Dissonance (If You Are Interested)

by Rosmarie Waldrop

Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.

As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues, and the problems of translating from one to the other. Those discrepancies and disjunctions, instead of posing problems to be overcome, have become for Waldrop a generative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817351973
• ISBN13: 9780817351977
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"