poetry, The Fat Damsel and South Bank Poetry.Pia's new book Keeping Away the Spiders. Essays on Breaching Barriers was published in November 2020 by Luath Press.

"Anne Pia is a fresh voice among contemporary Scottish poets. ... Scotland and the community of European nations are mediated and represented in Anne Pia's poems with subtle understanding, sympathy and constructive insight... I read them with curiosity and delight in their evocation of evocation of the sense and the purpose that lies behind and within the beautifully eloquent mission of direct communication across the differences that give us identities." - Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University; "[Poems of] honesty and bluntness, as social convention is blown apart. They brim with a sense of bitter-sweet experience and self-exploration..." - Christine De Luca; "... a deeply felt and sensuous collection [which] widen out to span continents of feeling." - Anne C. Clarke; "...tecnnically skilful, emotionally generous" - Angus Peter Campbell; "Pia lands metaphors with ease... she shows us that pilgrimages to places of the past are important stations to stop at, but planning the next odyssey into the future of possibilities can also be beneficial, to weaving a broadly lived life." - Janette Ayachi; "Thought provoking, insightful, grounded in the senses..." - Colin Will