From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musicIn this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music.
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day Is Done, respectively), every inspiring word of Maya Angelou's poetry is included in the pages of this volume.
In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, ';maps you home'home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird's native South.
Ein Sammelband zu Celans einzigem Israel-Besuch 1969 mit Beiträgen zu der Frage, wie diese »Wende« und »Zäsur« für sein Leben und Werk zu verstehen sind.
An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.
Leaves of Grass' is the well-known poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitmanm, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with a passion for poetry.
Ce court traité de technique poétique persane a pour unique et modeste ambition de donner aux novices en matière de poésie les principes fondamentaux de cette discipline, afin que ceux qui ignorent totalement comment s’écrit ou se lit un poème persan, ou qui en ont seulement quelques bases, puissent comprendre rapidement et clairement la plupart des mécanismes de l’écriture poétique de cette langue indo-européenne si riche.
"e;Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NBCC AWARD IN POETRYA taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.
The fourth collection from award-winning poet Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn is a journey through a troubled relationship and a troubled city, charting the territory of love and addiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
The first edition of the letters of Denis Devlin, Irish poet, translator and diplomat, this volume brings together a personal and professional correspondence that has until now been scattered across archives in Europe and North America.
Barry MacSweeney's last book, "e;The Book of Demons"e;, recorded his fierce fightagainst alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life -- though only for three more years.
Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the major themes of the Beat and hippie countercultures from the fifties to the present.
Life-affirming and lyrical writings for inspiration and meditation, from saints and sages of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions.
they come flying out from under your expectations / and once opened it is rain / and thinking a sandbar / always inventing a different script / never where you left itThis dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time - memory, forgetting, oblivion, fortune telling, eternal (or not) returns, timelessness (however that may manifest), beginnings and endings (if indeed there are such things), and other spectral speculations where the intimate and the outward might exchange places.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Arkansas In Heaven's Burning Porch, James Dunlap reckons with the legacy left to him: one of pain, gratitude, violence, and salvation.
To understand the force Shelley has exerted in our literary and political culture, we must first dispel the image of him, promoted by the ruling class of nineteenth-century Britain, as the author of fragile and ineffectual lyrics.
Collected here for the first time are a number of important essays that Birnbaum has written over the last twenty years, ranging from such compelling topics as sociology to post-Marxism to education.
