{"product_id":"the-lamplighter-translations-from-the-maltese-by-anton-buttigieg","title":"'The Lamplighter: Translations from the Maltese' by Anton Buttigieg","description":"\u003ch4\u003eAnton Buttigieg’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lamplighter\u003c\/em\u003e gathers poems translated from Maltese into English, presenting a body of work that does the work of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebringing a small island culture into a larger literary world.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButtigieg — poet, politician and later President of Malta — writes with an accessible, often deceptively simple register: fountains, sanctuaries, flowers, birds, village streets, grief, love and faith recur as ordinary objects carrying more historical and emotional freight than they first appear to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something especially interesting here in the movement between Maltese particularity and the universalising ambition of translation. The poems are not formally radical, but they are culturally dense: Catholic symbolism, Mediterranean landscape, local architecture and postcolonial identity sit beneath apparently straightforward lyric scenes. The book is a document of Maltese literary culture entering English circulation through UNESCO’s programme of representative works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA strong pick for readers interested in translated poetry, Mediterranean literature, small-language traditions and the politics of literary transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAquila Publishing Co. Ltd., Isle of Skye, Scotland, 1977. Paperback. English translations from the Maltese; published as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, European Series. Light age-toning and minor shelf wear; clean internally and binding sound. Very good used condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45954846392403,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_26.png?v=1786587819","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-lamplighter-translations-from-the-maltese-by-anton-buttigieg","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}