In the Night Orchard is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South.
This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet's stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet's ancient structureThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous sonnets.
Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world's most innovative and exciting poetry magazines.
Rich in river imagery and an intense sense of the passage of time, The Wash explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with a destination unknown.
The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician's knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view.
Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionFirst released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers' Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D.
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry.
Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the spaceodd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.
Table of contents:AlbumArtist SonAugust ThunderAustrian Christmas MailBackBackward-walking WomanBlack DogBlue WillowChurch Packed With WasherwomenCountryside Near Pembroke, MassachusettsDublin StreetsExileFull February MoonGazeGray ParisHalf-sunHand-carried WaterThe Happy WorldHealthIsland SummerLandfallMeditative AfternoonMilk Woman Into SteelNoel MinimalNunOn EdgeOxford Street MuseumPeachtree PrayerA Question Of ScaleRainbow At Two O'clockSmall SongThe SportSprechstimmeTurf-stackingUlster TelevisionUses Of The AtlasVintage ClothesWind FlowersYellow Day Like A Still Life
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.
"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.
Clare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are - and especially how we feel - as psychology.
A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he grows from his troubled childhood into an adult travesty of the ostensibly straight family man in a male-dominated world.
i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin'd self / what was stitched into heaven's dropThe poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.
In this "e;spare, evocative"e; collection of poems from the prize-winning author of Testify, "e;both hope and despair are evident amid [the] music"e; (Publishers Weekly).
"e;The general end, therefore, of all [The Faerie Queene], is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read.
For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose.
In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason.
"e;I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one"e;So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home.
