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Classical Women Poets
Av Josephine, Balmer, Josephine Balmer
Häftad, 1996
179 kr
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Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled those of their heavenly namesakes. Today only a …
Piecing Together the Fragments
Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry
E-bok, 2013
1855 kr
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In Piecing Together the Fragments , translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within the long tradition of translator prefaces and introductions, Balmer argues that such statements should be …
Piecing Together the Fragments
Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry
Inbunden, 2013
2304 kr
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In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within the long tradition of translator prefaces and introductions, Balmer argues that such statements should be …
Things We Leave Behind
Selected Poems
Av Josephine Balmer, Paschalis Nikolaou
Häftad, 2025
210 kr
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The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal grief that echoes down through the centuries in both her ground-breaking first collection, Chasing …
Word for Sorrow
Häftad, 2013
150 kr
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Working on Ovid’s extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy’s faded name inked on its fly-leaf and a date, January 1st 1900. The Word for Sorrow explores the story of this dictionary …
Paths of Survival
Häftad, 2017
191 kr
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The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons, which notoriously depicted the doomed love …
Ghost Passage
Häftad, 2022
197 kr
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Ghost Passage explores the ways in which we write ourselves in to the landscape, leaving our own trace, making our mark. From inscribed ancient artefacts and recently excavated writing tablets of Roman London - the earliest known written texts in the city - to tombstones in a remote Kent …
Chasing Catullus
Häftad, 2004
145 kr
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Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly reimagining classical literature, wittily subverting epic works, overwriting the past like a palimpsest. But …
