Conformada por ciento ocho poemas, esta antología personal del poeta Jaime Jaramillo Escobar (ex nadaísta conocido como X -504) está organizada alfabéticamente e incluye una selecta muestra de los temas, imágenes y lugares característicos de su universo poético.
The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life.
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century.
Puede que dentro de estas páginas encuentres el espejo que llevas tiempo buscando, el charco donde se refleja el infinito, el cielo del primer amor, el domingo de la primera despedida, o el beso de quien te lo dio todo para, más tarde, dejarte sin nada.
Uno más de los legados del maestro Jaime Sabines es este puñado de poesías que, de entre toda su obra quiso, como agua del pensamiento, compartir con los enamorados y entusiastas de su oficio.
Con motivo de la conmemoración del 90 aniversario del editor, redactor, crítico literario, corrector y precursor de la poesía moderna de nuestro país, Alí Chumacero, surge esta edición *Alí a la mano*, que contiene una cuidadosa selección de sus más encumbrados versos.
Somos privilegiados los lectores por el sólo hecho de ser contemporáneos de Ariel Williams, por habitar coordenadas temporales y geografías más o menos similares y somos privilegiados por tener en nuestras manos un libro único para nuestros tiempos.
Diese von Margareta Morgenstern, der Frau des Dichters, zusammengestellte Auswahl zeigt die ganze Fülle des dichterischen und literarischen Schaffens von Christian Morgenstern.
The North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetryThe Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, the largest such prize in the United Kingdom, was named the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection.
A definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readersAccording to Harold Bloom, "e;The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American.
A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "e;the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.
A lyrical collection that explores the interplay between poetry and historyIn her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "e;ruined elegance.
The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry events, proclaimed by the US Senate in 2000 in recognition of its pioneering role in the preservation and revitalization of this important American tradition.
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades-now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more.
In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch.
This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "e;snappy, entertaining book.
A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetryPoet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle epoque's most compelling literary figures.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.
Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardWith an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past.
Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven.
From An Explanation of America:LAIRRobert PinskyInexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind; the infinite,Empty actual is too bright,Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined,The sweet Phoebe-notePiercing from the trees;The calm globe of the morning,Things to read or to writeRanged on a table; the brainA dark, stubborn current that breathesBlood, a deaf wadding,The hands feeding it paperAnd sensations of wood or metalOn its own terms.
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers.
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume.
The Other Side of Nowhere is a radical, psychedelic journal of the end- times, whose poems portray a world of intransigence, a world where the safety of words like place or home have started to unravel.
Tienes un día más / para convencerme de que abra / la boca y recibir / hasta la última lluvia: cada línea de el libro El animal intacto oculta su comunión implícita, y cada uno de esos ritos conduce a la palabra.
"Semejante a la performance realizada por Leopoldo María Panero en el manicomio de Mondragón, Alberto Cecereu propone una obra sujeta a tres niveles de lectura, cada uno entrelazado con el otro, figurando una línea narrativa y poética cargada de estadios psicológicos derruidos, patologías apasionadas y manchas o fisuras de un lenguaje contaminado.
