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Edward Hopper
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- Book Synopsis
- This is a dual language edition. Each poem in Catalan writer Ernest Farrés's Edward Hopper is based on a painting by the American artist. Creating a narrative that follows a subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age, the story is Hopper's, yet it also belongs to Farrés. The ventriloquist slips, revealing his larger concerns: Farrés is using the paintings to tell a story of modernity. Lawrence Venuti's translations recreate the heterogeneous language of Farrés's poetry in an American vernacular that samples Hopper's actual speech and writing. Farrés's book becomes in English what it is for Catalan readers: remarkable in ambition, wit, and in its probing interpretations of the visual imagination. Cover painting: Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Self Portrait, 1925-1930 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Cover design StephenRaw.com
- About The Author
- Catalan poet Ernest Farrés was born in Igualada in 1967 and lives in Barcelona. A journalist who works on the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia, he has written three volumes of poems: Clavar-ne una al mall i l'altra a l'enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998) and Edward Hopper (2006), which won the Englantina d'Or of the Jocs Florals of Barcelona. He has also edited an anthology of contemporary Catalan poetry, 21 poetes del XXI (2001). In Spain Edward Hopper has been adapted to the stage in both Catalan and Spanish. English versions of Farrés's poems have recently appeared in Calque, The Nation, PN Review, Two Lines, Words without Borders, World Literature Today, and Zoland Poetry.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781847770776
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (28 January 2010)
- Number of Pages
- 136
- Weight
- 208 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 11 mm
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