 [ Large Image ] | Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book Christopher Patton 2018 / Poetry/Medieval, Literary Criticism / $29.95 9781554471751 / Trade paper / 208 pp Unlikeness Is Us offers fourteen new translations of Old English poems from the tenth-century Exeter Book. Some are well known, like “The Seafarer” and “The Ruin.” One, “Maxims I,” has rarely appeared whole, and what few published translations exist ignore small, crucial elements in the source, obscuring the deft shape of its thought-in-action. Christopher Patton’s translations, which draw the alliterative Anglo-Saxon verse into a richly patterned four-beat line, emphasize the concrete, tangible being of the poems as they are bedded on the manuscript page—scribal errors, fire damage, irreducible ambiguities—over the otherworldly values they sometimes espouse. With a critical introduction, commentaries, and extensive notes, this edition is equipped to serve students, scholars, and poetry readers alike. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Slipsheets: An incidental printing of Gerald Manley Hopkin’s “Pied Beauty” Andrew Steeves, Christopher Patton 2023 / Poetry/Typography / $19.95 CAN 9781554472482 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Dumuzi Christopher Patton 2020 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN 9781554472116 / Trade paper / 96 pp |  | Curious Masonry Christopher Patton 2011 / Poetry / $15.95 CAN 9781554470938 / Trade paper / 48 pp |
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