The Spirit Made Me Do ItDifficult life lessons learned the hard way made simpler via God's wayWould have, could have, should have were all I could come up with after I finally got around to reading the Bible midway through my fifty-eighth year of life.
A collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important poets'Everyone should be reading her' OBSERVER'One of the most accomplished poets of her generation'GUARDIANThese poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis.
In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch.
A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem“The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, “Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.
Yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me JAMIE LOFTUSIn this powerful, candid collection, Olivia Gatwood explores the trials and triumphs of growing up as a woman.
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?
Eine einfühlsame und kritische Analyse des »Hiobzyklus« wirft ein neues Licht auf Karl WolfskehlAnhand ausgewählter Schriften aus verschiedenen Lebensphasen diskutiert Na Schädlich erstmalig Wolfskehls bewusst als ›Lebenswerk‹ angelegtes Dichtungsprojekt, das sie als Versuch der Etablierung eines ›deutschen Symbolismus‹ deutet.
First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones.
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.
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 twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time.
In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart-three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.
Between The Sexes What is the chance she smiles on this rivalry declared in the unspoken as chivalry, even one glance shot in the glass, while ahead he waits holding the door half-open, half-closed.
In the process of writing two short collections of light hearted material, (one published and one yet to be published), the author became acutely aware that he could not continue forward without addressing what he considered to be the most important issues of human existence.
A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike.
Eine Choreografie der Sprache:von stillen Kollisionen, wutentbrannten Flächenbränden und aufgedeckten EskapadenWo die Verhältnisse prekär werden, sortiert Barbara Hundegger die Sorgen um.
Édjokè (Affaire) est un recueil de poèmes en français et en anglais inspiré des pensées et situations multiples de la vie d'un penseur passionné de noblesse sentimentale, de causeries sentimentales, d'expression d'une Humanité hors pair peu rencontrée ici et là !
In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned,award-winning Argentine poetLaura Wittner explores the specificities of parental and familial love, life after marriage, and the re-ignition of the self in middle age.