Professor Martin Bidney, PH.D.
"God the All-Imaginer" is the thirteenth book of poetry by Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton. He has also published "Blake and Goethe" and "Patterns of Epiphany." The present book is Volume VI in his series "East-West Bridge-Builders," which includes two books of dialogues with passages from the Qur'an, one with Goethe's "West-East Divan" (which includes Goethe's essays on the cultural history of Arabian and Persian poetry made available in English for the first time ever), a...See more
"God the All-Imaginer" is the thirteenth book of poetry by Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton. He has also published "Blake and Goethe" and "Patterns of Epiphany." The present book is Volume VI in his series "East-West Bridge-Builders," which includes two books of dialogues with passages from the Qur'an, one with Goethe's "West-East Divan" (which includes Goethe's essays on the cultural history of Arabian and Persian poetry made available in English for the first time ever), a dialogue-book with Friedrich Rueckert's "Wisdom of the Brahman" Books 1-4, and a con-verse-ation with medieval pub poet Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz called "Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance." Bidney creates form-faithful translations which, like his own lyrical comments or "replies," are in highly crafted, artisanal verse. He translates from Polish, Russian, and German; three of his translation-and-dialogue books have been published by SUNY Press. His dialogic book with Poland's greatest poet Adam Mickiewicz's "Crimean Sonnets" was issued by Bernstein Verlag Bonn, and his trilingual "Like a Fine Rug of Erivan: West-East Poems" of Russia's greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is available from Mommsen Foundation / Global Scholarly Publishing. Keep watching on his amazon author page! See less
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