Ricochet: Word Sonnets - Sonnets d'un mot
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2760307611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Son premier roman, La Mer et l’enfant, sera publié en France par Galaade Editions en 2012.. Il est professeur de littérature, de création littéraire et d’études canadiennes à l’Université d’Ottawa. His latest collections include Light Industry (Mosaic Press, 2000), Ricochet: Word Sonnets (Mos
"the thematic interest in language-with issues of words, poetry, and communication as frequently explored as images of nature- makes Ricochet a fitting investigation into the elements of poetry and their potentials for re-articulation." - Dale Tracy, The Bull Calf
L’ouvrage comprend également une courte préface du poète et une introduction de la traductrice sur les défis que comporte la traduction de sonnets d’un mot.. Frequently allusive and imagistic, they can also be irreverent and playful. Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. On y trouve trois séries de poèmes piquants et évocateurs, qui recèlent des moments de perception aiguë, tout en attirant l’attention sur des instants d’humour surgissant tout à coup dans la vie quotidienne.Les sonnets d’un mot sont des poèmes de quatorze lignes, concis, ayant un mot par ligne, et à l’effet visuel certain. Souvent elliptiques et imagés, ils s’avèrent aussi parfois irrévérencieux et taquins. While informed by other short poetry forms such as the Haiku, Mayne’s word sonnets are deeply influenced by the Talmudic tradition of maxims, proverbs and images that instruct and inform everyday life.Presented with an excellent translation of the poems into French, Ricochet is a unique volume that showcases this innovative new form. The collection also includes a short preface by the poet and an introduct
Shalom Freedman said A sonnet experiment. The distinguished Canadian poet Seymour Mayne here makes an experiment with the Sonnet form. Each of the Poems in this collection consists of fourteen lines, a word a line. Thus each Poem is in effect a brief observation, an acute perception. It seemed to me that the Poems themselves in this regard are closer to 'haiku' than to sonnet, for in the latter th