Selected Poems of Brautigan

THE PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER

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A stunning poem by Richard Brautigan, a famous marginal figure of the Beat Generation and one of the American writers whom Haruki Murakami "reads repeatedly throughout his life."
Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "When all of us are forgotten, people are still reading Brautigan."
☀Brautigin, a well-known fringe figure of the Beat Generation, a representative of the "counterculture movement" among writers, and a literary idol of the United States in the 1960s.
☀Brautigin is one of the American writers that Haruki Murakami "reads repeatedly throughout his life", and Murakami's debut novel "Hear the Wind Sing" is believed to be influenced by him.
☀Brautigen's poetry is easy to understand yet jumpy and neurotic. The metaphors in the poems are exquisite and novel, and are related to "modern life". The poems are influenced by Japanese haiku and Hemingway's minimalist style, and contain a large number of short and concise "spoken poems".
☀The poets Xiao Shui and Chen Xi carefully translated it, which was affirmed by the poet and scholar Yang Xiaobin as "perfectly grasping the poetic essence of Brautigan's poems."
☀Designed by emerging designer Shao Nian, the binding is a poetic experiment, remarkably bright and lightweight, featuring a hand-torn spine (each volume is unique). The text features four colored pages in yellow, blue, red, and green, bound with a "sewn-stitch + glued" method for a soft, easy-to-flip feel. The font and layout are specially designed, with page numbers always left-centered, creating a uniquely poetic space.
◉Brief Introduction This book contains more than ninety representative poems by the American poet Brautigan, including "Everything is Taken Care of by the Grace Machine of Love", "The Return of the River", "The Birth Control Pill and the Spring Mountain Mine Disaster", etc.
Brautigan is known for his use of humor and emotion to fuel visual imagination. His poetry is accessible yet peculiarly quirky and edgy, his concise prose often laden with subtle metaphors. Because his poems are brief and subtle, with a haiku-like flavor, he has been called the "American Matsuo Basho," holding a unique position in the history of American poetry.
Brautigan's writing, centered on the unfolding of "poetic meaning," integrates poetry, prose, and fiction into a new phenomenon we might call "Brautigen style." This style attempts to first prose-ize poetry, then "prose-poetize" fiction, and finally fiction-ize poetry.
This "Selected Poems of Brautigan" is a concentrated reflection of the "Brautigen style" in poetry.
◉Editor's Recommendation●Unique imagery + novel metaphors, truly mind-blowing:
Countless light years accumulate at the ends of your hair.
——A Celestial Dance in Mid-February
These lights splashed themselves towards me through a small hole in the sky.
——"Star Cave"
●Easy to understand + “in sync with modern life”:
It’s so nice to wake up in the morning without having to say “I love you” to someone when you no longer love them.
——Love Poems
●It seems to be “lacking content”, but it creates poetry through the sense of space:
1
Get enough food to eat,
Then eat it.
2
Find a quiet place to sleep,
Then sleep there.
3
Reduce intellectual activity and emotional noise,
Until you reach your silent self,
Then listen to it.
4
——"Karma Repair Toolbox: Items 1-4"
◉The English author introduction on the cover of the book Easter egg (front cover) is the original text that the designer took from Brautigan's other poetry collection "Everything is Taken Care of by the Grace Machine of Love" (1st edition in 1967), and the old typewriter font is presented as it is!
Brautigan's most enduring works are actually his short stories and poems - short pieces containing wisdom, innovative imagery and bizarre turns of phrase, which are almost destined to have a permanent readership.
—The New York Times Book Review
He was a unique American writer in the tradition of Mark Twain... Only his death can corrupt us.
—Artist Seymour Lawrence Xiao Shui and Chen Xi’s translation perfectly captures the poetic essence of Brautigan’s poem.
——Poet and scholar Yang Xiaobin

2019-09-01

广西师范大学出版社

Xinmin said

158

9787559818829