ஆங்கிலக் கவிதைத் தொகுப்புகள் - Dead and Undead and Solitude

எவ்ரிமேன் லைப்ரரியில்  (Everyman's Library) டெட் அண்ட் அண்டெட் (Dead and Undead) மற்றும் சாலிட்யூட் (Solitude ) என்ற இந்த இரண்டு ஆங்கில கவிதை நூல்கள் கவனத்தை ஈர்த்தன.

டெட் அண்ட் அண்டெட் என்ற கவிதைநூலில், எகிப்திய கல்வெட்டுகள், மெசபடோமிய நாகரிகம், ஹோமர், ஷேக்ஸ்பியர், மில்டன், கீட்ஸ், எமிலி டிக்கன்சன் பற்றிய சிறப்புகளைச் சொல்கின்றது.

சாலிட்யூட் என்ற நூல், அக்கால ஆங்கிலக் கவிதை நயங்கள், இயற்கை, தனிமை, உண்மைக்கான தேடல்   குறித்த பாடல்கள் அடங்கிய தொகுப்பாகும்.

-கே.எஸ்.இராதாகிருஷ்ணன்.
17-08-2015.



Dead and Undead

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"No breath of air to break the wave
That rolls below the Athenian's grave,
That tomb which, gleaming o'er the cliff,
First greets the homeward-veering skiff
High o'er the land he saved in vain;
When shall such Hero live again?"
--Opening to "The Giaour" by Lord Byron

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This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead that has haunted humans since we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancient Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Homer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, from T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsberg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a delightfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poetry both.

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Solitude


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"The hermit escapes the human world
and likes to sleep on mountains
among green widely-spaced vines
where clear torrents sing harmonies.
He steams with joy,
swinging at ease through freedom,
not stained with worldly affairs,
heart clean as a white lotus."
--Han Shan included in SOLITUDE

A literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called “sessions of sweet silent thought,” this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering “lonely as a cloud”; Poe confiding “all I loved, I loved alone”; Yeats’s communion with “the deep heart’s core”; and Han Shan’s heart of a hermit, “clean as a white lotus.” From Sir Edward Dyer’s “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is,” to the spiritual searching of the Transcendentalists, to the meditative verse of Jorie Graham, some of the most indelible poems from every time and culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet’s art. The poems collected here, whether reflecting on the soul or on nature, addressing an absent loved one, or honoring the self, form a book of respite and contemplation, and a beautiful tribute to the interior life.


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