The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

At the heart of Happiness As Such is an absence―an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge―created by the departure of a family’s wayward only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes to him too; s...(展开全部)

谢默斯·希尼(Seamus Heaney，1939-2013)，享誉世界的伟大诗人、剧作家、评论家、翻译家。1939年生于北爱尔兰德里郡，1961年毕业于贝尔法斯特女王大学，当过中学教师，后回母校任文学教师。二十多岁即以诗集《一位自然主义者之死》闻名诗坛。1972年和家人移居爱尔兰都柏林。曾任美国哈佛大学修辞学教授，英国牛津大学诗学教授。获艾略特诗歌奖、毛姆文学奖、史密斯文学奖等重要奖项，1995年因“其作品饱含抒情之美以及对伦理的深刻理解，凸显了日常生活的奇迹和历史的现实性”而获诺贝尔文学奖，被称为“继叶芝之后最伟大的爱尔兰诗人”。 译者简介 黄灿然，诗人、翻译家、评论家。1963年生于福建泉州，1978年移居香港，1988年毕业于暨南大学，曾长期任职香港大公报国际新闻翻译，现居深圳。2011年获华语文学传媒大奖年度诗人奖。近期译著有布罗茨基随笔...(展开全部)

As selected by the author, "Opened Ground" includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, "The Cure at Troy" and "Sweeney Astray," and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscen...(展开全部)

As selected by the author, "Opened Ground" includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, "The Cure at Troy" and "Sweeney Astray," and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscen...(展开全部)

From childhood on, Dickinson's life was sequested and obscure. Yet her verse had a power and influence that has traveled far beyond the cultured yet relatively circumscribed environment in which she lived her life.

In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on the rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Nora’s approach of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) to the Chinese context. The volume assembles a number of articles that focus on the most significant places of memory in modern and ...(展开全部)

Marc Andre Matten (Ph.D. 2007, University of Bonn, Germany) is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has published extensively on the issues of Chinese nationalism and national identity, including The Borders of Being Chinese – On the Creation of National Identity in 20th century China (German, Harr...(展开全部)

In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on the rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Nora’s approach of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) to the Chinese context. The volume assembles a number of articles that focus on the most significant places of memory in modern and ...(展开全部)