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  Eurochants (Paperback) By (author) Adrian Clarke

  

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  Short Description for EurochantsTesting some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange, Eurochants includes imitations of 20th century European poems, improvisations on early Chinese love poems, and versions of classical authors. The title sequence, by contrast,consists of multilingual reponses to the European lyric tradition.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • Format: Paperback 110 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781848610958 ISBN 10: 1848610955
  • Sales rank: 1,260,505

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Full description for Eurochants

• Testing some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange, a selection of imitations of Max Jacob follow free improvisations on early Chinese love poems and texts by Persius, Tacitus and Villon. The Eurochants themselves are less translations of specific texts than plurilingual responses to aspects of the European lyric tradition with its characteristic themes of "despair, frustration, yearning" (Michael Riffaterre) that are by turns respectful and irreverent, attentive and oblique, measuring themselves against established forms-most frequently the sonnet-as they distort and resolve them. Taking their cue from Alain Bosquet's reflections on collective suicide, a set of Terminal Preludes responds to projects for "total war" and planetary depredation with fractured syntax, rhythmic insistence and determinedly impure diction.