Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there.
Na ziekte, terug naar het leven en de liefdeAlice Nahon bracht verschillende jaren in een sanatorium door, in de veronderstelling dat ze tuberculose had en gauw zou sterven.
In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems that Swenson published in her lifetime—from her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1970) to her final work In Other Words (1987)—as well as a selection of previously uncollected work.
Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation''s Neglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award.
Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skeltons poems and argues that liturgical music, especially the plainsong, informs all of Skeltons meters.
Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954.
Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skeltons poems and argues that liturgical music, especially the plainsong, informs all of Skeltons meters.
Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954.
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.
In The Surface of the Lit World, Shane Seely draws on a wide range of sources-from personal memory to biblical narrative-to explore the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, the ways in which we make meaning of our lives.
A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet.
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice.
Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there.
Garrick Davis's Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world.
Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal.
