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Flower and Song
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Paperback. The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. This title gives us echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, and the epics of myth and legend. Translator(s): Kissam, Edward; Schmidt, Michael. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2JNN; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt - two poets who spent formative years in Mexico - give us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, the laments made by Nezahualpilli and others as the end of their empire approached, and the epics of myth and legend. Their introduction is a distilled account of the ... Read more
The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt - two poets who spent formative years in Mexico - give us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, the laments made by Nezahualpilli and others as the end of their empire approached, and the epics of myth and legend. Their introduction is a distilled account of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Poetica
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464232
SKU
V9780856464232
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About
Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, is the founder-director of Carcanet Press and 'PN Review'. He studied at Harvard and Wadham College, Oxford before settling in England. He lives in Manchester. Edward Kissam studied at Princeton University and Magdalen College, Oxford. He works at JBS International on a variety of applied research issues related to education in ... Read more
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