Chanson Dada
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0889103585 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 562 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Harwood has caught nicely this poet's blend of irony. (The Sunday Times (London)) . Black humour and lyricism. On the prior edition: "Selected Poems of Tristan Tzara, translated by Lee Harwood, is the best collection of poems by the leader of Dada to have appeared in this country
Still the best English language poetry overview of Tzara Chanson Dada still contains some of the best English language translations of Tzara. Poet Lee Harwood (a poet of some 20 plus poetry titles himself) has captured part of the essence of Tzara. I only wish the volume was bilingual and more comprehensive. Tzara is still woefully under translated when one considers the amount of writing he did. Harwood's essay "Dada my heart belongs to dada" is a wonderful, evocative mini-survey of Dada.. Awesome book Irgendman I openly admit that I don't understand over half of the poems in this book, but they're all amazing and evocative, and there are times when a certain phrase or stanza describes my view of the world perfectly. Tzara was great person and writer, and Lee Harwood did a great job translating his poetry. Lee's essay was also really interesting.. Distracted by cheap desktop layout! Jason I was very excited to get a whole book of Tzara's after only reading him in anthologies (mostly the same poems in every one). The layout of this book prevented me from enjoying it. The font is terrible, and combined with questionable letter spacing and page placement it is kind of hard to read. I'm no design purist/snob, but something about it really jumped out at me and got under my skin. So bland considering the Dada's were so inventive with type. It's a shame because there are other books by this publisher that look rather interesting, but if they are design
Completely revised, updated edition of this classic survey.. Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which have brought Tzara's poetry to life for English language readers for over 25 years
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) was the legendary and prolific poet, playwright, founder of Dada, and on and off again collaborator of Breton's Surrealist group.Translator Lee Harwood is widely regarded as one of the finest poets working in Britain today. Widely anthologized, over 20 volumes of his poetry has been published to date, including his recent "Collected poems." He resides in Brighton, England.