{"product_id":"elsewhere-paperback-2","title":"Elsewhere - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEliot Weinberger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is published as part of the Poets in the World series created by The Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. Ilya Kaminsky, Series Editor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a century of mass migration and deportation, political exile and casual tourism, being elsewhere was the common condition. For the moderns, elsewhere was not merely physical location or dislocation, but was intrinsic to the work. Victor Segalen, in China at the beginning of the century, writes of the 'manifestation of Diversity, ' a 'spectacle of Difference': everything that is 'foreign, strange, unexpected, surprising, mysterious, amorous, superhuman, heroic, and even divine, everything that is Other.' Picasso put it more bluntly: 'Strangeness is what we wanted to make people think about because we were quite aware that our world was becoming very strange.' After Guillaume Apollinaire's 'Zone'--perhaps the most influential poem of the century--collage, the juxtaposition of disparate elements, the manifestation of diversity, the making of the strange, became the primary new form of the new poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the countless examples, here are a few instances of the collage of a poet pasted, physically or mentally, onto a specific unfamiliar landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins Eliot Weinberger's essayistic travels into the nature of journey poetry. From Ko taro  Takamura's poem about Paris, to Fernando Pessoa's At the wheel of the Chevrolet on the road to Sintra, to Apollinaire's Ocean-Letter, Weinberger introduces fourteen poems illustrating the contemporary situation of being elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliot Weinberger\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, poet, editor, and translator who won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for his edition of Jorge Luis Borges's Selected Non-Fictions. His translations of Octavio Paz are highly regarded, as are his translations of Homero Aridjis, Bei Dao, and others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a complete list of contributors to this collection: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKotaro Takamura\u003cbr\u003eVicente Huidobro\u003cbr\u003eJorge Carrera Andrade\u003cbr\u003eFederico Garc a Lorca\u003cbr\u003eL opold S dar Senghor\u003cbr\u003eXavier Villaurrutia\u003cbr\u003eBertolt Brecht\u003cbr\u003eN zim Hikmet\u003cbr\u003eFernando Pessoa\u003cbr\u003eJoaqu n Pasos\u003cbr\u003eJacques Roumain\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire\u003cbr\u003eToriko Takarabe\u003cbr\u003eIngeborg Bachmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliot Weinberger\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, poet, editor, and translator who won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for his edition of Jorge Luis Borges's Selected Non-Fictions. His translations of Octavio Paz are highly regarded, as are his translations of Homero Aridjis, Bei Dao, and others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a complete list of contributors to this collection: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKotaro Takamura\u003cbr\u003eVicente Huidobro\u003cbr\u003eJorge Carrera Andrade\u003cbr\u003eFederico García Lorca\u003cbr\u003eLéopold Sédar Senghor\u003cbr\u003eXavier Villaurrutia\u003cbr\u003eBertolt Brecht\u003cbr\u003eNâzim Hikmet\u003cbr\u003eFernando Pessoa\u003cbr\u003eJoaquín Pasos\u003cbr\u003eJacques Roumain\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire\u003cbr\u003eToriko Takarabe\u003cbr\u003eIngeborg Bachmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 97\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.62 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700515475519,"sku":"9781934824856","price":15.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6f1cebaccdc5970d1822235d6960baff.webp?v=1765017049","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/elsewhere-paperback-2","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}