Ice Memory: Selected Poems - Softcover

Sartorius, Joachim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857548329 ISBN 13: 9781857548327

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

"Ice Memory" is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth and exhaustion of the world, are magnificently brought into English by translators from Australia, Britain and the United States. In memories and ruins, Joachim Sartorius shows how bridges can be built in a fragmented world. The book includes translations by Richard Dove, Robert Gray, Michael Hamburger, Michael Hulse, Christopher Middleton, Sibylle Schlsier, Andrew Shields, Nathaniel Tarn, and Rosmarie Waldorp.

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Review:

'These poems are the messages of a person who has been a very long way away and who covers inward as well as outward distances on his travels. When reading this poetry, one is always somewhere else, not only in space but also in time.' - Cees Nooteboom.

About the Author:

Jaochim Sartorius, born 1946 in Furth / Franconia, grew up in Tunis, studied law and political science in Munich, London and Paris (doctor of law). He served as a diplomat in New York, Istanbul, Prague and Nicosia until 1986. After holding various positions in the field of international cultural policy, he acted as head of the Goethe-Institute world-wide and (since 2001) has bbeen Director General of the 'Berlin Festivals'. He has received grants from the DAAD, the Rockerfeller foundation and Collegium Hungaricum, won the Scheerbart prize for his translations of contemporary American poetry (1988),and is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt. Sartorius holds a professorship at the University of Arts in Berlin, where he teaches cultural theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1857548329
• ISBN 13: 9781857548327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184