Carcanet Press - Edward Hopper

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‘I’m just trying to paint myself.’
Don’t poets express their own thoughts?
With all and sundry condemned to be a single thing,
he and I were fused in a living creature…

from ‘Self-Portrait, 1925-1930’

This is a dual language edition.

Each poem in Catalan writer Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper is based on a painting by the American artist. Creating a narrative that follows a subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age, the story is Hopper’s, yet it also belongs to Farrés. The ventriloquist slips, revealing his larger concerns: Farrés is using the paintings to tell a story of modernity.

Lawrence Venuti’s translations recreate the heterogeneous language of Farrés’s poetry in an American vernacular that samples Hopper's actual speech and writing. Farrés’s book becomes in English what it is for Catalan readers: remarkable in ambition, wit, and in its probing interpretations of the visual imagination.

Cover painting: Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Self Portrait, 1925-1930 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Cover design StephenRaw.com

Contents

Preface by Richard Howard
Acknowledgments

Introduction by Lawrence Venuti
Self Portrait, 1925–1930
Stairway, 1949
Small Town Station, 1918–1920
Railroad Train, 1908
House by the Railroad, 1925
Railroad Sunset, 1929
Compartment C, Car 293, 1938
Approaching a City, 1946
The City, 1927
Shakespeare at Dusk, 1935
East River, c. 1920–1923
Early Sunday Morning, 1930
Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928
The Circle Theatre, 1936
Night Windows, 1928
House at Dusk, 1935
August in the City, 1945
Hotel Room, 1931
Morning Sun, 1952
Summertime, 1943
Nighthawks, 1942
Summer in the City, 1949
Excursion into Philosophy, 1959
New York Movie, 1939
Girlie Show, 1941
Sunlight in a Cafeteria, 1958
Office at Night, 1940
New York Restaurant, c. 1922
New York Office, 1962
Summer Evening, 1947
Rooms for Tourists, 1945
Western Motel, 1957
Solitude, 1944
Four Lane Road, 1956
Route 6, Eastham, 1941
Gas, 1940
Hills, South Truro, 1930
Corn Hill (Truro, Cape Cod), 1930
Cape Cod Morning, 1950
Cape Cod Afternoon, 1936
Cape Cod Evening, 1939
Cape Cod Sunset, 1934
Briar Neck, 1912
Rocky Seashore, 1916–1919
The Lighthouse at Two Lights, 1929
Lighthouse Hill, 1927
Rooms by the Sea, 1951
Sun in an Empty Room, 1963
Sea Watchers, 1952
Two Comedians, 1965
Epilogue: Universalist Church, Gloucester, 1926
Notes

Ernest Farres

Catalan poet Ernest Farrés was born in Igualada in 1967 and lives in Barcelona. A journalist who works on the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia, he has written three volumes of poems: Clavar-ne una al mall i l'altra a l’enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998) and Edward Hopper (2006), which won the ... read more

Lawrence Venuti

�Lawrence Venuti is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. Recent translations include Antonia Pozzi's Breath: Poems and Letters (2002), the anthology Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion (2003), and Massimo Carlotto's crime novel The Goodbye Kiss (2006). He is the author of The ... read more

'The great American painter of solitude comes back to us brilliantly illuminated and transformed by the contemporary Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, who is cannilyâcunningly!âtranslated by Lawrence Venuti into a sparkling English vernacular. This is a book of unexpected splendors'
Edward Hirsch

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Edward Hopper Ernest Farres Translated by Lawrence Venuti 10% off Categories: 21st Century, Latin American, Spanish and Catalan, Translation Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (160 pages) (Pub. Jan 2010) 9781847770776 £12.95 £11.65 Description Excerpt Author Contents Reviews ‘I’m just trying to paint myself.’ Don’t poets express their own thoughts? With all and sundry condemned to be a single thing, he and I were fused in a living creature… from ‘Self-Portrait, 1925-1930’ This is a dual language edition. Each poem in Catalan writer Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper is based on a painting by the American artist. Creating a narrative that follows a subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age, the story is Hopper’s, yet it also belongs to Farrés. The ventriloquist slips, revealing his larger concerns: Farrés is using the paintings to tell a story of modernity. Lawrence Venuti’s translations recreate the heterogeneous language of Farrés’s poetry in an American vernacular that samples Hopper's actual speech and writing. Farrés’s book becomes in English what it is for Catalan readers: remarkable in ambition, wit, and in its probing interpretations of the visual imagination. Cover painting: Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Self Portrait, 1925-1930 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Cover design StephenRaw.com Contents Preface by Richard Howard Acknowledgments Introduction by Lawrence Venuti Self Portrait, 1925–1930 Stairway, 1949 Small Town Station, 1918–1920 Railroad Train, 1908 House by the Railroad, 1925 Railroad Sunset, 1929 Compartment C, Car 293, 1938 Approaching a City, 1946 The City, 1927 Shakespeare at Dusk, 1935 East River, c. 1920–1923 Early Sunday Morning, 1930 Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928 The Circle Theatre, 1936 Night Windows, 1928 House at Dusk, 1935 August in the City, 1945 Hotel Room, 1931 Morning Sun, 1952 Summertime, 1943 Nighthawks, 1942 Summer in the City, 1949 Excursion into Philosophy, 1959 New York Movie, 1939 Girlie Show, 1941 Sunlight in a Cafeteria, 1958 Office at Night, 1940 New York Restaurant, c. 1922 New York Office, 1962 Summer Evening, 1947 Rooms for Tourists, 1945 Western Motel, 1957 Solitude, 1944 Four Lane Road, 1956 Route 6, Eastham, 1941 Gas, 1940 Hills, South Truro, 1930 Corn Hill (Truro, Cape Cod), 1930 Cape Cod Morning, 1950 Cape Cod Afternoon, 1936 Cape Cod Evening, 1939 Cape Cod Sunset, 1934 Briar Neck, 1912 Rocky Seashore, 1916–1919 The Lighthouse at Two Lights, 1929 Lighthouse Hill, 1927 Rooms by the Sea, 1951 Sun in an Empty Room, 1963 Sea Watchers, 1952 Two Comedians, 1965 Epilogue: Universalist Church, Gloucester, 1926 Notes Ernest Farres Catalan poet Ernest Farrés was born in Igualada in 1967 and lives in Barcelona. A journalist who works on the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia, he has written three volumes of poems: Clavar-ne una al mall i l'altra a l’enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998) and Edward Hopper (2006), which won the ... read more Lawrence Venuti �Lawrence Venuti is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. Recent translations include Antonia Pozzi's Breath: Poems and Letters (2002), the anthology Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion (2003), and Massimo Carlotto's crime novel The Goodbye Kiss (2006). He is the author of The ... read more 'The great American painter of solitude comes back to us brilliantly illuminated and transformed by the contemporary Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, who is cannilyâcunningly!âtranslated by Lawrence Venuti into a sparkling English vernacular. This is a book of unexpected splendors' Edward Hirsch You might also be interested in: Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog We've Moved! read more Books of the Year read more One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more
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Edward Hopper

Ernest Farres

Translated by Lawrence Venuti