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Mozart's Third Brain - Sonnevi, Göran; Lesser, Rika; Warren, Rosanna - Yale University Press
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Sep 14, 2009
240 p., 6 x 7 3/4
ISBN: 9780300145809
ISBN-10: 0300145802
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Cloth: $25.00
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- The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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Mozart's Third Brain
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Göran Sonnevi; Translation, Preface, and Notes by Rika Lesser; Foreword by Rosanna Warren
Honorable Mention for The Best of 2009: Bookseller's Choice by Peter Philbrook, Barnes & Noble Review.
Winner of the 2006 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, Swedish writer Göran Sonnevi is undoubtedly one of the most important poets working today. In Mozart’s Third Brain, his thirteenth book of verse, he attempts “a commentary on everything” – politics, current events, mathematics, love, ethics, music, philosophy, nature. Through the impeccable skill of award-winning translator Rika Lesser, Sonnevi’s long-form poem comes to life in English with the full force of its loose, fractured, and radiating intensity. A poetic tour de force that darts about dynamically and imaginatively, Mozart’s Third Brain weaves an elaborate web of associations as the poet tries to integrate his private consciousness with the world around him. Through Lesser’s translation and preface, and an enlightening foreword by Rosanna Warren, readers of English will finally gain access to this masterpiece.
Born in 1939 in Lund, Sweden, Göran Sonnevi is the author of fifteen books of poems and a volume of poetry in translation. Rika Lesser is the author of four books of poems and six books of poetry in translation. She teaches poetry and literary translation and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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