{"product_id":"a-bird-called-elaeus-poems-for-here-and-now-from-the-greek-anthology-paperback","title":"A Bird Called Elaeus: Poems for Here and Now from the Greek Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Constantine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Bird Called Elaeus\u003c\/em\u003e, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from \u003cem\u003eThe Greek Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by around 300 authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Greek Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, a colossal continuity and variety from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine. For \u003cem\u003eA Bird Called Elaeus\u003c\/em\u003e - his small anthology of the vast original - David Constantine has gone particularly not just to the renowned love poems but also to poems that treat man's dealings with the earth, his work and trades there, the creatures other than himself who inhabit it and the divinities whose care it is. Through his translations, Constantine brings already urgent poems closer to home and our drift towards the Sixth Extinction. For the Ancient World was not populated by humans harmless to Mother Earth, not at all: often they, like us, did the worst their means enabled them to do. Still there were laws. \u003cem\u003eThese things you must not do\u003c\/em\u003e. Doing them nevertheless was understood as transgression of laws beyond the human laws. You offended Demeter at your peril. Understand that how we like, it's the same now. And the peril is infinitely greater, threatens to be final, consuming the innocent with the guilty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Constantine\u003c\/b\u003e lectured in German at Durham from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford from 1981 to 2000. He was co-editor of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e from 2004 to 2013. He was named winner of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2020, and presented with the award by HM the Queen in 2021. He has published eleven books of poetry, six translations and a novel with Bloodaxe. His poetry titles include \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; \u003ci\u003eNine Fathom Deep\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); Elder (2014); and \u003ci\u003eBelongings\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). His Bloodaxe translations include editions of Henri Michaux and Philippe Jaccottet; his \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of H?lderlin\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, and his version of H?lderlin's \u003ci\u003eSophocles\u003c\/i\u003e, combined in his new expanded H?lderlin edition, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); and his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's \u003ci\u003eLighter Than Air\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. His translation, \u003ci\u003eA Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Other books include his translation of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e in Penguin Classics (2005, 2009) and his co-translation (with Tom Kuhn) of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2018). He has published six collections of short stories, and won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2013 for his collection\u003ci\u003e Tea at the Midland\u003c\/i\u003e (Comma Press). Four other short story collections are published by Comma Press. His story 'In Another Country' was adapted into \u003ci\u003e45 Years\u003c\/i\u003e, a major film starring Tom Courtney and Charlotte Rampling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.35 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47476683899058,"sku":"9781780377223","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fb46896abb63080494d359972e7cc023.webp?v=1779187829","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-bird-called-elaeus-poems-for-here-and-now-from-the-greek-anthology-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}