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To Taste the River / Baiba Bičole.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington : Plamen Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781951508029
  • 9781951508197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891/.9321 23
LOC classification:
  • PG9119.B477 T6213 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: “I Exist Outside of Time” -- Author’s Note -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Sources of the Poems -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Translator
Summary: Baiba Bičole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation’s traditional, nationalistic poetry. In To Taste the River, Bičole's poems are lyrical and personal, often with intense emotion and startling imagery. Shown through different prisms, like variations on a theme, her subjects include separation, loss, and time; the power of language and song; and love. Central to her vision is nature, both as subject and metaphor. Appearing most frequently are waters (rain, mist, ice, rivers), birds, sun, and sky. Her unique voice renders a continuing motif of thirst, along with the need for freedom and movement, usually expressed through transformation. Nature in her poetry is distinct in that it is rooted in the world of the traditional Latvian folk songs, the dainas, where nature is animistic and personified, and the human and natural worlds are deeply interrelated. This is Bičole's first collection of poems in English translation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: “I Exist Outside of Time” -- Author’s Note -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Sources of the Poems -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About the Translator

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Baiba Bičole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation’s traditional, nationalistic poetry. In To Taste the River, Bičole's poems are lyrical and personal, often with intense emotion and startling imagery. Shown through different prisms, like variations on a theme, her subjects include separation, loss, and time; the power of language and song; and love. Central to her vision is nature, both as subject and metaphor. Appearing most frequently are waters (rain, mist, ice, rivers), birds, sun, and sky. Her unique voice renders a continuing motif of thirst, along with the need for freedom and movement, usually expressed through transformation. Nature in her poetry is distinct in that it is rooted in the world of the traditional Latvian folk songs, the dainas, where nature is animistic and personified, and the human and natural worlds are deeply interrelated. This is Bičole's first collection of poems in English translation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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