But never underestimate the powers of the pawn who can promote into a queen and put a kingdom on, or moving humbly up the board, killing on the side, outpriest the priest, and leave the knight without a horse to ride, and trip the elevated rook to bring it crashing down, and nudge the misanthropic queen into oblivion, and stop before great Caesar's throne, a tiny regicide, and watch a cornered monarch fall, and ponder how he died.
A captivating experiment in traditional poetic form, from one of the most untraditional American poets ever to set pen to paperAt first glance, John Ashbery’s Shadow Train seems to embrace the constraints of traditional poetic form—but closer reading reveals that this work is Ashbery at his revolutionary best.
A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body's bounds, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life.
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Après avoir exploré le non-sens « absolu » des Fatrasies, Martijn Rus nous transporte cette fois au coeur du non-sens « relatif », dans le nord-ouest de la France du XIIIe siècle.
Voici la saga de Ramsès II, de Charlemagne, de Cléopâtre, d'Alexandre le Grand, de Napoléon et des autres personnages de l'histoire, incluant ceux qui ont fait vibrer le Québec d'hier et d'aujourd'hui !
Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwe,s collection of poems in isiZulu, Izinhlungu Zomphefumulo, with accompanying English translations, is aimed at exposing pain, confusion and the different types of abuse that we face everyday of our lives and that suffering and pain must be followed by solutions.
Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
The poems in The Name for the God Who Speaks reference Caribbean deities, the power of weather and landscape and ancient myths to illuminate an annus horribilis of cancer and loss.
Deux siècles après Ahmad Ghazâli (1060-1126), qui avait lié la tradition mystique à la littérature iranienne dans les Sawâneh, Fakr al-Din Irâqi (1213-1289), poète persan du XIIIe siècle, mêle habilement, avec ces Éclairs divins, mystique spéculative et poésie, concepts et métaphores, mais aussi le soufisme arabe d’Ibn Arabi et celui de la région du nord-est de l’Iran, le Khorassan.
Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: West Virginia In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out.
WOW Moments: Amazing Moments of Reflection with God is a combination of poems, inspirational writings, biblical devotions and photographs that Nicole has chosen to share with others.
Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon.
The lyrical pessimism of Nsah Mala's poetry presents a world characterized by violence, inhumanity and destruction, a world that is sadly too familiar.
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan.
In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life.
In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called G , into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age.
In her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"e;What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language.
In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a postconfessional candor to embody the "e;open field"e; tradition of such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan.
Historically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human power over nature, imposes specific cultural values, and/or claims or exercises control.
The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.
