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Otherlands

Otherlands

Harry Guest

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2017
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848614796
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Otherlands brings together a compendium of Harry Guest's translations from French, German, Italian and Japanese, although the largest representations are those of Cassou (33 sonnets composed in secret) and Rilke (several pieces, including The Lay of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke von Langenau), and runs from poets of the 16th century to our contemporaries.

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