The engaging autobiographical account of a poet-in-residence at a psychiatric hospital who helps a silent young man regain his speaking voice through writing poetry.
Plato's Symposium depicts a group of men giving a series of speeches about the nature of love, with themes ranging from religion and metaphysics to medicine and pregnancy.
Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world.
Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry.
Reading Glenn Forbes Miller's poetry shows him to be as versatile a poet as he is a writer of prose, as demonstrated by his two travel books, Dreaming Kathmandu and Dancing at Ghunsa.
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.
Diane Rayor''s graceful translations and André Lardinois''s thorough introduction and notes present the best combination of intelligibility, information, and poetry.
The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades, The Collected Poems opens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety -- Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, and The Use of Fire -- and adds a new volume, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, eighty-five more recent poems that offer striking departures as they continue to embody Price's close attention to the exterior and the interior worlds of a lengthening and unexpectedly complex life.
This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.
Moving from the absurdity of the First World War to the chaos of today's cities, where men share beds, bottles of ouzo, and shade from willow trees, these poems ask questions: If your lover speaks in his sleep, how do you know "e;you"e; is you?
Authoritative edition of Hafizs most important poems, including original Persian and brilliant English translationsRecent translations of Hafiz have been controversial.
A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West.
A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our times best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet.
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014An astonishing new collection from one of our finest emerging poetsA shark's tooth, the shape-shifting cloud drifting from a smokestack, the smoke detectors that hang, ominous but disregarded, overhead-very little escapes the watchful eye of Joshua Mehigan.
Baiba Bicole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation's traditional, nationalistic poetry.
Analyse les dimensions linguistique, philosophique et métaphysique de la poétique d'Yves Bonnefoy et la place de son oeuvre dans l'histoire de la poésie.
Introduced by Michael Longley, Goat's Milk is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Frank Ormsby, a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years.
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for PoetryErika Meitner s fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty.
*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize 2021**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021: A 'tour-de-force'**An Irish Times and Poetry School Book of the Year 2020*'A day will come when you won't missthe country na nagluwal sa 'yo.
Venant après Poésie et Philosophie (2000), La Pensée, La Trace : Valéry-Varia (2001), Jardin des voix (2022), Vent Nomade (2024) et Épures du cri (2024), ce nouveau livre de poésie se décline en quatre chapitres : - Tremblés est une méditation sur le souvenir, le poète voyant dans ses mots l’ultime écho d’une enfance toujours vivante : sous la neige / qui a tout effacé / les chemins tremblent encore.
For how beaEUR"e;eth it called blessingThis spirit of dovesTo wander of a night's accursed stepsTo wander of a night's accursed steps blindedTo wander lost!
L’écriture de Syncopes émane d’un désir poétique impérieux, celui de soumettre la tradition d’une parole mystique d’une part, et quelques questionnements contemporains brûlants, d’une autre, à une rencontre et/ou à une confrontation.
