St. Mark’s Poetry Project will be hosting “A Night with Flood Editions” on Wednesday, February 1 at 8 pm. The readers will be Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, and editor Devin Johnston. Details can be found here.
Forthcoming: Bunting’s Persia
In forthcoming on December 21, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Flood Editions ISBN 978-0-9838893-0-4 $15.95
Forthcoming April 1
Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology collects Basil Bunting’s translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa‘di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished. Bunting, who is widely regarded as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century, proved unusual in his deep and abiding interest in Middle Eastern culture. Here, he renders poetry of remarkable tonal and emotional range in characteristically clear and resolute language.
“Reading Bunting’s translations, I am struck again by how fresh and strong they are, how vivid in their feeling, and how he digs into the spirit of the originals—a kind of passionate excavation work.”—Dick Davis, translator of The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Cal Bedient on William Fuller
In new titles on November 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm
The November/December issue of Boston Review includes an enthusiastic review by Cal Bedient of William Fuller’s Hallucination. It concludes, “Books of the caliber of Hallucination come along rarely. Books that both puzzle and dazzle at first, then prove better and better with each re-reading. Books with a passion to get the spirit right. Ladies and gentlemen, a masterpiece.” Read the entirety here:
