In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume.
Contained herein is a vast collection of Whitman's writing, including vignettes from his childhood, a series of powerful accounts of his work in hospitals during the Civil war, and a large amount of nature writing.
Dieser Band bettet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks biblisches Heldengedicht Der Messias (1748–1773) in den Kontext der zeitgenössischen Diskussion um die sich erneuernde deutsche Literatur ein, in der das Epos als höchste literarische Gattung galt.
WILD MEDICINE FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES This Witchs devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once.
The poems, stories and essays of Mphutlane wa Bofelo operate within a framework of thinking that is an amalgam of philosophies: that of black consciousness, humanistic Islam and socialism.
Experimental poet and translator Mnica de la Torres new collection is a document of both the events of 2020 and the process of a poet rethinking artistic practice as she tracks subtle shifts in her experience during multiple global crises.
Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements.
Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage's intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives.
An Ode To The PeopleA crushing defeat to humanityA hidden victory to insanityWhere patriots are sure to dieWhere tyrants believe they can flyThe full truth remains unseenBy those whose thoughts are uncleanThe lead us as lambs to the slaughterHaving forgot the word of our fatherAll life they willingly barterThey maul falling dollarDeceive yourself no more with their liesFor we all must stand now with one cryOr our land will surely dieThe time for justice is at handNo longer can we withstandThe shackles placed on us by manWhile they rob you and meWhat we have by our own decreeOur liberty and right to be free I tell you now of this theftBefore it leads us all to our deathsSo please do not be mistakenThe time is now to awakenThe future is ours for the takingUnited together we are unequaled Let us decided as a peopleFor we all are unique yet equalI Speak In A TongueI speak in a tongueUnfamiliar to someMy words have no meaningAmongst those who are dreamingMy words hold no angerOnly to a strangerMy words hold nourishmentAll those in punishmentMy words come cleanThose of you who have seenThey are right before your eyeDo not sit and let them go byeLiberty IsFreedom of libertyA curse for purityUnbridled free willSurely will killWhere is the fenceThat rein's arroganceOver ran by zealousnessEvil and greedHere is a lassoLet justice flyHere is a fenceIts righteousness, I cryThe Roaring Of A LuneAgain tonight he is on the prowlThis rather peculiar yet handsome night owlOnce something has become afoulOn his face appears his scowlIlluminating the night of our skyEvery night it seems he drives byA new day for him is to implyHis way of saying goodbye Those Who Seek to KnowFor those who seek to knowAs one goes about ones dayThru poems he seeks to showOur thoughts manifest the wayConsidering starting at high noonThe words one chooses to relayAppearing to thee ever so soonThe words one has chosen to preyAs we all move thru each hourThe spirit will choose to employAs we all move thru each powerThe spirit will choose to deployNow And ForeverNow you began to understandOne of the masters plansWilling stand forthAt once today henceforthNever blindingly yet everlastinglyDoing so eternally From now until evermoreOh, Lord Creator alwaysRemember praiseEternity your will partakeVainly work to remake Evermore will be your fateReaping what have you been of late?
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style-its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people.
Marsh Boy and other Poems is a welcome contribution to the tradition of poetry devoted to the revolutionary struggles of the people of the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "e;the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language"e; (Gabriel Garcia Marquez).
In this collection, eight distinguished critics of literature assess the nature and range of Dante's influence on the major British and American modernist writers.
This book-length poem one of Russia's most important and outspoken contemporary poets,written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment.
Widely celebrated as the author of the worldwide bestselling novels A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet with a substantial body of work.
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding.
