Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisGuillaume d'Orange is the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages. Set in the ninth century, the poems on the life of William of Orange grew out of several centuries of oral composition and were written down for the first time in the twelfth century. Changing and growing through the years, the poems reflect historical events from the ninth to the twelfth century. Joan M. Ferrante writes in the Introduction, History tells us little of the medieval William of Orange, but legend tells us a great deal. From the legends grew the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages.

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Book SynopsisThis translation of the 5th-century Indian epic love story of Kannaki and Kovalan follows the conventions of classical Tamil poetry and is told in three phases: the erotic, the mythic, and the heroic. The author provides an introduction to the poem.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is most heartily recommended to all, not just to specialists in Tamil literature... -- Jaroslav Vacek, Charles University in Prague PandanusTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Marutam (100 Poems on Jealous Quarreling by ?ramp?kiy?r) 2. Neytal (100 Poems on Lamenting the Lover's Absence by Amm?van?r) 3. Kurinci (100 Poems on the Union of Lovers by Kapilar) 4. P?lai (100 Poems on Separation by ?tal?ntaiy?r) 5. Mullai (100 Poems on Patient Waiting for the Lover's Return by P?yan?r) References Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.Trade ReviewAn inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations. -- Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time This is a vital anthology, both in conception and execution. For students and faculty alike, it will create an unprecedented sense of the dynamic force fields of American literature. I'm especially impressed by the anthology's fluid movement across media platforms and geographical divides. -- Rob Nixon, Princeton University With the inimitable vision we have come to expect from her, Dimock has assembled a nimble model for reading American literature beyond U.S. borders and traditional periodization, across both space and time. This vision of American literary history as an international, outward-facing, worldly tradition is timely and needed. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet, "Semiramis" Louise Gluck, "Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams, "The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution, 1789-1799 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to General Lafayette, June 16, 1792 Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe, July 14, 1793 Victor Sejour, "The Mulatto" Mexican War, 1846-1848 Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe, 1848-1849 Margaret Fuller, Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 Stephen Crane, "Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery, "Memories of Imperialism" World War I, 1914-1918 Edith Wharton, Fighting France Rita Dove, "The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Muriel Rukeyser, Mediterranean Langston Hughes, "Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes, "General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine, "To P.L., 1916-1937" World War II, 1939-1945 Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman, Maus Jorie Graham, "Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner, "Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead John Hersey, Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle Korean War, 1950-1953 Thomas McGrath, "Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim, "Under Flag" Cuban Revolution, 1959 Jay Cantor, The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War, 1955-1975 Michael Herr, Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa, "Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin, "The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Latin American State Violence, 1947-1991 Joan Didion, Salvador Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict, 1991-present Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye, "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich, "Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin, War Trash Sharon Olds, "The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring, Preparing, and Consuming Herman Melville, "Stubb's Supper," from Moby-Dick Jack London, "The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez, ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jhumpa Lahiri, "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg, "One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder, "Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco, "Mango No. 61" III. Work, Play, Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, March 27, 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun Henry James, The American Richard Wright, Black Power Norman Rush, Mating Robert Hass, "Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky, "The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali, "In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville, "The Monkey Rope," from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess John Steinbeck, East of Eden Langston Hughes, "Something in Common" James Baldwin, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Rolando Hinojosa, Partners in Crime Sherman Alexie, "The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning" Music-Making Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm" Claude McKay, Banjo Amiri Baraka, Blues People Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon Robert Pinsky, "Ginza Samba" IV. Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, August 21, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine, "Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "A Bosom Friend," from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Sa, "Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Denise Levertov, "The Altars in the Street" Gary Snyder, "Grace" Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Joanne Kyger, "Here in Oaxaca It's the Night of the Radishes" Many Islams Washington Irving, "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" Paul Bowles, The Spider's House Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X John Updike, Terrorist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah" V. Human and Nonhuman Interfaces Ants Henry David Thoreau, Walden Marianne Moore, "Critics and Connoisseurs" Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX I Robert Lowell, "Ants" Toni Morrison, Tar Baby Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Commodities and Markets Elizabeth Alexander, "Amistad" Herman Melville, "The Advocate," from Moby-Dick Frank Norris, The Octopus John Dos Passos, The Big Money Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What Destructive Agents Jack London, "The Scarlet Plague" Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" Carl Sandburg, "Buttons" Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Adrienne Rich, "The School Among the Ruins" Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet" George Oppen, "The Crowded Countries of the Bomb" Denise Levertov, "Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site" Nonhuman Intelligence Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 William Gibson, Neuromancer Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Octavia Butler, Dawn Notes Permissions Index of Authors General Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.Trade ReviewAn inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations. -- Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time This is a vital anthology, both in conception and execution. For students and faculty alike, it will create an unprecedented sense of the dynamic force fields of American literature. I'm especially impressed by the anthology's fluid movement across media platforms and geographical divides. -- Rob Nixon, Princeton University With the inimitable vision we have come to expect from her, Dimock has assembled a nimble model for reading American literature beyond U.S. borders and traditional periodization, across both space and time. This vision of American literary history as an international, outward-facing, worldly tradition is timely and needed. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet, "Semiramis" Louise Gluck, "Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams, "The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution, 1789-1799 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to General Lafayette, June 16, 1792 Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe, July 14, 1793 Victor Sejour, "The Mulatto" Mexican War, 1846-1848 Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe, 1848-1849 Margaret Fuller, Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 Stephen Crane, "Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery, "Memories of Imperialism" World War I, 1914-1918 Edith Wharton, Fighting France Rita Dove, "The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Muriel Rukeyser, Mediterranean Langston Hughes, "Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes, "General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine, "To P.L., 1916-1937" World War II, 1939-1945 Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman, Maus Jorie Graham, "Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner, "Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead John Hersey, Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle Korean War, 1950-1953 Thomas McGrath, "Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim, "Under Flag" Cuban Revolution, 1959 Jay Cantor, The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War, 1955-1975 Michael Herr, Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa, "Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin, "The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Latin American State Violence, 1947-1991 Joan Didion, Salvador Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict, 1991-present Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye, "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich, "Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin, War Trash Sharon Olds, "The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring, Preparing, and Consuming Herman Melville, "Stubb's Supper," from Moby-Dick Jack London, "The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez, ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jhumpa Lahiri, "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg, "One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder, "Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco, "Mango No. 61" III. Work, Play, Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, March 27, 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun Henry James, The American Richard Wright, Black Power Norman Rush, Mating Robert Hass, "Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky, "The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali, "In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville, "The Monkey Rope," from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess John Steinbeck, East of Eden Langston Hughes, "Something in Common" James Baldwin, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Rolando Hinojosa, Partners in Crime Sherman Alexie, "The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning" Music-Making Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm" Claude McKay, Banjo Amiri Baraka, Blues People Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon Robert Pinsky, "Ginza Samba" IV. Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, August 21, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine, "Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "A Bosom Friend," from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Sa, "Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Denise Levertov, "The Altars in the Street" Gary Snyder, "Grace" Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Joanne Kyger, "Here in Oaxaca It's the Night of the Radishes" Many Islams Washington Irving, "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" Paul Bowles, The Spider's House Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X John Updike, Terrorist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah" V. Human and Nonhuman Interfaces Ants Henry David Thoreau, Walden Marianne Moore, "Critics and Connoisseurs" Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX I Robert Lowell, "Ants" Toni Morrison, Tar Baby Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Commodities and Markets Elizabeth Alexander, "Amistad" Herman Melville, "The Advocate," from Moby-Dick Frank Norris, The Octopus John Dos Passos, The Big Money Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What Destructive Agents Jack London, "The Scarlet Plague" Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" Carl Sandburg, "Buttons" Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Adrienne Rich, "The School Among the Ruins" Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet" George Oppen, "The Crowded Countries of the Bomb" Denise Levertov, "Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site" Nonhuman Intelligence Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 William Gibson, Neuromancer Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Octavia Butler, Dawn Notes Permissions Index of Authors General Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Songs of Chu contain some of the most beautiful language in early Chinese literature. They are also an invaluable source for research on ancient myths, legends, and cosmology. Sukhu's elegant English translation belies years of meticulous scholarship to give the modern reader some sense of the extraordinarily difficult original. A magnificent achievement! -- Sarah Allan, Dartmouth College Gopal Sukhu's agile, sensitive new translations of these beautiful and haunting poems and the lucid introductions that accompany them will delight readers of every stripe, while the book's scholarly apparatus, distilling a lifetime's engagement with the notoriously difficult text, will satisfy the most exacting of specialists. The publication of this long-awaited work marks a great event in the field of Chinese literature. -- John S. Major, cotranslator of The Huainanzi Transformative, smooth, and beautiful: one reads this book not only as a critical update of scholarship but also for the pure joy of the prose. -- Constance Cook, author of Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man's JourneyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Nine Songs Jiuge 2. "Leaving My Troubles" "Li sao" 3. "Ask the Sky" "Tian wen" 4. Nine Cantos Jiuzhang 5. "Wandering Far Away" "Yuan you" 6. "The Diviner" "Bu ju" and "The Fisherman" "Yufu" 7. Nine Variations Jiubian 8. "Summoning the Soul" "Zhao hun" 9. "The Great Summoning" "Da zhao" 10. "Regretting the Vows" "Xi shi" 11. "Mourning Qu Yuan" "Diao Qu Yuan" and "The Owl Rhapsody" "Fu fu" 12. "I Lament It Was Not My Destiny" "Ai shiming" 13. "Calling the Hermit Back" "Zhao yinshi" Appendix: Dating the Works in the Chuci Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFamiliar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christina Rossetti to Benjamin Zephaniah, all carefully chosen for their suitability for learning and reciting. This is an anthology which celebrates the age-old pleasure of reciting poems - an anthology for all ages to treasure.Trade ReviewThe poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking -- Simon Armitage

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet and author of Martyr!, Kaveh AkbarA Penguin ClassicPoets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology is a holistic and global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices going up to the presentTrade ReviewIf poetry is prayer, here are scriptures. Kaveh Akbar's brave, encompassing map of spiritual hunger shows us that longing belongs to all of us, whatever the languages we speak or the geographies we inhabit -- Jeet ThayilAn amazing collection of spiritual verse from many cultures and periods, from ancient Sumer in the third millennium BCE up to the present. There cannot be any other anthology that ranges so widely, and anyone concerned with either poetry or spirituality will want to own a copy -- John Barton * author of A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths *Wonderfully rich, this beautiful anthology of verse uniquely displays how humans over centuries and across continents have wrestled with the concept of the divine and, in turn, humanity's relationship with that divinity. From exaltation to lament, from reflections on beauty to explorations of science, these words draw the reader's eyes towards the wonder of the numinous. A delightful celebration of human creativity, with new insights from a trusted guide: Kaveh Akbar -- Chine McDonald * director of Theos and author of God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations *What an amazing compilation: beautifully edited, translated, introduced, this book is far more than a typical poetry anthology. What is it, then? It is our chance to overhear the splendid poet Kaveh Akbar whisper to himself words which he lives by, as he embarks on his own journey of spirit, loss, astonishment, bewilderment, and, perhaps, understanding. The chorus of voices gathered offer a balm, a consolation, a tune, in our desolate world -- Ilya Kaminsky * author of Deaf Republic *How can language approach the spiritual - that which remains unlanguaged - and trace the limen between the self and what it falls silent before? In The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse, Kaveh Akbar takes up this timeless inquiry with expansive curatorial shaping and heady joy, threading together Li Po and Adelia Prado, Hafez with Jabès, reverent with ludic, divine with corporeal, and everything that gets charged through, and between, them. Vibrating across this thick bundle of verse is the animation of the spirit enmeshed with the body, astounding in its ever-shifting forms, its irrepressible music. These poems "thin the partition between a person and a divine," and they do so sublimely: making porous the border between the self and all that beckons beyond understanding -- Jenny XieThe choices Kaveh Akbar has made for this anthology of spiritual verse are spectacularly excellent. They are from regions of poetry at once accessible and exalted, representing the most intense of human experiences, the experiences of the divine, the yearning for the holy. Multiple cultures are represented: texts of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Arabic speaking world, the Farsi speaking world, poets of Hindi and Urdu, poets from everywhere in Asia, Africa, Europe, as well as England and the USA. Here is a page of Lucretius, there a page of Dante (splendidly translated by Mary Jo Bang), and over there, Nazim Hikmet. There are several astonishing women, including Enheduanna, Mirabai, Gabriela Mistral. The book holds an embarrassment of riches, yet is light on its feet. You can easily carry it with you in an outside pocket of your knapsack. You too will be smitten by the yearning that animates and drives these poems. Akbar's Introduction, and his notes on individual poems, are extra added value: the words of a poet -- Alicia Ostriker * New York State Poet Laureate 2018-2021, author of the volcano and after:Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019 *Table of ContentsIntroductionEnheduanna, from ‘Hymn to Inanna’ Unknown, ‘Death of Enkidu’, from The Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown, from The Book of the Dead Unknown, Song of Songs, chapters 1 and 2 King David, Psalm 23 Homer, from The Odyssey Sappho, Fragments 22 and 118 Patacara, ‘When they plow their fields’ Lao Tzu, ‘Easy by Nature’, from Tao Te Ching Chandaka, Two Cosmologies Vyasa, from the Bhagavad Gita Lucretius, from The Nature of Things Virgil, from The Aeneid Shenoute, ‘Homily’ Sengcan, ‘The Mind of Absolute Trust’ From the Quran Kakinomoto Hitomaro, ‘In praise of Empress Jitō’ Li Po, ‘Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon’ Rabi’a al-Basri, ‘O my lord’ Ono No Komachi, ‘This inn’ Hanshan, ‘Hanshan’s Poem’ Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, ‘Names of the Lion’ Unknown, Anglo-Saxon charm Izumi Shikibu, ‘Things I Want Decided’ Li Qingzhao, ‘Late Spring’ Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Song to the Creator’ Mahadeviyakka, ‘I do not call it his sign’ Attar of Nishapur, ‘Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert’ St Francis of Assisi, ‘Canticle of the Sun’ Wumen Huikai, from The Gateless Gate Rūmī, ‘Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven’ Mechthild of Magdeburg, ‘Of all that God has shown me’ Saadi Shirazi, ‘The Grass Cried Out’ Thomas Aquinas, ‘Lost, All in Wonder’ Moses de León, from The Sepher Zohar Dante Alighieri, from Inferno, Canto III from the Sundiata Hafez, Ghazal 17 Yaqui people, ‘Deer Song’ Nezahualcoyotl, ‘The Painted Book’ Kabir, ‘Brother, I’ve seen some’ Mirabai, ‘O friend, understand’ Yoruba people, from A Recitation of Ifa Teresa of Ávila, ‘Laughter Came from Every Brick’ Gaspara Stampa, ‘Deeply repentant of my sinful ways’ St John of the Cross, ‘O Love’s living flame’ Mayan people, from the Popol Vuh Christopher Marlowe, from Faustus William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146 John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three-person’d God’ Nahuatl people, ‘The Midwife Addresses the Woman’ George Herbert, ‘Easter Wings’ Walatta Petros/Gälawdewos, from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros John Milton, from Paradise Lost, Book 4 Bashō, ‘Death Song’ and ‘In Kyoto’ Juana Inés de la Cruz, ‘Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain’ Yosa Buson, ‘A solitude’ Olaudah Equiano, ‘Miscellaneous Verses’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Wanderer’s Nightsong II’ Phillis Wheatley, ‘On Virtue’ William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’ Kobayashi Issa, ‘All the time I pray to Buddha’ John Clare, ‘I Am!’ John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Mirza Ghalib, ‘For the Raindrop’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’ Frederick Douglass, ‘A Parody’ Emily Dickinson, ‘I prayed, at first, a little Girl’ Uvavnuk, ‘The Great Sea’ Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘God’s Grandeur’ Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Temple of Gold’ Constantine Cavafy, ‘Body, Remember’ W. B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’ Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘The Second Duino Elegy’ Muhammad Iqbal, ‘These are the days of lightning’ Yosano Akiko, ‘To punish’ Sarojini Naidu, ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’ Delmira Agustini, ‘Inextinguishables’ Gabriela Mistral, ‘The Return’ Anna Akhmatova, from ‘Requiem’ Osip Mandelstam, ‘O Lord, help me to live through this night’ Edith Södergran, ‘A Life’ Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poems to Czechia María Sabina, from ‘The Midnight Velada’ Xu Zhimo, ‘Second Farewell to Cambridge’ Federico García Lorca, ‘Farewell’ Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved’ Léopold Sédar Senghor, ‘Totem’ Faiz Ahmed Faiz, ‘Before You Came’ Czesław Miłosz, ‘Dedication’ Edmond Jabès, ‘At the Threshold of the Book’ Aimé Césaire, from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Octavio Paz, ‘Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy’ Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘God’s One Mistake’ Paul Celan, ‘There was Earth in Them’ Paul Laraque, ‘Rainbow’ Nazik Al-Malaika, ‘Love Song for Words’ Wisława Szymborska, ‘Astonishment’ Zbigniew Herbert, ‘The Envoy of Mr Cogito’ Yehuda Amichai, ‘A Man in His Life’ Ingeborg Bachmann, ‘Every Day’ Kim Nam-Jo, ‘Foreign Flags’ Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Bread’ Adonis, ‘The New Noah’ Christopher Okigbo, ‘Come Thunder’ Ingrid Jonker, ‘There Is Just One Forever’ Jean Valentine, ‘The River at Wolf’ Kofi Awoonor, ‘At the Gates’ Adélia Prado, ‘Dysrhythmia’ Lucille Clifton, ‘my dream about God’ Vénus Khoury-Ghata, from She Says Mahmoud Darwish, ‘I Didn’t Apologize to the Well’ M. NourbeSe Philip, from Zong! Inrasara, from Allegory of the Land Sources Acknowledgements Index of First Lines Index of Titles

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Book Synopsis''A matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss'' Stephen Fry on William Sieghart''s bestselling Poetry PharmacyThe Poetry Pharmacy is one of the bestselling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of recent decades. Now, after huge demand for more prescriptions from readers and ''patients'' alike, William Sieghart is back. This time, tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies are joined by readers'' favourite poems and the new conditions most requested by the public - all accompanied by his trademark meditations (warm, witty and understanding, with just a twist of the challenging) on the spiritual ailments he seeks to cure.From ageing bodies and existential crises to long-distance relationships and embracing your slovenliness, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns caters to all-new conditions while drilling further down into the universals: this time, the challenges of family life, and of living as a person among others, receive a much closer look. Perfect for the treasured friends, barely tolerated siblings, beloved aunts and revered grandparents in your life.

