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Pindars Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style

Pindars Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style

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James Bradley Wells | Center for Hellenic Studies | November 30, 2009

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In "Pindar's Verbal Art," James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar's language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. In Mikhail Bakhtin's terms, "Pindar's Verbal Art" is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar's is a highly dialogical form of art, an intertextual web of voices, whose study enables us to appreciate popular dimensions of his songs. Wells offers a new take on recurrent Pindaric questions: genre, the unity of the victory song, tradition, and, principally, epinician performance.

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Robert Bringhurst | Gaspereau Press Ltd. | December 1, 2009

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This new volume brings together selections from several of Bringhurst''s collections of poetry, including The Beauty of the Weapons and The Calling, along with complete works including the polyphonic Conversations with a Toad and The Blue Roofs of Japan, and a series of new poems, "The Living."

The collection''s geography wanders from Japan to the Middle East to El Salvador to British Columbia. Bringhurst''s attention to place cuts below the level of foreign tongues and telling landmarks to more elemental meetings of stone, sky, water, bark, breath and blood. This elemental imagery is matched in a poetics that joins together the economy and elucidating repetition present in improvisational and classical music but so often missing from contemporary poetry.

Poems from "The Book of Silences" and The Old in Their Knowing underline the influence of Eastern and pre-Socratic philosophers on Bringhurst''s thinking, lending the reflexive, sometimes near-unutterable concepts in the writings of Parmenides, Pythagoras, Empedokles, Nagarjuna, Dogen and Uddalaka Aruni, a certain physicality. Here too are attempts to whittle back to the experience of a body in a knowable and unknowable world.

Those familiar with Bringhurst''s prose will find many of the same concerns manifested here. The author''s ideas about mythology, ecology, philosophy, language, art and music are taken up in verse. In particular, polyphonic poems and the typographic illustration of them are represented, with selections from Ursa Major, as well as The Blue Roofs of Japan, New World Suite No. 3, and Conversations With A Toad, each in their entirety.

About his continued fascination with polyphonics, Bringhurst says: "If conditions are right, it is good for poems to be spoken aloud. I mean that the poems themselves can benefit ? and if that occurs, people may benefit too. Some of the poems in this book are composed for two or three voices speaking together, saying the same thing differently or saying different things at once. I understand that this may seem a needless complication, but poems have presented themselves to me in this form now for many years, and I have not found any way around it. In this book, where different voices speak at the same time, they are printed in different colors. The poems in which this happens can be read in silence alone or read aloud with one or two friends ? if conditions are right. Which, in the presence of one or two friends, they just might be."

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Simultaneous Translation

Simultaneous Translation

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Terrance Cox | Signature Editions | December 1, 2009

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A CD of spoken word with music, "Simultaneous Translation" features sixteen poems, written and performed by the award-winning Terrance Cox. Providing original musical settings are returnee collaborators from the critically acclaimed disc "Local Scores," including producer Matthew Poulakakis, Beth Bartley and Mark Clifford (who are the internationally touring duo, Vox Violins), and the "Aztec" composer, Rafael "Gato" Fuentes. Newcomer contributions come from Bill Roberts and Steven Sauve, musicians, both, of wide experience and considerable repute. On "Simultaneous Translation," Cox's poems engage the titular phrase's connotations with variety and licence. "Translation," beyond the crossing of linguistic borders, extends to the process of writing itself, which alters actuality into documents, turns flesh into words. Spoken performance transmutes text to voice. The composers make words "something else": an adjunct to their music, the whole process heard as "simultaneous."
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Expeditions of a Chimaera

Expeditions of a Chimaera

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Oana Avasilichioaei | BookThug | November 1, 2009

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"Expeditions, " taken up by the explorers we all are, ultimately cannot be read. Only experienced. On venturing into it, you'll find your ticket is no good, expired, or valid only on Tuesday. Your fellow travellers will tell you you are wearing the wrong shoes. If you force your way past the gate, you will stub your toe, scrape your shins, lose your suitcase, throw the book across the room in a fit of outrage or fall under its spell and suddenly find it half-submerged in your bathwater. At times, you will even laugh aloud. Expeditions of a Chimaera is dialogic. Four pairs of hands try their luck at a game of cards. Nearby, questions sit, waiting to be asked. These expeditions are not progressions but digressions; they are translational in their effort to pull the author, kicking and screaming, out of the hat of authorial impossibilities.
"Expeditions expedites you into a circus: there is disguise, an acrobatic puff of smoke, a clown's painted face, a human cannonball and, down below its tightrope, an arena full of pawprints, with no net to catch your fall." "Otilia Acacia"
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Ill Tell What I Saw: Select Translations and Illustrations from the Divine Comedy

Ill Tell What I Saw: Select Translations and Illustrations from the Divine Comedy

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Robert Pinsky | Sarabande Books | November 1, 2009

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"Michael Mazur''s approach to the Inferno gave me inspiration and guidance in understanding Dante. The monotypes, nourished by the artist''s intense engagement with the poetry, are themselves acts of translation, embodying vital principles."-Robert Pinsky, from the preface

A unique collection that revisits Dante''s classic with translations by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and full-color artwork by internationally renowned artist Michael Mazur. This rare and stunning collaboration is sure to be sought by both collectors and readers alike.

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Martials Epigrams

Martials Epigrams

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Garry Wills | Penguin Usa | October 27, 2009

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One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), makes for addictive reading, and is a perfect-if naughty-gift.
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Ten Thousand Miles Between Us

Ten Thousand Miles Between Us

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Rocco de Giacomo | Quattro Books | October 24, 2009

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Evidence

Evidence

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Samuel Andreyev | Quattro Books | October 24, 2009

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Next to Nothing

Next to Nothing

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Christina McRae | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd. | October 15, 2009

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Reticent Bodies

Reticent Bodies

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Moez Surani | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd. | October 15, 2009

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