{"id":297566,"date":"2014-04-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/04\/14\/latest-review-elsewhere-by-eliot-weinberger-ed\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:39","slug":"latest-review-elsewhere-by-eliot-weinberger-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/04\/14\/latest-review-elsewhere-by-eliot-weinberger-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Elsewhere" by Eliot Weinberger (ed.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is by Grant Barber on Elsewhere<\/em>, an anthology of poetry edited by Eliot Weinberger, and out from Open Letter Books and co-published by the Poetry Foundation.<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of Eliot’s essays and commentary (such as 19 Ways<\/a>), a fan of poetry, or both, this is a slim volume that’s sure to please. Not only is it a quick breakdown of some of the best poets from around the world, but it also takes a different approach to understanding what it may feel like to be “other.” <\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Grant’s review:<\/p>\n

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What a wonderful, idiosyncratic book Weinberger has written. I say book, but the closest comparison I could make to other works being published right now are from Sylph Edition\u2019s “Cahiers Series“\u2014short pamphlet-like meditations by notable writers such as Anne Carson, Elfriede Jelinek, and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai among the architects, playwrights, painters, and philosophers. Weinberger certainly belongs in such company; anything he writes can be assumed to be interesting, different, intellectually engaging. The essay collections he writes\u2014and Elsewhere<\/em> can be considered to be an extended meditation\/essay\u2014puts him as well alongside Rebecca Solnit, Lawrence Weschler, Sven Birkets, and Ilan Stavans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Elsewhere<\/em> consists of poems, all in translation, by writers of the Modernist era (by Weinberger\u2019s use here roughly 1910s-1940s) illustrating a broad sensibility that Weinberger calls the sense of being \u201celsewhere\u201d. . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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