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Book SynopsisThe Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah We''ve been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico . . .Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. In fact a great deal of erotic poetry rejects the distinction. It''s hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie Hannah''s anthology vividly demonstrates, from Catullus pleading with Lesbos to Walt Whitman singing the body electric. Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write about it.Sophie Hannah''s selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement. The result is a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology.From Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, this book is essential reading for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere. It is a perfect counterpart to the The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry and a wonderful companion to Sophie Hannah''s own Selected Poems.''Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart'' Guardian''A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is often very funny'' The Oldie''The brightest young star in British poetry'' IndependentSophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth Pessimism for Beginners was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin (revised edition, 2013). She is also the writer of bestselling psychological crime fiction, most recently The Carrier. Her novels have been translated into 24 languages. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cambridge with her husband and children, and is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College.Trade ReviewSophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisWindharp: Niall MacMonagle''s essential anthology of the last century of Irish poetryThe Easter Rising of 1916 was a foundational moment of the independent Irish state; but while that insurrection continues to divide opinion, there is no disagreement as to the majesty of Yeats''s ''Easter 1916'', or about the excellence of the Irish poetic tradition over the past century. Windharp is an anthology that follows the twists and turns of Irish history, culture and society through the work of its remarkable standing army of poets. Edited by Niall MacMonagle, Ireland''s most trusted poetry commentator,Windharp is an accessible and inspiring journey through a century of Irish life.''A landmark book'' Clive James, TLS Books of the Year''Glorious'' Irish Examiner''Beautifully produced ... an appealing and appetite-whetting introduction to a century''s poetry'' Irish Times''Beautifully judged ... poised perfectly between the canon and the tradition, with a generous inclusiveness'' Eavan Boland, Irish Times''A perfect selection. One of the best anthologies of Irish poetry ever produced.'' Donal RyanTrade ReviewGlorious * Irish Examiner *Beautifully produced ... an appealing and appetite-whetting introduction to a century's poetry * Irish Times *So richly varied and yet so unified in its musicality ... They all seem to share in a kind of universal eloquence, as if the air over that island were charged with some kind of melodic ozone specifically propitious for the versifying brain. A landmark book. -- Clive James * TLS *Beautifully judged ... poised perfectly between the canon and the tradition, with a generous inclusiveness -- Eavan Boland * Irish Times *A perfect selection. One of the best anthologies of Irish poetry ever produced. -- Donal Ryan

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Book SynopsisA celebratory 20th anniversary edition of A landmark collection from black writers across the literary spectrum''The fact that IC3, the police identity for Black, is the only collective term that relates to our situation here as residents (''Black British'' is political and refers to Africans, Asians, West Indians, Americans and sometimes even Chinese) is a sad fact of life I could not ignore'' from Courttia Newland''s Introduction, 2000First published twenty years ago into a different literary landscape, IC3 showcases the work of more than 100 black British authors, celebrating their lasting contributions to literature and British culture. It spans a wealth of genres to demonstrate the range and astonishing literary achievements of black writers, including:Poetry from Roger Robinson, Bernardine Evaristo, Jackie Kay and Benjamin Zephaniah. Short stories from Ferdinand Dennis, Diana Evans, Catherine Jonson, E.A. Markham a

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Norman Shapiro, a flute, harp, and violoncello of cat song, tells the crafty musical tale of the cat from medieval France until today. Shapiro, at his artistic apogee, created an English masterpiece in his Selected Lyrics of Théophile Gautier. But now with his Fe-Lines, he has invented a new genre, as T. S. Eliot did with Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The world is his pen. Who knows where the next Everest awaits him?"--Willis Barnstone, author of Moonbook and Sunbook"What makes a cat poem appealing to the reader? One of the salient features that I took from Fe-Lines is the constant desire to finish a poem with a 'menschliche Weisheit' (human insight of wisdom) that activates the reader's imagination and keeps the reader inside the movement of the poem. A major contribution to the field of letters and world literature."--Rainer Schulte, author of The Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling between Languages“With beautiful illustrations and poems of every age and form, this book will please everyone (except dog lovers).”--World Literature Today

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Norman Shapiro, a flute, harp, and violoncello of cat song, tells the crafty musical tale of the cat from medieval France until today. Shapiro, at his artistic apogee, created an English masterpiece in his Selected Lyrics of Théophile Gautier. But now with his Fe-Lines, he has invented a new genre, as T. S. Eliot did with Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The world is his pen. Who knows where the next Everest awaits him?"--Willis Barnstone, author of Moonbook and Sunbook"What makes a cat poem appealing to the reader? One of the salient features that I took from Fe-Lines is the constant desire to finish a poem with a 'menschliche Weisheit' (human insight of wisdom) that activates the reader's imagination and keeps the reader inside the movement of the poem. A major contribution to the field of letters and world literature."--Rainer Schulte, author of The Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling between Languages“With beautiful illustrations and poems of every age and form, this book will please everyone (except dog lovers).”--World Literature Today

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Book SynopsisFor years, I''ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In Climbing the Divide, McDonald has made his strongest collection of poems yet. David Citino, author of The News and Other Poems Climbing the Divide must have been written with a pen Walt McDonald dipped into his heart. Crisscrossing generations, poems detail watching a grandfather with knuckles the size of walnuts carve a grizzly bear out of oak, taking car keys away from a father ''who drove tanks for Patton'' and thinking about nights in the jungle of Vietnam while pushing a granddaughter in a swing because her father is training overseas for Desert Storm. Binding us to his Texas world in sensual detail about men with big-boned fists who inhabit a land where the moon pockmarks the sky, Walt McDonald refuses to let moments of communion be swallowed by ''war on every channel.'' His poems stay lodged in the heart to remTrade Review"Like feathers, [McDonald’s] poems have both lightness and strength; he understands the poetic virtue of understatement and the human virtue of humility. These are not experimental poems; they are deeply, originally traditional, and just as deeply accomplished."—ForeWord

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Book SynopsisFor years, I''ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In Climbing the Divide, McDonald has made his strongest collection of poems yet. David Citino, author of The News and Other Poems Climbing the Divide must have been written with a pen Walt McDonald dipped into his heart. Crisscrossing generations, poems detail watching a grandfather with knuckles the size of walnuts carve a grizzly bear out of oak, taking car keys away from a father ''who drove tanks for Patton'' and thinking about nights in the jungle of Vietnam while pushing a granddaughter in a swing because her father is training overseas for Desert Storm. Binding us to his Texas world in sensual detail about men with big-boned fists who inhabit a land where the moon pockmarks the sky, Walt McDonald refuses to let moments of communion be swallowed by ''war on every channel.'' His poems stay lodged in the heart to remTrade Review"Like feathers, [McDonald’s] poems have both lightness and strength; he understands the poetic virtue of understatement and the human virtue of humility. These are not experimental poems; they are deeply, originally traditional, and just as deeply accomplished."—ForeWord

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Book SynopsisThis is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose work enjoins Irish American themes.Trade Review". . . If the purpose of a good poetry anthology is to introduce readers to unfamiliar writers and reacquaint them with neglected masters, this one must be judged a raging success. Tobin does provide a meaningfully convivial context in which to engage, in close proximity, the work of Galway Kinnell, Billy Collins, and Paul Muldoon. They’re good company, and there’s plenty more where that came from." —Booklist". . . A prodigious and remarkable work of literary scholarship. This anthology is far more than an original work of scholarship: it is a major act of recovery, which rescues from oblivion the work of important writers who have been the creators of the Irish American literary consciousness. Professor Tobin has achieved the invention of a whole new field. With publication of this anthology, we will finally understand both the scale and importance of Irish American poetry." —Eammon Wall, Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis"More than two hundred poets from the eighteenth century to now are represented in The Book of Irish American Poetry, some resurrected and restored, others seen anew from the perspective of Irish American studies, still others deservedly anthologized for the first time. Poet and editor Daniel Tobin demonstrates beyond question the length, depth, strength and variety of Irish American poetry. His anthology—complete with historical chronology, biographical and explanatory notes, and extensive bibliographies—is the first accurate map of a new territory." —Brendan Galvin, author of Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005“This handsome book, with its dust jacket reproduction of Hughson Hawley’s Laying the Tracks at Broadway and 14th Street (ca. 1891), is unique in American anthology-making . . . . a major literary and critical achievement . . . it is basically a superb poetic treasury, just as suitable for one’s home collection as for research libraries. Its hundreds of poems, full of lyricism, though veined with Celtic melancholy and the sense of the tragic, constitute versions of an historical and cultural tradition of enormous importance to America and still vigorous, proving that Irish American culture is more than just a good pub or a St. Patrick’s Day parade.” —Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture“Tobin's 900-plus-page anthology is a gem. . . . It is an effusive text of Irish American poetry, rather than of Irish American poets, and because of this it is inclusive in a way that one might not expect. . . . This is an anthology at once rigorously defined and researched and yet also open to every type of poet and poem.” —The Virginia Quarterly Review“Editor and poet Daniel Tobin took on a mammoth task in attempting to compile the most authoritative collection of Irish-American poetry . . . . This book is a must-have for lovers of Irish and Irish-American writing.” —Irish America“. . . an intelligent, imaginative collection that sheds new light on a literary tradition while highlighting exciting work that might otherwise go unnoticed. Definitive enough to belong on the book shelf of any scholar who teaches or writes about American poetry, it is also a marvelous read, a browsing treasure.” —New Hibernia Review“Tobin as editor reaches beyond ethnic boundaries to capture a deeper and universal sense of freedom and exile. These poets, not all Irish or Irish-American, feel deeply the trauma of history.” —Multicultural Review“Daniel Tobin’s The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present means to be for poetry what Charles Fanning’s two great works, The Irish Voice in America and Exiles of Erin, do for Irish-American prose. That is, to be the last word. And certainly, what he has created with this encyclopedia collection is a compendium of works remarkable for its scope and depth.” —An Sionnach“This is a book that one will enjoy dipping into again and again through the years. It appeals to poetry-loving Americans of all backgrounds, not only those who rejoice in some sort of 'Irish connection.'” —Doxa: A Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisThe Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008 celebrates the distinction and diversity of poets associated with the university during these nearly two decades.Trade Review"The principal pleasures of this collection—and rightly so—lie in the richness and diversity of the poems it contains. Varied in style, form, voice, and subject matter, traditional, experimental, centered in the ethnic self, sharply placed in concrete landscapes, or deliberately abstract, they represent the reach, not just of Notre Dame poetry, but of much of recent poetry in America. The Notre Dame connections among these poets invite another kind of tantalizing, speculative reading. There are real commonalities here, a sense throughout that poetry has consequence and gravity in the world and that style is a kind of commitment. Other threads can be followed in autobiographical sketches Orlando Menes has included in the “Statements” section in the Appendix, but whether reading for poetry’s sake or Notre Dame’s Open Light is a treasure." —Michael Anania, University of Illinois at Chicago"The poems in The Open Light are not only good. Beyond the fine work of these many excellent poets, what strikes me is the tremendous diversity of voices and sensibilities represented here. Where else could I find the intricate sonic complexity of the work of Robert Archambeau or Michael Coffey set against the wild, energetic playfulness of Jenny Boully’s experimental forms? What other anthology might include Bei Dao’s lovely, crystalline meditations set against Stacy Cartledge’s or Anthony Walton’s plainspoken, deceptively complex narratives? These poems cover more aesthetic territory than any ten anthologies and are a ringing testimony to the talent and the catholicity of tastes at work at the University of Notre Dame." —Kevin Prufer, The University of Houston“The anthology celebrates the work of 24 poets associated with the University then, including graduates Beth Ann Fennelly ’93, Francisco Aragon ‘03 MFA and Anthony Walton ’82, and faculty members Jacque Vaught Brogan, Seamus Deane and John Wilkinson. A follow up to The Space Between: Poets from Notre Dame, 1950-1990, this updated collection takes its name from a poem by former ND English professor Cornelius Eady.” —Notre Dame Magazine“The new anthology is a follow-up to one published in 1990. . . both books feature poems by writers who either taught at or attended the university. Both volumes aim to display the role that poetry plays at Notre Dame. . . . Menes says that diversity of voices can be seen in the growth of female poets with works featured in The Open Light. The increased diversity reflects the growth in creative writing programs at Notre Dame and other colleges across the nation.” —South Bend Tribune

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Book SynopsisAn unmissable anthology of touching, humorous, quirky, disconcerting, affirming, erotic and intriguing poems, sensitively interpreted by Janet Morley - renowned poet, critic, theologian and teacherTrade Review[Morley’s] comments are gentle, meditative, and perceptive. She avoids the overly devotional and sentimental, and has a gift for picking out the killer line or the telling stanza. * Church Times *[On OUR LAST AWAKENING] Morley writes with clarity and without simplification. Her theology is humane, experiential, and fed by the same poetry of scripture which Donne held so close. Morley’s God is not some object of our knowledge but the deepest cause for our wonder, through death as much as through life. She doesn’t unweave the poems by over-commenting on them, but allows enough unsaid for them to continue their work. I think Donne would be more than happy to have this book named after one of his own reflections on "our last awakening". -- Mark Oakley, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral * Church Times *As always [Morley] is both alert to the literary nature of the poems she discusses and also profound, drawing the reader into meditating on what is being said without seeking to be at all "preachy" or to push a particular religious message. -- Michael Cayley * Julian Meetings Magazine *[On HAPHAZARD BY STARLIGHT] Janet Morley has the great gift of being able to write simply and succinctly about a poem in a way that invites the reader into the heart of the poem. A fine poet herself, and one of the best liturgical crafters of prayer in our time (her first book, All Desires Known is, to my mind, one of the best collections of prayers in the modern era), Morley brings to her writing the poet’s sensitivity to language, the critic’s capacity to analyse and interpret, the theologian’s discernment of the sacred with the teacher’s ability to communicate insight in fresh and memorable ways. -- Nicola Slee[On THE HEART'S TIME] Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing. * The Times *Morley takes a poem, interprets it and applies it, marking a pilgrimage of the heart . . . each interpretation making me feel as if I was gently taken apart and remade anew. * Church Times *There’s a freedom and rashness in these poems sometimes lacking in religious writing. A wonderful idea, and nicely done. * The Tablet *[On ALL DESIRES KNOWN] A beautiful book, made newly useful. * thegoodbookstall *

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Book SynopsisFor all who appreciate great poetry, one of the world's best-loved Christian writers and poets reflects on 100 of his favourite poems and why they have the power to change us.Trade Review‘A poet’s choice. A thoughtful, eclectic, original selection of poems, their power enhanced by conjunction with one another. No serious lover of poetry will want to be without this book.’ * A. N. Wilson, writer and broadcaster *‘Rowan Williams is one of our best readers of poetry. He is an "all-round" reader, attending to the full range of details, questions and possibilities in a poem, and arriving at a remarkable depth of thinking in response. . . In my experience, spending time with Rowan Williams’s writing changes your life, as does great poetry. This book offers both.’ * Romana Huk, Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame *‘Each poem in this collection is a door ajar, which Rowan Williams nudges open, inviting us in, where he carefully shows us around. He leaves us in a room of many windows, the light streaming in, our souls enriched, this book in our hand.’ * Frances Ward, Poetry Editor, Theology *‘This is a compendium of poems you could spend a lifetime absorbing. Rowan Williams has gathered a diverse array of poets that grapple with mystery, ultimacy, and the terrifying beauty of being human. These are deep wells, and Williams is a gentle guide into the depths of riches.’ * James K.A. Smith, editor in chief, Image *‘Rowan Williams and poetry have a lot in common. Both prefer honest complexity to dishonest simplicity. Both want to draw your attention to the space around words, to sound, epiphany, and emotional resonance, so that a more distilled understanding appears on the horizon. Brought together in this book, Williams patiently reflecting on poems from the last hundred years, they offer nothing less to us than an undeceiving of the world.’ * Mark Oakley, Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge *‘Reading this book is going on a spiritual journey in which we are invited to leave behind our 'twined scaffolding' of fixed meaning to enter language as if from the inside and discern the divine 'pattern that informs' everything.’ * Alison Grant Milbank, Professor of Theology and Literature, University of Nottingham *‘Most of us know Rowan Williams as one of our greatest theological minds, but he is also a talented poet and gifted teacher. Over the years, Rowan and I have talked literature and culture often, and this book reminds me of what I've received from those conversations: startling insights, warm humanity, and a constant reminder that we are connected by love and beauty to the Divine.’ * Greg Garrett, Professor of Literature and Culture, Baylor University, and Canon Theologian, American Cathedral in Paris *'For sheer diversity and depth, there is nothing else like this book, and it will offer new layers and depths with many future re-readings.' -- Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, in Church Times

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Book SynopsisHebrew poetry written in response to the wars in which Israel was involved during the last fifty years.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Poems 1948-1967 Prayer (Haiim Gouri) The Death of the Man in the Field (Haiim Gouri) Behold, Our Bodies are Laid Out (Haiim Gouri) The Ones Forgotten (Haiim Gouri) To the Memory of a Comrade (Hillel Omer) Word from the Gray Soldiers (Hillel Omer) A Squad in the Land (Hillel Omer) Around the Campfire (Nathan Alterman) The Silver Platter (Nathan Alterman) Memorial (Uri Zvi Greenberg) Splendor from the Splendid (Uri Zvi Greenberg) Poem of Blessing (Uri Zvi Greenberg) The Ones Living by Their Virtue Say (Uri Zvi Greenberg) Hagomel (Uriel Ofeq) And My Brother Was Silent (Amir Gilboa) Forced March in Summer (Yehoshua Zafrir) The Sappers (Haiim Hefer) We Left Slowly (Haiim Hefer) Eulogy (Moshe Tabenkin) God Has Mercy on Kindergarten Children (Yehudah Amichai) Two Poems About the First Battles (Yehudah Amichai) Rain on the Battlefield (Yehudah Amichai) An Anonymous Squad (Yehiel Mohar) Between Sickle and Sword (Yehiel Mohar) For the Fighters--A Lament (Ayin Tur-Malka) Heralds of New Jerusalem (Ayin Tur-Malka) Mirror of the Battle (Ayin Tur-Malka) Memorial Service (Ayin Tur-Malka) The Time and the Response (Nathan Alterman) The Dust of Poems (Nathan Yonathan) Without the Boy (Nathan Yonathan) Into a Dead Zone (Mati Katz) 1967-1973 On Silver Wings (Naomi Shemer) Parade of the Fallen (Haiim Hefer) The Paratroopers Are Weeping (Haiim Hefer) In the Night (Karmela Lakhish) Missing Out (Eli Alon) If There Is a God (Eli Alon) Leave-Taking (Eli Alon) In The Mount of Final Repose (Eli Alon) Always in Anguish (Eli Alon) [I sat upon the ground] (Abba Kovner) [My comrades] (Abba Kovner) My Child Smells of Peace (Yehudah Amichai) We Have No Unknown Soldiers (Yehudah Amichai) Wildling Peace (Yehudah Amichai) A Place of Fire (Zelda) How Mucha Word Could Help (Zelda) On a Stone Pillow (Haiim Gouri) Setting-Up Camp (Yonathan Gefen) Settlement (David Avidan) Twenty Years in the Wadi (Dan Pagis) When You Grow Up (Anadad Eldan) Dead in a Bereft Horah (Yehiel Hazak) Wake (Yehiel Hazak) Military Call-Up (Meir Wieseltier) Love is Progressing (Meir Wieseltier) Return (Yoseph Sarig) Memorial Day, 1969 (T. Carmi) The Other Days (Haiim Hefer) 1973-1982 The Young Dead Soldiers (Haiim Hefer) Only 20 Years Old (Gideon Rosenthal) On the Readiness for Sacrifice (Reuven ben Yoseph) Around the Water Near the Birds (Yair Hurvitz) Again a Drab Khaki Light is Coming Down: Elegy (Meir Wieseltier) Military Funeral in the Heat of Day (T. Carmi) [I saw you] (Yehiel Hazak) Current Account (Haiim Gouri) Since Then (Yehudah Amichai) 1982-1991 From the Songs of the Land of Zion and Jerusalem (Yehudah Amichai) Your Socks (Raiah Harnik) And At Night (Raiah Harnik) Coffins (Eli Alon) Eulogy (Amichai Israeli) Friends (Nathan Yonathan) My Hand is Extended for the Peace of the Galilee (Ramy Ditzanny) Legging Behind (Ramy Ditzanny) A Brand Plucked from the Anti-Tank Fire (Ramy Ditzanny) Complicated and Innovative Orthopedic Surgery (Ramy Ditzanny) Piggy-Back (Ramy Ditzanny) You Don't Kill Babies Twice (Dahlia Ravikovitch) At a Time Like This (Alex L.) On the Desire to be Precise (Natan Zach) To Live in the Land of Israel (Aryeh Sivan) Unpleasantness During a Memorial Service (Aryeh Sivan) To Wither like Weeds in an Easterly Wind (Aryeh Sivan) Concerning the Rehabilitation of the Disabled from the Wars of Israel (Aryeh Sivan) Teacher of Defeated Hebrew Language (Eitan Kalinski) 1936-1986 (Eitan Kalinski) 1991-1994 A Siren of Love (Asher Reich) War Night 6 (Ilan Sheinfeld) At Nightfall, 11/27/91 (Pinhas Sadeh) Like Beirut (Haiim Gouri) Notes Biographical Information Bibliography Author Index About Esther Raizen

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Book SynopsisA collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.Trade ReviewA very rich and illuminating new anthology that covers the entire sweep of Latin American poetry in the 20th century.... For everyone who thinks only of Pablo Neruda when they think of Latin American poetry, or of Neruda and Cesar Vallejo and Octavio Paz, this book will be a revelation. * Washington Post Book World *One can say positively of this anthology that it will prove a timely stimulus to seek out the poetry of a number of lesser known Latin American writers. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents Preface A Note on the Poem Dates Introduction José Martí (Cuba, 1853-1895) Sueño despiertoI Dream Awake, trans. Elinor RandallContra el verso retórico...The Opposite of Ornate and Rhetorical Poetry, trans. Elinor RandallVersos sencillos: I, IX, X, XXXVISimple Verses: I, IX, X, XXXVI, trans. Elinor RandallDos patriasTwo Countries, trans. Elinor Randall João da Cruz e Sousa (Brazil, 1861-1898) AntífonaAntiphony, trans. Nancy Vieira CoutoAcrobata da dorAcrobat of Pain, trans. Flavia VidalSexta-feira SantaGood Friday, trans. Flavia VidalÓdio sagradoSacred Hatred, trans. Flavia Vidal Rubén Darío (Nicaragua, 1867-1916) PrimaveralSpringtime, trans. Lysander KempYo persigo una forma...I Seek a Form..., trans. Lysander KempEra un aire suave...It Was a Gentle Air..., trans. Lysander KempEl cisneThe Swan, trans. Lysander KempSonatinaSonatina, trans. Lysander KempCaracolThe Seashell, trans. Lysander KempLo fatalFatality, trans. Lysander KempA RooseveltTo Roosevelt, trans. Lysander KempTarde del tropicoTropical Afternoon, trans. Lysander KempNocturnoNocturne, trans. Lysander KempTriptico de NicaraguaNicaraguan Triptych, trans. Lysander Kemp Ricardo Jaimes Freyre (Bolivia, 1870?-1933) Aeternum valeEternal Farewell, trans. Victor TulliEl albaThe Dawn, trans. Victor TulliLas voces tristesThe Sad Voices, trans. Iver Lofving Amado Nervo (Mexico, 1870—1919) VenganzaRevenge, trans. Sue StandingEl dolor vencidoSorrow Vanquished, trans. Sue StandingEl donThe Gift, trans. Sue StandingÉxtasisEcstasy, trans. Sue Standing Enrique González Martínez (Mexico, 1871-1952) Tuércele el cuello al cisne...Wring the Swan's Neck, trans. Samuel BeckettComo hermana y hermanoLike Sister and Brother, trans. Nancy ChristophEl néctar de ÁpamThe Nectar of Apam, trans. Elizabeth GordonLa ventanaThe Window, trans. Elizabeth GordonDolorPain, trans. Samuel BeckettÚltimo viajeLast Journey, trans. Samuel Beckett José María Eguren (Peru, 1874-1942) Las torresThe Towers, trans. Iver LofvingLos muertosThe Dead, trans. Iver LofvingLas niñas de luzThe Girls of the Light, trans. Iver LofvingPeregrín, cazador de figurasPeregrin, Wandering Hunter of Faces, trans. Iver Lofving Leopoldo Lugones (Argentina, 1874-1938) Delectación morosaIndulgence, trans. Julie SchumacherLa blanca soledadWhite Solitude, trans. Julie SchumacherSalmo pluvialRain Psalm, trans. Julie SchumacherOlas grisesGray Waves, trans. Julie Schumacher José Santos Chocano (Peru, 1875-1934) BlasónA Manifesto, trans. Andrew RosingLos volcanesThe Volcanoes, trans. Andrew RosingEl sueño del caimánThe Dream of the Caiman, trans. Andrew RosingEl sueño del cóndorThe Dream of the Condor, trans. Andrew RosingIndignaciónIndignation, trans. Andrew Rosing¡Quién sabe!Who Knows? trans. Andrew Rosing Julio Herrera y Reissig (Uruguay, 1875-1910) JulioJuly, trans. Andrew RosingLa sombra dolorosaThe Sorrowful Shadow, trans. Andrew RosingEl regresoThe Return, trans. Andrew RosingAlba grisGrey Dawn, trans. Andrew RosingDecoración heráldicaHeraldic Decoration, trans. Andrew Rosing Delmira Agustini (Uruguay, 1886-1914) Las alasThe Wings, trans. Elizabeth GordonOtra estirpeAnother Race, trans. Karl KirchweyVisiónVision, trans. Karl KirchweyLo inefableThe Ineffable, trans. Karl KirchweyLa barca milagrosaThe Miraculous Ship, trans. Karl Kirchwey Manael Bandeira (Brazil, 1886-1968) Boda espiritualSpiritual Wedding, trans. Candace SlaterPoéticaPoetics, trans. Candace SlaterEvocação do RecifeEvocation of Recife, trans. Candace SlaterMozart no céuMozart in Heaven, trans. Dudley PooreVou-me embora pra PasárgadaOff to Pasárgada, trans. Candace SlaterRondó dos cavalinhosRondeau of the Little Horses, trans. Candace SlaterRetratoPortrait, trans. Candace SlaterEntrevistaInterview, trans. Candace Slater Ramón López Velarde (Mexico, 1888-1921) Mi prima AguedaMy Cousin Agueda, trans. Samuel BeckettDomingos de provinciaProvincial Sundays, trans. Julián ManríquezEl retorno maléficoBaleful Return, trans. Victor TulliTierra mojadaWet Earth, trans. Samuel BeckettHormigasAnts, trans. Samuel Beckett Gabriela Mistral [Lucila Godoy Alcayaga] (Chile, 1889-1957) Decálogo del artistaDecalogue of the Artist, trans. Doris DanaLa casaThe House, trans. Doris DanaApegado a míClose to Me, trans. Doris DanaLa flor del aireThe Flower of Air, trans. Doris DanaUna palabraOne Word, trans. Doris DanaUna mujerA Woman, trans. Doris DanaÚltimo árbolFinal Tree, trans. Doris Dana Alfonso Reyes (Mexico, 1889-1959) La amenaza de la florThe Menace of the Flower, trans. Samuel BeckettApenasScarcely..., trans. Samuel BeckettYerbas del tarahumaraTarahumara Herbs, trans. Samuel BeckettSol de MonterreyMonterrey Sun, trans. Samuel Beckett Oswald de Andrade (Brazil, 1890-1954) falaçãoBabbling, trans. Flavia Vidalerro de portuguêsPortuguese Mistake, trans. Flavia VidalfronteiraFrontier, trans. Flavia Vidalo hierofanteHierofant, trans. Flavia Vidalbuena-dichaGood Luck, trans. Flavia VidalplebiscitoElection, trans. Flavia Vidal César Vallejo (Peru/France, 1892?-1938) Los heraldos negrosThe Black Messengers, trans. Rachel BensonHecesDown to the Dregs, trans. James WrightÁgapeAgape, trans. Ed Dorn and Gordon BrotherstonEl pan nuestroOur Daily Bread, trans. James WrightA mi hermano MiguelTo My Brother Miguel, trans. John Knoepfle and James Wright"Pienso en tu sexo""I'm thinking of your sex," trans. Sandy McKinney"Fué Domingo en las claras orejas de mi burro""It Was Sunday in the fair ears of my burro," trans. Clayton Eshleman"Voy a hablar de la esperanza""I am going to talk about hope," trans. Robert BlyPiedra negra sobre una piedra blanca :Black Stone Lying on a White Stone, trans. Robert Bly and John Knoepfle"Hoy me gusta la vida mucho menos""Today I like life much less," trans. Clayton Eshleman,Poema para ser leído y cantadoPoem to Be Read and Sung, trans. Clayton Eshleman"La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños"Anger, trans. Thomas Merton"Un hombre pasa con un pan al hombro""A man walks by with a loaf of bread on his shoulder," trans. Clayton EshlemanEspaña, aparta de mí este cálizSpain, Take This Cup from Me, trans. Clayton Eshleman IX. Pequeño responso a un héroe de la República/Short Prayer for a Loyalist Hero XII. Masa / Mass XIV España, aparta de mí este cáliz /Spain, Take This Cup from Me Alfonsina Storni (Argentina, 1892-1938) Peso ancestralAncestral Burden, trans. Andrew RosingLa garra blancaThe White Claw, trans. Andrew RosingCarta lírica a otra mujerLyrical Letter to the Other Woman, trans. Dana StangelDolorSorrow, trans. Andrew RosingYo en el fondo del marMe at the Bottom of the Sea, trans. Andrew RosingVoy a dormirI'm Going to Sleep, trans. Andrew Rosing Mário de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) InspiraçãoInspiration, trans. Jack E. TomlinsOs cortejosThe Processions, trans. Jack E. TomlinsDomingoSunday, trans. Jack E. TomlinsNocturnoNocturne, trans. Jack E. Tomlins Alfonso Cortés (Nicaragua, 1893-1969) La canción del espacioSpace Song, trans. Thomas MertonLa gran plegariaGreat Prayer, trans. Thomas Merton Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948) Arte poéticaArs Poetica, trans. David M. GussMarinoSailor, trans. David M. GussAltazor [Selecciones]Altazor [Selections], trans. Stephen FredmanRincones sordosQuiet Spaces, trans. Stephen FredmanLa poesía es un atentado celestePoetry Is a Heavenly Crime, trans. W. S. Merwin Juana de Ibarbourou [Juanita Fernández Morales] (Uruguay, 1895-1979) La horaThe Hour, trans. Sophie Cabot BlackEl fuerte lazoThe Strong Bond, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniVida-garfioLife-Hook, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniNoche de lluviaRainy Night, trans. Sophie Cabot BlackRaíz salvajeWild Root, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniMujerWoman, trans. Sophie Cabot Black Jorge de Lima (Brazil, 1895-1953) Essa negra FulôThat Black Girl Fulô, trans. Elizabeth GordonAs trombetasThe Trumpets, trans. Luiz Fernández GarcíaEstrangeiro, estrangeiroStranger, Stranger, trans. Luiz Fernández GarcíaAs palavras de despedidaWords of Departure, trans. Luiz Fernández García Raul Bopp (Brazil, 1898-1984) Cobra Norato: II, IV, VI, XI, XVBlack Snake: II, IV, VI, XI, XV, trans. Renato Rezende Ricardo Molinari (Argentina, 1898-1996) Poema de la Niña VelázqueñaPoem of the Girl from Velázquez, trans. Inés ProbertOda a una larga tristezaOde to a Long Sorrow, trans. Inés ProbertPequeña oda a la melancolíaLittle Ode to Melancholy, trans. Inés Probert Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico, 1898-1959) PuebloPueblo, trans. Barry LubyElegia del Duque de la MermeladaElegy for the Duke of Marmalade, trans. Ellen G. Matilla and Diego de la Texera Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1899-1986) Un patioPatio, trans. Robert FitzgeraldCasas como ángelesHouses like Angels, trans. Robert FitzgeraldFundación mítica de Buenos AiresThe Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires, trans. Alastair ReidPoema conjeturalConjectural Poem, trans. Norman Thomas di GiovanniPoema de los donesPoem of the Gifts, trans. Ben BelittEl otro tigreThe Other Tiger, trans. Norman Thomas di GiovanniArte poéticaArs Poetica, trans. W. S. MerwinLímitesLimits (or Good-byes), trans. Alan DuganEvernesEverness, trans. Richard WilburSpinozaSpinoza, trans. Richard Howard and César RennertEl marThe Sea, trans. John Updike Claudia Lars [Carmen Brannon Beers] (El Salvador, 1899-1974) Dibujo de la mujer que llegaSketch of the Frontier Woman, trans. Donald D. WalshEvocación de Gabriela MistralRecollection of Gabriela Mistral, trans. Nancy Christoph Carlos Pellicer (Mexico, 1899-1977) DeseosWishes, trans. Donald JusticeEstudiosStudies, trans. Donald JusticeA la poesíaTo Poetry, trans. Alexandra MigoyaGrupos de palomasFlocks of Doves, trans. Alexandra Migoya José Gorostiza (Mexico, 1901-1973) ¿Quien me compra una naranja?Who Will Buy Me an Orange? trans. Rachel BensonElegíaElegy, trans. Rachel BensonLuciérnagasFireflies, trans. Rachel BensonMuerte sin fin [Selección]Death without End [Selection], trans. Rachel Benson Cecília Meireles (Brazil, 1901-1964) RetratoPortrait, trans. Luiz Fernández GarcíaDesenhoSketch, trans. Luiz Fernández GarcíaVigilíaVigil, trans. James MerrillBalada das dez bailarinas do cassinoBallad of the Ten Casino Dancers,trans. James MerrillO cavalo mortoThe Dead Horse, trans. James Merrill Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil, 1902-1987) Poema de sete facesSeven-sided Poem, trans. Elizabeth BishopInfânciaInfancy, trans. Elizabeth BishopNo meio do caminhoIn the Middle of the Road, trans. John NistNão se mateDon't Kill Yourself, trans. Elizabeth BishopViagem na famíliaTraveling as a Family, trans. Virginia de AraújoResíduoResidue, trans. Virginia de AraújoRetrato de famíliaPortrait of a Family, trans. Virginia de AraújoCanto esponjosoDiminutive, trans. Virginia de AraújoUm boi vê os homensAn Ox Looks at Man, trans. Mark StrandElegiaElegy, trans. Virginia de Araújo Nicolás Guillén (Cuba, 1902-1989) Pequeña oda a un negro boxeador cubanoSmall Ode to a Black Cuban Boxer, trans. Robert Márquez and David Arthur McMurrayEl apellidoMy Last Name, trans. Robert Márquez and David Arthur McMurrayBaresBars, trans. Eric Orozco Jaime Torres Bodet (Mexico, 1902-1974) VivirLiving, trans. Sonja KarsenDédaloLabyrinth, trans. Sonja KarsenPatriaMy Country, trans. Sonja KarsenÉxodoExodus, trans. Sonja KarsenResumenSummary, trans. Sonja Karsen Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador, 1903-1978) La vida perfectaThe Perfect Life, trans. Dudley FittsEl relojThe Clock, trans. Michael SurmanDomingoSunday, trans. Muna Lee de Muñoz MarínSegunda vida de mi madreSecond Life of My Mother, trans. Muna Lee de Muñoz MarínTransfiguración de la lluviaTransfiguration of the Rain, trans. Michael Surman Eugenio Florit (Cuba, 1903 - ) Elegía para tu ausenciaElegy for Your Absence, trans. H. R. HaysMartirio de San SebastiánThe Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, trans. Peter FortunatoTarde presenteThe Present Evening, trans. H. R. Hays Henriqueta Lisboa (Brazil, 1903-1985) IdílioIdyll, trans. Hélcio Veiga CostaEcoEcho, trans. Hélcio Veiga CostaElegiaElegy, trans. Hélcio Veiga CostaCaméliaCamellia, trans. Hélcio Veiga CostaAlém da ImagemBeyond the Image, trans. Hélcio Veiga Costa Xavier Villaurrutia (Mexico ,1903-1950) PoesíaPoetry, trans. Dana StangelNocturno de Los ÁngelesLos Angeles Nocturne, trans. Rachel BensonNocturnoNocturne, trans. Xavier LerouxNocturno de la estatuaNocturne of the Statue, trans. Dana StangelNuestro amorOur Love, trans. Michael Surman Pablo Neruda [Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto] (Chile, 1904-1973) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperadaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, trans. W. S. Merwin: I. Cuerpo de mujer / Body of a Woman VII. Inclinado en las tardes... / Leaning into the Afternoons... XX. Puedo escribir los versos... / Tonight I Can Write... Galope muertoDead Gallop, trans. John FelstinerWalking aroundWalking around, trans. Ben BelittExplico