The Unstill Ones: Poems
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The Unstill Ones: Poems
By (Author) Miller Oberman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd January 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
811.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
142g
Description
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman's startlingly fr
Reviews
"Oberman beautifully renders a complex and ever-changing knot of temporalities in which past and present overlap and exert force on each other." * Publishers Weekly *
"A reflection on the meaning of welcome, this etymologically alert work is calm and joyful. . . . An Old English scholar and translator, Oberman is the sort of poet who hears in the tree of poetry not only the leaves rustling and the branches creaking, but the roots drinking and eating."---Carol Rumens, The Guardian
Author Bio
Miller Oberman has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a 92Y Discovery Prize, and Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His work has appeared in Poetry, London Review of Books, the Nation, Boston Review, Tin House, and Harvard Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
