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Christopher Middleton
Marius Kociejowski
其他書名
Christopher Middleton in Conversation with Marius Kociejowski ; And, A Nocturnal Journal
出版
Shearsman Books
, 2004
主題
Poetry / General
Poetry / American / General
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0907562515
9780907562511
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4QseAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets. He was writing (not for publication) his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, where he had taught German and Comparative Literature since 1966. The journal appears here in conjunction with conversations tape-recorded by Marius Kociejowski in London during October 2002 and June 2003. In both areas Middleton attends eloquently to his concerns as poet, translator, and essayist: values intrinsic and peculiar to poetry, the fundamental human aptitude (and craving) for aesthetic expression, and the reading of sign-systems usually deemed haphazard (e.g., a Turkish sea-mew, a soccer match, the aprons of waiters, rubbish in the Paris Metro, and a fresco in Cappadocia). Also included here, by way of introduction to the volume, is a brief but entertaining reminiscence of his first encounters with Christopher Middleton by Marius Kociejowski.