There is a divine restlessness in the human heart today, an eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are.
Paul Durcan's twenty-second collection finds Monsieur le Po te on the road in Paris, New York City, Chicago, Brisbane, and Achill Island, meditating upon the sanctuary of home and what it means to feel truly at home.
Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currins new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory.
Gerhard Ringshausen legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Darstellung der regimekritischen Werke christlicher Dichter vor und dokumentiert darin ihre breite und vielfältige Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS-Regime, seiner Weltanschauung und Machtausübung.
"e;Defiant and uncategorizable, Lo Kwa Mei-en's Yearling, with its teeming species, battles, and passions, read like an illuminated manuscript: mysterious, visceral, awe-full.
The secret Rumi found in beholding the Divine in his sacred relationship with Shams-i-Tabriz *; Shows how, in 1244, Sufi poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi was first brought to a state of ecstatic union with the cosmos and all its creatures *; Reveals the radical spiritual practice Rumi formulated in his private retreat with the mendicant seeker Shams-i-Tabriz *; Uses the poetry and prose of Rumi to explain how to come face-to-face with the Divine One of the most extraordinary events in the history of Sufism occurred in 1244 when the Sufi poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi met a wandering seeker named Shams-i-Tabriz.
This volume from the two-time National Book Award-finalist offers “splashes of beauty, yes–but also a fountain of shameless knowing and inspired telling” (Cynthia Ozick).
Korea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermoves, yet it still remains relatively unknown outside of Korea itself.
Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese,s debut collection of poetry Loud and Yellow Laughter, published by Botsotso, was awarded the 2018 Ingrid Jonker prize for poetry.
The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 SectionsNo one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does.
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.
Human life and the passage and rhythms of time and the seasons come together in The Zebra Stood in the Night, the seventh collection by one of Ireland's leading poets.
With seriocomic tone, these elliptical lyrics reveal illusions and exclusions at the heart of America's global narrative of economic ';progress,' and the attendant loss of cultural identity and memory.
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today.
Debut talent Raoul Fernandess first offering is Transmitter and Receiver, a masterful and carefully depicted exploration of ones relationships with oneself, friends, memories, strangers and technology.
Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the kitchen range - all before farming became the highly technical, big-time operation it is now.
"e;These are my songlines; they helped me to re-connect with the landscape, and with my own life,"e; says Sabra Loomis of the poems which appear in House Held Together by Winds.
Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.
In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us.
