Poetry History Music Art - Wieder, Laurance
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In 23 essays published over the last quarter-century, Laurance Wieder considers Homer, Lao-tzu, Valmiki, and Lady Murasaki, medieval Hebrew poems for Yom Kippur and 20th-century American poetry, Orhan Pamuk and Evliya Çelebi, Miguel de Cervantes and Roberto Bolaño, William Blake and John Milton, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Wagner. This caravan of exiles and messiahs, poets and scholars, novelists and travelers, composers and artists transports the written word-that human thing which lasts.

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In 23 essays published over the last quarter-century, Laurance Wieder considers Homer, Lao-tzu, Valmiki, and Lady Murasaki, medieval Hebrew poems for Yom Kippur and 20th-century American poetry, Orhan Pamuk and Evliya Çelebi, Miguel de Cervantes and Roberto Bolaño, William Blake and John Milton, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Wagner. This caravan of exiles and messiahs, poets and scholars, novelists and travelers, composers and artists transports the written word-that human thing which lasts.
Autorenporträt
Laurance Wieder's other writings include A Look Ahead: Selected Poems 1966-2018; The Poets' Book of Psalms; After Adam: The Books of Moses; Isaiah's Closing Arguments: A New Translation; and a selection of essays, Poetry History Music Art. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker; Scripsi; Paris Review; Books & Culture; The Weekly Standard; First Things, and elsewhere.