algunas cosasI'm Explaining a Few Things, trans. Nathaniel TaAlgunas bestiasSome Beasts, trans. James WrightAlturas de Macchu PicchuThe Heights of Macchu Picchu VI, trans. Nathaniel Tarn X, trans. John Felstiner XII, trans. David Young La United Fruit Co.United Fruit Co., trans. Jack SchmittAmérica, no invoco tu nombre en vanoAmerica, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope, trans. Robert BlyOda a los calcetinesOde to My Socks, trans. Robert BlyOda a César VallejoOde to César Vallejo, trans. Stephen TapscottOda a la perezaOde to Laziness, trans. William Carlos WilliamsOda a la salOde to Salt, trans. Margaret Sayers PedenCien sonetos de amor: V, XVI, XCIIOne Hundred Love Sonnets: V, XVI, XCII, trans. Stephen Tapscott Sara de Ibáñez (Uruguay, 1910-1971) Isla en la tierraIsland in the Earth, trans. Inés ProbertIsla en la luzIsland in the Light, trans. Inés ProbertTú, por mi pensamientoYou, for My Meditation, trans. Andrew RosingLa página vacíaThe Empty Page, trans. Andrew RosingNo puedoI Cannot, trans. Andrew Rosing José Lezama Lima (Cuba, 1910-1976) Ah, que tú escapesAh, That You Escape, trans. Willis BarnstoneUna oscura pradera me convidaA Dark Meadow Invites Me, trans. Willis BarnstoneLlamado del deseosoCall of the Desirous, trans. Willis BarnstoneRapsodia para el muloRhapsody for the Mule, trans. José Rodríguez Feo, Dudley Fitts, and Donald D. WalshLos fragmentos de la nocheThe Fragments of the Night, trans. Willis BarnstoneRetrato de José Cemí [de la novela Paradiso]Portrait of José Cemí [from the novel Paradiso], trans. Gregory Rabassa Enrique Molina (Argentina, 1910-1996) Mientras corren los grandes díasAs the Great Days Flow, trans. Naomi LindstromComo debe de serThe Way It Must Be, trans. Naomi Lindstrom Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Nicaragua, 1912 - ) El nacimiento del solThe Birth of the Sun, trans. Thomas MertonCaballos en el lagoHorses in the Lake, trans. Grace Schulman and Ann McCarthy de ZavalaManuscrito en una botellaManuscript in a Bottle, trans. Grace Schulman and Ann McCarthy de ZavalaLa estrella vespertinaThe Evening Star, trans. Grace Schulman and Ann McCarthy de Zavala Julio Cortázar (Argentina, 1914-1984) Conducta de los espejos en la isla de PascuaThe Behavior of Mirrors on Easter Island, trans. Paul BlackburnHistoria verídicaA Very Real Story, trans. Paul BlackburnLas líneas de la manoThe Lines of the Hand, trans. Paul BlackburnCostumbres de los famasNormal Behavior of the Famas, trans. Paul BlackburnViajesTravel, trans. Paul Blackburn Efraín Huerta (Mexico, 1914-1982) Declaración de odioDeclaration of Hate, trans. Beth HensonLos hombres del albaMen of Dawn, trans. Beth HensonEste es un amorThis is a Love, trans. Beth Henson Nicanor Parra (Chile, 1914 - ) Solo de pianoPiano Solo, trans. William Carlos WilliamsEl TúnelThe Tunnel, trans. W. S. MerwinLa víboraThe Viper, trans. W S. MerwinPido que se levante la sesiónI Move the Meeting Be Adjourned, trans. Allen GinsbergMomiasMummies, trans. Tbomas MertonLa montaña rusaRoller Coaster, trans. Miller WilliamsEl pequeño burguésLitany of the Little Bourgeois, trans. James Laughlin Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1914-1998) MisterioMystery, trans. Muriel RukeyserLagoLake, trans. Rachel BensonHimno entre ruinasHymn among the Ruins, trans. William Carlos WilliamsPiedra nativaNative Stone, trans. Muriel RukeyserAquíHere, trans. Charles TomlinsonCertezaCertainty, trans. Charles TomlinsonPuebloVillage, trans. Charles TomlinsonLa arboledaThe Grove, trans. Elizabeth Bishop with Octavio PazViento, agua, piedraWind and Water and Stone, trans. Mark StrandEntre lo que veo y digo...Between What I See and What I Say..., trans. Eliot WeinbergerEntre irse y quedarseBetween Going and Staying, trans. Eliot WeinbergerÁrbol adentroA Tree Within, trans. Eliot Weinlberger Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rico, 1917-1953) A Julia de BurgosTo Julia de Burgos, trans. Grace SchulmanPoema para mi muertePoem to My Death, trans. Grace Schulman Violeta Parra (Chile, 1917-1967) Gracias a la vidaHere's to Life, trans. Joan Baez and John Upton Gonzalo Rojas (Chile, 1917- ) Cama con espejosBed with Mirrors, trans. Christopher MaurerVersículosChapter and Verse, trans. Christopher MaurerY nacer es aquí una fiesta innombrableAnd to Be Born Is Here an Unnameable Feast, trans. Christopher Maurer Mario Benedetti (Uruguay, 1920- ) Con permisoWlth Your Permission, trans. David Arthur McMurrayTodos conspiramosWe All Conspire, trnns. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria Negroni João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil, 1920- ) A Carlos Drummond de AndradeTo Carlos Drummond de Andrade, tran: Guy PacittiCemitério pernambucanoCemetery in Pernambuco, trans. Jane CooperUma faca só lâmina [Seleçãoes]The Knife That Is All Blade [Selections[, trans. Elizabeth GordonDuas das festas da morteTwo of the Festivals of Death, trans. W. S. MerwinA educação pela pedraEducation by Stone, trans. James WrightO canavial e o marThe Canefield and the Sea, trans. Louis SimpsonO mar e o canavialThe Sea and the Canefield, trans. Louis SimpsonTecendo a manhãWeaving the Morning, trans Galway KinnellOs vazios do homemThe Emptiness of Man, trans. Galway Kinnell Olga Orozco (Argentina, 1920 - ) Miss HavishamMiss Havisham, trans. Stephen TapscottOlga OrozcoOlga Orozco, trans. Stephen TapscottPara hacer un talismánTo Make a Talisman, trans. Stephen TapscottLa realidad y el deseoReality and Desire, trans. Stephen Tapscott Eunice Odio (Costa Rica / Mexico, 1922-1974) Recuerdo de mi infancia privadaMemory of My Private Childhood, trans. Suzanne Jill LevineCreaciónCreation, trans. Martha CollinsPrólogo del tiempo que no está en síPrologue to a Time That Is Not Itself, trans. Martha CollinsCarta a Carlos PellicerLetter to Carlos Pellicer, trans. Martha Collins Álvaro Mutis (Colombia, 1923 - ) AménAmen, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniCanción del esteEast Song, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniUna palabraA Word, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria NegroniSonataSonata, trans. Sophie Cabot Black and Maria Negroni Claribel Alegría (El Salvador, 1924 - ) Hacia la edad jurásicaToward the Jurassic Age, trans. Carolyn ForchéÉramos tresWe Were Three, trans Carolyn. Forché Erivesto Cardenal (Nicaragua, 1925 - ) LeónLeón, trans. Jonathan CohenComo latas de cerveza vacíasLike Empty Beer Cans, trans. Thomas MertonSalmo 5Psalm 5, trans. Robert MárquezOración por Marilyn MonroePrayer for Marilyn Monroe, trans. Robert Pring-MillLucesLights, trans. Jonathan Cohen Rosario Castellanos (Mexico, 1925 - 1974) Una palmeraA Palm Tree, trans. Myralyn F. AllgoodEl otroThe Other, trans. Maureen AhernPoesía no eres túYou Are Not Poetry, trans. Maureen AhernEl retornoThe Return, trans. Magda Bogin Roberto Juarróz (Argentina, 1925 - ) Hay puntos de silencio rodeando al corazón...There Are Points of Silence Circling the Heart..., trans. W. S. MerwinVéase primero el aire y su elemento negro que no cesa...Look First at the Air and Its Black Element Which Never Stops..., trans. W. S. MerwinLa vida dibuja un árbolLife Draws a Tree..., trans. W. S. MerwinEn alguna parte hay un hombre...Somewhere There's a Man..., trans. W. S. Merwin Jaime Sabines (Mexico, 1925 - ) Yo no lo sé de cierto...I Do Not Know It for Sure..., trans. Isabel BizeLos amorososThe Lovers, trans. Claudine-Marie D'AngeloEntresueloEntresol, trans. Claudine-Marie D'AngeloCaprichosCapriccios, trans. Claudine-Marie D'AngeloSi alguien te dice que no es ciertoIf Someone Tells You It's Not for Sure, trans. Philip Levine Carlos Germán Belli (Peru, 1927 - ) Segregación no. 1Segregation #1, trans. Isabel BizePor qué me han mudadoWhy Have They Moved Me, trans. David Tipton and Maureen AhernUna desconocida voz...An Unknown Voice.... trans. David Tipton and Maureen Ahern¡Abajo las lonjas!Down with the Money-Exchange, trans. David Tipton and Maureen AhernPapá, mamáFather, Mother, trans. David Tipton and Maureen Ahern¡Oh padres, sabedlo bien...!My Parents, Know It Well, trans. David Tipton and Maureen Ahern Ernesto [Che] Guevara (Argentina/Cuba, 1928-1967) Canto a FidelSong to Fidel, trans. Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston Enrique Lihn (Chile, 1929- ) La pieza oscuraThe Dark Room, trans. David UngerBarroMud, trans. John FelstinerRecuerdos de matrimonioMemories of Marriage, trans. John FelstinerCementerio de Punta ArenasCemetery in Punta Arenas, trans. David UngerRevoluciónRevolution, trans. Jonathan Cohen Juan Gelman (Argentina, 1930- ) Los ojosEyes, trans. Elinor Randall and Robert MárquezÉpocasEpochs, trans. Elinor Randall and Robert MárquezHistoriaHistory, trans. Robert Márquez Ferreira Gullar [José Ribamar Ferreira] (Brazil, 1930 - ) Oswald mortoOswald Dead, trans. Renato RezendeNo corpoIn the Body, trans. Renato RezendeNo mundo há muitas armadilhasThere Are Many Traps in the World, trans. Renato RezendePosterPoster, trans. Renato RezendeCantadaSweet Talk, trans. Renato RezendeBarulhoNoise, trans. Renato Rezende Heberto Padilla (Cuba, 1932- ) Una pregunta a la escuela de FrankfurtA Question for the Frankfurt School, trans. Alastair Reid and Andrew HurleyAutorretrato del otroSelf-Portrait of the Other, trans. Alastair Reid and Andrew HurleyHerenciasLegacies, trans. Alastair Reid and Andrew HurleyLa promesaThe Promise, trans. Alastair Reid and Alexander Coleman Gabriel Zaid (Mexico, 1934- ) Canción de seguimientoSong of Pursuit, trans. Mónica Hernández-CancioClaridad furiosaA Furious Clarity, trans. George McWhirterClaustroCloister, trans. Mónica Hernández-CancioCirceCirce, trans. Andrew RosingPráctica mortalMortal Practice, trans. Mónica Hernández-CancioReloj del solSundial, trans. Adrian Hernandez Roque Dalton (El Salvador, 1935-1975) Arte poéticaArs Poetica, trans. Richard SchaafBuscándome líosLooking for Trouble, trans. Richard SchaafEl descanso del guerreroSoldier's Rest, trans. Richard SchaafLa pequeña burguesíaThe Petty Bourgeoisie, trans. Richard SchaafDe un revolucionario a J. L. BorgesFrom a Revolutionary to J. L. Borges, trans. Julie Schumacher Victor Jara (Chile, 1935-1973) Estadio ChileEstadio Chile, trans. Joan Jara Adélia Prado (Brazil, 1935- ) GraçaGrace, trans. Marcia KirinusSestaSiesta, trans. Marcia KirinzsFluênciaFluency, trans. Marcia KirinustralStained Glass Window, trans. Marcia KirinusO pelicanoThe Pelican, trans. Marcia KirinusEm portuguêsIn Portuguese, trans. Marcia Kirinus Jorge Teillier (Chile, 1935- ) Puente en el SurBridge in the South, trans. Carolyne WrightRetrato de mi padre, militante comunistaPortait of My Father, Militant Communist, trans. Carolyne WrightSin señal de vidaNo Sign of Life, trans. Carolyne Wright Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina, 1936-1972) El despertarThe Awakening, trans. Frank Graziano and María Rosa FortExilioExile, trans. Frank Graziano and María Rosa FortCenizasAshes, trans. Frank Graziano and María Rosa FortPoema para el padrePoem for the Father, trans. Frank Graziano and María Rosa Fort Óscar Hahn (Chile, 1938- ) Gladiolos junto al marGladioli by the Sea, trans. Isabel BizeEl hombreMan, trans. Sandy McKinneyLa muerte está sentada a los pies de mi camaDeath Is Sitting at the Foot of My Bed, trans. Sandy McKinneyVisión de HiroshimaVision of Hiroshima, trans. Sandy McKinney José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico, 1939-) Alta traiciónHigh Treason, trans. Alastair ReidIndagación en torno del murciélagoAn Enquiry Concerning the Bat, trans. Alastair ReidJob 18, 2Job 18, 2, trans. Alastair ReidLímitesBoundaries, trans. John Frederick Nims Homero Aridjis (Mexico, 1940- ) Epitafio para un poetaEpitaph for a Poet, trans. John Frederick NimsCae la lluvia...The Rain Is Falling, trans. John Frederick NimsSalir de la mujer es separarseTo Emerge from a Woman Is to Become Separate, trans. W. S. MerwinDescomposición con risaDecomposition with Laughter, trans. Jerome RothenbergCarta de MéxicoLetter from Mexico, trans. Eliot WeinbergerEl poemaThe Poem, trans. Eliot Weinberger Antonio Cisneros (Peru, 1942 - ) Karl Marx died 1883 aged 65Karl Marx, Died 1883 Aged 65, trans. Maureen Ahern and David TiptonLa araña cuelga demasiado lejos de la tierraThe Spider Hangs Too Far from the Ground, trans. William RoweA una dama muertaTo a Dead Lady, trans. Maureen Ahern and David TiptonDos soledadesLoneliness I. Hampton Court, trans. William Rowe II. Paris 5e, trans. Maureen Ahern and David Tipton Nancy Morejón (Cuba, 1944- ) MadreMother, trans. Kathleen WeaverAmor, ciudad atribuídaLove, Attributed City, trans. Kathleen WeaverRichard trajo su flautaRichard Brought His Flute, trans. Kathleen WeaverDesilusión para Rubén DaríoDisillusion for Rubén Darío, trans. Kathleen Weaver Octavio Armand (Cuba/U.S.A., 1946- ) Braille para mano izquierdaBraille for Left Hand, trans. Carol MaierSonetoSonnet, trans. Jason ShinderOtra poéticaAnother Poetics, trans. Carol MaierPoema con pielPoem with Skin, trans. Carol MaierA buen entendedor, pocas palabrasA Word to the Wise, trans. Carol Maier Raúl Zurita (Chile, 1951- ) Las espejeantes playasThe Sparkling Beaches, trans. Jack SchmittLa marcha de las cordillerasThe March of the Cordilleras, trans. Jack SchmittAún abandonados floreceríanEven Forsaken They'd Flower, trans. Jack SchmittVIVI, trans. Jack SchmittEsplendor en el vientoSplendor in the Wind, trans. Jack Schmitt Marjorie Agosin (Chile/U.S.A., 1955 - ) La danzaThe Dance, trans. Cola Franzen Appendix: Poems By Brazilian Concretists Select Bibliographies: Major Works, Chiefly Poetry Acknowledgments Index Of First Lines (Original Language) Index Of First Lines (English) Index Of Authors And Titles

