The Unstill Ones : : Poems / / Miller Oberman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Oberman, Miller,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 138
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)

An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old EnglishAn exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman’s startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse.Shaped by Oberman’s scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. “Wulf and Eadwacer,” a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as “On Trans” draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity. Richly combining scholarly rigor, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, The Unstill Ones marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part 1 -- Night watch -- Cædmon’s hymn -- On Trans -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- Aloud, Out of Nothing -- The City -- The Ruin -- The Smokewood Tree -- Tabula Rasa -- Good Sleep -- Lies After the War -- The Sky- Stone -- The Woman Who Cannot -- Part 2 -- My Brother was Missing -- The Vespertines -- Brothers -- Wolf Brother -- Silentium -- The Ruin -- Riddle 82 -- The Old English Rune Poem -- The Unmaking -- Rocks -- The Grave -- On Fishing -- Against a Sudden Stitch -- Part 3 -- Natural History -- The Word Again -- Against a Dwarf -- The Grave -- Who People Are -- P.M. -- Riddle 63 -- Riddle 97 -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- Dear Lengthening Day -- What is Night -- Words Were Changing -- The Unstill Ones -- Body Walking Through Snow -- Riddle 94 -- Voyages -- Riddle 78 -- Breakwater -- Acknowledgments -- Notes