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These Are My Rivers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
These Are My Rivers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Author(s): Reet Sool
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: Since this is a conference of Points of Convergence, but I come from Tampere conference of Great Divides, I still feel slightly divided myself. There is a haunting title of a story by Carson McCullers, Everything That Rises Must Converge, that a translator friend of mine asked advice about how to render it in Estonian. She finally settled for Tõusuteel kohtuvad kõik, a happy find, actually,but I find it tempting, in our context, to distort this title into Everything That Divides Must Converge, and must apologize for such flippancy at once. For my topic is serious, as is this occasion, of course. The quotation in the title of my paper comes from a poem by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, usually characterized as hermetist, that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, usually termed either a Beat poet or San Francisco Renaissance poet, or just West Coast poet, chose for the title of his most recent major collection, These Are My Rivers. New and Selected Poems 1955–1993. [...]

  • Issue Year: VIII/2003
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 352-358
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English