The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "e;dung beetles & flies & sweat bees swarm / .
The poems of Barrier Island Suite are inspired by the life, art, and writings of Walter Inglis Anderson, who spent much of his adult life exploring the barrier islands of Mississippi, sketching and painting their flora and fauna, and chronicling his adventures in numerous logs.
The poems and teachings of a beloved Buddhist master, vividly presented so that readers feel they are listening to the precious and renowned teachings of His Holiness directlyand learning how to live with more joy and ease.
Muhyi l-Din Ibn `Arabi (1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention.
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize.
The poems in Morgan Lucas Schuldt's debut collection, Verge, speak at once both brokenly and reparably of the body, of its lusts and devotions, its violences and "e;satisflictions.
From the ancient to the contemporary, the personal to the literary, The Flying House is an investigation of the "e;relic"e; in the largest sense of the term.
Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "e;there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"e;--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry.
The bilingual e-book with audio edition of this book presents Tomas Transtromer's Swedish texts from Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 (Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2011) with Robin Fulton's English translations from the 2011 expanded edition of his New Collected Poems.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet.
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Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women's relationships with men.
Keith Hutson's debut collection, Baldwin's Catholic Geese, looks at the delight and heartbreak of being human through the lens of beloved music hall and variety stars like Hylda Baker and Frankie Howerd, as well as less celebrated, now long-forgotten acts of the past: The Bryn Pugh Sponge Dancers, Macauley's Leaping Infants, Willy Netta's Singing Jockeys, and many more.
Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic.
This careful selection of short poems, I Threw a Star in a Wine Glass, originally written in Arabic and translated into English can offer you a passport to live for other planets never imagined.
'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart' wrote Philip Larkin.
« 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 ».
Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification.
The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.
One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century.
Honored as one of "e;Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014"e;The New Yorker The Poem She Didnt Write is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who has spent, as all of us have now spent, infinite hours online.
From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great ReadFrustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people Ian Williams revisits the seemingly simple questions of grade school for inspiration: if Billy has five nickels and Jane has three dimes, how many Black men will be murdered by police?
This deeply moving collection of poetry embodies a philosopher lyrically explaining her heart, how each beat is completely different, and not every beat is filled with love.
