A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poetThom Gunn has been described as "e;one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century"e; (Times Literary Supplement).
This book begins by dissociating itself from two biases that have constrained much of the scholarship on the structure of Middle High German Arthurian romance: the traditional prejudice in favour of the great romances (Erec, Iwein, and Parzival) and the notion that structural analysis is merely the handmaiden of interpretation.
The Nine of Diamonds is a book in nine parts constructed to play the Butcher - the Duke of Cumberland - in a Gaelic interpretation of the ghost gamble.
"e;In these elegant and searing poems, Theodore Deppe gives voice to the full complexity of human character, creating a world that is charged and expansive.
Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman's new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father.
The Book of Jack was written because of a promise to God that if He let Jack live through all that happened; He would draw a map so that others as lost as Jack was might find their way to freedom and God.
Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States.
Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist.
1987 Beatrice Hawley Award Laurel Trivelpiece writes beautifully Her spectacular use of imagery leads us into deeply personal and yet transcendent places Rosalie Moore Laurel Trivelpiece is the real thing She breathes new life into language and blessed with a splendid ear that also seems to see and hear and touch and taste she sings of everything she s ever known or felt These are beautiful spirit soothing poems that say yes and yes and yes to life in melodious laughter and speech Al Young
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression.
Anger be now your song, immortal one,Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrionfor dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together, in a single book, the discordant elements of an evolving Ireland, as it discovers itself, through public and private destinies, in the 21st century.
Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy.
Ce volume contient huit articles de collègues, d’étudiants ou d’amis de Hachem Foda en hommage à son immense contribution à l’étude de la littérature arabe médiévale.
Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.
Matrika Press is delighted and proud to honor Wesley Burton's gift he brings to the world with his incredibly insightful poetry by publishing his first collection of poems.
"e;These are my songlines; they helped me to re-connect with the landscape, and with my own life,"e; says Sabra Loomis of the poems which appear in House Held Together by Winds.
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.
Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.
Ana Blandiana is one of Romanias foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her countrys strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize.
CONTRAPUNTAL by Christopher Kondrich | Free Verse Editions, Series Editor: Jon Thompson | "e;An understanding of the nature of consciousness reveals itself to be more elusive the longer one tries to approach it.
The Spines of Love collects work from Victor Teran's poetic oeuvre for the first time in a trilingual edition: in their original Isthmus Zapotec (an endangered indigenous Mexican language) and in David Shook's Spanish and English translations.