What's O'Clock

by Amy Lowell

Poetry of Amy Lowell

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925

About the author

A leader of the imagists, American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell wrote several volumes, including Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914).

A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.

The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.

She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress Ada Dwyer Russell, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met Ezra Pound, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. Mercedes de Acosta romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other.

Lowell, an imposing figure, kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez. She smoked constantly and claimed that cigars lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Witter Bynner once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of John Keats.

People well record fetish of Lowell for Keats. Pound thought merely of a rich woman, who ably assisted financially the publication and afterwards made "exile" towards vorticism. Lowell early adhered to the "free verse" method.

Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51 years. In the following year of 1926, people awarded her the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for What's O'Clock . People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in The Green Bowl , The Red Lacquer Music Stand , and Patterns caused a resurgence of interest.

Reviews

[Mohammad Ali Shamekhi · Rating 2 out of 5]

مقدمه ی کوتاه ولی مفیدی داره در معرفی لاول و زندگیش. ایمی لاول از ایماژیست های پیرو ازرا پاوند و ... بوده و در اواخر قرن نوزدهم و اوایل قرن بیستم می زیسته

این مجموعه از هایکوها رو می شه دو بخش کرد: 1) 24 هایکو شماره گذاری شده است که نخستین بار با هم چاپ شده اند؛ و 2) چند هایکو و شعر دیگه. به روایت مقدمه لاول در آن 24 هایکو فرم 17 هجایی هایکو رو رعایت کرده اما محتواشون رو دیگه معطوف به طبیعت قرار نداده

با اشعارش حال نکردم اما شعرای جالبی هم بود اون وسطا. ترجمه رو هم همشو تطبیق دادم و به نظرم باید یه دستی رو ترجمش کشیده بشه؛ هر چند قابل خوندنه

نکته: اشعار این مجموعه رو می تونید اینجا ببینید. البته تو این صفحه چند شعر دیگه هم آمده

[Ensiye Samimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

بعضی جاها احساس میکردم متن خیلی بی معنی هستش
نمیدونم واقعا اینجوری بود! یا ترجمه مشکل داشت

[Storm · Rating 4 out of 5]

She of Sashay

Blends the poem under moon-silver, weds color to time,
Then walks on, walks on, content and flourishing
Seasons, 'step', along each flower's kind

Night, Green,
Day.

[Ann-Marie Messbauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I came across a poem by Amy Lowell in an anthology of verse. I enjoyed "Lilacs" so much that I looked up information about Lowell on line, then read a full-length biography. This has given me a deeper appreciation of her work, but even without that insight I would still say that "What's o'Clock" is an excellent compilation of poetry. It includes poems of many different subjects, and she branches out creatively, writing in various styles and forms. They are filled with gems of images, feeling, and meaning, and pursue the honest exploration of time, place, and ideas. In addition, there are some that tell stories. Although there were a few that perplexed me, I often would finish a poem and immediately reread it for pleasure.

[Pouya_s · Rating 3 out of 5]

ایمی لاول / امی لاول یکی از چهره های شعر ایماژیستی آمریکا و به نوعی یکی از پیشگامان شعر مدرن آمریکاست .
لاول سال ۱۹۱۳ با خواندن شعری در مجله شعر ( پوئتری) با ایماژیسم آشنا می شود ، همان سال به لندن می رود و با ازرا پوند آشنا می شود ، پوند شعر او را ( امی ژیسم) می خوانده .
این کتاب گزیده ای از هایکوهای مدرنی است که او تحت تاثیر پوند گفته ، ۲۴ شعری که برای اولین بار سال ۱۹۲۱ در مجله پوئتری چاپ شد.

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ترجمه بد نبود و میشه گقت خوب بود .
بعضی از شعرها در مورد زندگی شخصی و تجربیات روزمره بود که من رو یاد هایکوهای آمریکایی و نسل بیت مینداخت

بقیه شعرها هم از جهت توصیف طبیعت و... شبیه هایکوهای ژاپنی و شرقی بودند .
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