James Longenbach Seafarer recensie, review en informatie over de laatste dichtbundel van de Amerikaanse dichter. Op 23 juli 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij W.W. Norton de dichtbundel van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige dichter en criticus James Longenbach die in 2022 overleed. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de dichter en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de dichtbundel verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
James Longenbach Seafarer recensie en review
- “James Longenbach’s poems wash over you like waves, lift you up and set you down back at the beginning of your life. . . . Longenbach’s lucid poems echo across decades, bound for poetry’s future.” (Rob Schlegel, author of Childcare)
Seafarer
New Poems with Earthling and Forever
- Auteur: James Longenbach (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton
- Verschijnt: 23 juli 2024
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: $29.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de laatste dichtbundel van James Longenbach
Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity. Seafarer opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he’s already left it behind. With prophetic perception, Longenbach reflects on the encroaching tide of mortality through myth and memory. This volume unites Seafarer with Forever (2021) and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Earthling (2017); the three works have a powerful symmetry in their recognition of the ordinary, extraordinary, and precarious experiences of love and loss.
James Longenbach (17 september 1959 – 29 juli 2022, Stonington, Connecticut) was the author of seven volumes of poems and eight books of prose. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship.