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New Directions Publishing Corporation Vienna Blood Poetry
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Al Que Quiere
Book SynopsisThe centennial edition of William Carlos Williams’s early ground-breaking volume, containing some of his best-loved poemsTrade Review"For all his roughness there remains with me the conviction that there is nothing meaningless in his book, Al Que Quiere!, not a line." -- Ezra Pound"It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do." -- The New York Review of Books"It is ever more apparent that Williams is this century’s major American poet." -- The Chicago Tribune
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole
Book SynopsisThe author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L''Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l''Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the realistic romance in Old French literature.
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press The English Alliterative Tradition Anniversary Collection
Book SynopsisDrawing on recent insights in linguistics, this study formulates a theory of rhythm in English poetry. The author maintains that the meter of Middle English alliterative poetry holds the key to a reinterpretation of both Old English meter and iambic pentameter.Trade Review"This is a fine piece of work that contains very clear technical writing on problems of meter previously accessible only to specialists, and should interest anyone concerned with English verse form. Cable's debunking of the 'accentual' theory of alliterative verse, in particular, makes the book important for students of modern meters. . . . After Cable's book is published, no one will be able to say that Chaucer introduced syllable-counting to English poetry or that experimental verse with a rough equivalence in number of stresses per line draws on a long native tradition. Cable convinces me that there never was any such tradition. Accessible. . . . Sophisticated. . . . Striking. . . . Original." * Geoffrey Russom *
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press A Sonnet from Carthage
Book SynopsisIn 1492, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that language has always been the companion of empire. Taking as his touchstone a suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535, this work examines how the companionship of language and empire played itself out more generally in the new poetry of 16th-century Europe.Trade Review"A tour de force in the practice of reading." * Hispanic Review *"A masterful reading of poetry in context. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *
£31.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Our Emily Dickinsons
Book SynopsisOur Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.Trade Review"Persistently witty and insightful, the book feeds and satisfies one's curiosity. Much like the poetic texts it plays against, it invites the reader to slow down, to reread, to enjoy a subtlety, to share an intimacy. This is not simply a scholarly study but a work of art about prior works of art and about the creative personalities that engendered them . . . Scholarly books come and go, and it is generally good that they do so. This book, however, may be around for a long time-as an inspiration for subsequent scholarship; an influential account of the afterlife of Dickinson; and a stimulating study of the works and lives of Jackson, Todd, Moore, Plath, and Bishop. It is a book to read and absorb, one that beautifully evokes the dramas of creativity unfolding in some of Dickinson's most notable inheritors." * Modern Language Quarterly *"Pollak beautifully analyses the changing attitude of women poets whose psychological connections to and disconnections from Dickinson take place through the practices of reading . . . Our Emily Dickinsons marks the historical and cultural place that Dickinson has occupied in the American consciousness through a skilful weaving: of biography with poetry; diary and journal entries with literary reviews; and newspaper advertisements with personal letters." * Modern Language Review *"Vivian R. Pollak provides an entirely original, subtle, and insightful reading of the gender anxieties of women poets as revealed through their responses to reading Dickinson and each other, or sometimes through their sense of Dickinson as the inevitable point of comparison. Pollak contributes a plethora of information previously unknown or not widely known about the relationships between the later poets she studies and between those women and Dickinson, and she offers astute readings of their often nuanced comments on Dickinson (and each other) in reviews, letters, diaries, or published prose. There is no other book like it!" * Cristanne Miller, University of Buffalo *"Vivian Pollak's ingenious look at Emily Dickinson's hold on the imagination of three late modernist poets (Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath) is stunning in its revelations and riveting in its analysis of how the ever-mysterious Queen of Calvary works her magic differently on each poet and on each new generation of readers. This book is brilliant. I finished it and, captivated, turned back to page one and began again." * Mary Jo Bang, Washington University in St. Louis *"Elegantly written, witty, and consistently illuminating in its readings, Vivian Pollak's book represents feminist literary criticism at its best. In luminous detail, the book reveals the ways American women poets have engaged their own gendered anxieties and fears through their intimate encounters with Emily Dickinson." * Betsy Erkkilä, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Dickinson and the Demands of Intimacy Chapter 1. Helen Hunt Jackson and Dickinson's Personal Publics Chapter 2. Mabel Loomis Todd and Dickinson's Art of Sincerity Chapter 3. "The Wholesomeness of the Life": Marianne Moore's Unartificial Dickinson Chapter 4. Moore, Plath, Hughes, and "The Literary Life" Chapter 5. Plath's Dickinson: On Not Stopping for Death Chapter 6. Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. Schools of Writing Conclusion. Dickinson and the Demands of Difference Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Wordsworths Poetry 18151845
Book SynopsisThe later poetry of William Wordsworth, popular in his lifetime and influential on the Victorians, has, with a few exceptions, received little attention from contemporary literary critics. In Wordsworth''s Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that the later work reveals a mature poet far more varied and surprising than is often acknowledged. Examining the most characteristic poems in their historical contexts, he shows Wordsworth probing the experiences and perspectives of later life and innovating formally and stylistically. He demonstrates how Wordsworth modified his writing in light of conversations with younger poets and learned to acknowledge his debt to women in ways he could not as a young man. The older Wordsworth emerges in Fulford''s depiction as a love poet of companionate tenderness rather than passionate lament. He also appears as a political poet—bitter at capitalist exploitation and at a society in which vanity is rewarded while poverty is blamed. Most notaTrade Review"The idea that we might be able to blow the dust of thirty years' worth of neglected Wordsworth poems and find them wonderful is deeply appealing, and Fulford's encouragement, along with his diligent readings of several little-known poems ('The Brownie' might be an example), is impressive in its endeavor." * The Times Literary Supplement *"Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 should be read as an important corrective to our ingrained prejudice against the later poetry. Through its deft combination of historicist critique and laser-sharp formal analysis, the book displays the richness of Wordsworth's oeuvre while highlighting the meagreness of thought that, all too often, has prevented readers from experiencing the full range of the poet's accomplishments.." * The Review of English Studies *"[R]evelatory . . . This is certainly the best book yet published on the late Wordsworth. It will be turned to gratefully by future students of Wordsworth's later work; it will also, I hope, attract a new generation of readers to this extraordinarily rich body of work." * European Romantic Review *"Fulford's sensitive attention helps us to see the verse of the late Wordsworth with fresh eyes . . . Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the long arc of Wordsworth's career." * Modern Language Review *"Tim Fulford offers a richly textured account of thirty years of verse that fell out of favor with the elevation of the "Great Decade" in the 1960s and 1970s . . . the entire book, makes a convincing case for reading Wordsworth's poetry to the very end." * Modern Philology *"The best and most complete work on the later poetry of William Wordsworth. Tim Fulford's readings are thoughtful, frequently brilliant, and at times border on the luxurious in their willingness to unpack the pleasures of the verse." * Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania *"It is exciting to watch Tim Fulford's Wordsworth enter into dialogue with other poets, from the classics to his younger contemporaries, refiguring his own works from his evolving later perspectives, vital as opposed to fossilized, and so reshaping the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century British poetry. This is a field-altering book." * Peter J. Manning, Stony Brook University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PRODUCING A POET FOR THE PUBLIC Chapter 1. Learning to Be a Poet of Imagination: Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper Chapter 2. The Politics of Landscape and the Poetics of Patronage: Collecting Coleorton PART II. SPOTS OF SPACE: MATERIALIZING MEMORY Chapter 3. Memoirs of Scott-land, 1814-33 Chapter 4. Textual Strata and Geological Form: The Scriptorium and the Cave PART III. THE POLITICS OF DICTION Chapter 5. The Erotics of Influence: Wordsworth as Byron and Keats Chapter 6. Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott: Radicalism Renewed PART IV. LATE GENRES Chapter 7. Narrow Cells and Stone Circles: Sonnet Form and Spiritual History Chapter 8. Evanescence and After-Effect: The Evening Voluntaries Coda. Elegiac Musing and Generic Mixing Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Making the Miscellany
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Making the Miscellany, Megan Heffernan makes a significant contribution to the study of the poetic design of early modern printed books, how volumes of compiled poems responded to changes in media, the material organization of printed poetry, the contribution of conventions and innovations of arrangement to vernacular poetic craft, and the consolidation of individual authorship...Heffernan has untangled the tangled tale of book matter, design, printing, culture, and history in relation to the making and reading of poetry then and now." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Upon first notice,Making the Miscellany appears as another well-stated and strong scholarly contribution to literary studies, but that would be deceiving; it is much more. The author has thrown new light upon previously understood conventions and scholarship focused on poetry and compilations and miscellanies of poetry...Beyond the in-depth scholarly apparatus utilized inMaking the Miscellany, the author has provided a very engaging and highly readable style. Rich in technical asides in text and notes, this book opens up new scholarly ground and serves as a requisite and indispensable measure of scholarship that traverses different scholarship fields as well as opportunities for further exploration." * Publishing Research Quarterly *"By decentering the author as the imagined source and originator of the poetry collection, Megan Heffernan is able to attend to the agency of stationers and compilers, as well as the agency of poetry itself. In one of her most exciting claims, Heffernan argues that the poetry shapes the material form of the printed book in these early poetry collections. Indeed, she shows, these innovative arrangements shaped the development of vernacular poetic craft and notions of authorship in the seventeenth century and after." * Jenny C. Mann, author of The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime *
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press The Difference Is Spreading
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n idiosyncratic and fun collection of short essays on modern and contemporary poems....If you like poems, and like reading smart people writing about poems in bite-sized essays, then The Difference Is Spreading is the kind of book you might like to leave on your nightstand and dip into here and there. It is, as Gertrude Stein might tell us, both 'a spectacle and nothing strange' to encounter all of these wonderful poems through the eyes of our contemporary poets." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Fair Copy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Putzi’sstudy is a remarkable intervention in the study of nineteenth-century US women writers—known and unknown, recovered and yet unrecovered—because it challenges the very concept of a nineteenth-century woman writer...Putzi’s model ofrelational poetics opens up compelling possibilities for the recovery of nineteenth-centurywomenwriters,aswellasnewwaysofunderstandinghow nineteenth-century US literature was read and created." -- Elissa Zellinger * American Literary History *"Putzi gives us an inspiring book, designed to persuade scholars of both traditional and critical literary analysis to join her in reading with respect and pleasure this body of antebellum American women’s poetry...Putzi’s work adds to helpful analyses of women’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, especially studies of poetry’s contemporary rhetoric by Jane Donawerth, Winifred Bryan Horner, and Lynee Lewis Gaillet." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Fair Copy expertly engages the composition, publication, and circulation of women’s printed poetry to produce a far-reaching theory and methodology of relational poetics as radical recovery. Moving with graceful nimbleness between this overarching framework and a precision born of copious archival work, Putzi offers a compelling narrative of women’s engagement with print and its various networks and relations—a story unknown in part because studies of nineteenth-century women’s authorship have primarily focused on prose and in part because of a scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality." * Early American Literature *"Jennifer Putzi offers five case studies of women poets' 'relational poetics' under conditions of authorship that depend on intersecting categories of race, class, and gender. She maps the significance of unremarkable or indistinguishable practices by unknown and in some way irrecoverable women poets in order to show that the very lack of distinction or originality, the impossibility of identifying a signature style, marks the poems as accomplishments that depend on the contexts of production, circulation, and reception." * Eliza Richards, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The American Hemans: Lydia Sigourney's Relational Poetics Chapter 2. "The Songs Which All Can Sing": Imitation and Working Women's Poetry in the Lowell Offering Chapter 3. "My Country": Communal Authorship and Citizenship in Sarah Louisa Forten's Liberator Poems Chapter 4. "What Is Poetry?": Class, Collaboration, and the Making of Wales, and Other Poems Chapter 5. "Some Queer Freak of Taste": Relational Poetics and Literary Proprietorship in the "Rock Me to Sleep" Controversy Conclusion. Recovering the Unremarkable Notes Bibliography Index
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]his stimulating book...aim[s] to rebuild the study of Middle English lyric from the ground up. The thirteen chapters proceed from foundation to rooftop...The book is a passionate invitation to plunge into Middle English lyric. It raises countless questions. It is certain to spur continuing, vigorous cultivation of its field." * Modern Philology *"What Kind of Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? asks scholars and poets to rethink not only the Middle English lyric (especially between the late twelfth and late fourteenth centuries) from the ground up, but the generic and historiographic contours of Medieval Studies, lyric studies, and poetry altogether...In addition to serving as a worthy reference source for the Middle English lyric, indexed as it is, the book’s stronger impulse of troubling the lyric forces deeper, more flexible engagements with poetry in theory and practice, past and present...Altogether, this company of scholars and artists exemplifies collaboration at its finest." * Early Middle English *"This outstanding collection of essays boldly reconceptualizes Middle English lyric, brilliantly illuminating its formal intricacies, historical contexts, and power. Among other subjects, the essays explore lyric multilingualism, wonder, sonic richness, material inscription, narrativity, dialogism, performativity, figuration, and intersubjectivity. Destined to hold a distinguished place in studies of poetry and poetics, this book deserves to be widely read and relished by anyone interested in new angles of approach to poetry." * Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global Age *
£62.90
University of Pennsylvania Press The Difference Is Spreading
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n idiosyncratic and fun collection of short essays on modern and contemporary poems....If you like poems, and like reading smart people writing about poems in bite-sized essays, then The Difference Is Spreading is the kind of book you might like to leave on your nightstand and dip into here and there. It is, as Gertrude Stein might tell us, both 'a spectacle and nothing strange' to encounter all of these wonderful poems through the eyes of our contemporary poets." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
£40.50
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer
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University Press of Florida An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late
Book SynopsisImmerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished in France during the late Middle Ages, focusing on two works that were both popular and controversial: Le Roman de la Rose by thirteenth-century poets Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun and La Belle Dame sans Mercy by fifteenth-century royal secretary and poet Alain Chartier.
£56.95
The Catholic University of America Press Genesis in Late Antique Poetry
Book SynopsisThe biblical book of Genesis stands nearly without parallel in the shared history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this book study an array of Jewish and Christian responses to Genesis as they took shape in specific literary forms - the unique genres of late antique poetry.
£56.25
Rutgers University Press The New Anthology of American Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice magazine 'outstanding title,' featuring over 1800 poems, along with introductions and notes, this three-volume set offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection from the nation’s beginnings to the present day; also available in individual volumes." * LitHub *"A Choice magazine 'outstanding title,' featuring over 1800 poems, along with introductions and notes, this three-volume set offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection from the nation’s beginnings to the present day; also available in individual volumes." * LitHub *Table of Contents*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY IntroductionGEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)CARLOS BULOSAN (1911?-1956)MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)JULIA BE BURGOS (1914-1953)RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)MITSUYE YAMADA (b. 1923)ROBERT CREELY (1926-2005)ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)JOSEPH AWAD (1929-2009)ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)AMIRI BARAKA [LEROI JONES] (b. 1934)DIANE DI PRIMA (b. 1934)PART TWO: LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY/EARLY-TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POETRY IntroductionSUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)LUIS OMAR SALINAS (1937-2008)MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)KATHLEEN SPIVACK (b. 1938)FRANK BIDART (b. 1939)ROBERT PINKSY (b. 1940)BOB DYLAN (b. 1941)LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)ALEX KUO (b. 1941)WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)RAE ARMANTROUT (b. 1947)LINDA HOGAN (b. 1947)YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947)GERALD MCCARTHY (b. 1947)W. D. EHRHART (b. 1948)CAROL FROST (b. 1948)VICTOR HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ (b. 1949)CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)MAURYA SIMON (b. 1950)JOHN YAU (b. 1950)RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950)THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA (1951-1982)JOY HARJO (b. 1951)RITA DOVE (b. 1952)CHERRÍE MORAGA (b. 1952)NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)ALBERTO RÍOS (b. 1952)GARY SOTO (b. 1952)MARK DOTY (b. 1953)HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG (b. 1953)ELMAZ ABINADER (b, 1954)LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955)CATHY SONG (b. 1955)AMY GERSTLER (b. 1956)LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)JUAN DELGADO (b. 1960)BAO-LONG CHU (b. 1965)SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)QUEEN LATIFAH [DANA OWENS] (b. 1970)About the EditorsCopyrights and PermissionsIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Leopold Sedar Senghor The Collected Poetry
Book SynopsisThe complete poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, possibly Africa's most famous poet, are offered in translation in this bilingual French/English edition. The book, representing the culmination of a lifetime's work, includes ""Lost Poems"", a collection of Senghor's earliest work.
£50.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Letters of Christina Rossetti v. 2 18741881
Book SynopsisThe letters in this volume show the woman Rossetti was at this time in her life. By 1874 she was an established poet with a literary reputation among her contemporaries. But her personal life was overshadowed by the deaths and illness of close friends, and her own affliction with Graves' disease. In the VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE series.
£62.10
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Leopold Sedar Senghor The Collected Poetry
Book SynopsisLeopold Sedar Senghor was President of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, but he is also considered one of Africa's foremost poets. This bilingual volume collects his complete poetic works.
£30.35
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B.Tolson
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together Melvin B. Tolson's three book of poetry - ""Rendezvouz with America"", ""Libretto for the Republic of Liberia"", and ""Harlem Gallery"" - as well as fugitive poems after 1944.
£33.53
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Letters of Christina Rossetti 18821886 v 3
Book SynopsisThe third volume of ""Letters..."" covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Mathilde Blind LateVictorian Culture and the
Book SynopsisOffers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) - a freethinking radical feminist. As the first full-length biography of this trailblazing woman of letters, Mathilde Blind underscores the importance of her poetry and her critical writings.Trade Review“Mathilde Blind is a groundbreaking critical biography of the Germanborn British aesthete. An important, must-read book.” —Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck University of London"Diedrick's account builds a picture of an intelligent and passionate advocate of women's rights, a thoughtful writer who engaged deeply with the society in which she worked. Blind would likely have approved of this way of portraying her." - The TLS
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Recomposing Ecopoetics North American Poetry of
Book SynopsisAnalyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take “nature” to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.Trade Review"This boundary-pushing text brings to the fore dynamic ecopoetic work reconstituting the lyric–nature–wilderness assemblage that has dominated the study of North American ecopoetry. As such, the monograph makes a distinct contribution to ecopoetics through its thoroughgoing exploration of experimental, radical, urban, less accessible, and non-lyric modes [...] an eminently valuable addition to anglophone ecopoetic criticism." — Modern Language Review
£32.91
Wayne State University Press The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Book SynopsisA collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with a commentary and a literal English translation.
£27.16
Wayne State University Press Paper Bridges Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
Book SynopsisKadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales.Trade ReviewThe balance between situating the poems in their original framework and making them speak eloquently to today's reader is the major challenge of translating Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein has given us a comprehensive sample of one of the most important Yiddish women poets that is, as I can attest, an excellent introduction to Yiddish poetry for college students. Paper Bridges is a major contribution to the still relatively small library of Yiddish poetry in English translation and a reliable introduction to the poetics of Yiddish.""- Polin Review
£22.95
New York University Press The Life and Times of Abu Tammam
Book SynopsisA robust defense of a poetic geniusAbu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both highly controversial and extremely popular, this sophisticated verse influenced all subsequent poetry in Arabic and epitomized the modern style (badi?), an avant-garde aesthetic that was very much in step with the intellectual, artistic, and cultural vibrancy of the Abbasid dynasty.In The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, translated into English for the first time, the courtier and scholar Abu Bakr Mu?ammad ibn Ya?yaal-?uli (d. 335 or 336/946 or 947) mounts a robust defense of modern poetry and of Abu Tammam's significance as a poet against his detractors, whilTrade ReviewAnother welcome addition to the Library of Arabic Literature....In the field of Arabic poetry and poetics in general, and classical Arabic poetry and criticism in particular, I expect the impact of this project to be groundbreaking. The study of Arabic poetry, both modern and classical, has the potential of being significantly affected by the introduction of voices like al-Sulis, especially when presented in fresh and timely translations as is the case here. -- Hoda Fakhreddine * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
£33.25
John Wiley & Sons The Adam of Two Edens Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Trade Review[Darwish's] lyrical writings have long been a touchstone of Palestinian national passions.... [he] has written poems that range from dreamy reflections and love to bitter longing for the Palestine that was lost when lsrael was created in 1948. He writes of pain and exile." - The New York Times"Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestine people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging.... What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world - his is an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered. If you know his words already, you need to know this comprehensive new translation. If you do not know him yet, please celebrate this crucial meeting." - Naomi Shahib Nye, author of The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
£15.26
MP-SYR Syracuse University P An Irish Literature Reader Poetry Prose Drama
Book SynopsisMaureen ORourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey 13 centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of 19th-century prose and poetry. For each author there is a biographical sketch, discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography.
£22.46
MP-SYR Syracuse University P In the Wake of the Poetic Palestinian Artists
Book SynopsisHeralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation.
£23.36
Syracuse University Press Mihr238 Hatun Performance GenderBending and
Book SynopsisThe Ottoman poet Mihrî Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into male-dominated intellectual circles. Placing the poet in the context of her era and environment, Havliog?lu finds that the poet's dramatic, masterful performance and subversiveness are the very reasons for her endurance.
£19.76
John Wiley & Sons Mihrî Hatun
Book SynopsisThe early modern Ottoman poet Mihrî Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles. Her poetry collection is among the earliest bodies of women's writing in the Middle East. With this volume, Havliog-lu investigates the factors that allowed Hatun to survive and thrive.Trade ReviewThis is a path-breaking book. Its value lies not in ‘completeness’ but in showing the way toward more complete and nuanced studies of early modern women’s poetry in the Ottoman Empire.' - Walter G. Andrews, research professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
£999.99
MP-SYR Syracuse University P In the Alley of the Friend
Book SynopsisShahrokh Meskoob is one of the first scholars to take an innovative approach to Hafez's poetry. Meskoob goes beyond a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of Hafez's poetry in the Divan to access the interior thoughts of the poet and summon his spirit in the process of understanding Hafez's mysticism.
£19.76
John Wiley & Sons The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation
Book SynopsisInvites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humour and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry.
£15.26
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisPresents the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. This book contains close readings and critical analyses of more than 150 of Dickinson's best-known poems. It discusses the different aspects of Dickinson's life that influenced her work - family, friends, and many others.
£63.75
Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats Critical Companion Hardcover
Book SynopsisThe Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. This title covers Yeats' important poems, as well as his volumes of poetry, and his plays and important drama-related topics, including Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
£60.00
Critical Companion to Robert Frost A Literary
Book SynopsisKnown for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. This is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of this great American poet. It combines critical analysis with information on Frost's life, providing a one-stop resource for students.
