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Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics) ReviewI love this book and I wish there were more critics capable of what Michael Eskin has accomplished here. Eskin finds that affairs in life and with words bind these poets together, though on the surface they would seem to share little. Celan is read through his translations of Shakespeare's sonnets and in the light of an unfair persecution for plagiarism; a charge that seemed to cast shadows over the last two decades of his life. Grunbein is read as a love poet whose affair is that of L. Annaeus Seneca's banishment. This Grunbein chapter is the highlight of the book for me, as Eskin's reading of the poem "Julia Livilla" is nothing short of spellbinding. Brodsky is read through his relationship to Byron's poetry and with attention given to the circumstances of Brodsky's exile and tempestuous love affairs. The first chapter establishes the terms of emphasis in Eskin's undertaking, and in this section the language grows occasionally turgid as he navigates the waters of modern philosophy for assistance setting up what he means by affair, interlocution, fidelity and event. The final chapter brings the three writers even closer together through an evaluation of them as readers of Osip Mandelstam's essay on Dante.
With the attention to the lives and words of these three poets Eskin brings about a delicate, creative and intricate way of reading poetry and relating poets that informs beyond the level of intertextual relations, revisionary readings, and ideological poetics. I stand impressed, inspired and grateful for this mighty book.Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics) Overview

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