The poems in Jennifer Atkinson's Canticle of the Night Path, collected in alphabetical order from "e;Canticle of A"e; to "e;Canticle of Zed,"e; are little songs of five-five lines, five sentences, five couplets, or five paragraphs-canticles to, for, with, and of all sorts of things.
The poems in Jennifer Atkinson's Canticle of the Night Path, collected in alphabetical order from "e;Canticle of A"e; to "e;Canticle of Zed,"e; are little songs of five-five lines, five sentences, five couplets, or five paragraphs-canticles to, for, with, and of all sorts of things.
THE PRISON POEMS is the first complete translation into English of Miguel Hernandez's Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, a classic of 20th century Spanish poetry, comparable in many respects to the work of Lorca and Pablo Neruda.
BLOOD ORBITS is a series of poems and prose poems exploring various conceptualizations of history both as a generative principle of meaning and as particular contexts and events through which we shape our subjectivities.
Avocations collects the best of Sam Hamill's prose on poetry over the last 18 years, presenting insightful readings of Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Odysseas Elytis, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, John Logan and many others together with critical commentary on poetry in translation and the practice of poetry in general.
A thorough examination of the author's deeply personal and often-controversial poetryUnderstanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women.
In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality.
Discover How Tagore's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own "e;Rabindranath Tagore's philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality.
While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing' from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self exploration and the temporal effects of his work as artifacts.
Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry.
Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture.
A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.
By unraveling the clues in the first three books of the Inheritance cycle, What Will Happen in Eragon IV presents daring and insightful predictions about the thrilling conclusion to the Eragon saga.
A peoples history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature.
Praise for Sun Yung Shin:Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award"e;[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.
The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles.
Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment-charged, variegated, intensely focused-as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture.
Adopting artist-poet Joe Brainard as its principal focus, this project presents "e;Pop poetics"e; not as a minor, coterie movement meriting a sympathetic footnote in accounts of the postwar era's literary history, but as a missing link that confounds and potentially unites any number of supposedly rigid critical distinctions (authenticity versus formalism, the "e;personal"e; versus the mechanical).
A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Gluck, and Barbara Guest, and important younger writers Truong Tran, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Robinson.
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling "e;our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.
William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of "e;The Wanderer"e; in 1914-his move to vers libre-and didn't stop talking about form until his death in 1963.
The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as and the elements that currently aid in the recognizance of the presence of the poetic in the work of historians.
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'.
Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.
"e;Coleridge's Conversation Poems - The Complete Collection"e; features all eight of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems dubbed 'conversation poems' by George McLean Harper.
First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for.
