商品簡介
In 1995 Håkan Sandell published Om Retrogardismen (On Retrogardism), a book which argued that poetry had become too insular and contemptuous of its own medium to communicate meaningfully with the public. The remedy Sandell proposed was a return to techniques and genres that modernism had rejected or neglected. This interest in salvaging what is valuable of the past accounts for much of the controversy that has surrounded Sandell's work in Swedish literary circles today. But anyone who dubs himself a Retrogardist is being as much playful as provocative. There is nothing stuffy or curatorial about Sandell's poetry. There's a stylistic generosity and openness in his work, where everyday and vatic diction, high and popular culture, modern and ancient technologies, jostle amicably. There's a generosity of spirit, too: even the saddest and angriest of his poems tend toward praise. Love, death, God, evil, and poetry are all approached with a invigorating freshness and lack of apology. Dog Star Notations is a collection of communications addressed to both the head and heart of the reader.
作者簡介
Bill Coyle's poems and translations have appeared in journals including the Hudson Review, PN Review and Poetry. His first book of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize in 2006. Bill Coyle teaches at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. Hakan Sandell was born in 1962 in Malmo, in southern Sweden, but has lived abroad most of his adult life, in Denmark, Ireland, and Norway. He debuted at the age of 19, and has since published eighteen collections or pamphlets of poetry, most recently Ode till Demiurgen (Ode to the Demiurge, 2013). He is also a translator and critic, and a cofounder of the artistic movement known as Retrogardism. He has received several major Swedish awards for his poetry and essays, and selections of his poetry have appeared in German and Hungarian.
