Orakl
By: Daniele Pantano
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781625579003
Copyright date: 2017
Notes: "Pantano, a renowned poet and translator, has brought both of these talents to bear on his project. His process was to loosely translate all of the poems of Georg Trakl, then order the lines in alphabetical order by their first words. One further aspect of the organization is that while these lines share this overt linguistic kinship--due to the alphabetical ordering, but also due to the frequent repetition of a starting word--the lines do not share any apparent meaning relations. Like the Persian ghazal, where each couplet is meant to stand alone, seemingly disconnected from the others, yet also force by way of lyric disjoint a powerful effect on the reader, Pantano's conceptual poetry forces us to leap from line to line, navigating the voids along the way."--Publisher website.