Poetry anthologies (various poets)
University of California Press Poems for the Millennium Volume One
Book SynopsisReveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry. This volume offers three 'galleries' of individual poets - figures such as Mallarme, Stein, Rilke, Tzara, Mayakovsky, Pound, H D, Vallejo, Artaud, Cesaire, and Tsvetayeva.Trade Review"Poems for the Millennium: Part One is ... one of the very best of its kind." Kaurab OnlineTable of ContentsIntroduction Thanks and Acknowledgments FORERUNNERS Prologue to Forerunners William Blake "Obey thou the Words of the Inspired Man" Friedrich Holderlin In the Days of Socrates Elias Lonnrot from The Kaleva/a Walt Whitman This Compost Charles Baudelaire Fuses I & II Emily Dickinson Fascicle 34 Poem 9 Bald Mountain Zaum-Poems Gerard Manley Hopkins That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont from Maldoror Arthur Rimbaud from A Season in Hell After Bitahatini from The Night Chant Stephane Mallarme from Le Livre A FIRST GALLERY Stephane Mallarme A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance C. P. Cavafy Waiting for the Barbarians Days of 1908 And I Lounged and Lay on their Beds Adolf Wolfli Nostalgic Song for My Beloved from From the Cradle to the Graave, or, through working and sweating, suffering and hardship, even through prayyer into damnation Match Factory at Chaami 1911 Ruben Darlo Far Away and Long Ago To Roosevelt Paul Valery Crusoe Alfred Jarry The Passion of Jesus Considered as an Uphill Race Gertrude Stein from Tender Buttons A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson from Lifting Belly Rainer Maria Rilke Death Tombs of the Hetaerae The First Duino Elegy Max Jacob 1914 from The Cock and the Pearl Andrey Bely from The Dramatic Symphony Guillaume Apollinaire Horse Calligram Zone A Phantom of Clouds from Poems for Lou The Little Car from Victoire Pablo Picasso A Bottle of Suze Franz Kafka Before the Law Mina Loy from Love Songs to ]oannes Three Moments in Paris Dino Campana Genoa Fernando Pessoa "The startling reality of things" from Maritime Ode from Oblique Rain Ezra Pound Papyrus The Return Canto One Hagiwara Sakutaro Chair Spring Night Lover of Love So Terrifyingly Melancholy Blaise Cendrars The Great Fetishes from The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France Marcel Duchamp The 1914 Box Giuseppe Ungaretti THREE POEMS Mattina/ Morning Soldiers Babel The Rivers Pierre Reverdy Secret Flower Market Inn Squares Vicente Huidobro Ars Poetica CowBoy Express FUTURISMS Prologue to Futurism I Carlo Carra Demonstration for Intervention in the War F. T. Marinetti from The Manifesto of Futurism Apres Ia Marne, Joffre visita le front en auto from Zang Tumb Tuuum Successively from The Variety Theater Manifesto FOUR SINTESI Francesco Cangiullo: Detonation F. T. Marinetti: A Landscape Heard F. T. Marinetti: They Are Coming Fortunato Depero: Colors Paolo Buzzi Finger-Nails Aldo Palazzeschi The Stranger Nuns Go Walking Prologue to Futurism II Vasily Kamensky Constantinople: Ferroconcrete Poem D. Burliuk, Aleksandr Kruchenykh, V. Mayakovsky, Viktor Khlebnikov from A Slap in the Face of Public Taste Velimir Khlebnikov Incantation by Laughter Four Poems from Zangezi Aleksei Kruchenykh Declaration of the Word as Such from Pomade From the Sahara to America Vladimir Mayakovsky Listen from A Cloud in Trousers Screaming My Head Off Mayakovsky's Suicide Note Anatol Stern Europa EXPRESSIONISM Prologue to Expressionism Wassily Kandinsky Sounds Chalk and Soot Else Lasker-Schiiler Chronica THREE PORTRAITS Georg Trakl George Grosz To the Barbarian: August Stramm Encounter Urdeath Battlefield Paul Klee The Wolf Speaks Poem A Friend The Happy One Poem Gottfried Benn Little Aster Lovely Childhood Cycle Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward Night Cafe A Bunch of Drifter Sons Hollered GeorgTrakl Sleep The Evening De Profundis Revelation and Decline DADA Prologue to Dada Tristan T zara Zurich Chronicle February I9I6 Hugo Ball The Sun from Flight Out of Time The Complete Sound-Poems of Hugo Ball Tristan Tzara Metal Coughdrops Chanson Dada from Dada Manifesto on Feeble & Bitter Love The Great Lament of My Obscurity Three Richard Huelsenbeck "We Hardly" Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janko, Tristan Tzara L'amiral cherche une maison a louer Hans Arp Kaspar Is Dead People The Great Unrestrained Sadist The Man. The Woman Francis Picabia Spermal Chimney from Eunuch Unique Portrait de Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp Speculations SURcenSURE Cast Shadows Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Affectionate Holy Skirts Kurt Schwitters Desire Portrait of Herwarth Walden Anna Blossom Has Wheels Murder Machine 43 from Ur Sonata Theo van Doesburg Still Life: The Table Remembrance of the Founts of Night Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Artichokes Andre Breton The Mystery Corset Andre Breton & Philippe Soupault from The Magnetic Fields A SECOND GALLERY William Butler Yeats from A Vision and The Second Coming Gertrude Stein Identity a Poem Rainer Maria Rilke The Eighth Duino Elegy Wallace Stevens Dance of the Macabre Mice Connoisseur of Chaos James Joyce from Ulysses William Carlos Williams The Locust Tree in Flower Paterson D. H. Lawrence Tortoise Shout Ezra Pound Canto 32 Canto 51 H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) from Tribute to the Angels Marianne Moore Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns T. S. Eliot [The Waste Land] St.-John Perse from Anabasis Edith Sitwell from Far;ade Still Falls the Rain The Madwoman in the Park Osip Mandelstam from Tristia Whoever Finds a Horseshoe Poem No. 286 (On Stalin) The Charlie Chaplin Poem Last Poems Edith Sodergran Hell Vierge Moderne Instinct Cesar Vallejo from Tri/ce: IX, XXV, LXXV The Hungry Man's Wheel Telluric and Magnetic Vicente Huidobro from Altazor: Cantos I, VI, vn Jorge de Lima Distribution of Poetry Papa John The Enormous Hand Poem of Any Virgin J. V. Foix When I Sleep, Then I See Clearly I Arrived in That Town, Everyone Greeted Me, and I Recognized No One. When I Was Going to Read My Verses, the Devil, Hidden behind a Tree, Called Out to Me Sarcastically and Filled My Hands with Newspaper Clippings Marina Tsvetayeva from The Poem of the End e. e. cummings No Thanks, No. 70 Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal Lucian Blaga I Will Not Crush the World's Corolla of Wonders Psalm Jacob Glatshteyn To a Friend Who Wouldn't Bother to Strain His Noodleboard Because Even So It Is Hard to Go Hunting When Your Rifle Is Blunt and Love Is Soft as an Old Blanket Eugenio Montale The Lemon Trees The Eel Little Testament Paul van Ostaijen The Murderers Hart Crane The Mango Tree The Circumstance 0 Carib Isle! Federico Garcia Lorca Night Suite, for Piano & Poet's Voice Ode for Walt Whitman SURREALISM Prologue to Surrealism Andre Breton from Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) Robert Desnos Trance Event Language Event One Language Event Two Andre Breton A Man and Woman Absolutely White Free Union Poem-Object On the Road to San Romano Go for Broke Philippe Soupault FOUR POEMS Route Life-Saving Medal Sporting Goods Sunday Comrade Louis Aragon Poem to Shout in the Ruins Benjamin Peret My Final Agonies Joan of Arc On All Fours Robert Desnos Cuckoo Midway Epitaph Tristan Tzara Maison Aragon from The Approximate Man Gisele Prassinos Hair Tonic A Conversation Paul Eluard & Andre Breton from The Immaculate Conception Salvador Dali The Great Masturbator Max Ernst from The Hundred Headless Woman Anton in Artaud All Writing Is Garbage The Spurt of Blood "OBJECTIVISTS" Prologue to "Objectivists" Ezra Pound Vortex. Pound. William Carlos Williams from Spring and All Louis Zukofsky from Poem Beginning "The" George Oppen Discrete Series Charles Reznikoff Testimony Carl Rakosi A Journey Away Basil Bunting from The First Book of Odes "Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise" Vestiges NEGRITUDE Prologue to Negritude Aime Cesaire Macumba Word Aime Cesaire & Rene Depestre from Discourse on Colonialism Leopold Sedar Senghor Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal Taga for Mbaye Dy6b Man and Beast The Kaya-Magan Leon Damas Just Like the Legend S.O.S. Hiccups Aime Cesaire from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land The Miraculous Weapons A THIRD GALLERY Anna Akhmatova Requiem Nelly Sachs Chorus of the Dead Chorus of the Stars Hugh MacDiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle David Jones Miyazawa Kenji Spring and the Ashura Daydreaming on the Trail Pictures of the Floating World Bertolt Brecht First Psalm (Posthumous) Three Fragments Alabama Song Melvin B. Tolson from The Harlem Gallery: Book I, the Curator Henri Michaux from Slices of Knowledge Tomorrow Francis Ponge The Oyster from The Sun Placed in the Abyss Wen Yiduo (Wen I-to) Dead Water Miracle Vitezslav Nezval City with Towers Trap Door George Seferis The Poplar Leaf Mathios Paskalis among the Roses Les Anges sont blancs Laura Riding Elegy in a Spider's Web Gyula lllyes Logbook of a Lost Caravan Work While the Record Plays Nazim Hikmet Letters from Chankiri Prison Langston Hughes from Montage of a Dream Deferred Carlos Drummond de Andrade The Dead in Frock Coats 6 The Dirty Hand Motionless Faces 6 Lorine Niedecker News Subliminal Nicolas Guillen Don't Know No English Sense maya Wake for Papa Montero Moon The Usurers from The Daily Daily Pablo Neruda Walkin' Around Sexual Water Only Death Louis Zukofsky from Songs of Degrees "A" 1 Kenneth Rexroth from Prolegomena to a Theodicy Kusano Shimpei Birthday Party 4 or 5 Tadpoles Skylarks and Fuji Gunnar Ekelof Like Ankle-Rings, This Music If You Ask Me Hangman Absentia Animi Rene Char from Leaves of Hypnos Roger Gilbert-Lecomte Preface or The Drama of Absence in an Eternal Heart The Son of the Bone Speaks Old Precept of the Dead World Wink Rene Daumal from Clavicles for a Great Poetic Game Persephone That Is to Say Double Issue Short Revelation Concerning Death and Chaos Miklos Radnoti The Angel of Dread Seventh Eclogue YiSang from Crow's-Eye View Paper Memorial Stone Soyong Problems from Critical Condition Muriel Rukeyser The Dam Octavio Paz Hymn among the Ruins A BOOK OF ORIGINS Prologue to Origins Confucius I Ezra Pound from The Great Digest Orpingalik "Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath ... " Alcheringa Definitions Leopold Sedar Senghor "The African image is not an image by equation ... " Allama Prabhu For the Lord of Caves Clayton Eshleman Placements I Robert Duncan from Rites of Participation Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) from Why's I Wise Aborigine Sound Poem Lily Events from The Goulburn Island Cycle Tristan Tzara from Poemes Negres The Dance of the Greased Women Tropical Winter Awotunde Aworinde from I fa Suite in Praise of the Yoruba Oracle Aime Cesaire Ex-Voto for a Shipwreck Three for Bear Seven Songs & Song Pictures Richard Johnny John, Jerome Rothenberg, lan Tyson Songs from the Society of the Mystic Animals Simon Ortiz Telling about Coyote from Cantares Hexicanos Maria Sabina from The Midnight Velada The 13th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell from The I Ching The Marrying Maiden Jackson Mac Low Mani-Mani Gatha Ezra Pound Canto 49 Charles Olson The Song of Ullikummi Armand Schwerner TabletV from The Thunder, Perfect Mind Diane di Prima from Loba Doc Reese 01' Hannah Bessie Smith Black Mountain Blues Naftali Bacharach A Poem for the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light Jacques Gaffarel Celestial Alphabet Event Edmond Jabes from The Book of Questions Credits Index of Authors
£31.50
University of California Press When God is a Customer
Book SynopsisFeatures the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Songs ANNAMAYYA RUDRAKAVI KSETRAYYA SARAN GAP ANI Poem to Lord KONKANESVARA Notes to the Text Notes to the Songs Index of Refrains
£24.30
University of California Press Ancient Greek Epigrams
Book SynopsisAfter Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. This title offers a selection of the Greek epigrams. It showcases the poetry of nine poets, with many epigrams from The Milan Papyrus. It provides an introduction describing the emergence of the epigram in Hellenistic Greece.Trade Review"Crisp, clear, and written in 'accessible' English... [Fain has made] another part of classical literature available to the general reader." -- Matthew P. J. Dillon, University of New England, Australia European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Introduction to Ancient Greek Epigrams Chapter 2. Anyte Chapter 3. Leonidas of Tarentum Chapter 4. Asclepiades Chapter 5. Posidippus Chapter 6. Callimachus Chapter 7. Theocritus Chapter 8. Meleager Chapter 9. Philodemos Chapter 10. Lucillius Selected Bibliography Abbreviations Illustration Credits Index of First Lines
£64.00
University of California Press Technicians of the Sacred Third Edition
Book SynopsisHailed by Robert Creeley as both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets, artists, musicians, and other readers, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing primitive and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.Trade Review"If there is anyone out there struggling to write lyrics, get your hands on this book; immerse yourselves in it, live inside it for a while, free your mind, and you will emerge brimming with ideas." * Nick Cave *Table of ContentsTHE PRE-FACES Pre-Face (2017) Pre-Face (1984) Pre-Face (1967) THE TEXTS Origins & Namings Visions & Spels Death & Defeat The Book of Events (I) The Book of Events (II) Africa America Asia Europe & The Ancient Near East Oceania Survivals & Revivals THE STATEMENTS THE COMMENTARIES POST-FACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
£68.00
University of California Press An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry
£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser Based on Chaucer
Book SynopsisOpening with extracts from Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and closing with Spenser''s Shepherd''s Calendar, this concise collection introduces readers to some of the most influential poetry produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Provides a concise selection of the most important late medieval poetry. Ideal for general readers, or for students needing a digest of the poetry of the period. Introduces readers to the lives of the poets, their major works, and the historical context in which they were written. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400):. From The Canterbury Tales:. The General Prologue. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale. 2. William Langland (fl.1375-80):. The Vision of Piers Plowman (C-Text) (extracts). Prologue. Passus III. Passus V. Passus VI. 3. The Gawain-Poet (fl. 1390):. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fit 3. 4. Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505):. The Testament of Cresseid. The Fables. The Fox and the Wolf. The Wolf and the Wether. 5. William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515):. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. The Golden Targe (extracts). The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow (extracts). ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me'. 6. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42):. ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbor'. ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde'. ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'. ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes'. ‘Madame, withouten many wordes';. ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'. ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'. ‘Marvaill no more all-tho'. ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'. ‘To wish and want and not obtain'. ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'. ‘The furyous gonne is his rajing yre'. ‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last'. ‘In eternum I was ons determed'. ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'. ‘To cause accord or to agre'. ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce'. ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?'. ‘Is it possible?'. ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent'. ‘Blame not my lute for he must sownde'. ‘What shulde I saye'. ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'. ‘I abide and abide and better abide'. ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe'. ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought'. ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray'. 7. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47):. ‘When raging love with extreme payne'. ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes'. ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene'. ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought'. ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace'. ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before'. Epitaph for Wyatt. 8. Edmund Spenser (1552-99):. From The Shepherd's Calender. January. Index of titles and first lines.
£28.45
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
£84.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
£28.45
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction (Duncan Wu). 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts). From Aurora Leigh: First Book. . 2. Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809-92). . Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. Ulysses. Morte d'Arthur. 'Break, Break, Break'. From The Princess; A Medley. From In Memoriam A.H.H. The Charge of the Light Brigade. From Maud. I ('I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood'). XXII ('Come into the garden, Maud'). Crossing the Bar. . 3. Robert Browning (1812-89). My Last Duchess. The Lost Leader. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Porphyria's Lover. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Meeting at Night. Parting at Morning. Love Among the Ruins. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Toccata of Galuppi's. ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. Memorabilia. Andrea del Sarto. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. Never the Time and the Place. . 4. Emily (Jane) Brontë (1818-48). 'What winter floods, what showers of spring'. 'Long neglect has worn away'. 'The night is darkening round me'. 'All hushed and still within the house'. 'O Dream, where art thou now?'. 'How still, how happy! those are words'. 'Mild the mist upon the hill'. 'Come, walk with me'. To Imagination. Remembrance ('R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida'). Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle ('The Prisoner'). 'No coward soul is mine'. . 5. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). 'Say not the struggle naught availeth'. 'That there are powers above us I admit'. . 6. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). To Marguerite in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis. Self-Dependence. Dover Beach. The Scholar-Gipsy. . 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). The Blessed Damozel. From The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Part I: Youth and Change. Sonnet VI: The Kiss. Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender. Sonnet XI: The Love-Letter. Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture. Sonnet LIII: Without Her. Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality. Part II: Change and Fate. Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness. Sonnet LXXVII: Soul's Beauty. Sonnet LXXVIII: Body's Beauty. Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds. Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy. Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription. Sonnet CI: The One Hope. Nuptial Sleep. 'Found' (For a Picture). . 8. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). Remember. Goblin Market. . 9. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):. Neutral Tones. Nature’s Questioning. The Impericipeint. In aEweleaze near Weatherbury. "I look into my glass’. A Broken Appointment. The Darkling Thrush. The Self-Unseeing.. 10. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). The Wreck of the Deutschland. God's Grandeur. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. Binsey Poplars. Felix Randal. 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'. Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves. 'Thou art indeed just, Lord'. . 11. A. E. Housman (1859-1936). From A Shropshire Lad. From Last Poems. . 12. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The Stolen Child. Down by the Salley Gardens. The Rose of the World. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. When You Are Old. Who Goes with Fergus?. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner. The Song of Wandering Aengus. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Adam’s Curse. Red Hanrahans’s Song about Ireland.. Index of Titles and First Lines.
£28.45
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde Presents several long poems in their entirety, such as Arnold's Empedocles on Etna', Clough's Amours de Voyage, Meredith's Modern Love and Tennyson's In Memoriam AHH Each poet is introduced by a biographical headnote Each poem is introduced by a headnote giving publication details, biographical facts, contextual material, and other information The poems themselves are all fully annotated Extensive introductory material enables readers to read across the volume chronologically, thematically, or by individual author Features twelve black and white illustrations of images referred to in or relevant toTrade Review"This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsSuggested Contents by Theme and Genre. Alphabetical List of Authors. List of Plates. Abbreviations. Chronology. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Poetry included (short titles). Thomas Macaulay (1800-59). ‘Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX’. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). ‘Bertha in the Lane’. ‘The Cry of the Children’. ‘Rime of the Duchess May’. ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. ‘Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave’. Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):. ‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’. ‘I never gave a lock of hair away’. ‘If I leave all for thee’. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’. ‘Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers’. ‘Lord Walter’s Wife’. ‘A Musical Instrument’. ‘Amy’s Cruelty’. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92). ‘The Dying Swan’. ‘Mariana’. ‘The Lotos-Eaters’. ‘The Lady of Shalott’. ‘The Epic/Morte d’Arthur’. ‘Ulysses’. ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’. In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’. ‘To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava’. ‘Crossing the Bar’. Robert Browning (1812-89). ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. ‘My Last Duchess’. ‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church’. ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’. ‘Andrea del Sarto’. ‘“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”’. ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’. ‘Two in the Campagna’. ‘Caliban upon Setebos’. ‘Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton’. ‘Inapprehensiveness’. Emily Brontë (1818-48). ‘High waving heather’. ‘The Night-Wind. ‘Shall earth no more inspire thee[?]’. ‘To Imagination’. ‘Remembrance’. ‘The Prisoner: A Fragment’. ‘No coward soul is mine’. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). ‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’. Amours de Voyage. ‘The Latest Decalogue’. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). ‘A Summer Night’. ‘To Marguerite – Continued’. ‘Empedocles on Etna’. ‘The Buried Life’. ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’. ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’. ‘Dover Beach’. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64). ‘Philip and Mildred’. ‘A Legend of Provence’. George Meredith (1828-1909). Modern Love. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). ‘The Burden of Nineveh’. ‘Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni’. ‘Jenny’. ‘Nuptial Sleep’. ‘Song 8: The Woodspurge’. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). ‘In an Artist’s Studio’. ‘An Apple-Gathering’. ‘A Birthday’. ‘Goblin Market’. ‘Song: When I am dead, my dearest’. ‘Winter: My Secret’. ‘The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860’. ‘Shut Out’. ‘The World’. ‘A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter’. ‘In life our absent friend’. ‘Resurgam’. ‘Babylon the Great’. James Thomson, ‘B. V.’ (1834-82). The City of Dreadful Night. William Morris (1834-96). ‘The Haystack in the Floods’. ‘The Defence of Guenevere’. ‘Concerning Geffray Teste Noire’. ‘Iceland First Seen’. Alfred Austin (1835-1913). ‘Henry Bartle Edward Frere’. Augusta Webster (1837-94). ‘Circe’. ‘A Castaway’. ‘Faded’. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). ‘Hymn to Proserpine’. ‘Anactoria’. ‘Laus Veneris’. ‘Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire’. ‘A Forsaken Garden’. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). ‘Hap’. ‘Drummer Hodge’. ‘The Darkling Thrush’. ‘In the Old Theatre, Fiesole’. ‘The Ruined Maid’. ‘The Self-Unseeing’. ‘In Tenebris I’. ‘Shelley’s Skylark’. ‘Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden’. ‘The Revisitation’. Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844-89). ‘Spring and Fall’. ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. ‘God’s Grandeur’. ‘Pied Beauty’. ‘The Windhover’. ‘Inversnaid’. ‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection’. ‘Harry Ploughman’. ‘Binsey Poplars’. ‘No worst, there is none’. ‘My own heart let me more have pity on’. Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907). ‘The New Medusa’. Imaginary Sonnets: ‘Laura to Petrarch’. ‘Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice’. ‘Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife’. ‘Charles Edward to his Last Friend’. Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]). ‘Maids, not to you my mind doth change’. ‘La Gioconda’. ‘A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto’. ‘A Girl’. ‘Cyclamens’. ‘Sometimes I do despatch my heart’. ‘It was deep April’. ‘Nests in Elms’. Four Victorian Hymns. ‘The day thou gavest’ (Ellerton). ‘Take my life and let it be’ (Havergal). ‘Onward Christian soldiers’ (Baring-Gould). ‘My God how wonderful thou art’ (Faber). W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849-1903). In Hospital. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). ‘Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons’. ‘Symphony in Yellow’. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. John Davidson (1857-1909). ‘Thirty Bob a Week’. ‘A Woman and her Son’. ‘Snow’. ‘The Crystal Palace’. May Kendall (1861-?1943). ‘Lay of the Trilobite’. Amy Levy (1861-89). ‘Xantippe: A Fragment’. ‘A Minor Poet’. ‘A Ballad of Religion and Marriage’. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’. ‘Gunga Din’. ‘Tommy’. ‘Recessional, A Victorian Ode’. ‘The White Man’s Burden’. ‘If – ’. ‘The Way through the Woods’. Arthur Symons (1865-1945). ‘From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry’. ‘The Absinthe Drinker’. ‘Javanese Dancers’. ‘Prologue’. ‘Paris’. ‘Hands’. ‘White Heliotrope’. ‘Stella Maris’. Ernest Dowson (1867-1900). ‘Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’. ‘Extreme Unction’. ‘Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’. ‘Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902). ‘Oxford’. ‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’. ‘The Dark Angel’. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). ‘The Forest Road’. ‘Madeleine in Church’. ‘The Trees are Down’. Select Bibliography. Index of titles. Index of First Lines
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Harvard University Press Baiae
Book SynopsisPontano was the most innovative, versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.Trade ReviewPontano's Baiae have now appeared in an elegant and lucid English translation by Rodney G. Dennis in the I Tatti Renaissance Library; like all the volumes in this superb new series, the book has been beautifully produced… The I Tatti volumes with their royal blue covers, spacious layout of both Latin text and facing translation, and discreet but detailed annotation, are a bibliophile's delight. Pontano, a discriminating bookman, would have been pleased. -- Eric Ormsby * New York Sun *
£26.96
Harvard University Press Old English Shorter Poems: Volume I
Book SynopsisOld English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse.Trade ReviewThis handsome volume presents 29 Old English religious poems, each in the original language and facing modern English translation. Jones is wise in categorizing these non-narrative, anonymous poems under four loose headings (‘Poetic Allegories of Nature,’ ‘Poems of Worship and Prayer,’ ‘Poems on Christian Living,’ and ‘Poems on the Last Things’) but emphasizing that the poems nonetheless share inextricable themes of morality and future judgment. Texts are based on established editions, and newly prepared prose translations balance faithfulness to the original with the standards of clear, idiomatic, modern English. The introduction provides context that will heighten appreciation of the poems. Notes on the particular poems offer general textual and bibliographic information. The introduction, notes, and bibliography do not aim to be comprehensive, a laudable choice because it allows inexperienced readers to encounter these beautiful poems, many rarely read today, directly and independent of layers of textual and critical commentary. -- M. B. Busbee * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Art of the Sonnet
Book SynopsisFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems.Trade ReviewBurt and Mikics have a ravishing breadth of taste and understanding. Their capaciousness allows the sonnet greater variety than its enemies (who think it old-fashioned, retrograde, and reactionary) would allow. A literary tour de force. -- Willard Spiegelman, author of Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary HappinessBurt and Mikics have gathered together and composed a marvelous book. Both of them give us profound commentaries on particular sonnets and on the genre. I know of no other recent book that so steadily illuminates the riches it invokes. -- Harold BloomBurt and Mikics have written an illuminating text that promises many hours of reading pleasure and greater understanding of this poetic form. -- Susan L. Peters * Library Journal *Learned as well as passionate, this book is a delight. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A carefully selected set of 100 sonnets, spanning 1557 to 2009, each with a compact companion essay. [The editors’] aim is to present ‘a partial history of the sonnet form.’ But that puts it too modestly. With their selection of poems and their (mostly) compelling essays, Burt and Mikics manage to give a vivid sense of the sonnet in English as a living, organic thing, interconnected and evolving through time… It’s the essays that really distinguish this volume… Many of these essays are models of how to write about a poem, especially one centuries old. If you like to get under the hood of a poem and poke around at its inner mechanics, to see what makes it go, then the more technical parts of these essays won’t disappoint. But they’re not just technical: They strike an appealing balance of historical, biographical, and textual analysis, while remaining, for the most part, accessible. -- Wen Stephenson * Boston Globe *Newcomers to poetry and longtime readers alike will find this a rich and rewarding volume. -- Lauren Winner * Books & Culture *[A] handsome collection of 100 sonnets...It is to the credit of the compilers of this fine anthology that they manage to mount persuasive (and mercifully jargon-free) arguments that even poems as idiosyncratic as [Les Murray's] "Strangler Fig" reflect the venerable and seemingly inexhaustible traditions of the sonnet. -- Andrew Riemer * Sydney Morning Herald *The editors...[have] collected one hundred enjoyable sonnets reaching back to Thomas Wyatt and George Gascoigne, and meanwhile, providing a thorough introduction and thoroughly astute commentary on each sonnet. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate this as a reader. -- Jeannie Vanasco * openlettersmonthly.com *Burt and Mikics write two or three pages about each of [the] poems, and mostly these are clear and patient guides to rhythm and form, allusions, their relations to the lives of their authors...They say just the right thing to make their readers turn back to the poems. -- Colin Burrow * London Review of Books *This is a volume of poetry and criticism that a nonspecialist could read front to back with real pleasure. -- G. W. Clift * Choice *Innovative and intelligent...All poetry can be seen as a conversation between poets over time. In The Art of the Sonnet, the little room of the sonnet serves as an echo chamber and amplifier, allowing us to hear those voices--great and small, living and dead--more clearly than ever. -- Adam Kirsch * Harvard Magazine *
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Harvard University Press London
Book SynopsisLondon has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.Trade ReviewThe huge anthology [Ford] has edited is a considerable and welcome achievement. Any literate cloakroom should have a copy, but so should anyone interested in London or, indeed, life. -- Lachlan MacKinnon * Times Literary Supplement *[A] superb anthology… Ford’s collection shows the development of particular city-sensibilities: the hedonistic, jaded, nostalgic, urbane. Oppositions are played out as much between the classic dichotomies of country and town as by London’s own inbuilt contradictions (wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, fear and wonder)… By so assiduously unpacking the metropolis, Ford’s anthology also stumps for poetry itself: as it leaps from historical events to the private dramas playing out in postal districts all over the ‘great mean city,’ the art asserts its primacy as a portal to the full range of the human. -- Nick Laird * New York Review of Books *No other city so inspires and infuriates poets like London… Spanning seven centuries, this fascinating new collection features Wordsworth and Pope alongside lesser-known and even anonymous poets, all of them moved by the city’s labyrinthine streets and smells, sounds and textures. The volume includes an outbreak of plague, the Great Fire, the deposition of Charles I, the crowning of Charles II, two world wars and the introduction of the London Underground, all of it conveyed through the prism of poetry. It makes for a thrilling read… A wonderfully eclectic collection, which sees ballads and poems from popular pamphlets jostling alongside more meditative, contemplative works. There are many unknown gems, such as a rare poem by George Eliot (’In a London Drawingroom’) and work from the under-appreciated Stevie Smith… Poems by Thom Gunn and W.S. Graham, and the contemporary work of Seamus Heaney and Lavinia Greenlaw, prove that London is still a rich source of material. Both a history of London and a clever guide to some overlooked works, this volume is as unexpected and as dazzling as the metropolis itself. * The Economist *Here is a rich, poetic evocation of [London] by one who is himself a learned poet; and dull would he be of soul who did not find something to enjoy in its voluminous bulk. -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard *[A] seething, clamorous megalopolis of a London anthology… I have never come across a London anthology (or any warehouse of urban poetry) as rich, as bold, as multifarious as this… Olympic visitors should lug this brick back home for a pungent souvenir of the original ‘maximum city’ in all its grot and grandeur. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *The book is as full of mayhem and color as the city itself… Ford’s book packs in as much lore, as much fact and legend, as much gala occasion, as much glitter and cloud, gossip and prayer, sound and sight and smell as it’s possible to imagine… Ford offers a wonderful sampler of British poets—as well as some of the many American ones who have washed up here, and written what they found. The titles of poems tantalize with place-names, stacking up like gold medals… Everyone’s a winner, and London’s finest moments are all here, for anyone who wants to look. -- Katy Evans-Bush * Los Angeles Review of Books *[Ford’s] anthology, ranging from the mid-fourteenth-century poems of John Gower and William Langland to a poem of Ahren Warner (b. 1986), and across all genres (love poems, satires, anonymous ballads, street cries, limericks, personal memoirs) and all styles (free verse to sonnets and villanelles—Wendy Cope has a beauty), displays an openness of mind and a keen eye. -- Geoffrey Lehmann * Australian Book Review *[A] superb book dedicated to Londons both past and present… London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford, will engage not only poetry lovers but anyone interested in a nearly seven-century poetic record of how London’s citizens and visitors have interpretively framed this city… This ample and handsomely produced book won’t leave any readers feeling cheated. Ford takes care to reflect a contemporary London that is a global city and a postcolonial capital as well. Instead of a monotone ‘London English,’ different demotic voices reflect today’s cosmopolis. -- Brett Foster * Books & Culture *[A] gold [medal] goes to London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford. This beautifully produced, doorstop of an anthology runs from the 14th century to the present day. -- Michael Murray-Fennell * Country Life *[A] wonderful and ceaselessly evocative anthology of London verse. All the way from 14th-century William Langland and Chaucer to the present, we hear echoes, and see reflections… This vast volume is a guide to the city’s authentically enduring soul. -- Sinclair McKay * Daily Telegraph *Traces an enchanting journey round the canonical to the quirky, from love lyrics, the cries of old London, ballads and limericks to satirical verses and epics. -- Juliet Gardiner * History Today *If I were going to recommend one perfect present for a poetry lover, it would be London: A History in Verse. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *This elegant selection of poets begins in the 14th century and ends in the present day. -- Nick Owchar * Los Angeles Times *Lavish and intensely enjoyable… Ford has searched the highways and back-alleys of the poetry world and brought together an anthology so great in scope and inviting in scale that it thunderously surpasses anything similar ever attempted… This is a volume to keep, to savor, and to re-savor. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *What’s on offer is an exercise is historical–cultural geography. The experience of reading it is much like that of stepping out of King’s Cross station and strolling the city’s streets. Walk long enough, read deeply enough, and you’ll be immersed in impressions of beauty, grime, humor, violence—often simultaneously. If this book succeeds as a celebration, it is only insofar as it admits everything, like the city itself. -- Tobias Peterson * PopMatters *A magnificent collection revealing [London] in all its splendor and squalor. -- Mark Sanderson * Sunday Telegraph *This anthology is as much about how history is made by words, and how we remember, as it is about the poetry. If it is a history it is unapologetically composed of shards and fragments. But it is possible to glimpse something like a spirit of place; the splendid flashing temperament of a wild animal. For those unwilling to detach history from narrative, this great sprawling collection offers multifarious delights on their own terms. -- Felicity Plunkett * Weekend Australian *This delightfully thick book offers poems from the late 14th century to the early 21st that are connected in one fashion or another with London. Offerings range from nursery rhymes through watermen’s songs and pedlars’ chants, with stops at less-familiar subgenres, such as ‘Thames frozen over’ poems… Sure to afford instruction and delight to readers who love London, to readers curious about the city, and (for that matter) to readers who loathe the place. -- E. D. Hill * Choice *A rich anthology of poems and selections from poems that describe, evoke, and trace the history of