2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYThe poems inThe Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Voidread like dispatches from the dream world, withJackieWang acting as our trusted comrade reportingacross time and space.
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.
The Palace of Bones by Allison Eir Jenks is an often stark and startling vision of the way we live, the places we inhabit, and the relics we make to comfort ourselves.
The Complete Verse of No l Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time.
Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O Leary; 1774 1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song.
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris.
Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain's most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives through her poised, ironic poems.
In Randall Watson'sThe Geometry of Wishes, as much a subtle narrative sequence as it is a collection of lyrical meditations, an ecstatic generosity arises from an elegiac base, moving through our inescapable patterns of loss to emerge as an invocation of our mutuality, our tenderness.
Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.
Wanjohi wa Makokha,s Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa Namwalie,s Cut off my Tongue (Storymoja: 2009), devoted in principal to the moment of the 2007-2008 Kenyan Crisis.
A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe.
Karl Otto Conrady zeichnet in seiner Biographie alle wichtigen Stationen des Goetheschen Lebens auf dem Hintergrund der von Kriegen und der Französischen Revolution bestimmten Epoche nach.
In this first serious study of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618907).
This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity.
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 / .
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat.
Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters.
This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "e;traditional"e; verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art.
During the research for her biography of Francis Thompson, Between Heaven and Charing Cross it became clear to Brigid Boardman that a new edition of his poetry was essential for a full recognition of the range and variety of his work.
The first comprehensive poetry collection by award-winning Kentucky writer and poet Mary Ann Taylor-HallSelected and arranged by the author, the poems in Out of Nowhere unfold as a luminous narrative of the poet's life, moving through seasons of experience-from the first stirrings of childhood consciousness to present-day meditations on loss and grief-with candor, clarity, and startling tenderness.
American Football: Die Carolina Panthers erzählt die Geschichte des Teams aus Charlotte von der Gründung 1995 bis in die Gegenwart – inklusive aller Höhen und Tiefen.
This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular.
A bilingual edition of one of the most important German poets of the twentieth centuryThis is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets.
Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) Alone and Not Alone offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.
This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "e;snappy, entertaining book.
