Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Princeton University Press The Double Witness
Book SynopsisBen Belitt writes, "This volume--my fifth--extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things. It offers a variety of poems of formal and textural density and, in addition, a system of 'doublings' and 'solitudes' whose oppositions express the drama of reality and appearance."Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. ix*I. The Invisible Edge, pg. 1*II. From the Firehouse, pg. 19*III. Solitudes, pg. 31*IV. This Scribe, My Hand, pg. 43*V. Block Island: After the Tempest, pg. 53
£27.00
HarperCollins thenightbeforechristmas
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£7.99
Vintage Publishing Poem For The Day Two
Book SynopsisPoem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight, inspire and excite. Chosen for their magic and memorability, the poems in this anthology are an exultant mix of old and new from across the world, poems to learn by heart and take to heart.Trade ReviewA treasure-trove, an adventure trail and a cabinet of wonders -- Andrew MotionIt's a brilliant concept and should give a lot of pleasure to all ages * Daily Mail *Poem for the Day Two is the poetry book I read every day. It is a total joy -- Carol Ann DuffyPraise for Poem of the Day: 'This book is a dream, a revivalist campaign, a challenge, a fundraising vehicle, a book of days and an anthology, all in one' * Guardian *
£17.09
Vintage Publishing A Little Aloud
Book SynopsisThe Reader Organisation (TRO), founded by the charismatic Jane Davis, is a national charity dedicated to bringing about a reading revolution by making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with literature on a deep and personal level. Their 'Get Into Reading' read-aloud groups reach people who may not otherwise read, including people living in deprived areas, the mentally or chronically ill, older people living in Care Homes, prisoners, recovering addicts and excluded children. The organisation started on Merseyside but has since expanded across the UK and beyond. Angela Macmillan has worked at The Reader Organisation since its inception and runs several 'Get Into Reading' groups.Trade ReviewI've always known that reading aloud was one of the paths to greater happiness in life. It's rather pleasing to hear of research backing this up convincingly. But reading aloud isn't medicine to be swallowed to make one feel better. It's pleasure. Pure pleasure -- Stephen FryReading aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would be a better place -- Philip PullmanBeing read to is the beguiling beginning of learning to love reading - it opens the door to absolutely everything and anything we might want to do in life -- Joanna TrollopeReading aloud brings health and happiness: guaranteed! I urge you to buy this book, read the wonderful (and funny, surprising, thought-provoking) pieces collected here to someone you care for and see the results for yourself -- Fiona PhillipsI read to stroke victims so know first-hand the power of good that reading aloud can do. This first-rate collection is a real treasure trove and I can't recommend it highly enough -- Richard Briers
£15.29
British Library Publishing A Literary Christmas
Book SynopsisA Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology collecting poems, short stories and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. With a new cover by Sinem Erkas.Trade Review"It's as if the selection has come from the St Pancras behemoth itself and is all the better for it . . . a timeless and authoritative collection of festive writing." --New European
£14.24
British Library Publishing Poems in Progress
Book SynopsisDiverse themes including love, inequality, and the natural world bring together some of the most culturally significant and emotionally affecting poems in the British Library’s collections and beyond. Practicing poets also reveal their own drafts, with new reflections on writing.
£24.00
Vintage Other Mens Flowers
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell''s great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers.It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of the day, poetry can fulfil its ancient function, finding its way to the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few.Trade ReviewThe worth of Other Men's Flowers is that it is not a manufactured article, made for the market, but the harvest of a life's devotion - of things long held precious in the memory * Daily Telegraph *It is a vindication of the role poetry can fulfil as a source of inspiration and encouragement * Glasgow Herald *Generals tend to win their reputations at the cost of other men's lives. By an anomaly unique in military history Wavell's own reputation has reached its widest range - certainly in the English-speaking world - not because of his prowess as a soldier or a proconsul, but because of his identification with a small miscellany containing a selection of other men's verses * Ronald Lewin *
£15.29
Penguin Books Ltd Penguins Poems for Life
Book SynopsisSelected by former Penguin Classics editorial director Laura Barber, a lifetime lover of poetry. Laura spent the better part of a year reading dozens of anthologies and many more poetry collections to put together this fantastic collection. Laura also put together Penguin's Poems by Heart and the forthcoming Penguin's Poems for Love. Laura lives in London, where she now publishes contemporary literature.
£18.00
British Museum Press Classical Love Poetry
Book SynopsisOffers short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, Sappho and Ovid, and illustrates them with the finest Classical and classically inspired pieces from the British Museums extensive collection. This title explores of the treasures of Classical literature and art.
£9.49
British Museum Press Haiku Love
Book SynopsisPoems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.
£9.49
British Museum Press Chinese Love Poetry
Book SynopsisSelection of classical and modern Chinese love poems, illustrated with brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints in the collection of the British Museum.
£9.49
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Beijing Street Voices Poetry and Politics of
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£7.13
Gill Soundings
Book SynopsisSoundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an interim' anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime it had passed through the hands of hundreds of thousands of students in Ireland.Soundings might have been replaced but it was never fully forgotten. Old copies ended up with an individual personality honed out of manual annotations and thoughts, not all of them provided by the teacher. Scrawls in biro or pencil testified to the thoughts and daydreams many users. A surprising number of copies ended up in attics only to be rediscovered with delight many years later and to be given treasured status in new homes.One former student recalled how Soundings was the first school book to treat her as an adult. It made no concessions to the teenager'. It didn't patronise. Its imagery was entirely in the poetry. The typogr
£17.09
Gill One for Everyone
Book SynopsisKathleen Watkins returns to charm us all once again with a wonderful selection of poetry. These are the verses that have comforted and consoled her over the past year, that she has reached for again and again. The poems offer solace in a difficult time, bringing the reader away from our own world and into a place filled with beautiful words and images.Featuring poems by Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott, Carole Ann Duffy and W.B. Yeats, this is the perfect collection for anyone with an appreciation of the written word.
£13.49
Scribner Book Company Pitching My Tent On Marriage Motherhood
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£12.75
SPCK Publishing The Lion Book of Christmas Poems
Book SynopsisCelebrate the festive season with this beautiful, illustration collection of Christmas poems
£5.99
Edinburgh University Press Mador of the Moor
Book SynopsisA flowing and immensely readable narrative that eloquently challenges the deeply-ingrained class and gender prejudices of Hogg's society.Trade Review...comprehensive glossarie... -- Lallans 70 2007 ...comprehensive glossarie...
£85.50
Octopus Publishing Group Vampires the Shadow World
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£9.50
Octopus Publishing Group Faeries Sprites Malevolent Spirits
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£9.50
McGill-Queen's University Press The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry
Book SynopsisThe May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society. The Republican period (191949) witnessed an outpouring of poetry in a form and style new to China, written in the common people's language, baihua (plain speech). The New Poetry broke with the centuries-old tradition of classical poetry and its intricate forms, and the rise of China's modern poetry reflects the rise of modern China. The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry presents English translations of over 250 poems by fifty poets, including a rich selection of poetry by women writers, to provide a nuanced picture of the rapid development of vernacular verse in China from its emergence during the May Fourth Movement, through the years of the Japanese invasion, to the Communist victory in the Civil War in 1949. Michel Hockx introduces the historical and literary contexts of the various schools of vernaculaTrade Review" The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry provides a comprehensive picture of the rise of modern poetry in vernacular Chinese and its first golden age from the 1910s to the 1940s. In both breadth and depth, this is arguably the best collection available in English to date, further enriched by the insightful introductions and informative biographies. An enjoyable read for anyone interested in understanding Chinese modernity through the lens of poetry." Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis " What makes The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry indispensable and unprecedented is its coverage: fifty of the most important Chinese poets of the first half of the twentieth century, several of them women. Neatly grouped into five separate divisions, the anthology allows both the novice and the expert to enjoy the founding moments of modern Chinese poetry in their full splendor as no previous book has done." Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta
£28.49
McFarland & Company On Human Flourishing A Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisGreat literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of harmony and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense.
£29.41
Johns Hopkins University Press British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisIt fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.Trade ReviewThis book promises to be popular as both textbook and reference. Choice 2010
£64.18
University of Toronto Press Selections from Canadian Poets
Book SynopsisSelections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form ...' This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the anthologist and the tenor of the times. Pre-confederation poets had deeply felt ties with other countries from which developed a shared concern for what Douglas Lochhead terms in his introduction the 'now' and the 'place,' often described in terms of the 'past' and the 'other place,' which embraced a still larger loyalty – religious, political, philosophical, and above all nationalistic. Dewart was widely commended by critics of his attention for its endeavour to come to grips with the influences of other literatures (mainly English) and for its realization that so-called 'colonialism' was
£28.80
LSU Press The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Book SynopsisIn this indispensable volume, John Burt, Robert Penn Warren's literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons), including the many poems he published in The Fugitive and other magazines, as well as those that appeared in his small press works and broadsides.
£62.10
Louisiana State University Press A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written
Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology of poetry written by fifteen Venezuelan poets who are currently residing in Chile. Edited and translated by David Brunson, the volume encompasses the work of young poets coming from many different circumstances. Some have already published several books, while others have just begun their careers as writers.
£25.95
Northwestern University Press The Morte dArthur
£16.16
Northwestern University Press The End of Chiraq
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of poems, rap lyrics, short stories, essays, interviews, and artwork about Chicago, the city that came to be known as Chiraq (Chicago + Iraq), and the people who live in its vibrant and occasionally violent neighbourhoods. This literary mixtape unpacks the meanings of Chiraq as both a vexed term and a space of possibility.
£16.96
Northwestern University Press Triquarterly Issue 132
Book SynopsisSince its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. This title features Lee Upton on purity, Donna Seaman on Lousie Nevelson and David Kirby on rock lyrics and magic spells; and, fiction by Stephen O'Connor, Justin Quarry, and Murzban Shroff.
£11.35
Abrams Poem in Your Pocket 200 Poems to Read and Carry
Book SynopsisHelps to select a poem you love, then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Whether you're a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara or Walt Whitman, this title includes poems for various people.
£13.82
New Directions Publishing Corporation Mourning Songs
Book SynopsisA beautiful, compact, gift edition of some of the world’s greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereaved
£8.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Dog Poems
Book SynopsisThis handsome gift edition will appeal to anyone who is a dog lover, or a poet, or a poetry lover: in short, just about anyoneTable of Contents Linda Pastan, “The New Dog” William Carlos Williams, “Stormy” Lucille Clifton, “dog’s god” Hayden Carruth, “The Primavera” Alicia Ostriker, “The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Dog” Ioanna Carlsen, “Over and Over Tune” James Schuyler, “Oriane” John Brehm, “If Feeling Isn’t in It” Stevie Smith, “O Pug!” Mary Oliver, “Every Dog’s Story” Cathryn Essinger, “My Dog Practices Geometry” Siegfried Sassoon, “Man and Dog” John Updike, “Dog’s Death” Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died” Robinson Jeffers, “The House-Dog’s Grave” Cecil Day-Lewis, “Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park” Amy Lowell, “Roads” Dorothy Parker, “Verse for a Certain Dog” Dylan Thomas, “The Song of the Mischievous Dog” William Cowper, “On a Spaniel . . . & Beau’s Response” James Laughlin, “The Hunting Dog” Bernadette Mayer, “Introduction to Killing” Clarice Lispector, “A Dialogue” Gavin Ewart, “Pi-Dog and Wish-Cat” Louis MacNeice, “Dogs in the Park” Henry Dumas, “Hunt” Homero Aridjis, “Precolumbian” Robert Lax, “are you a visitor?” Denise Levertov, “Kindness” Paul Zimmer, “Dog Music” Muriel Spark, “Mungo Bays the Moon” Vincent Starrett, “Oracle of the Dog” Jose´ Emilio Pacheco, “A Dog’s Life” Diogenes, “Fragment 30” Kazuko Shiraishi, “Dog and Man” Sakutaro Hagiwara, “Unknown Dog” Elizabeth Bishop, “Pink Dog” Robert Lax, “Dog Act” Michael Ondaatje, “A Dog in San Francisco” George Oppen, “The Dog” Paul Muldoon, “Beagles” W. G. Sebald, from “Unrecounted” Denise Levertov, “Grey August” Emily Dickinson, “I Started Early – Took My Dog” May Swenson, “Scroppo’s Dog” Eugenio Montale, “In my early years” Joy Harjo, “Nine Below” Lars Gustafsson, “The Dog” Kate Northrop, “Unfinished Landscape with a Dog” Delmore Schwartz, “ Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers” Denise Levertov, “The Dog of Art”
£12.22
University of Pennsylvania Press Broken Columns
Book SynopsisI would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume.Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTrade Review"With unerring instinct Slavitt has juxtaposed two witty and ironic post-Ovidian tales of coming of age, Statius's unfinished Deeds of Achilles and Claudian's Rape of Proserpina. Those were the mythical days when teenagers were charming and rape consensual (for Deidamia) or at least (for Proserpina) the path to queenly power. Epic was never the same after Ovid, whether in Statius's sentimental comedy of love and war or in Claudian's darker divine intrigue sacrificing a mother's love to avert an infernal coup d'etat. Slavitt's versatile idiom makes vivid the personalities of Statius's drama and updates Claudian's self-conscious poetics in versions that are both free and true to the poets' art." * Elaine Fantham, Princeton University *"Slavitt does a real service by putting into English verse for the first time this century two poems of great grace and charm. . . . Konstan's afterword itself is a gem. . . . I would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *"David Slavitt appears to be fluent not only in Latin but also in hexameters. His translation seems to flow effortlessly from his pen. His speech and vocabulary are contemporary and easy to read. . . . This slim volume is further enhanced by the brilliant essay by David Konstan that is appended to it. The essay is reminiscent of the introductions written by R. C. Jebb in his editions of the plays of Sophocles-a combination of a scholarly discussion of the underlying myth in the text interspersed with perceptive literary criticism." * American Book Review *
£17.99
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
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida American Prose Poem Poetic Form and the
Book SynopsisThe American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.Trade ReviewExcellent . . . the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets." —Peter Johnson, Providence College
£19.90
The University Press of Kentucky What Comes Down to Us 25 Contemporary Kentucky
Book SynopsisWhat Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Worley's introduction places contemporary Kentucky poetry in the context of the state's rich literary tradition, and the poet biographies include their reflections and, often, their poetic approach and technique.
£32.26
The University Press of Kentucky Black Bone
Book SynopsisThis act inspired a group of gifted artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region. After years of growth, honors, and accomplishments, the group is acknowledging its silver anniversary with Black Bone.Trade ReviewBlack Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets is a beautiful collection of both old and new work."" - USA Today""The Affrilachian Poets continue to be a groundbreaking literary force.... In celebration of their decades-long collaboration, the group has published its first anthology, Black Bone."" - Detroit Free Press
£21.56
The University Press of Kentucky What Things Cost
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£25.16
MW - Rutgers University Press Brown River White Ocean An Anthology of TwentiethCentury Philippine Literature in English
£29.70
Rutgers University Press The New Anthology of American Poetry Traditions
Book SynopsisThis anthology demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry have evolved, with certain poets silenced until the present day, while others who emerged and then faded are ready to be retrieved. This volume covers poetry from its beginnings up to 1900.Trade Review"It belongs on the shelf of every library and of every individual who understand that the voices of the poets set the moral tone of the US." * Choice *"By embracing the guiding principle of 'traditions and revolutions,' the editors of this marvelous anthology have produced a rich, exciting text that surprises, engages, and challenges readers like no other such book has done. Its thoughtful inclusiveness, lucid introductions, and helpful notes make it supremely teachable. This work establishes a new benchmark for poetry anthologies." -- Emory Elliott * editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States *Table of Contents*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: PRE-COLUMBIAN PERIOD TO 1800 IntroductionNATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (Pre 1492-1800)GASPAR PÉREZ DE VILLAGRÁ (1555-1620)ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1631-1705)LUCY TERRY (ca. 1730-1821)PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753-1784)JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATIONPART TWO: EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionAFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE SONGS (1800-1863)NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800-1900)LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)WILLIAN CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)GEORGE MOSES HORTON (ca. 1797-1883)JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAME-WA-WA-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY, WOMAN OF THE STARS RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY] (1800-1841)SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803-1878)RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH (1806-1893)HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) EDGAR ALLEN P0E (1809-1849)OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811-1850)ADA [SARAH LOUISA FORTEN] (ca. 1814-1898)HENRY DAVID THROEAU (1817-1862)JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)ALICE CARY (1820-1871)FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1827-1853)ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892)JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827-1867)HENRY TIMROD (1828-1867)HAWAI'IAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS (1825-1930)JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN (1838-1920)POPULAR EUROPEAN-AMERICAN SONGSPART THREE: LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionCORRIDOS (1860s-1930s)ZARAGOZA CLUBS (1860s)DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN [TOO-QUA-STEE] (1829-1909)HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885)EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)ADAH ISSACS MENKEN (ca. 1835-1868)sARAH M. B. PIATT (1836-1919)LYDIA KAMAKAEHA [QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI] (1838-1917)INA COOLBRITH (1841-1928)SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851-1901)EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)JOSÉ MARTÍ (1853-1895)ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853-1908)LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920)MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA (1865-1954)OWL WOMAN [JUANA MANWELL] (1867-1957)SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944)EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869-1910)EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)About the EditorsIndex
