Proensa by Anthology and translated by Paul Blackburn, George Economou

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Proensa by Anthology translated by Paul Blackburn, George Economou is published by New York Review Books. This is a Book originally written in Occitan. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681370309E12.

Proensa is an anthology translated by Paul Blackburn, George Economou from Occitan, gathering Occitan-language poetry through an anthology of Occitan troubadour inheritance, medieval lyric, and the old technologies of desire. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through troubadours, song, court, and the formal brightness of love spoken through inherited music. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Proensa belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Occitan poetry into the library as an anthology of origin, performance, and lyric tradition. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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