Afterwords Cook GeoffreyPaperback
Afterwords Cook GeoffreyPaperback The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht.…
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Afterwords Cook GeoffreyPaperback
The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht. Cook brings a contemporary and Canadian tone to his adaptations, which also showcase the exacting craftsmanship for which his first collection, Postscript, was praised. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into English poems in their own right, but enrich and expand his uniquely prismatic voice.
"Do you not feel," writes Goethe, "that, in my songs, I am one and the other, Afterwords is a book that daringly celebrates authorship as a shared project.