{"product_id":"the-unstill-ones-by-miller-oberman-9780691176833","title":"The Unstill Ones","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, \u003cem\u003eThe Unstill Ones\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman's startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaped by Oberman's scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. \"Wulf and Eadwacer,\" a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as \"On Trans\" draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichly combining scholarly rigour, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, \u003cem\u003eThe Unstill Ones\u003c\/em\u003e marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600565616876,"sku":"9780691176833","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b03d47f728ba29b67242bf2cfdb57d06.jpg?v=1778020086","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-unstill-ones-by-miller-oberman-9780691176833","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}