India's storytelling tradition has long used the parable — a short narrative carrying a lesson beneath its surface — to pass wisdom from teacher to student and generation to generation.
"e;Mira Rosenthal's The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere- and bring you back, changed.
Winner of the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Honoree Jeffers is an exciting and original new poet, and The Gospel of Barbecue is her aptly titled debut work.
Winner of the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize"e;These poems are full of surprises: the gods talk; ancient authors talk; the dictionary talks; very memorably, the bridge over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks two haunting poems.
"e;Mira Rosenthal's The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere- and bring you back, changed.
These poems lead us through a constellation of places: hotels, airports, cosmodromes, quarries, abandoned cities, vacated rooms—the dreamlike settings of past events that may or may not have occurred as we remember them.
The poetic translation of Gurbani covers hymns from Guru Granth Sahib, the first scripture in the world that brings humanity under one Divine umbrella.
Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry PrizeIn her wide-ranging debut collection, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone.
Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry PrizeThe poems of Nadine El-Enany's debut collection Pelican Daughter are imbued with tenderness and fuelled by a hunger for justice, connection and a more empathic world.
"e;This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart.
Letter from an Outcast gathers intimate, unflinching poems that speak from the margins — storms that sing, moon that remembers, painter who miscolour the world, and lovers who promise one last dance.
This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.
Anklets is all about love and lust, zest for life with a sense of excitement, anticipation and energy, chaos and meanderings of a young mind looking for the order within the disorder.
Winner of the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Honoree Jeffers is an exciting and original new poet, and The Gospel of Barbecue is her aptly titled debut work.
This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.
An American Odyssey - an exploration, in prose and poetry of the restless American soul, raw, rhythmic account of a life spent on the highways of the North American continent.
"e;This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart.
An International Poetry Anthology featuring 34 avant-garde voicesPublished by Sulfur Editions and (ANA ) Ahmed Bal Hamar Can poetry survive stripped of its classical armor?
"e;Rare in any age is work which incorporates a passion for experience, a commitment to truth, an ability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and music which can work through all these tangled thickets, but Eve Alexandra does just that.
Winner of the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize"e;These poems are full of surprises: the gods talk; ancient authors talk; the dictionary talks; very memorably, the bridge over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks two haunting poems.
"e;Rare in any age is work which incorporates a passion for experience, a commitment to truth, an ability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and music which can work through all these tangled thickets, but Eve Alexandra does just that.
"e;It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.
