作品情報

戦争と日常、遠い土地と身近な風景を行き来しながら、静かな強度で世界を見る詩集。

戦争の記憶を、家や土地、季節の細部へと引き寄せていくマイケル・ロングリーの代表作。簡潔で澄んだ筆致が、暴力と静謐を同じ視界に置く。

書籍情報

出版社

Wake Forest Univ Pr

発売日

2000-06-01

ページ数

68ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm

ISBN-13

9780916390969

ISBN-10

0916390969

価格

7789 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Outdoors & Nature/Environment

The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet&;s acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world&;s things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames. Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, 2001; Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, 2001; Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2000.

Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1939. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied Classics at Trinity College. Strongly influenced by the classics, he has alluded to his love of Homer in many of his poems. Early in his career, Longley worked as a schoolteacher in Dublin, London, and Belfast. He founded the literary program in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and in 1970 he became the assistant director of that organization. In 2010, he was honored with the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of Aosdána, an affiliation for Irish artists. He is married to the critic Edna Longley and has three children. Michael Longley has written nine collections of poetry. Holding honorary doctorates from both Trinity College, Dublin, and Queen’s University, Belfast, Longley was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001. He has received numerous other awards for his work, including the American Irish Foundation Award, the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Ulster Tatler Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007?2010.

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