Poetry by individual poets

A White Tea Bowl is a selection of 100 haiku written by Mitsu Suzuki, the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and published in celebration of her 100th birthday.

A mesmerizing book, deeply original, one of the most profound reading experiences I ve had in years one feels most urgently her extraordinary force, her dignity, her savage hunger, her sweetness.

The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions - and on meanings attached to natural images - that are common to all of humanity.

The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions - and on meanings attached to natural images - that are common to all of humanity.

Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe s supreme poets.

Aristotle's Eudemus aims to present a dramatically new view of the content of Aristotle's lost Eudemus.

This monograph adapts terms and concepts from linguistics, structuralism and semiotics to develop a grammar for the ten extant, complete dramas from first-century Rome and five Humanist plays from Renaissance Italy.

In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time.

In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time.

Why does the Gospel of John tell its story of Jesus the way that it does?

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In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message.

Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty is a readable yet accurate translation by Paul R.

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives.

In The Four Elements, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape, the west of Ireland, to weave together a tapestry of beautifully evoked images of nature.

'Exceptionally brave and urgent.

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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026' Codex' SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEMLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2026'Profound, sheer originality.

A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world.

The first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures.

The works of Gjeke Marinaj, Albania's leading poet, have been praised, translated, published, and discussed in over twenty languages and countries.

Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature.

Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s

Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea.

Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion.

Irene Zimmerman's scripturally-based poetry has been read from pulpits, savored by individuals, and provided the topics for weekend retreats and discussion groups.

Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon.

Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas-Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contemporary rhythm of Israeli life.

The Road to the Spring is the first book publication of Mary Austin's (1868-1934) poems.

The pure verbal energy characterizing Hungarian poetry may be regarded as one of the most striking components of Hungarian culture.

Aislinge Meic Conglinne, an anonymous Middle Irish romance, recounts the efforts of the eponymous hero to exchange the hardscrabble life of a clerical scholar for the prestigious life of a poet.

In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as "e;the ecology of authorship"e;: a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation.

The works of Gjeke Marinaj, Albania's leading poet, have been praised, translated, published, and discussed in over twenty languages and countries.

Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion.

'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding.

For over fifty years, Hazo's poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own.

The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.

Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent.

How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty?

This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.

Paying homage to the hardboiled crime-noir writing of Raymond Chandler, Diann Blakely's second collection of poetry plays on the dark desires and lusty appetites that motivate and move us.

Hurricane Walk is Diann Blakely's first volume of poetry.

Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators.