Nicholas Benson

Broschiertes Buch

I Commissioned Some Wooden Luggage

and other poems

Beschreibung

While backpacking in Europe as a teenager in the 1980s, Nick Benson stumbled on a window display in a Venetian gallery that caught his eye: it featured a beautifully carved duffle-bag sculpted from wood, complete with drawers. For the itinerant Benson, this objet d'art was a source of fasci- nation: "you could keep your travel bag by your bed and be ready to go, but it could also be a useful piece of furniture...I would have commissioned some wooden luggage, if not for the price tag... instead it became a metaphor and took on a life of its own. I didn't realize it then, but it's the embodiment of wanting opposing things at once. It seems to sum up this permanent sense of duality-rootedness and restlessness" (Interview with Benson, January 19, 2024).

Autor

Nicholas Benson was born in West Germany in 1966 and grew up in Yugoslavia, Turkey, and the USSR. He holds an MA in Italian (Middlebury, 1991), a PhD in Italian (New York University, 1999), and an MFA in Writing (Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2009). He has published translations, poems, and essays in many journals. His translations include Attilio Bertolucci's Winter Journey (Parlor Press, 2005); Aldo Palazzeschi's The Arsonist (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2013), for which he was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship; in collaboration with Elena Coda, Scipio Slataper's My Karst and My City and Other Essays (Lorenzo Da Ponte Library/University of Toronto Press, 2020), which was awarded the John Florio Prize by the Society of Translators (UK); and Maria Grazia Calandrone, (°) - seed and other poems, edited by Beppe Cavatorta.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Agincourt Press
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 156mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 86g
• ISBN-13: 9781946328441
• ISBN-10: 1946328448
• Artikelnr.: 71986706