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Homunculus
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- Book Synopsis
- A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 Homunculus is a long poem from award-winning poet and translator James Womack, based around the Elegies of the Roman poet Maximian. The last of the Roman poets, Maximian wrote in the sixth century, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire; critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind', and W.H. Auden singled him out as a 'really remarkable poet'. Womack's versioning of the Elegies shows how this harsh poem of sex and old age can speak to our own contemporary, collapsing world.
- About The Author
- James Womack was born in 1979. His new collection, Why Are You Shouting?, is published by Carcanet in July 2024. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry with Carcanet: Misprint (2012), On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017) and Homunculus (2020). He is also an award-winning translator, and has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky ('Vladimir Mayakovsky' and Other Poems, Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Winter 2016), Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Manuel Vilas and Camilo José Cela. He lives in Cambridge.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784109912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (24 September 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 88
- Weight
- 126 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 8 mm
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