King of a Hundred Horsemen Poems

by Etienne, Marie; Hacker, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780374181185
• ISBN10: 0374181187
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

King of a Hundred Horsemenis the first of Marie Etienne's books to be published in English, and it introduces a major voice in world literature to a new audience. For ten years, Etienne worked as assistant to the experimental French theater director Antoine Vitez, who combined a commitment to the classics with a passionate engagement with socially progressive causes in the years of the student uprisings in France and the Algerian independence movement. Etienne's poetry has been inspired by this same synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundanethe quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most "exotic" journeys become ordinary and the most ordinary displacements partake of the strange.King of a Hundred Horsemenin a brilliant translation by Marilyn Hacker that Robert Hass selected for the National Poetry Series' first Robert Fagles Translation Prize in 2007is an elegant, deeply affecting work from a master poet.

Author Biography

Marie Étienne is a poet and novelist who lives in Paris, where she is a frequent contributor to literary and book-review journals. Marilyn Hacker is the author of eleven books of poems and seven published books of translations from the French.

Table of Contents

Ocean / Emotion	p. 3
Proof by the Birds	p. 27
War Diary	p. 49
A Witness Disappears	p. 71
The Assassin's Denial	p. 93
Watchman, Reflecting	p. 115
The End and the Beginning	p. 137
Little Dance	p. 159
Some of Them Are Japanese	p. 181
Quotations and Incitements	p. 203
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