Releasing the Porcelain Birds - Bugan, Carmen
19,99 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in 1-2 Wochen
payback
10 °P sammeln
  • Broschiertes Buch

In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceaüescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 pages of secret files on her mother, sister, brother and herself. Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry; it is about writing the self free and how poetry drawn in a new and tender narrative can do this. In this manner Releasing the Porcelain Birds is one…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceaüescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 pages of secret files on her mother, sister, brother and herself. Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry; it is about writing the self free and how poetry drawn in a new and tender narrative can do this. In this manner Releasing the Porcelain Birds is one continuous poem which faces down dispossession and reaches towards exuberance.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is an award-winning poet and writer who explores the expressions of historical and political upheaval in literature. She is the author of ten books including poetry, memoir, and criticism, and some of her work has been translated into Swedish, Polish, Italian, and Chinese. Tristia is her fifth collection published by Shearmsan Books. Bugan's monograph, Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2013/Routledge, 2020), has received international praise. Her most recent book of essays on politics and poetics, Poetry and the Language of Oppression (Oxford University Press, 2021), dealt with Cold War surveillance and considered the wider perspectives on writing in turbulent times; it was named an "essential book for writers" by Poets and Writers. Time Being (Shearsman, 2022), her most recent collection of poems, reflected on the pandemic and the changed sense of time. Her memoir, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police (Picador/ Graywolf, 2012), was winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a finalist in the George Orwell Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was serialized as the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, as well as being a Waterstone's Book Club Choice. Bugan's new and selected poems, Lilies from America (Shearsman, 2019) received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Carmen Bugan was the 2018 Helen DeRoy Professor in Honors at the University of Michigan, and held teaching posts at New York University Abu Dhabi, Stony Brook University, University of Fribourg, and Oxford University, where she was a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature. Other fellowships and grants include Arts Council England and Hawthornden Fellowship.