David Solway: 3 books
The Properties of Things
From: The Poems of Batholomew the Englishman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The Properties of Things continues David Solway's explorations in the realm of fictive translation, this time that of the obscure thirteenth century scholar Bartolomaeus Anglicus. The result is a poetic alphabetary, ranging from the bawdy to the sublime.
David Solway has been called "an...
Habibi
the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Habibi, the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi, is the latest in a series of David Solway's poetic "translations,"dating from Andreas Karavis' Saracen Island and including Nesmine Rifat's Pallikari, Rhys Savarin's Reaching for Clear, Bartholomew the Englishman's The Properties...
by David Solway
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landscape of the natural world. Like the jerry-rigged farmer’s contraption that stands in for “eclectic...