Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
WW Norton & Co Landscape at the End of the Century Poems
Book Synopsis"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight—but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past, eager for the future, naming what we love."--Judith Kitchen, Georgia ReviewTrade Review"Behind Stephen Dunn's obsession with what he calls the ordinary lies an immensely complicated and delicate search for understanding and- I think- for peace... He is a poet of wisdom, and he is a healer and a teacher... The music is perfect as the art is hidden, and some of the poems-'Turning Fifty,' for example-are unbearably beautiful. He is a magnificent poet." -- Gerald Stern
£11.03
WW Norton & Co The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Book SynopsisJoy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry.Trade Review"I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking, complex witness and for her world-remaking language: precise, unsentimental, miraculous." -- Adrienne Rich"I fell in love with these poems, with their clarity and light, their wisdom born somewhere between sky and earth." -- Sandra Cisneros
£12.34
WW Norton & Co A Journey with Two Maps Becoming a Woman Poet
Book Synopsis“Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTrade Review"Boland . . . discusses the work of women poets that has been important to her, ranging from the little-known Charlotte Mew to the over-exposed Sylvia Plath, in critical essays that connect seamlessly with the personal to create a provocative collection." -- Booklist"[A Journey with Two Maps] attempts to rewrite history in a more fair and truthful manner. Boland’s insights into Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop are exquisite. . . . Boland’s criticism is spooky with hovering ghosts." -- San Francisco Chronicle
£12.34
WW Norton & Co What Is the Grass
Book Synopsis“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"What Is the Grass doesn’t possess a single inelegant sentence or poorly expressed thought.… [A]n excellent opportunity to re-examine the work of one of America’s first major poets through the prose of one of its best living ones." -- Scott Bradfield - Washington Post"[Doty] animates Walt Whitman’s joyful proclamation that everything is connected." -- The New Yorker"A celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry." -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR"What Is the Grass may be the definitive book on Whitman’s life, afterlife and poetry. But it’s the moments in Doty’s own life… that the book truly glistens." -- Jessica Ferri - Los Angeles Times"[Mark] Doty puts on a clinic in how to read closely but expansively.… This is shining proof that criticism can make you want to hold it close." -- John Freeman - LitHub"[A] masterful example [of the hybrid memoir]—weaving a close reading of Whitman’s life and writings into Doty’s own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience." -- Arianna Rebolini - Buzzfeed"[A] dazzling and discursive meditation on Walt Whitman’s poetry.… In this homage to a poet whose voice has become a ‘permanent presence’ in his head, [Doty] has written a masterpiece, one that is as rapturously fine as the book he so lovingly and intelligently elucidates." -- Phil Gambone - Gay and Lesbian Review"Exuberant.… This is Doty at his best: In gorgeous, calibrated sentences, he evokes the flourishes and sprung rhythms that make Whitman so contemporary." -- Hamilton Cain - San Francisco Chronicle"What Is the Grass is a deep dive into Walt Whitman’s life, work, worldview, and something that feels like his cosmic theology. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also invited into Mark Doty’s own candid self-seeking, in episodes of the author’s life rendered in generous complexity. This beautiful, ingenious book affirms my belief in language as a living thing, and in the universe as a place overflowing with purpose and meaning. I wish all of the great poets could be reintroduced to me in such fashion!" -- Tracy K. Smith"Quick-witted, slyly erotic, and sometimes ecstatic, this book explores Mark Doty’s relationship with Walt Whitman, or with the idea of Walt Whitman. It is intimate in its reality and in all that it imagines, and it captures with splendid lyricism the author’s generous obsession with his forebear. Mark Doty has written a literate and lovely volume." -- Andrew Solomon
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Coleridges Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisColeridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.
£23.03
WW Norton & Co SeventeenthCentury British Poetry 16031660
Book SynopsisTwenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.
£24.94
Basic Books Dont Read Poetry
Book SynopsisAn award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre
£22.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press True Names
Book SynopsisPresents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyses the form and style of his wordplay.Trade ReviewO’Hara’s catalogue of Vergilian etymological wordplay is a goldmine of information and a welcome contribution to Vergilian studies… Ovid scholars will read with interest section 2.14 of the Introduction, where O’Hara lists and discusses examples of Ovid’s allusions to Vergil’s etymological wordplay. Every Vergil scholar will want a copy of this book."" - Pamela Bleisch, American Journal of Philology""O’Hara has done Virgilian studies a considerable service with this very erudite piece of scholarship."" - Llewelyn Morgan, Classical Review""This book is to be heartily welcomed as a major tool which will be of great use not only for Vergilian scholars but also for all those concerned with the literary texture of Augustan poetry."" - Stephen J. Harrison, Echos du monde classique
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Ecstatic Émigré
Book SynopsisMost think of an émigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Atlas
Book SynopsisA master of the lyric, Alfred Corn is also adept at working in forms, and has published several books featuring long poetic sequences, including a book-length narrative poem modeled on Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". This book features the poet/critic's personal, epistolary encounter with Flannery O'Connor.Trade ReviewA distinguished poet himself, Mr. Corn is especially alert to the influence of the past on poets, how poems speak to other poems in a continuing conversation.... He is at his best on the modern American poets Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Hollander, and Hart Crane.... Like the best literary essays, these send one back to the originals. - The New York Times Sunday Book Review
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press On Burning Ground
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press What Poetry Brings to Business
Book SynopsisWhat does poetry bring to business? This book demonstrates that the skills necessary to talk and think about poetry can be of significant benefit to leaders and strategists, to executives who are facing infinite complexity and who are armed with finite resources in a changing world.Trade Review"Creativity is a means of controlling chaos, finding order. Business and poetry draw their waters out of the same well." - John Barr, President, Poetry Foundation"
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Little Death of Self
Book SynopsisThe line between poetry (the delicate, surprising not-quite) and the essay (the emphatic what-about and so-there!) is thin, easily crossed. The essays collected in The Little Death of Self are meditations toward poetry by a poet who finds this mysterious genre the weirdest, most compelling of all human ways to imagine - or fathom - the great world.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press So Ask
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Ships Going into the Blue
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Women and Poetry
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£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ecstatic Occasions Expedient Forms
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Instant of Knowing
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Orphan Factory
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Poetry Blues
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDurations Instrumental Bones: Interview with Dave Johnson Poetry & Music Butterscotch Ripple Old Haunts Layered Vision A Note on Prose, Verse, and the Line The Poetry Blues Some Thoughts on The Book of Nightmares Merida, 1969 Awkward Bad Lines 100 Sentences The Soul of Brevity Sad Stories and & True Privacies People like Us The Precisions of Passion Photographs of Nude Women Miss Bishop Nurse Sharks Sentimental Villainy Hail, Muse! Et Cetera Journal Entries Mingus at the Showplace: Interview with Sascha Feinstein The Pleasure of Experience, the Experience of Pleasure: Interview with Peter Davison The Complaint The Poetry Blues
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Metaphysician in the Dark
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Fables of Representation
Book SynopsisPaul Hoover's wide-ranging subjects include the position of poetry in the electronic age, the notion of doubleness in the work of Harryette Mullen and others, the lyricism of the New York School poets, and the role of reality in American poetry.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Memory Piano
Book SynopsisPart of the ""Poets on Poetry"" series, this title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in the author's exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilson, and more.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Atlas
Book SynopsisA master of the lyric, Alfred Corn is also adept at working in forms, and has published several books featuring long poetic sequences, including a book-length narrative poem modeled on Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". This book features the poet/critic's personal, epistolary encounter with Flannery O'Connor.Trade ReviewA distinguished poet himself, Mr. Corn is especially alert to the influence of the past on poets, how poems speak to other poems in a continuing conversation.... He is at his best on the modern American poets Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Hollander, and Hart Crane.... Like the best literary essays, these send one back to the originals. - The New York Times Sunday Book Review
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Poetics of Dislocation
Book SynopsisSets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the 21st century. This book outlines the dilemmas that face modern immigrant poets, including how to make a place for oneself in a new society and how to write poetry in a time of violence worldwide.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press What Poetry Brings to Business
Book SynopsisWhat does poetry bring to business? This book demonstrates that the skills necessary to talk and think about poetry can be of significant benefit to leaders and strategists, to executives who are facing infinite complexity and who are armed with finite resources in a changing world.Trade Review"Creativity is a means of controlling chaos, finding order. Business and poetry draw their waters out of the same well." - John Barr, President, Poetry Foundation"
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press First Loves and Other Adventures
Book SynopsisGrace Schulman's poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. This book discusses how she became a writer, with influences ranging from her aunt Helen, who leapt from a tower in Poland, to childhood memories of her father reading to her in a foreign language.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Orange Alert
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Available Surfaces
Book SynopsisA series of essays on poetry, music, and ""making"" by renowned poet T. R. Hummer
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Show Me Your Environment
Book SynopsisIn this penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Necropastoral
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Making
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Resident Alien
Book SynopsisKazim Ali uses a range of subjects - the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body - to situate the individual human body into a larger global context, with all of its political and social implications.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Skin of Meaning
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities.Trade ReviewReading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic, conceptual, strongly non-personal vision. With masterful intelligence he has presided over, partaken of, and influenced through his analysis avant-gardes as varied as Language Poetry, New Narrative, and conceptual or procedural poetry, on each of which he has written near-definitive texts. His writing about AIDS, brilliantly gathered here—rich, fantastic, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world. The Skin of Meaning concludes with a bracing interview, in which one of the more profoundly original poets of our day insists on a ‘unity of semantic and phonemic density together’ as poetry’s bottom line, at which point one wants to stand up and cheer, book in hand—book flies into sky, into stars, into the ages.” —Kevin Killian, California College of the Arts
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Little Death of Self
Book SynopsisThe line between poetry (the delicate, surprising not-quite) and the essay (the emphatic what-about and so-there!) is thin, easily crossed. The essays collected in The Little Death of Self are meditations toward poetry by a poet who finds this mysterious genre the weirdest, most compelling of all human ways to imagine - or fathom - the great world.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Becoming a Poet
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Banished Immortal
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Dancing at the Devils Party
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Poetry at One Remove
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Essay on Rime
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Memory Piano
Book SynopsisPart of the ""Poets on Poetry"" series, this title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in the author's exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilson, and more.
£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Love and Logic
Book SynopsisLove and logic may seem an unusual pair of concerns, especially for a visionary poet, but author Stephen Cox believes that in William Blake’s work the problems of love and logic evolve together, constantly influencing each other and determining the structure of the poet’s vision.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Child and the Hero
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Fashioning the Female Subject
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Magnus Felix Ennodius
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Canon Period and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press A Boundless Field
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Rethinking Reality
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