Intimate Distortions - Hardcover

McCaffery, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889840172 ISBN 13: 9780889840171

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, 1979

Synopsis

On a hard rock in the past, overlooking a wonderful blue sea with the hot sun shining down, somebody writes a love poem and puts it to sea in an old bottle. Centuries later, with the same sun shining, someone else picks up the bottle in a dark bar and drinks the contents. 'Bring back the future', shouts a cloud in the sky.

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Review

The book ... moves gracefully like a dream sequence into the story of relationships. Those relationships are sometimes direct and human, sometimes they are described as language, as dream, as the interaction of isolated words, murmurs.'--Marty Gervais "Windsor Star "

Synopsis

On a hard rock in the past, overlooking a wonderful blue sea with the hot sun shining down, somebody writes a love poem and puts it to sea in an old bottle. Centuries later, with the same sun shining, someone else picks up the bottle in a dark bar and drinks the contents. 'Bring back the future', shouts a cloud in the sky. It is from the central predicaments stayed in this anecdote that this book springs. Employing a translation system known as 'allusive referential', McCaffery invents a way of avoiding the strictures of classical translation. Developing all the suggestions and connotations of Sappho's words and phrases, new texts are produced which are at the same time vital re-readings of the originals. Irreverent, yet executed in a spirit of love and respect, "Intimate Distortions" curves gracefully (and occasionally naughtily) away from the strict linear dictates of authorized translation to produce poems of delightful misprision.

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889840172
• ISBN 13: 9780889840171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96