Written from a literary critic's perspective, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary poetry, specifically the genre of the long poem.
Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge.
Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe, and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously rejected less-than-sterling poems when assembling his Selected.
This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century.
"e;I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one"e;So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home.
Power from HadesPhil Collins senior executive of the British Ultra-Secret Intelligence Bureau, found chilling information about the secret agenda of Lucius, the favorite candidate for the EU Presidency.
This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor.
Irene Zimmerman's scripturally-based poetry has been read from pulpits, savored by individuals, and provided the topics for weekend retreats and discussion groups.
For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston.
Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award for PoetryMoving between the scriptures of the Quran and the Bible, the poems of Theophaniesarisefrom the speakers tenuous grip on her own faith while navigating the colonial legacy of Partition and inherited patriarchal expectations of womanhood.
From award-winning writer, spoken-word star, and spellbinding performer Kae Tempest, an unabashedly intimate poetry collection that confirms them as one of our most important poetic truth tellers.
La publicación forma parte de la Monumenta Landivariana, serie mayor, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer estudios generales y especializados en torno a la obra poético-literaria de Rafael Landívar.
A Glance into Ilja Kostovski's Selected PoetryIt is a slightly smirking smile that accompanies the voice calling on Muses in Ilja Kostovski's epic poetry and final book, Sisiphus and I.
Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul s search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice.
This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaisnava tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarnapura, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Caitanya Vaisnava poets and theologians.
From the "e;rubble [that] is the order of the day"e; in the opening poem to the longing for a "e;radiant happy ending"e; in the book's final line, Tablature is a book of poems that traverses a great swath of the heart's experience in compelling and lucid poetic language.
With more than 3,000 entries and cross-references on the history, main figures, institutions, theory, and literary works associated with Islam's mystical tradition, Sufism, this dictionary brings together in one volume, extensive historical information that helps put contemporary events into a historical context.
The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time , largely politisized black workers and youth , with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time.
Eine Wiederentdeckung: Leben und Werk des vergessenen Dichters Michael Beer, den seine Trauerspiele berühmt machten und der zeitlebens gegen den »Risches«, den Antisemitismus, zu kämpfen hatteDer früh verstorbene und nach seinem Tod bald vergessene Dichter Michael Beer gehörte mit seinen Trauerspielen »Der Paria« und »Struensee« zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Dramatikern seiner Zeit.
