I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid brings together six contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to family, fear, foreboding and felicity: Elective Mute is about autism and happiness; My Mother and Me on the Eve of the Chess Championships, about a mother who prefers lettuces to life; Fishtank (Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice), about a brother who is somebody else; Lambchop, about a creepy old man; The Boxer Klitschko, on finding refuge with swimming, dogs and a jovial uncle; and Helpless with Laughter, on what the parts of the body have to say about themselves.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of Americas most revered military veteran writersBruce Weiglbringsreaders face-to-face with our countrys legacy of violence, the suffering of combat PTSD, and what it means to be truly haunted.
Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world.
This unique collection of poetry reaches out to readers of all kinds, offering the compelling voice of a woman who grew up and lived in the United State as an Arab and an American.
The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poemsPoems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers.
The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States.
An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm"e;Mysticism"e; in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of 'irfan as an alternative Shi'i model of spirituality.
Discover How Whitmans Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Whitmans collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning.
Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come.
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old EnglishAn exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new.
Der wichtigste chinesische Lyriker in einer klugen Auswahl neu übersetztIn der faszinierenden Welt der chinesischen Poesie bildet Li Bo (auch als Li Bai oder Li Tai Bo bekannt) eine der wichtigsten Stimmen.
Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years.
Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing.
In Ashbery’s 1987 collection, ballads, folklore, and fairy tales mesh with the anxieties and idioms of modern lifeFor a book by one of the leading avant-garde poets of modern literature, John Ashbery’s April Galleons is suffused with voices from the past.
Ce recueil de textes aux multiples tonalités est d’inspiration toujours authentique et dépouillée de technique d’écriture quelconque, pour mieux laisser la Muse s’exprimer à travers ma plume.
Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings.
Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene OneginWhen Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov's witty and exhaustive commentary.
The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.
