Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably the two collections published as Les Fenêtres (The Windows) and Les Roses. The emergence of a French Rilke provides the starting point rather than the terminus for Jo Shapcott's new collection, Tender Taxes, which re-imagines Rilke's brief and fugitive lyrics as English poems. The occasion is Rilke, but these are more than versions: Shapcott's poems address this, arguing with the originals, crossing and re-crossing the frontier between translation and origination. Rilke and Shapcott are brought together in the shared incognito of a foreign language, 'speaking English through a French mouth'.
https://www.gandhi.com.mx/tender-taxes451872Tender Taxes<p>Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably the two collections published as <strong>Les Fenêtres (The Windows)</strong> and <strong>Les Roses</strong>. The emergence of a French Rilke provides the starting point rather than the terminus for Jo Shapcott's new collection, <strong>Tender Taxes</strong>, which re-imagines Rilke's brief and fugitive lyrics as English poems. The occasion is Rilke, but these are more than versions: Shapcott's poems address this, arguing with the originals, crossing and re-crossing the frontier between translation and origination. Rilke and Shapcott are brought together in the shared incognito of a foreign language, 'speaking English through a French mouth'.</p>https://kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net/Images/8f2d2e67-addd-45b3-a2da-bfa5cef24325/300/300/False/image.jpg257instock25825701000https://www.gandhi.com.mx/media/catalog/product/2022-04-12T04:48:34+0000POE000000Jo ShapcottEpub 2POE000000