Highwater
Subtitle: poems and translations
By: Lee Gerlach.
Publisher: Handsel Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Description: "The ghazal is one of the major forms of Persian and Urdu poetry. Gerlach has adapted the form, dispensing with its complex meter and refrain, and so putting the emphasis firmly on the poems' imagery, spiritual yearnings, and - what is the most striking feature of the ghazals of Hafiz, Ghalib, and other masters of the form - the beautiful and strange associations the poet makes from couplet to couplet.

In the first section of Highwater, Gerlach shows his mastery of the forms of English poetry in writing of his life in California, New Mexico, and his native Wisconsin, and in the third section, translations of Tu Fu and Han Yu, he joins the ranks of the great translators - Pound, Bynner, Rexroth - of Chinese poetry into English."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First full-length collection of Lee Gerlach's poetry. As well as a number of poems on the author's life in California, this book contains translations of Chinese poetry, and variations on the Gazhal, a Persian form of poetry--Publisher's info.