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In 2006 overleed de Nederlandse dichter en criticus Jeroen Mettes (1978-2006). Postuum verscheen in 2011 zijn lange prozagedicht 'N30'. In dat werk probeerde Mettes een 'direct engagement met de buitentekstuele werkelijkheid' tot stand te brengen door het talige lawaai van die werkelijkheid tot onderdeel te maken van zijn poëzie. 'N30' sloeg in als een bom. Mettes' poëziekritiek en zijn dichtwerk vormden een inspiratiebron voor een nieuwe generatie Nederlandstalige dichters die een poëzie gingen schrijven die tegelijkertijd politiek, experimenteel én persoonlijk was. In 'Vluchtlijnen van de Poëzie' vormt de experimentele dichtkunst en politieke essayistiek van Mettes het uitgangspunt voor een creatieve lezing en (her)interpretatie van de (recente) poëziegeschiedenis. De vluchtlijnen brengen de lezer van Mettes naar Friedrich Hölderlin, Herman Gorter, Gertrude Stein, Sybren Polet, J.F. Vogelaar, Ron Silliman, Dominique De Groen, Hannah van Binsbergen en vele anderen. Het poëtische sterrenstelsel dat zo ontstaat biedt zicht op de relatie tussen politiek, poëzie en vorm.

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Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without parallel. He is renowned particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of song traditions from the ancient past, and his premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view him as the emblematic cursed poet, whose fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial and demonic beings seemed to presage the brevity of his own existence. Li He's style and diction are often idiosyncratic and even hermetic, and his work presents daunting challenges to readers wishing to follow the flights of his imagination, or simply to construe the basic sense of his language. This volume presents close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other technical matters. Taken together, these features will be a welcome aid to readers wishing to explore Li He's poetic worlds first-hand.

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As palavras "épica" e "herói" resistem a generalizações, especialmente as universalizantes. Mesmo como conceitos gerais, "épico" e "herói" não estão necessariamente relacionados. Reconhecendo dificuldades desta natureza, a presente exposição explora os exemplos mais representativos dos constructos da poética antiga conhecidos comumente como "heróis épicos", ao se concentrar sobre Aquiles e Odisseu na Ilíada e na Odisseia de Homero. Pontos de comparação com estas figuras homéricas incluem: Gilgamesh e Enkidu nos registros cuneiformes sumérios, acadianos e hititas; Arjuna e os outros Pāṇḍava-s no épico indiano Mahābhārata; e Eneias na Eneida do poeta romano Virgílio.

Epic poetry. --- Heroic poetry --- Poetry

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"Don't sit on your stool, watching life go by," insists Soutcho Lydie Toure. In this collection of reflections written over a decade, she explores insecurities and vulnerabilities, with which many a reader will relate. She shares about loneliness and feeling different and goes on to ponder everyday life in "Politicking" and "VDN" -- a memorable highway in Dakar which pedestrians must cross "under the mocking smile of the sun." Toure draws on experiences and insights from her life betwixt and between West Africa and North America. In her verses, spiced with nature, color, joy, humor and fantasy, questions and answers compete equally for the reader's attention. A veritable source of confidence in the force of life and love. Confidence that makes one grow wings.

Poetry --- Poetry, Modern

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The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture.

Chinese poetry --- Poetry