This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire.
Winner of the 2024 Kempner Family Book Prize for Poetry given by the Philosophical Society of TexasBorn and raised in El Paso, Texas, Ray Gonzalez returns to Texas and nearby New Mexico to meditate on love, literature, loss, andla lneainSuggest Paradise.
Patricia Clarks latest poetry collection O Lucky Day explores her concerns about family and mortality, silence and loneliness, widening to include losses in the natural world.
';Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination.
These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit.
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.
L’univers envoûtant de ces Nostalgies du futur, recueil de poèmes de Massoud Salari illustré par les gravures saisissantes de Hassan Nozadian, est un ballet littéraire où la nostalgie prend une teinte particulière, tissée avec habileté à travers le prisme de l’illusion optique.
Cet ouvrage, d’un poète précoce, est un recueil de soixante-cinq poèmes qui rend hommage aux grands hommes : écrivains, dirigeants, politiciens, footballeurs… Hymne à l’Afrique.
« Tu m’as envoyé la plus belle de tes étoiles Et pourtant rien ne va, tout se dévoile Je vois enfin la clarté de la Lune Qui me parle et me tue » Avec ce premier recueil de poésie, Sonia Le Corre, jeune autrice, nous livre une fresque poétique intime et touchante empreinte de tendresse et de noirceur où le temps passe, les saisons s’enchaînent et se précèdent.
In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand.
In Goodbye, Apostrophe, his first new collection in more than a decade, nationally recognized and prize-winning poet Peter Schmitt has assembled nearly 50 poems notable for their range and emotional power.
This book encompasses the coming tides and receding waves we all go throughTo the lostTo the strained heartTo the healingTo the strugglingTo the joyfulTo the seekingTo the unanswered prayerTo the made newTo the growingTo youThis book is for youI do not know if it will answer all your questionsI do not know if it will radically change your lifeBut I do knowThat every lineWas written for a purposeWill you allow that purpose to be to give you a sense of understandingA sense of loveUnderstanding that it is okay to be a work in progressUnderstanding that your life might not always look like the clay vessel that has passed through the fireUnderstanding that you may just be a pieced-together clump of clay lying on the spinning tableTrusting, abiding, waiting to be transformedBy the Potter Himself.
Sous une épigraphe empruntée au livre VI de l’Enéide, celui de l’heureuse descente aux enfers sur des chemins ouverts par un rameau d’or, Pierre Bénard poursuit une exploration aux confins du rêve et de la mémoire.
Philippe Molle présente dans ces Mémoires d’avant tombe la suite finale de ses Mémoires d’outre mers parues en 2006 chez L’Harmattan, autobiographie dans laquelle il racontait les douze phases de sa vie, aventures qui se lisent comme un roman.
Over the course of his career, Tomas Transtr mer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices.
Whatever life hands melove, land, or lossa way to acceptance means embracing earthly cycles, authentic connections to others, and the comforting puzzle of words, says Catherine Hamrick.