£49.40
Wayne State University Press The Way North
Book SynopsisMichigan's Upper Peninsula is distinct from the rest of the state in geography, climate, and culture, including a unique and thriving creative writing community. In The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, Ron Riekki presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from memorable, varied voices that are writing from and about Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
£17.95
University of Arizona Press Sing
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£24.71
University of Arizona Press When It Rains
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£15.95
University of Arizona Press Beyond Earths Edge The Poetry of Spaceflight
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£19.76
The University of Alabama Press What I Say Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in
Book SynopsisWhat I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the c
£28.86
Wesleyan University Press Dear Yusef
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£48.25
Wesleyan University Press A Las Orillas del Río Viejo
£7.89
Ohio University Press Religious Imaginaries
Book SynopsisExplores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith commitments tended to limit creativity; that the contours of church experiences matter little for understanding religious poetry; and that gender is more significant than liturgy in shaping women's religious poetry.Exploring the import of bodily experience for spiritual, emotional, and cognitive forms of knowing, Karen Dieleman explains and clarifies the deep orientations of different strands of nineteenth-century Christianity, such as Congregationalism's high regard for verbal proclamation, Anglicanism's and Anglo-Catholicism's valuation of manifestation, and revivalist Roman Catholicism's recuperation of an affective aesthetic. Looking specifically at Elizabeth Barrett BroTrade Review“In our critical moment often obsessed with secularity, Dieleman’s breathtakingly original scholarship reminds us how lived religion and liturgy profoundly shaped the creative work of some of our most celebrated women writers. This groundbreaking book made me rethink everything I thought I knew about religion, poetry, and women in nineteenth-century England." -- Cynthia Scheinberg, author of Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture“Though applying a theoretical framework drawn from contemporary theology, Dieleman unquestionably displays her Victorianist credentials by combining her own fresh archival research with often incisive close readings.” * Review 19 *“Dieleman is particularly insightful when she describes the types of worship practiced in various ecclesial settings (Dissenting, Anglican, and roman Catholic).…[Her] sympathetic and wide reading of different worship settings in the nineteenth century opens up many useful lines of thought.” * Victorian Studies *“In a major new study of poetics and liturgical practises, Karen Dieleman makes an important intervention in approaches to women’s religious poetry. Rather than, she argues, the conventional assumption that faith limits poetry, women’s direct bodily experience of church worship shaped the form of their poems, and what she terms a ‘religious imaginary’ is often more important than gender in the development of religious poetics.…Religious Imaginaries is a rich, compelling, and innovative approach to women poets, and the inclusion of Procter with the usual pairing of Rossetti and Barrett Browning is a welcome attempt in adding this important woman and usually overlooked woman poet to the center of attention.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Women Poets” *“Time has blurred distinctions between the remarkably many branches of nineteenth-century British Christianity, and although many careful studies of Christina Rossetti’s religious writings have paid homage to her intentions and sensibilities, fewer writers have taken the trouble to analyze their personal and institutional antecedents. Dieleman’s lucid arguments help clarify why Rossetti framed her idiosyncratic spiritual experiences as she did.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on the Pre-Raphaelites” *“Religious Imaginaries is an astute, learned, and original interdisciplinary study of the interconnections between the poetic practices of three women poets and the ‘religious imaginaries formed by and in response to liturgical practices’ (p. 2). …Dieleman combines expertise in church history, liturgy, biblical discourse and EBB scholarship with a syncretic theoretical framework.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning” *“An excellent study. Dieleman resists the secularization narrative and explores the distinctive liturgical practices of different denominations and their influence on Victorian women poets. She wishes to reinstate the ‘affirmative and generative possibilities’ of church experience for women poets, particularly for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter. Their poetic voices were shaped by their religious imaginings rather than simply by a set of doctrines, and Dieleman approaches her task by bringing together ‘the sensory and the affective, or the body, mind, and emotions.’” * The Year's Work in English Studies *
£59.40
Ohio University Press Lyrical Liberators
Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”
£59.40
