{"product_id":"the-feeling-sonnets-paperback","title":"The Feeling Sonnets - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugene Ostashevsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlyly funny, inventive, and virtuosic, this new collection from a Russian-American master challenges poetic convention and explores themes of alienhood, translation, and human emotion.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Eugene Ostashevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e--his fourth collection of poems-- words, idioms, sentences, and poetic conventions are dislodged and defamiliarized in order to convey the experience of living in a land, and a language, apart. The book consists of four cycles of fourteen unrhymed, unmetered sonnets. The first cycle asks about the relationship between interpretation and emotion, whether \"we feel the feelings that we call ours.\" The second cycle, mainly composed of \"daughter sonnets,\" describes bringing up children in a foreign country and a foreign language. The third cycle, called \"Die Schreibblockade,\" German for writer's block, talks about foreign-language processing of inherited historical trauma, in this case the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. The fourth cycle is about translation. The sonnets are followed by a short libretto, commissioned by the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti, about Ravel's interaction with Paul Wittgenstein over the \u003ci\u003ePiano Concerto for the Left Hand\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene Ostashevsky\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator who was born in Leningrad, USSR, grew up in New York, and currently lives in New York and Berlin. His poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by NYRB Poets, discusses the pitfalls of pirate-parrot communication. Its German edition won the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of Muenster. An earlier collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Ugly Duckling Presse, offers an ironic take on rationality. His translation titles include \u003ci\u003eOBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection of writings by Alexander Vvedensky and friends in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.21 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352045764857,"sku":"9781681377025","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UXNHN0E3Nm9pMHpqVXdxZ0NseWxMdz09.webp?v=1769805458","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-feeling-sonnets-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}