Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "e;boom"e; of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St.
Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the relationships between the Quebecois and their British con
Softening concrete poetry with humour and tenderness, POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp.
In her latest collection, The Insomnia Poems, Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind the lavender-scented pillow.
Lindsay Bernal's What It Doesn't Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality.
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century.
Dans C’est un souffle, Sylvain Josserand évoque son enfance dans une région paradisiaque, mais avec des parents dont il ne comprend pas toujours les choix.
Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (which occurred on the night of April 15, 1912), Impact is an intimate and evocative poetry collection that depicts the tragedy in a series of poetic snapshots.
As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARDPoetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poets Chinese-Mauritian family tiesFire Cider Rainis about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together.
Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudons power and range.
While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.
Frieda Hughes's fable-like poems draw on her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, a lifelong engagement with nature and itinerant wildlife, and later experiences when living in Australia, London, and most recently, Wales.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: North Carolina Inhabiting myriad landscapes, including the marshes, rivers, and sounds of the North Carolina foothills, as well as gulfs, floodplains, and the overflowing banks of the Chattahoochee, Sally Stewart Mohney's Low Country, High Water consists of delicate, often minimal explorations of family, mortality, nature, and the world behind perception.
DAS LEBEN, SCHAFFEN UND WIRKEN VIER SCHREIBENDER GEISTLICHERMartin Kolozs vereint in diesem Buch die Biographien der schriftstellerisch tätigen und weit über die Landesgrenzen von Tirol hinaus bekannten Priesterdichter Reimmichl (Sebastian Rieger), Bruder Willram (Anton Müller), Propst Josef Weingartner und Bischof Reinhold Stecher.
A maioria dos poemas È profundamente pessoal, sobre infidelidade, sexualidade, parentalidade e ao lÍ-los podemos sentir o qu"o fundo a que Danai chegou atÈ desenterrar os seus prÛprios sentimentos, profundezas que imagino que muitos de nÛs n"o se atreveriam a explorar e depois ela executa o acto de escrever estes sentimentos em belos poemas.
This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.
Born in the Lake District and having spent much of his life there, Wordsworth-together with his compatriots Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge-would become known as the Lake Poets, with much of their work being inspired by the area's landscapes and people.
Nouer aux pieds l’iris des marais comme brides de sandale
Hiromi Tsukui nous a laissé comme merveilleux héritage une nouvelle traduction en français, minutieusement commentée et mise dans son contexte historique, d’une des œuvres du grand poète japonais du XVIIe siècle Bashõ (1644-1694) : Le sentier le plus reculé.
Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award"e;Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today.
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.
These poems blur personal and corporate relations, salute lobby art, and mind their mid-apocalypse manners in mosquito country, freewheeling across state lines, equally at home in the halls of head office, lounging poolside, and marooned on a rural route.