An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism.
Spanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy's Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of America's most audacious and thrilling poets.
Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to Western readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades.
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections.
King Baby is a cycle of lyric poems both inspired by and addressed to a found object made animatethen made into a confessorby the poets fascination, and by a love that alternates between the familial, obsessive, and devotional.
Composing a Community is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people developing those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community.
Hendrik Rost gelingt hier fast alles, er beschwört die große Geschichte und die kleinsten Dinge des Alltags, und er zeigt, wie beides ineinander verwoben ist.
From its opening page -- a refugee's first sight of England -- "e;Changes of Address"e; presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'.
Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow.
Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard's debut collection of poems, MissSettl.
"e;Iglesias experiments with form while showcasing the philosophical and metaphorical possibilities of poetry in this winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Paz Prize for Poetry.
First published in 1917, "e;The Broken Wing - Songs of Love, Death & Destiny - 1915-1916"e; is collection of beautiful poetry by Indian poet and activist Sarojini Naidu.
Translated for the first time from the original Persian into English, these selected treatises from Aziz O-Din Nasafi's thirteenth-century work The Perfect Being provide a fascinating and rare, yet applicable, introduction to Sufism.
Eine Wiederentdeckung: Leben und Werk des vergessenen Dichters Michael Beer, den seine Trauerspiele berühmt machten und der zeitlebens gegen den »Risches«, den Antisemitismus, zu kämpfen hatteDer früh verstorbene und nach seinem Tod bald vergessene Dichter Michael Beer gehörte mit seinen Trauerspielen »Der Paria« und »Struensee« zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Dramatikern seiner Zeit.
In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.
For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985).
All of Nichols work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning.