Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Nevill Coghill (Translator), Nevill Coghill (Introduction by)Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle EnglishA Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group o...

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Report copyright infringementby Cliff Forshaw (Author)French Leave follows RE: VERB in which Cliff Forshaw recreated Rimbaud's terrestrial adventures from the Hooligan Poet and Seer in bohemian Paris, through the years as a tough merchant and gun-runner in Africa, to his death aged thirty-seven in a Marseilles hospital. This new collection plays variations on the themes and forms of French verse from mid-nineteenth century Gautier and Gérard de Nerval, through Baudelaire and Rimbaud, to Valer...

The Shepheard's Nation: Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture 1612-1625

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle O'Callaghan (Author)This is a study of a group of Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke, and of the ways in which these writers represented themselves as a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 25, 2000

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Report copyright infringementby Bill McGlothing (Author)THE TIME BETWEEN RIVERS encompasses half a century of writing, teaching, and finding sanctuary in rivers. Bill McGlothing has a keen eye for the striking detail, whether that be a snake's slithered trail etched in sand or the bowl of a smoker's pipe in Jerusalem "stained with fading paint / of rich forest birds / and smears of nicotine." We visit literal rivers in this collection of poetry and essays, but McGlothing also floats us down t...

Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Regier (Author)Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical âso exorbitantâ that they ask us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. Regier presents two of the great, u...

The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.

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Report copyright infringementby R. B. Parkinson (Editor), R. B. Parkinson (Translator)Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). The book features The Tale of Sinuhe, acclaimed as the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, which tells of a courtier's adventures after he flees Egypt. Other works include stories of fantastic wonders from the court...

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Report copyright infringementby Ha Jin (Author)"Mixing autobiography with invented other voices, this book is an extraordinary meditation on what it means to have lived the history of China in the second half of the twentieth century. At its best, Ha Jin's language is as accessible, penetrating, and mysterious as Pound's Cathay. This is a profound book, an event."-Frank Bidart "In these poems Ha Jin gives voice to the millions whose lives were altered and whose tongues were silenced by the C...

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Report copyright infringementby Reginald Gibbons (Author)To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways--guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's wa...

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Report copyright infringementby Ramie Targoff (Author)For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns.Reappraising Donne's oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most d...

Waiting for the Unicorn, English Edition: Poems and Lyrics of China's Last Dynasty, 16441911

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Report copyright infringementby Irving Yucheng Lo (Editor), William Schultz (Editor)" . . . the most comprehensive book of translation of this period in any Western language." --Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association" . . . a welcome addition to the repository of translated Chinese poetry. . . . highly readable." --World Literature Today" . . . a mega-project . . . an impressive achievement of scholarship." --Journal of Asian Studies" . . . an outstanding anthology of Ch'ing poe...

Golden Ufos: The Indian Poems: Los Ovnis de Oro: Poemas Indios

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Report copyright infringementby Ernesto Cardenal (Author)In 1898 Tahirassawichi went to Washington"only to speak about religion" (as he told the American government) only to preserve the prayers.And the Capitol did not impress him." --from "Tahirassawichi in Washington" Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, priest, and revolutionary, foresees a new order for humanity. Here in his Indian poems, Father Cardenal interweaves myth, legend, history, and contemporary reality to speak to many subjects, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jm Marasigan (Author)Drawn from personal experiences and circumstances "7-year muse" is a book mostly about love but not about a love story. A way to somehow express that feeling you for someone you can never hold. Forever wondering if it's worth the wait, would it be the time to let go or is it too late? Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Emil Staiger (Author), Marianne Burkhard (Editor), Luanne T. Frank (Editor)Emil Staiger (1908-1987), a native of Switzerland, was one of the foremost scholars in the field of literary studies. Grundbegriffe der Poetik is a monument in the history of literary criticism that has been unavailable to the English reader until now. Of Staiger's works, Poetics is probably the most radical, the most disruptive, for it constructs a revolutionary new poetics and erects i...

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Report copyright infringementby Esma Ashraf (Author) Afsanah is a love story. It is a romantic book of poems that portrays Ishq in an extraordinary fashion. A concept of devotion is considered divine in certain cultures as love is sacred and spiritual. In this second volume of verse, Esma Ashraf shares poetic insight into her heart, journey through life, and perspectives of the world around her. Ashraf's extraordinary titles of the poems, shared in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and Englis...

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Report copyright infringementby John Miles Foley (Author)In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception.In Homer's Traditional Art, Foley addresses three crucially...

Our Personal Gaman: A Poetic Palette in the Circle of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Kawada (Author)This anthology of poems depicts the story of our family-which has been dealt a certain deck of cards and is challenged to make choices-and it paints portraits of furry companions and people who have played important roles and who have made an impact in our lives. Weaving a poignant and inspiring story to describe our gaman, a Zen Buddhist term that expresses perseverance and discipline in the face of adversity, this conglomeration of po...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgina Lázaro León (Author), Myrian Bahntje (Illustrator)This narrative poem, by renowned Puerto Rican author Georgina Lázaro León, will help young children understand what is going on inside a pregnant mother's belly. Paired to perfection with a lyrical text, the realistic illustrations guide the reader providing details of the entire gestational process. Este poema narrativo de la renombrada autora puertorriqueña Georgina Lázaro León, ayudará a los niños pe...

Mil Plus: Antología Poética - Segunda Parte

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Report copyright infringementby Felix Cantu Ortiz (Author)...Soy libre de todo a toddo, Y eso es una ventaja de llegar a viejo. A veces me siento a escribir poemas Hasta las tres de mañana, Y nadie me dice nada, Ni tengo qué obedecer ningún reglamento. Igual me levanto a la hora Que mi cuerpo se cansa de estar echado. Tengo todo el tiempo que yo deseo Para conectarme con Dios... Que eso es lo mas delicioso: Tener mucho tiempo para rezar y meditar. Todo se me da en el momento En que yo así lo ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dale Cottingham (Author)Attuned to "temporary states of grace," in beauties of the prairie and wide horizon so often dismissed as "flyover country," and to a sense of community perhaps engendered by the landscape, "If I stood naked under my clothes, / I wasn't alone," these hauntingly lovely poems offer solace, as their characters accept inevitable losses, graced by their appreciation and a generosity which invites readers to sit, where "Each now is a new now, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Kodama (Author)Winner, 2023 Blue Light Book Award"Anna Kodama is a gifted poet whose gaze penetrates Life to its bones. With masterful crafting of language, she gives shape to the Mystery, often in the voice of the shaman or wise woman. To read Anna's work is like being in a gentle rain of blessing."- Jennifer Read Hawthorne, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul andauthor of Life As a Prayer: Poems "In vivid, intimate language Anna Kodama speaks d...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Johnson (Author)Matthew Johnson's second poetry volume constructs a space where the rural communities of Upstate, the suburban living of the Lower Hudson Valley, and the metropolitan landscapes of the City are woven together in a mosaic snapshot. A collection of poems where the historical and cultural traditions of New York State meet, the reader is acquainted not only with seminal figures across the cultural channels of literature, music, and sports, s...

Life Shaking Moments Through the Lens of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Reynaldo Pareja (Author)Life continuously offers everyone shaking moments. They are intense, profound, life changing. They are traumatic-exhilarating, wonderful-dreadful, uplifting-crushing, motivating-uninspiring, clarifying-questioning, hurtful-caring, malicious-magnanimous, frightening-calming, trusting-doubtful, or lovingly-hateful. Because those events hit our emotional self, it is sometimes difficult to express them clearly, unravel their significance, un...

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Report copyright infringementby Lonnie Hull DuPont (Author)She Calls the Moon by Its Name, a powerful and haunting series of poems, follows a nineteenth-century farm woman in spiritual isolation as she finds strength in naming what is alive around her-or even hidden in plain sight. She seeks the names of moons, of animals, of fields and stones, of children and lost babies, and in the process, what is solid and earthborn learns to live patiently with what is not. Longing intersects with duty. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brie Susanne (Author), Jaiden Meilleur (Illustrator)In Bruised Fruit, pride hangs from a tree like a plum, is plucked, and left to rot on the ground. A cow jumps over the moon and lands on the highway. A heart is made of glass. Blushing is "a wound / in my cheek." A breath is an ocean wave. Love is turned and turned, like a prism, as the poet peers into romantic love, family love, betrayal, friendship, loss, grief, ecstasy. The tone is sometimes rageful, someti...

Major Works of Valerie Lynn Stephens: Volume III

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Report copyright infringementby Valerie Stephens (Author)This is Volume III of an enhanced edition of the Major Works of Judeo-Christian Author Valerie Lynn Stephens. Contained herein are works included in the original edition, as well as newer works not released in the previous edition. Number of Pages: 722 Dimensions: 1.44 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Bruce-Novoa (Author) Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. José Montoya. These names, luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the mid-1960s came not only increased political awareness for many Mexican Americans but also a body of fine creative writing. Now the major voices of Chicano literature have begun to reach the wider...

Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century: Textual Disruptions

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Kuhnheim (Author) Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim engages in close readings of numerous poetic wo...

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Report copyright infringementby Prentiss Moore (Author)This collection of poems is an excellent introduction to the work of this Texas poet.Author BiographyPrentiss Moore (1947-1998) lived in Austin, Texas. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 01, 1981

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Gustafsson (Author)When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterära Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, "What makes a good poem?" Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer. The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of the Period of Great Power, to the late twentieth century. Poets as diverse as Skogekär Bergbo, Erik Johan Stagnelius, August Strindberg, and Vilhe...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Lauterbach (Author)A collection of poems by the award-winning poet. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1979

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Report copyright infringementby Rubén Darío (Author), Lysander Kemp (Translator) Toward the close of the last century, the poetry of the Spanish-speaking world was pallid, feeble, almost a corpse. It needed new life and a new direction. The exotic, erratic, revolutionary poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rubén Darío. Since its original pu...