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The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From the French of Arthur Rimbaud
The Drunken Boat & Other Poems From the French of Arthur Rimbaud is presented in its 50th Anniversary Edition with the French of Rimbaud printed opposite the critically acclaimed versions of his 30 best poems and excerpts from his letters by popular American poet Eric Greinke. A classic of the Poetic Translation movement, these versions utilize intuitive poetic choices and contemporary colloquial language to restore the original essence, attitude and musicality of the poems, emphasizing the literate core instead of the doggedly literal aspects. Greinke studied with the progenitors (Robert Bly and Jerome Rothenberg) of the movement in the early seventies. Bly was particularly fond of these translations and he and Greinke corresponded about them for over three decades until his final illness. The book contains a lengthy introduction focused on the reality of Rimbaud’s life and the methods used to translate him. Also included is A Note on Poetic Translation, featuring excerpts from published comments by poet-critics Art Beck, Kirby Congdon and Harry Smith. The book is dedicated to Bly and Rothenberg and contains photos of Greinke and Rimbaud. The cover art depicts an inebriated ship. 108 pages, hardbound.
Anthropoetics – Poetry & Human Progress
Critically acclaimed poet Eric Greinke presents his visionary theory of Anthropoetics – an approach to poetry that is oriented to our entire species. The book is a hybrid of prose lavishly illustrated by poems that predicts and promotes a worldwide paradigmic shift in both aesthetics and human cooperation. Includes a fifty page “little anthology” of “We” poems by thirty contemporary poets in the center of the book, abridged from Greinke’s 2024 anthology Speaking For Everyone. Topics range widely from Whitmans vision of the future to ethnopoetics, creativity, archetypes, symbolism, surrealism, inspiration, imagination, intuition, imagery, collaboration and divergent thinking. Greinke draws on his experience as a psychotherapist, poet and literary editor to delve into attitudinal and psychological aspects of poetry and how they relate to both human and personal progress. He describes how globalization and the internet have made Anthropoetics inevitable as part of a progressive worldwide shift to an anthropocentric orientation with an artistic focus on universality. The book concludes with The Universal Poet – tracing a line of anthropoetically oriented poets from Walt Whitman through Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Maya Angelou and on to young poets like Amanda Gorman. The implication of Anthropoetics – Poetry & Human Progress goes far beyond poetry and the Arts, into human nature and survival itself. Every page is thought-provoking and inspiring, for both poets and general readers alike. Greinke uses poetry as a metaphor for human nature in this profound, transformative “instant classic.” A highly compressed little book packed with literary/social criticism and a prophetic vision of the future. 151 pages, softbound.