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Overview"The title, POIKILOPAIDIA, is Greek for ""a multicolored education."" In fact, the 198 poems collected, spanning 60 years, cover a wide variety of subjects such as one encounters during a long life rich in experience, from the ordinary day-to-day, to the extraordinary, including erotic, mystical, intellectual, artistic, political, philosophical and religious. The poems are composed in a variety of styles and metres, from sonnets to free verse; and in a range of moods, from grief to hilarity. Although deeply personal, the collection includes 18 poems (cannily selected and translated by the author) from Sappho, Lucretius, Dante, Cecco, Cavalcanti, Petrarch, Campanella, Leopardi, Pascoli, Cardarelli, Hugo, Baudelaire, Mallarme', Stefan George, Hesse, and Rilke, Several of the poems and translations are prefaced or followed by the author's explanatory notes and comments. POIKILOPAIDIA incorporates the 22 poems previously published (in Twilight with Halfmoon Rising: Selected Poems, by Peter Gimpel (1991)." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Carroll GimpelPublisher: Red Heifer Press Imprint: Red Heifer Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780985519940ISBN 10: 0985519940 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 17 February 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA major Jewish poet in our midst--but major. --Herb Brin, Heritage Southwest Jewish Press [Gimpel] manages to evoke smiles, laughter, tears and more than a few chills-in other words, precisely what good poetry is supposed to do. --Chris Leppek, Intermountain Jewish News You have brought back to poetry the elements without which it cannot exist. --Isaac Bashevis Singer (personal letter) """A major Jewish poet in our midst--but major."" --Herb Brin, Heritage Southwest Jewish Press ""[Gimpel] manages to evoke smiles, laughter, tears and more than a few chills-in other words, precisely what good poetry is supposed to do."" --Chris Leppek, Intermountain Jewish News ""You have brought back to poetry the elements without which it cannot exist."" --Isaac Bashevis Singer (personal letter)" Author InformationPeter Gimpel, born 1945, in Los Angeles. Education: Ecolint, Geneva, Switzerland; UCLA; Universita' degli Studi di Perugia, Italy; Loyola Law School, LA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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