This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures.
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 / .
From a poet whose ';poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it' (Boston Review), an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions.
Masuren - der im nördlichen Polen gelegene Landstrich stellt mit seinen sich überlappenden nationalen Identitäten ein Paradebeispiel einer multikulturellen und multikonfessionellen historischen Kulturlandschaft dar, die sich in besonders eindrucksvoller Weise in der Literatur widerspiegelt.
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.
The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades.
Child in the Road is a mother's response to the sudden death of her young daughter, a rendering of the wide range of emotions experienced afterwards--not description, but an expression of grief from its center.
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continuesguest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.
Focused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.
Farewell and a Handkerchief-Poems from the Road is a collection that reflects on the month-long travels of Czech poet Vitezslav Nezval through Vienna, Paris, southern France, and Italy.
*A Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times Book of the Year 2024*An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes Paper Boat assembles Atwood s most vital poems in one essential volume.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age.
These lyrical poems about growing up and becoming a parent in Detroit reflect deeply felt connections to places and experiences that inevitably fall victim to irrevocable change.
Bronwen Wallace was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant figure in the growth of the feminist movement.
Published seven years after her debut collection A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses, Pictures of the Floating World (1919), is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Amy Lowell.
For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest airIn New Songs for OrpheusJohn Reibetanz updates Ovid's poetry.
