{"product_id":"in-the-light-of-ciaran-carson-9781930630628","title":"In the Light of","description":"Ciaran Carson has a distinguished history of translation from the Italian (The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, 2002), the Irish (The Midnight Court, 2005; and The T疂n, 2007) as well as from the French (The Alexandrine Plan, 1998). He states in his \"Author's Note\" that \"these versons are not conventional translations. . . . There are instances where I have added to or taken away from the original. I have sometimes twisted Rimbaud's words. And Rimbaud's words, of course, twisted mine . . .\" Carson's idea of the translator's work is like the French poet's own visionary idea of how poetry conveys the hypnotic violence of the real: \"The poet makes himself a seer through a long, prodigious and rational disordering of the senses.\" Carson continues: \"However we gloss the title Illuminations, the poems flit within the inward eye like a brightly-coloured magic lantern slides, pictures from a marvellous book, visions of another world, scenes from an avant-garde film. Rimbaud was avant-garde before the Avant-garde; a surrealist before Surrealism; and, environmentalist avant la lettre, his critique of industrial society in some of these poems is still relevant today. In all senses he was indeed a seer.\" Only a poet of Carson's skills could translate the poetry of the po鑼e maudit \"in the light of\" the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ciaran Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193063062X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781930630628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wake Forest University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Ciaran Carson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075898142975,"sku":"9781930630628","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2be3dfef-7688-4fec-8188-bbcdaaff438f.jpg?v=1685462077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-light-of-ciaran-carson-9781930630628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}