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Unfinished and Uncollected
Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems published by Shearsman in 2013 - in that this book includes completed versions of the master's unfinished poems- this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and translations, giving us a picture of both poet and translator, as well as a shadowy image of Cavafy himself.
Century Dead Center & Other Poems
Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
Proensa
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”
Magic Realism
Draws upon the German and Austrian paintings of the George Economou Collection to explore the vibrant art of magic realism, first coined by the German artist and critic Franz Roh in 1926, to describe a shift from the spiritual and anxious art of the Expressionist era, towards something more directly located in actuality
Complete Plus
This book contains the 154 canonical Collected Poems, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems, and just one of his rejected, early poems, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street, ' used here as a kind of overture to the collection.
William Langland's "Piers Plowman"
William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language. Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.
Landed Natures
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David Hammons
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