52 Euros

Containing 26 Men and 26 Women in a Double A-Z of European Poets in Translation

John Gallas

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781847770998
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847777652
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

With its lens on Europe and taking a singular approach, this collection of poems translates and revises the works of both famous and rising poets. From Akhmatova, Baudelaire, and Pasolini to the Olafsson brothers, Renée Vivien, and Yulia Zhadovskaya, poets from various European nations are not only brought together in the book but are celebrated in it for their differences and a shared poetic purpose. Award-winning poet John Gallas collaborated with native speakers to translate the works and then incorporated his artistic edge into their interpretation. Covering all of human life in the subjects, including love and despair, wild excess and wistful calm, this exhilarating poetic journey travels across a continent as well as through time.

Index of First Lines

1. A down-weeping willow 1
2. A grey veil crowds all about – 1
3. A little track, thin, skew, runs 1
4. A poor man came to you, 1
5. A siren weeps 1
6. A stack of orange ruins 1
7. A very lovely lady in a romantic pinky dress with a selection of lacy 1
8. A window the windowpanes are filled with tears of rain 1
9. Ah what am I? – and what use my life? – 1
10. Ah, little place: 1
11. All my talk, and each word, 1
12. An only thought – that safes me and alarms – 1
13. And here, what was the Guestroom, 1
14. And lone things love to linger now 1
15. And she has lived greenly 1
16. And she who walks alone 1
17. At last all the music is ssh 1
18. At the back, the trammel, its hook hanged, 1
19. At the edge of the puddled pond 1
20. At the Middle of Everything lives 1

1. Beggary, hunger, the sun’s great load, 1
2. Beige sand Uhlan 1
3. Beneath the Great Wall of China 1
4. Between dogday and nightwolf 1
5. Bird? Birds? 1
6. Book of my love, of your love. 1
7. Bridge lamps 1

1. Careful, the light-tide flows 1
2. Christmas! Christmas! I hear the night bells… 1
3. Close darked in, 1
4. Clouds drag up and murk the world, 1
5. Come to the woods with me, 1
6. Comes over the greystone yard, 1
7. Comfort of pain – your hand, 1

1. Dark clouds: ah, 1
2. Dark thrown on the sun, 1
4. Day, dying; worn sun; and I think… 1
5. Days wear away 1
6. Deep in the river 1
7. D...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• A Short Word before 52 Euros
• A is for Akhmatova
• and for Apukhtin
• B is for Boye
• and for Baudelaire
• C is for Corinna of Tangara
• and for Carducci
• D is for Droste-Húlshoff
• and for Dehmel
• E is for Espanca
• and for Eluard
• F is for France
• and for Fröding
• G is for Guglielminetti
• and for Giusti
• H is for Hamoir
• and for Hofmannsthal
• I is for Isanos
• and for Ioanid
• J is for Jórunn
• and for Jacobsen
• K is for Konopnicka
• and for Kapnist
• L is for Lasker-Schüler
• and for Laforgue
• M is for Maksimović
• and for Maeterlinck
• N is for Noailles
• and for Nerval
• O is for Otto-Peters
• and for the Olafssons
• P is for Parnok
• and for Pasolini
• Q is for Queen Mary
• and for Quasimodo
• R is for Renaud
• and for Radauskas
• S is for Södergran
• and for Salinas
• T is for Tiburge
• and for Tyutchev
• U is for Ullmann
• and for Uhland
• V is for Vivien
• and for Verhaeren
• W is for Wolska
• and for Wolker
• X is for Xirinacs
• and for Xenophanes
• Y is for Yourcenar
• and for Yavorov
• Z is for Zhadovskaya
• and for Zetlitz
• Acknowledgements
• Index of Titles
• Index of First Lines
• About the Author
• Also by John Gallas from Carcanet Press
• Copyright