The farmer s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only through annual Burns Suppers and choruses of his Auld Lang Syne at New Year could imagine.
This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments.
The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection ardently expose unnamed spaces of agency, proclaiming power and beauty through an unaccustomed yearning.
Le recueil de poèmes écrits par Michèle Rosenfeld est une véritable ode à l'amour, l'amour passion, l'amour charnel, teintée parfois d'un brin de nostalgie… On retrouve sous la plume de Michèle son sens profond de la liberté, ses rêves, ses tristesses aussi, quelques tranches de sa vie… Elle ose et assume.
Alles über Ruth – und seitdem, das sind Gedichte über eine kreuz und queer ineinander verliebte Jugendclique um Madeleine, die Queenie, Tom & Enno und die Caven, voll Sommer, Sonne und Sex.
Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "e;Berkeley Renaissance"e; of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene.
The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiels new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America.
Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.
« Paupières grand ouvertes l’iris fouetté le blanc fou les veines rafraîchies les sangs chauds comme en août les ponts la mer le vent la houle les nuages qui courent le soleil qui roule poissons en bancs en solitaire en troupeaux tu te couvres d’écailles blanches tu tombes du bateau nous quittons le ponton chute chute chut l’ile ça y est allons pêcher ».
'With a meticulously researched, absorbing verse narrative, Colleen Keating brings Olive Muriel Pink's significant, neglected history to life with distinctive, beautiful imagery.
The seventeenth book of verse from one of America’s finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight yearsNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY'Effortlessly readable and a word critics don t often use about her fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: North Carolina Inhabiting myriad landscapes, including the marshes, rivers, and sounds of the North Carolina foothills, as well as gulfs, floodplains, and the overflowing banks of the Chattahoochee, Sally Stewart Mohney's Low Country, High Water consists of delicate, often minimal explorations of family, mortality, nature, and the world behind perception.
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM), practically synonymous with time-dependent statistical mechanics (TDSM), is a beautiful and profound subject, vast in scope, diverse in applications, and indispensable in understanding the changing natural phenomena we encounter in the physical, chemical and biological world.
The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called “Britain’s first man of letters.
Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity.
Shared by word of mouth, e-mailed from reader to reader, recited over the radio, and read aloud at thousands of retreats and conferences, "e;The Invitation"e; has changed the lives of people everywhere.
Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing.
One of Ashbery’s most acclaimed and beloved collections since Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, filled with his signature wit and generous intelligenceThe poems in John Ashbery’s award-winning 1984 collection A Wave address the impermanence of language, the nature of mortality, and the fluidity of consciousness—matters of life and death that in other hands might run the risk of sentimentality.
In a world as terrifying as Plath's and as mistake-ridden as Curly Howard's, a world trapped in its Gothic, Southern O'Connor-esque box, Gay picks through the wreckage of the years with gritty idiomatic narrative, and sardonic lyric.
