Adam's Dream: A Preface to Translation

Reference

Belitt, Ben

Words, Language & Grammar

Grove Pr

1978 FIRST EDITION/PRINT HARDCOVER w/DUST JACKET (Protected in Mylar) - GROVE PRESS PUBLISHER

Adam's Dream: A Preface to Translation (An Evergreen Book)

Grove Press; [Distributed by Random House

Rafael Alberti: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Alberti, Rafæl

Monguió, Luis

Poetry

University of California Press

This volume brings together a lifetime's achievement by one of America's outstanding poets of the twentieth century. Though his earliest poems were published more than sixty years ago, Ben Belitt's works in sum are likely to strike readers today with the force of unprecedented encounter. A poet of abundance and sometimes carnivalesque riotousness, Belitt also calls to mind the intensity and eruptiveness of Hopkins, the double passion for the infinite and the empirical exemplified by Neruda, and the lustrous word-painting associated with Keatsian Romanticism. But as these diverse predecessors suggest, Belitt is altogether an original, whose derivation is as multiple as his figuration. His concerns range from the appalled enthrallment with violence and disorder to the rage to learn how one can live in chance and confront the mandates of mortality.

This Scribe, My Hand: The Complete Poems of Ben Belitt

Louisiana State Univ Pr

The Forgèd Feature: Towards a Poetics of Uncertainty, New and Selected Essays

The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an on-going review of his concern with the encoding of languages and the exigencies of their imaginative retrieval. The collection begins with three pieces on the uses of belief, linguistic and place as shaping forces in the concretizing of the literary artifact. The second section of essays examines the fictive medium in terms of a number of "predicaments." The discussion embraces texts such as parables, novels, and autobiographical meoirs covering a broad range of twentieth century talents: Kafka, Borges, V.S. Naipaul, Saul Bellows, and Pablo Neruda. The third section is devoted to the theory and practice of translation developed from Belitt's personal lifetime of experience. Finally, there is a sequence of four essays on the uses of "new physics" of quantum mechanics and its uncanny relevance to the accountability of poetry. Belitt re-evaluates Gerard Manley Hopkins as a "scientific" rather than a priestly crafter of a medium, and touches upon diverse traditions and talents such as Keats, Blake, Stevens, Bishop, Yeats, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Cocteau, W.C. Williams, Michado, Rilke, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. 
The brilliant observations collected in this volume are not contained within a specific school of thought and are indefinable within any current fashion- rather, Belitt's frame of reference is literature itself and his essays proceed in a literary, poetic, and individual voice.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Fordham University Press

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