Letters to Ted - Softcover

Weissbort, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463418 ISBN 13: 9780856463419

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2002

Synopsis

"Letters to Ted" is a remarkable collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, with whom Daniel Weissbort struck up a friendship, both literary and personal, during their student days in 1950s Cambridge. Swift-moving, by turns contemplative and dramatic in their narration, these spare, poignant, often diary-like poems conjure up a rich history of incidents and memories, creating a moving portrait of a great poet and a lasting friendship.

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Review

'An exquisite miniaturist... Though English by birth, Mr Weissbort has spent a large part of his life in America, and sounds quintessentially American in his writing'The Economist

About the Author

Daniel Weissbort was born in 1935. He studied History and did graduate work in the politics of post-Stalin Soviet literature. He has published translations of several Russian poets, including Nikolai Zabolotsky, and a study of Joseph Brodsky, 'From Russian with Love'. Formerly Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where he directed the Translation Workshop, he now lives in London and continues to edit 'Modern Poetry in Translation', the journal which he co-founded with Ted Hughes in 1965.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0856463418
• ISBN 13: 9780856463419
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112