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Afterwords

by (author) Geoffrey Cook

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2018
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550655087
    Publish Date
    Sep 2018
    List Price
    $17.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550655131
    Publish Date
    Sep 2018
    List Price
    $12.99

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Description

The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook’s ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke and Brecht. Cook’s versions not only transform these foreign texts into English poems in their own right, but enrich and expand his uniquely prismatic voice. Cook brings a contemporary and Canadian tone to his adaptations, which also showcase the exacting craftsmanship for which his first collection, Postscript, was praised. Afterwords is a book that daringly celebrates authorship as a shared project. “Do you not feel,” writes Goethe, “that, in my songs, I am one and the other, too?”

About the author

Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He’s the author of four previous books of poetry: Dog Ear (Véhicule Press, 2014), Sunday, the locusts (Tightrope Books, 2011), Patternicity (Nightwood Editions, 2010) and The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions, 2008), and the subject of the critical monograph Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone by Shane Neilson and Jason Guriel. He’s also the winner of several awards including a CBC Literary Award, The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and Poetry’s Editors Prize for Book Reviewing. Currently, Johnstone curates the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press, and is an associate editor at Representative Poetry Online.

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