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It would be a dull reader who did not finish the chapter on Chaucer with an itch to reopen "The Miller's Tale", yes, but even Troilus and Criseyde as well.”—Harry Cochrane, Times Literary Supplement“A Little History of Poetry is delightful and succinct: 40 perceptive chapters in 295 pages, covering nearly 200 poets…Still, the book is a history – a history of poetry and the contexts in which it is embedded: personal, cultural, religious, social, linguistic, political.”—Brian B. McClorry SJ, Thinking Faith [online journal]“Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not.”—The Times, Best Books for Summer 2020“[A] dazzling book…John Carey has been writing brilliant, eminently readable literary criticism for as long as most of us can remember.”—Roger Alton, Daily Mail“Chapters are enticingly short and compelling to read. Carey is immensely readable with so many poets’ work and biography underpinned with illustrative personal stories and fascinating observations.”—Word Matters [Journal]“John Carey, the "Unexpected Professor", has done it again. From Homer to Heaney in 300 pages of crisp prose, apt quotation and illuminating judgement, he shows how poets have dealt with politics, race, religion, thought, landscape, history, memory and the movement of the human heart.”—Piers Plowright, The Tablet“Carey is excellent at sketching biographies, quoting judiciously and generously, and keen to be explanatory without being patronising: you can see in the use of anecdote and analogy the experience of years lecturing to drifting undergraduates.”—Seamus Perry, London Review of Books“This handsome book is a wonderful introduction to poetry from many different cultures across a range of eras...As an introduction to the different forms poetry can take, it can hardly be bettered.”—Terry Freedman, Teach Secondary“Warm in tone, informative, generous in its sympathies, inviting in its choices, with a clear emphasis on human stories underpinning poetic achievement.”—Emma Smith, author of This is Shakespeare“This wonderfully positive and vivid history is a delight on every page ... Carey’s sparkling Little History of Poetry is an astonishingly full introduction to English poetry from Beowulf to the present, set in a framework extending in place and time from Gilgamesh to Akhmatova and Seferis.”—Bernard O'Donoghue, Winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award“Here is an informative, fast-moving book … Like Carey’s previous works, it’s forceful as well as clear, and it’s populist, no-nonsense and anti-elite in its sympathies. Many people may find new favourites here.”—Stephanie Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University“Books about poetry are rarely page turners, but Carey’s little history is gripping, is unputdownable! Reading this book and its galaxy of poets is like looking up at the sky and seeing the whole wheeling and constellated universe.”—Daljit Nagra, author of Look We Have Coming to Dover!“An elegant history of poetry, what it is, what it does, why it matters, written in an authoritative and engaging voice. Masterly.”—Ruth Padel, author of 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem

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Book SynopsisA wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryTrade Review“Enthusiasm for the underdog is infectious. . . . It reveals a sensitivity in Carey’s aesthetic, a rejection of the sentimental and the highbrow in favour of the lyrical, the melancholy and the divine. It’s what ultimately ties the book together, and lends a profound emotional weight to the intellectual rigour.”—Andrew Male, Sunday Times“Reading poetry is a perfect commuter pastime, but can feel intimidating. Where to start? Perhaps with this gentle, welcoming anthology by this paper’s chief literary critic, which offers one emblematic poem, and a brief introduction, for 100 poets.”—Sunday Times“100 Poets is a good anthology to dip into or to read straight through, like I did. Whatever your experience of poetry, I think you’ll find something here to enjoy.”—David’s Book World“Professor John Carey has rounded up a collection of his favourite 100 poets, from Homer to Sylvia Plath, covering the familiar and the less common. . . . A bedside-table book of portable proportions and in durable hardback.”—Lucy Lethbridge, The Oldie Christmas Gift Guide

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Book SynopsisA captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature’s most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.All kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent warhorses to cowboys’ trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil’s Aeneid, and then see it from a wholly different perspective in Matthea Harvey’s whimsical “Inside the Good Idea.” Longfellow’s Paul Revere defies an empire on the back of a horse, while Shakespeare’s Richard III vainly offers his kingdom for one. Robert Burns’s “Auld Farmer” dotes affectionately on his aging mare, while the mares of the king of Corinth in Paul Muldoon’s “Glaucus” devour their owner. Robert Frost’s little horse stopping by the woods is gently puzzled by human behavior, and Ted Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of h

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Book SynopsisA new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture—a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China’s greatest poets.These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)—an age in which poetry and the arts flourished—were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere. Many of China’s most famous poets—Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei—are represented by timeless poems about love, war, the delights of drinking and dancing, and the beauties of nature. There are poems about travel, about grief, about the frustrations of bureaucracy, and about the pleasures and sadness of old age.Full of wisdom and humanity that reach across the barriers of language, space, and time, these poems take us to the heart of Chinese poetry, and into the very heart and soul of a nation.

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of anthems for our time, at turns tender and piercing, and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Claudia Rankine, Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Amanda Gorman, Terrance Hayes, and Nikki Giovanni, This is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy. This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall''s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller''s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens Black woman joy with indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Day, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of home through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith, Rachel Long, and Cameron Awkw

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Book SynopsisA timeless collection of poems chosen by a Classic FM listener poll. Includes poems for every occasion by Shakespeare to Byron, Betjeman and Dylan Thomas.

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Book SynopsisBy the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil''s last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid the flight and re-enslavement of the inhabitants, their narrative emerges.Two powerful, epic poems give voice to the lovers: Almeyda''s passionate lament for Anninho, whom she believes has been killed, is combined with his response as he searches for her. Their story is one of longing - for each other, for freedom - and for revolution.''I want to stay here, Anninho.''''There won''t be any wayyou can stay here.When they catch us,they''ll take you back.''''The men they kill,the women they take back.''

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Book SynopsisTo honor FSG''s 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry listpast, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux''s identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux''s first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank B

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Book SynopsisChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.

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Book SynopsisTo honor FSG''s 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry listpast, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux''s identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux''s first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank B

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Book SynopsisThe urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism - by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous - of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical splendor of Lucretius's meditations, the relentless imaginative energy of Ovid's narratives, and the sonorous beauty of the odes of Horace have been for two millennia a source of endless delight and instruction, and the work of these writers has given to Europe its frames of literary reference and its enduring canons of taste.

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Book SynopsisThe appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

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