London, beginning with the 14th-century Middle English poets Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, and continuing on to current ones such as Tom Chivers and Ahren Warners. In addition to the usual suspects such as Swift, Blake, and Eliot, there is a wide and deep diversity of poets, crossing national, class, and ethnic boundaries in order to express the full response to London. Following a chronological arrangement, Ford includes work commemorating the city’s various defining historical events from insurrections to the Great Plague and Fire, the Industrial Revolution, the Blitz, the Swinging Sixties, and terrorist bombings… A fine anthology aimed not just at poetry specialists but for the general reader who loves both London and verse anthologies. -- T. L. Cooksey * Library Journal *This marvelous anthology ranging over six centuries about one of the great cities of the world is not only a delight to read, but also a revelation: Who would have suspected that there were so many memorable poems written about London by poets one tends to identify with other interests? Starting with Mark Ford’s informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction, we go from surprise to surprise turning the pages of this book, very much like someone taking in the sights of a city he was not familiar with, or has long known, and is now discovering to his astonishment, as if for the first time. -- Charles SimicA volume that holds a poetic mirror up to London—and how does she look? Sublime and squalid, high-born and street-smart, worthy of a sonnet and fit only for doggerel. This irresistible collection captures 600 years of the city’s vibrant many-voiced chorus. A gem. -- Zadie SmithThis vivid, vibrant and vital anthology takes us into the heart and history of Eliot’s ‘unreal city’, poem by poem. Mark Ford has gathered together poems born of London, in conversation with London, in combat with London, in awe of London, most of which were first published in London, centre of print and power. Covering six and a half centuries of wandering, whoring, watching, drinking, dancing, praying, building, courting, and cursing, here can be found Wordsworth’s ‘endless stream of men and moving things’, even when, as Fleur Adcock puts it, ‘the traffic’s as abominable as ever’. Packed as the Underground, this is as essential a guide to London as the A–Z. -- Frances Wilson
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Harvard University Press The Voices of Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisThe poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that The Voices of Babyn Yar is destined to become a classic text in the Ukrainian canon. Will this poetry save nations or people? Of course not. But it will forever serve as a reminder of the human capacity for evil—a prompt we seem to require on a regular basis. -- Askold Melnyczuk * Times Literary Supplement *Kiyanovska has collected the imaginary testimony of individuals entwined in these unspeakable atrocities. Now they speak…Paradoxically, because the poems are presented as poetic communications, permeated with interjections from the poet herself, they do not further rend the fabric of reality, but have an utter authenticity that can only be explained by vision. -- Matthew Zapruder * Orion *In a translation that nudges close to the linguistic breaking points of the original, while retaining the fullness of its poetic registers and plethora of references to Ukrainian, Jewish, Soviet, and Western contexts, the seasoned translators-cum-poets Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky draw attention to an extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust. -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkIn 2017, the poet Marianna Kiyanovska published her collection Babyn Yar: Holosamy. It has now been translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rozochinsky in a virtuosic English version…[The] poems include a discussion of the Nazi genocide, Soviet revisionist history, and recent conversations about identity and citizenship. -- Amelia Glaser * Jewish Renaissance *
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Harvard University Press Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experimentfrom the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montagelike methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.Table of Contents* Introduction *"I Am That I Am": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Personal Poetry * Real and Numinous Selves: A Reading of Plath * Language Against Itself: The Middle Generation of Contemporary Poets *"Surrealism" and the Absent Self * The Diffracting Diamond: Ashbery, Romanticism, and Anti-Art * The Future of Personal Poetry * Notes * Credits * Index
£46.71
Harvard University Press Beginning at the End
Book SynopsisRobert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.Trade ReviewGives new and global life to decadence…This is a deeply learned and original work that shows the necessity of bringing modernist and postcolonial studies together. -- Citation for First Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationIn a series of brilliant readings, Robert Stilling offers a new understanding of anticolonial anglophone cultural production, one in which liberatory aims are best served, counterintuitively, not by the nationalist arts of social realism but rather by a cosmopolitan modernist poetics of decadence: arts and literatures that celebrate the aesthetic for its own sake. -- Citation for Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, Modern Language AssociationA dazzling confluence of fin-de-siècle aesthetics and postcolonial thought. -- Robert Volpicelli * Modernism/modernity *One of the joys of Beginning at the End is its provision of fresh and surprising perspectives on canonical figures of literary decadence by embedding their writing in the material contexts of colonialism and postcolonial criticism. -- Conor Linnie * Irish Studies Review *This book presents a highly timely contribution to our understanding of modernism, decadence, and postcolonial literary history. Ranging impressively over a global frame of reference, and joining the wrongly divorced sensibilities of modernism and decadence, Stilling shows how a modernist poetics of decadence may serve equally to record a process of decline in history and a register of critique of those developments. This is a major work of literary history. -- Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. LouisStilling argues that late-nineteenth-century ‘decadent’ writing—its styles, governing tropes, and ways of imagining the past—have proven crucial to poets, playwrights, and visual artists whom we now call postcolonial. These are artists whose subjects include new nations, immigrants, people of color, the new global economy, and new international relations, and decadence has helped them to address these topics without illusions and after the failure of simplist or ill-fated realist or revolutionary programs. This is a book that scholars across the discipline are going to have to read. -- Stephanie Burt, Harvard UniversityRobert Stilling is at the forefront of a group of scholars exploring the powerful legacy of fin-de-siècle culture in twentieth-century art and literature. Beginning at the End convincingly demonstrates that decadent texts and imagery were central to the project of postcolonial writing, and carried a political charge that few others have noticed. It will figure in discussions of both decadence and global modernism for many years to come. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
£33.11
Harvard University Press Select Papyri Volume III
Book SynopsisFragments of ancient literature from the seventh to the third century BC found on papyri in Egypt include examples of tragedy; satyr plays; Old, Middle, and New Comedy; mime; lyric, elegiac, iambic, and hexameter poetry.
