Jï??RGEN LETH is one of Denmark's foremost modern poets and a leading international filmmaker. Poems and two sides of his extensive ouevre, intricately interwoven. Films like The Perfect Human, playfully revived by Leth and enfant terrible countryman Lars von Trier in the irresistible The Five Obstructions. Films like Leth's latest , Erotic Man, recently premiered to rave reviews and walk-outs at the Toronto Film Festival. Watch the poem. Read the film. Leth was doing intertextuality almost before they called it anything. Trivial Everyday Things is a collection of Leth's poems spanning some forty years, selected and translated with exquisite restraint by Martin Aitken. It is, astonishingly, the first book-length collection of Leth's poetry to appear in English.
Language
English
Pages
158
Format
Paperback
Release
October 28, 2011
ISBN 13
9781897388976
Trivial Everyday Things: Selected Poems (Literature in Translation Series)
Jï??RGEN LETH is one of Denmark's foremost modern poets and a leading international filmmaker. Poems and two sides of his extensive ouevre, intricately interwoven. Films like The Perfect Human, playfully revived by Leth and enfant terrible countryman Lars von Trier in the irresistible The Five Obstructions. Films like Leth's latest , Erotic Man, recently premiered to rave reviews and walk-outs at the Toronto Film Festival. Watch the poem. Read the film. Leth was doing intertextuality almost before they called it anything. Trivial Everyday Things is a collection of Leth's poems spanning some forty years, selected and translated with exquisite restraint by Martin Aitken. It is, astonishingly, the first book-length collection of Leth's poetry to appear in English.