Paul Blackburn Livres

"The poetry of the Provençal troubadours has had a profound influence on the development of the lyric, from Dante and Petrarch to Ezra Pound and the Black Mountain poets, despite the difficulty of Old Provençal, or Occitan, the original language of the troubadours. The renewed interest of the English-speaking world in troubadour poetry was initiated in the early twentieth century by Pound's criticism and translations of the troubadours. Yet no poet writing in English has done more for this body of work than the American poet and translator Paul Blackburn, who devoted more than twenty years to the study and translation of occitan ancien. Proensa is the result of that long commitment, an anthology of thirty troubadour poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. It is a dexterous and spirited work of translation, which, as George Economou writes in his introduction, "will take its place among Gavin Douglas' Aeneid, Golding's Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley's Japanese, and Pound's Chinese, Italian, and Old English.""--

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Southern Arizona, 1845: Arriving as a stranger in the town of Tumbleweed, Ben Masterson is almost immediately caught up in a violent robbery which ends in multiple-murder. Despite the heroic rescue of a young woman, Ben finds himself framed for crimes he did not commit. After surviving a near-lynching, he is jailed in Yuma Territorial Prison, where he undergoes terrible suffering. He decides that if he ever regains his freedom, he will become a ranger and go looking for the real criminals. Meanwhile, the woman whose life Ben saved works to get him out of prison... Reminiscent of the stark simplicity of the original Wild West tales, No Other Heart provides a vivid and thrilling story of love and revenge.