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Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W. H. Auden Prose Volume I
Book SynopsisContains various essays and reviews that W H Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full versions of his two illustrated travel books, "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War". This book is intended not only for Auden's admirers, but those concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture.Trade Review"A rich mine of reading here for scholars and informed lay readers alike."--Library Journal "Before famously (and more or less permanently) emigrating to New York in 1939, W.H. Auden was not only the foremost English poet of his generation but also a prolific reviewer and essayist whose tastes and political sensibilities dominated the anti-fascist England of the 1930s... this essential volume in a projected complete edition restores the voracious reader and never pedantic critic to the master poet."--Publisher's Weekly "We need Auden again, sacred and profane. As the New Age lunges into the volcano, we could do worse than read the Auden of the '30s, if only to prepare us to understand, and value, the later Audens ... The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson is ... the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him."--Tom D'Evelyn, The Boston Book Review "For anyone interested in 'early Auden' this book is indispensable."--Bernard Knox, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The Text of This Edition Preface to Oxford Poetry 1926 By W. H. Auden, Charles Plumb Preface to Oxford Poetry 1927 By W. H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis A Review of Instinct and Intuition, by George Binney Dibblee A Review of The Grasshoppers Come, by David Garnett A Review of The Complete Poems of John Skelton A Review of Edda and Saga, by Bertha S. Phillpotts A Review of The Prisoner's Soul - and Our Own, by Eivind Berggrav Writing Private Pleasure Problems of Education A Review of The Evolution of Sex, by Dr Gregorio Maranon, and The Biological Tragedy of Women, by Anton Nemilov Gentleman versus Player A Review of the Dark Places of Education, by Dr Willi Schohaus A Poet Tells Us How to Be Masters of the Machine A Review of Culture and Environment, by F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson, and Other Books A Review of The Poems of William Dunbar What Is Wrong with Architecture? A Review of The Book of Talbot, by Violet Clifton The First Lord Melchett The Group Movement and the Middle Classes The Liberal Fascist "Honour" "T. E. Lawrence" Life's Old Boy A Review of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Elsie Elizabeth Phare A Review of Modern Poetic Drama, by Priscilla Thouless A Review of English Poetry for Children, by R. L. Megroz In Search of Dracula To Unravel Unhappiness Lowes Dickinson John Skelton Psychology and Art To-day Introduction to The Poet's Tongue By W. H. Auden, John Garrett The Good Life Everyman's Freedom The Bond and the Free "From the Series "I Want the Theatre to Be..." A Review of Documentary Film, by Paul Rotha Psychology and Criticism A Review of Questions of Our Day, by Havelock Ellis Selling the Group Theatre Honest Doubt "Robert Frost" Pope A Review of The Book of Margery Kempe A Modern Use of Masks: An Apologia Are You Dissatisfied with This Performance? The Average Man Four Stories of Crime Poetry, Poets, and Taste Adventures in the Air A Novelist's Poems Crime Tales and Puzzles Letters from Iceland By W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice Impressions of Valencia Royal Poets A Review of Illusion and Reality, by Christopher Caudwell "From Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War" Preface to the Catalogue of Oil Paintings by Past and Present Members of the Downs School, Colwall Education By W. H. Auden, T. C. Worsley A Good Scout In Defence of Gossip Introduction to The Oxford Book of Light Verse Jehovah Housman and Satan Housman Chinese Diary By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Meeting the Japanese By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Escales By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood The Sportsmen: A Parable "Message to the Chinese People" By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Men of Thought and Action Ironworks and University Democracy's Reply to the Challenge of Dictators Nonsense Poetry Introduction to Poems of Freedom, edited by John Mulgan Foreword to Poet Venturers: A Collection of Poems Written by Bristol School Boys and Girls "The Noble Savage" A New Short Story Writer The Teaching of English Morality in an Age of Change George Gordon Byron China Journey to a War By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood App. I. Auden as Anthologist and Editor App. II. Reported Lectures App. III. Auden on the Air App. IV. Public Letters Signed by Auden and Others App. V. Lost and Unwritten Work Textual Notes Index of Titles, First Lines, and Books Reviewed
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Princeton University Press The Double Witness
Book SynopsisBen Belitt writes, "This volume--my fifth--extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things. It offers a variety of poems of formal and textural density and, in addition, a system of 'doublings' and 'solitudes' whose oppositions express the drama of reality and appearance."Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. ix*I. The Invisible Edge, pg. 1*II. From the Firehouse, pg. 19*III. Solitudes, pg. 31*IV. This Scribe, My Hand, pg. 43*V. Block Island: After the Tempest, pg. 53
£28.50
Princeton University Press Collected Poems
Book SynopsisThe Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay on Dante. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technologyTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Poesie / On Poetry, pg. 1*Eloges/ Praises, pg. 15*La Gloire Des Rois/ The Glory Of Kings, pg. 71*Anabase/ Anabasis, pg. 99*Exil/ Exile, pg. 145*Pluies / Rains, pg. 173*Neiges / Snows, pg. 197*Poeme A L'etrangere / Poem to a Foreign Lady, pg. 211*Vents / Winds, pg. 225*Amers / Seamarks, pg. 359*Chronique/ Chronique, pg. 577*Oiseaux / Birds, pg. 607*Poeme pour Valery Larbaud / Poem for Valery Larbaud, pg. 641*Pour Dante / Dante, pg. 647*Secheresse / Drouth, pg. 675*Chant pour un Equinoxe / Song For An Equinox, pg. 689*Nocturne / Nocturne, pg. 695*Chante Par Celle Qui Fut La / Sung by One Who Was There, pg. 699*Appendix, pg. 707*Bibliographical Note, pg. 717
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisIt fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.Trade ReviewThis book promises to be popular as both textbook and reference. Choice 2010
£64.18
University of Toronto Press Selections from Canadian Poets
Book SynopsisSelections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form ...' This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the anthologist and the tenor of the times. Pre-confederation poets had deeply felt ties with other countries from which developed a shared concern for what Douglas Lochhead terms in his introduction the 'now' and the 'place,' often described in terms of the 'past' and the 'other place,' which embraced a still larger loyalty – religious, political, philosophical, and above all nationalistic. Dewart was widely commended by critics of his attention for its endeavour to come to grips with the influences of other literatures (mainly English) and for its realization that so-called 'colonialism' was
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LSU Press The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Book SynopsisIn this indispensable volume, John Burt, Robert Penn Warren's literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons), including the many poems he published in The Fugitive and other magazines, as well as those that appeared in his small press works and broadsides.
£82.85
Louisiana State University Press Yellow Shoe Poets
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£23.42
Louisiana State University Press A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written
Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology of poetry written by fifteen Venezuelan poets who are currently residing in Chile. Edited and translated by David Brunson, the volume encompasses the work of young poets coming from many different circumstances. Some have already published several books, while others have just begun their careers as writers.
