Research Catalog

Title

Be quiet : selected poems / Kuno Raeber ; translated by Stuart Friebert.

Author

Raeber, Kuno, 1922-1992

Publication

Rochester, New York : Tiger Bark Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Friebert, Stuart, 1931-

Description

127 pages; 19 cm

Summary

"The poems in Be Quiet share with other good poems the capacity to penetrate and move readers, but I think they can do even more. I think Raeber's poems have the capacity to change readers. That s a strong assertion but as you read Stuart Friebert's close translations of Raeber's work you will find that the poems bear me out. Raeber s intellectual and emotional depth is underscored by an artistic intensity and the eye for pairing detail and issue that marks both the talented artist and the honest scholar. His poems, rich in metaphor and allegory, have an uncanny ability to communicate, or at least point at, what is just beyond direct description and rational knowledge."--Deborah Bogen, page 9 of introduction.

Subject

• Raeber, Kuno, 1922-1992 > Translations into English
• German poetry > Translations in to English

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Anthologie
• Lyrik

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Deborah Bogen. I. Close and closer: Down with it all -- Still life -- The plate -- Splashes -- Prison -- Glade -- Illusions -- Mystery -- Summer and winter -- Icy night -- Lodgings -- Stream 1 -- Stream 2 -- The fish and Poseidon gone under -- Orpheus in the harbor -- Angels in the rain -- The dam -- Void. -- II. Far below: If it came -- The scaffolding -- Beyond -- Grave -- Journey -- Beach -- The dead bird -- Beach sketch -- Sea crab -- Ferry -- Course of the world -- Cicada -- Horses -- The gutter -- Mountain climb -- But out into -- Unchanged changed. -- III. From the horizon: Grotto in the ear -- Tree -- Stones -- Plank -- Under the grate -- Across the steppe -- Nursing -- The dust cloud -- Punic war -- The Engelsburg : the Emperor Hadrian speaks -- Inventio et translatio Capitis : Sti. Johannis Baptistae -- Peter Paul Rubens : Saint Sebastian -- Miracula Sti. Marci II -- Miracula Sti. Marci III -- Miracula Sti. Marci IV -- Miracula Sti. Marci V-- Miracula Sti. Marci VIII -- Miracula Sti. Marci IX. IV. Withour knowing why: Gardens -- Bees -- Beetles -- Abandoning butterflies -- The arrow -- Fjord -- River harbor -- Island -- Airplane -- Helicopters -- Windmills -- Parachutists -- Moment/Blink of an eye -- What doesn't fall down quietly... -- Pirates -- Waiting I -- The fire -- The black paper -- The trunk -- Mice -- Incantation. -- V. Who knows?: Riddle -- Waiting 2 -- The cat -- Twilight -- Allee -- On the death of the actor James Dean -- The Spanish steps -- On the swing -- The vanished one -- The optician and the piano pupil -- Don't you know? --

ISBN

• 0986044571
• 9780986044571

OCLC

918285912

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library