No, Love Is Not Dead
No, Love Is Not Dead by Christopher McCabe is a timely anthology published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2021, featuring 322 pages in English. This collection presents a diverse array of love poems from poets across the globe, spanning over two millennia. It serves as a reminder of the linguistic richness of poetry and its capacity to articulate the complexities of love, showcasing works from both historical and contemporary voices.
Readers will discover reflective tales that explore various dimensions of love, including unlikely and impossible love stories, as well as love influenced by political contexts and surrealist themes. The anthology includes contributions from more than 50 poets, with original poems written in languages such as Akkadian, Amharic, and Ancient Greek, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. This unique collection not only highlights the emotional depth of love but also emphasizes the cultural diversity found in poetic expressions of this universal theme.
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“The perfect gift for poetry and language enthusiasts alike, this timely anthology of love poems in languages from across the globe, by poets past and present, is a powerful and poignant reminder of what love is and what it can be. A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world’s greatest poets. No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, the most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon, Laura Tohe and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from Amharic, Akkadian and Ancient Greek to Yankunytjatjara, Yiddish and Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of unlikely love stories and impossible love, love in a time of politics, surrealist love, visual love and free love, offering an intuitive insight into both historical and present-day perceptions of love across cultures. Including over 50 poets, writing on each of the world’s continents, this new anthology of poems about love features a diverse range of original poems written in a variety of languages – modern, ancient, endangered and constructed -, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. Poets included in the book: Apollinaire; Nicole Brossard; Augusto de Campos; Catullus; Chaucer; Dante; Robert Desnos; Ali Cobby Eckermann; Goethe; Kim Hyesoon; Louise Labe; Federico Garcia Lorca; Vladimir Mayakovsky; Miklos Radnoti; Kutti Ravathi; Sappho; Warsan Shire; Laura Tohe; Marina Tsvetaeva. Languages included in the book: Akkadian; Amharic; Ancient Greek; Faroese; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Latvian; Maori; Persian; Polari; Portuguese; Russian; Sanskrit; Scots; Scottish Gaelic; Serbian; Spanish; Urdu; Welsh; Yoruba. Foreword by Laura Tohe, the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and Professor Emeritus with Distinction at Arizona State University, who has won awards including the 2020 Academy of American Poetry Fellowship, the 2019 American Indian Festival of Writers Award, and the Arizona Book Association’s Glyph Award for Best Poetry”–Publisher’s description.
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