£24.65
Northwestern University Press The Morte dArthur
£16.16
University of Pennsylvania Press Broken Columns
Book SynopsisI would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume.Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTrade Review"With unerring instinct Slavitt has juxtaposed two witty and ironic post-Ovidian tales of coming of age, Statius's unfinished Deeds of Achilles and Claudian's Rape of Proserpina. Those were the mythical days when teenagers were charming and rape consensual (for Deidamia) or at least (for Proserpina) the path to queenly power. Epic was never the same after Ovid, whether in Statius's sentimental comedy of love and war or in Claudian's darker divine intrigue sacrificing a mother's love to avert an infernal coup d'etat. Slavitt's versatile idiom makes vivid the personalities of Statius's drama and updates Claudian's self-conscious poetics in versions that are both free and true to the poets' art." * Elaine Fantham, Princeton University *"Slavitt does a real service by putting into English verse for the first time this century two poems of great grace and charm. . . . Konstan's afterword itself is a gem. . . . I would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *"David Slavitt appears to be fluent not only in Latin but also in hexameters. His translation seems to flow effortlessly from his pen. His speech and vocabulary are contemporary and easy to read. . . . This slim volume is further enhanced by the brilliant essay by David Konstan that is appended to it. The essay is reminiscent of the introductions written by R. C. Jebb in his editions of the plays of Sophocles-a combination of a scholarly discussion of the underlying myth in the text interspersed with perceptive literary criticism." * American Book Review *
£17.99
University of Pennsylvania Press The Difference Is Spreading
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n idiosyncratic and fun collection of short essays on modern and contemporary poems....If you like poems, and like reading smart people writing about poems in bite-sized essays, then The Difference Is Spreading is the kind of book you might like to leave on your nightstand and dip into here and there. It is, as Gertrude Stein might tell us, both 'a spectacle and nothing strange' to encounter all of these wonderful poems through the eyes of our contemporary poets." * Los Angeles Review of Books *
£21.59
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida American Prose Poem Poetic Form and the
Book SynopsisThe American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.Trade ReviewExcellent . . . the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets." —Peter Johnson, Providence College
£18.86
MW - Rutgers University Press Brown River White Ocean An Anthology of TwentiethCentury Philippine Literature in English
£29.70
Rutgers University Press The New Anthology of American Poetry Traditions
Book SynopsisThis anthology demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry have evolved, with certain poets silenced until the present day, while others who emerged and then faded are ready to be retrieved. This volume covers poetry from its beginnings up to 1900.Trade Review"It belongs on the shelf of every library and of every individual who understand that the voices of the poets set the moral tone of the US." * Choice *"By embracing the guiding principle of 'traditions and revolutions,' the editors of this marvelous anthology have produced a rich, exciting text that surprises, engages, and challenges readers like no other such book has done. Its thoughtful inclusiveness, lucid introductions, and helpful notes make it supremely teachable. This work establishes a new benchmark for poetry anthologies." -- Emory Elliott * editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States *Table of Contents*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: PRE-COLUMBIAN PERIOD TO 1800 IntroductionNATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (Pre 1492-1800)GASPAR PÉREZ DE VILLAGRÁ (1555-1620)ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1631-1705)LUCY TERRY (ca. 1730-1821)PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753-1784)JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATIONPART TWO: EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionAFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE SONGS (1800-1863)NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800-1900)LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)WILLIAN CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)GEORGE MOSES HORTON (ca. 1797-1883)JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAME-WA-WA-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY, WOMAN OF THE STARS RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY] (1800-1841)SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803-1878)RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH (1806-1893)HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) EDGAR ALLEN P0E (1809-1849)OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811-1850)ADA [SARAH LOUISA FORTEN] (ca. 1814-1898)HENRY DAVID THROEAU (1817-1862)JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)ALICE CARY (1820-1871)FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1827-1853)ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892)JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827-1867)HENRY TIMROD (1828-1867)HAWAI'IAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS (1825-1930)JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN (1838-1920)POPULAR EUROPEAN-AMERICAN SONGSPART THREE: LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY IntroductionCORRIDOS (1860s-1930s)ZARAGOZA CLUBS (1860s)DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN [TOO-QUA-STEE] (1829-1909)HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885)EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)ADAH ISSACS MENKEN (ca. 1835-1868)sARAH M. B. PIATT (1836-1919)LYDIA KAMAKAEHA [QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI] (1838-1917)INA COOLBRITH (1841-1928)SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851-1901)EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)JOSÉ MARTÍ (1853-1895)ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853-1908)LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920)MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA (1865-1954)OWL WOMAN [JUANA MANWELL] (1867-1957)SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944)EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869-1910)EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)About the EditorsIndex
£44.20
Wayne State University Press The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Book SynopsisA collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with a commentary and a literal English translation.
£27.16
Wayne State University Press The Way North
Book SynopsisMichigan's Upper Peninsula is distinct from the rest of the state in geography, climate, and culture, including a unique and thriving creative writing community. In The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, Ron Riekki presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from memorable, varied voices that are writing from and about Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
£17.95
University of Arizona Press Sing
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£24.71
The University of Alabama Press What I Say Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in
Book SynopsisWhat I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the c
£30.56
Ohio University Press Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India 17801913
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£59.40
Ohio University Press Religious Imaginaries
Book SynopsisExplores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith commitments tended to limit creativity; that the contours of church experiences matter little for understanding religious poetry; and that gender is more significant than liturgy in shaping women's religious poetry.Exploring the import of bodily experience for spiritual, emotional, and cognitive forms of knowing, Karen Dieleman explains and clarifies the deep orientations of different strands of nineteenth-century Christianity, such as Congregationalism's high regard for verbal proclamation, Anglicanism's and Anglo-Catholicism's valuation of manifestation, and revivalist Roman Catholicism's recuperation of an affective aesthetic. Looking specifically at Elizabeth Barrett BroTrade Review“In our critical moment often obsessed with secularity, Dieleman’s breathtakingly original scholarship reminds us how lived religion and liturgy profoundly shaped the creative work of some of our most celebrated women writers. This groundbreaking book made me rethink everything I thought I knew about religion, poetry, and women in nineteenth-century England." -- Cynthia Scheinberg, author of Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture“Though applying a theoretical framework drawn from contemporary theology, Dieleman unquestionably displays her Victorianist credentials by combining her own fresh archival research with often incisive close readings.” * Review 19 *“Dieleman is particularly insightful when she describes the types of worship practiced in various ecclesial settings (Dissenting, Anglican, and roman Catholic).…[Her] sympathetic and wide reading of different worship settings in the nineteenth century opens up many useful lines of thought.” * Victorian Studies *“In a major new study of poetics and liturgical practises, Karen Dieleman makes an important intervention in approaches to women’s religious poetry. Rather than, she argues, the conventional assumption that faith limits poetry, women’s direct bodily experience of church worship shaped the form of their poems, and what she terms a ‘religious imaginary’ is often more important than gender in the development of religious poetics.…Religious Imaginaries is a rich, compelling, and innovative approach to women poets, and the inclusion of Procter with the usual pairing of Rossetti and Barrett Browning is a welcome attempt in adding this important woman and usually overlooked woman poet to the center of attention.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Women Poets” *“Time has blurred distinctions between the remarkably many branches of nineteenth-century British Christianity, and although many careful studies of Christina Rossetti’s religious writings have paid homage to her intentions and sensibilities, fewer writers have taken the trouble to analyze their personal and institutional antecedents. Dieleman’s lucid arguments help clarify why Rossetti framed her idiosyncratic spiritual experiences as she did.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on the Pre-Raphaelites” *“Religious Imaginaries is an astute, learned, and original interdisciplinary study of the interconnections between the poetic practices of three women poets and the ‘religious imaginaries formed by and in response to liturgical practices’ (p. 2). …Dieleman combines expertise in church history, liturgy, biblical discourse and EBB scholarship with a syncretic theoretical framework.” * Victorian Poetry’s “Guide to the Year's Work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning” *“An excellent study. Dieleman resists the secularization narrative and explores the distinctive liturgical practices of different denominations and their influence on Victorian women poets. She wishes to reinstate the ‘affirmative and generative possibilities’ of church experience for women poets, particularly for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter. Their poetic voices were shaped by their religious imaginings rather than simply by a set of doctrines, and Dieleman approaches her task by bringing together ‘the sensory and the affective, or the body, mind, and emotions.’” * The Year's Work in English Studies *
£56.10
Ohio University Press Lyrical Liberators
Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”
£56.10
Ohio University Press Lyrical Liberators The American Antislavery
Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”
£25.19
Duke University Press Words of Protest Words of Freedom
Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution
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Duke University Press Words of Protest Words of Freedom
Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution
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Duke University Press Now that the audience is assembled
Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139
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Duke University Press Now that the audience is assembled
Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139
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