£60.00
University of Arizona Press Snake Poems
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University of Arizona Press Our Bearings
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University of Arizona Press Horsefly Dress
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University of Arizona Press Navigating CHamoru Poetry
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University of Arizona Press Aina Hanau Birth Land
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University of Arizona Press Light as Light
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala
£28.46
University of Minnesota Press The Poetics of Information Overload
Book SynopsisTrade Review"‘Isn’t the avant-garde always technological?’ asks Paul Stephens in this exciting book, which poses key questions and ventures revealing answers at every turn. He offers one of the freshest and smartest perspectives on the past century’s avant-garde, as well as an exceptionally clear view of the most exigent poetry from our contemporary moment."—Craig Dworkin, University of Utah and author of No Medium"Well-documented and elegantly written, Stephens's book demonstrates the vitality of literary and poetic studies in the age of big data criticism."—Leonardo Reviews"Enthralling and rigorous."—Neural"The Poetics of Information Overload offers rewarding insights into these processes and establishes a compelling new perspective on the development of American poetry."—Amerikastudien/American Studies "Stephens offers an engaging and stimulating introduction to the breadth of the American avant-garde’s conscious poetic engagement with the data age, its anxieties, and its ongoing struggle for recuperation." —British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of DataIntroduction1. "Reading At It": Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis2. Bob Brown, "Inforg": The "Readies" at the Limits of Modernist Cosmopolitanism3. Human University: Charles Olson and the Embodiment of Information4. "When Information Rubs/Against Information": Poetry and Informatics in the Expanded Field in the 1960s5. Paradise and Informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the Posthuman Adamic6. Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information Asymmetry, and the Data GlutAfterword. "Proliferating Raw Data": Robert Grenier in the Expanded Field of New Media PoeticsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£61.20
University of Minnesota Press First Thought
Book SynopsisThe Beat Generation's best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politicsTrade Review"With a knowledge born out of personal interviews conducted with Allen Ginsberg himself, Michael Schumacher understands more about Ginsberg’s poetry than anyone alive. This book presents Ginsberg’s own words in a thought-provoking, entertaining, and intelligent way. It is destined to be a perfect companion to any study of Ginsberg, the poet."—Bill Morgan, author of The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation"Michael Schumacher has dug deep and come up with a treasure trove of Ginsbergian thought—on topics ranging from sex and drugs and rock & roll to the genesis of "Howl" and On the Road. We even get a writing how-to via the transcript of a Naropa classroom discussion between Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and William S. Burroughs. This fascinating compendium is the perfect addition to the Beat canon."—Holly George-Warren, author of A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton and editor of The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats "Schumacher provides an introduction to First Thought that ought to make Ginsberg fans scream with joy."—San Francisco Chronicle"First Thought reacquaints us with a wonderfully authentic person and poet."—PopMatters"The collection is genuinely worthwhile."—Rain TaxiTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Ginsberg’s Visions of Ordinary Mind Michael SchumacherPortrait of a BeatAl Aronowitz, 1960Ginsberg Makes the World SceneRichard Kostalanetz, 1965Ginsberg in Washington: Lobbying for TendernessDon McNeill, 1966A Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen GinsbergMichael Reck, 1968Identity GossipGordon Ball, 1974A Conversation with Allen GinsbergJohn Tytell, 1974An Interview with Allen GinsbergJames McKenzie, 1978Slice of Reality LifeStephen M. H. Braitman, 1974Visions of Ordinary Mind (1948–1955): Discourse, with Questions and Answers, June 9, 1976Paul Portuges, 1976Allen Ginsberg Talks about PoetryKenneth Koch, 1977Words and Music, Music, MusicMitchell Feldman, 1982William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg: How to Notice What You Notice, How to Write a Bestseller, How to Not Solve a Crime in AmericaAllen Ginsberg, 1985Dreams, Reconciliations, and “Spots of Time”: An Interview with Allen GinsbergMichael Schumacher, 1986No More Bagels: An Interview with Allen GinsbergSteve Silberman, 1987Ginsberg Accuses Neo-Conservatives of Political CorrectnessKathleen O’Toole, 1995A Conversation with Allen GinsbergTom McIntyre, 1995The Beats and the Boom: A Conversation with Allen GinsbergSeth Goddard, 1995Allen Ginsberg: An InterviewGary Pacernick, 1997ChronologyBooks by Allen Ginsberg
£15.19
The University of Alabama Press Poetic Voices Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Book SynopsisRecent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press No One to Meet
Book SynopsisThe literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.
£28.01
