Poetry / poems by individual poets
University of California Press The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis Literature of
Book SynopsisDan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. This title features translated poems, in which, Dan Pagis' voice can be heard celebrating the human spirit.
£22.50
University of California Press Selected Poems of Charles Olson
Book SynopsisA seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson has helped define the postmodern sensibility. This work selects some 70 poems, presenting a personal reading of Olson's decisive and inimitable work - 'unequivocal instances of his genius' - over the many years of their friendship.
£22.50
University of California Press On Human Nature
Book SynopsisThis work brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). The pieces address many important themes he tackled such as logology, technology and ecology.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. CREATIVITY 1. On Stress, Its Seeking, 1967 2. On "Creativity"--A Partial Retraction, 1971 3. Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision, 1971 4. Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One, 1974 5. Realisms, Occidental Style, 1982 PART II. LOGOLOGY 6. Archetype and Entelechy, 1972 7. (Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action, 1978 8. Theology and Logology, 1979 9. Symbolism as a Realistic Mode: "De-Psychoanalyzing" Logologized, 1979 PART III. THEORY 10. A Theory of Terminology, 1967 11. Towards Looking Back, 1976 12. Variations on "Providence," 1981 PART IV. K.B. 13. Eye-Crossing--From Brooklyn to Manhattan: An Eye-Poem for the Ear, 1973 14. Counter-Gridlock: An Interview with Kenneth Burke, 1980--81 Index
£67.45
University of California Press Duino Elegies
Book SynopsisBegun in 1912, these ten elegies were finally completed, after a decade of sporadic and protraced creation, at the Chateau Muzot in the Swiss Valais. Rilke considered them his greatest achievement. This edition includes an introduction and notes. The German text faces the English translation.
£14.24
University of California Press Selected Poems of Rilke Bilingual Edition
Book SynopsisThese poems, written between 1900 and 1908, and selected from "Das Buch der Bilder" and the two parts of "Neue Gedichte", show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. The book includes an introduction and notes. The German text faces the English translation.Trade Review"Here are translations that are close to the original, and are English, and are poetic. Few English translations from the German have all these qualities at once." -New York Herald Tribune"Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION From Das Buch Der Bilder Eingang / Initiation Ritter / The Knight Der Wahnsinn / The Angels Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood Der Nachbar / The Neighbor Der Einsame / The Solitary Klage / Lament Einsamkeit / Solitude Herbsttag / Autumn Day Erinnerung / Memory Ende des Herbstes / End of Autumn Herbst / Autumn Abend / Evening Ernste Stunde / Solemn Hour Strophen / Strophes Das Lied der Waise / The Song of the Waif Aus einer Sturmnacht [VI und VIII] / From a Stormy Night [VI and VIII] FromNeue Gedichte: Erster Teil Fruher Apollo / Early Apollo Opfer / Oblation Buddha / The Buddha Der Panther / The Panther Die Gazelle / The Gazelle Romische Sarkophage / Roman Sarcophagi Der Schwan / The Swan Ein Frauenschicksal / A Woman's Fate Blaue Hortensie / Blue Hydrangeas Vor dem Sommerregen / Before the Summer Rain Letzter Abend / The Last Evening Die Kurtisane / The Courtesan Die Treppe der Orangerie / The Steps of the Orangery Das Karussell / The Merry-Go-Round Spanische Tanzerin / Spanish Dancer From Neue Gedichte: Anderer Teil Archaisher Torso Apollos / Torso of an Archaic Apollo Leda / Leda Der Alchimist / The Alchemist Die Irren / The Insane Eine von den Alten / One of the Old Ones Eine Welke / Faded Romische Campagna / Roman Campagna Die Parke [I und VII] / The Parks [I and VII] Die Laute / The Lute Don Juans Kindheit / Don Juan's Childhood Dame auf einem Balkon / Lady on a Balcony Ubung am Klavier / Piano Practice Die Flamingos / The Flamingos Der Einsame / The Solitary Das Kind / The Child Der Kaferstein / The Scarab Buddha in der Glorie / The Buddha in the Glory NOTES
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University of California Press Commons
Book SynopsisMyung Mi Kim's poetry details the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, and registers our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease and first-language loss, Kim takes on the displacement of those whose lives are embedded in history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Exordium Lamenta Works Pollen Fossil Record
£22.50
University of California Press Selected Poems of Mallarme Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisThe leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writing. In this volume C.F. MacIntyre has translated 43 of his poems including the Ouverture and Scene from Herodiade.
£18.00
University of California Press Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
Book SynopsisUnder Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE, Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age.Table of ContentsPreface Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beginning from Zeus 2. Genre 3. Poets and Patrons 4. An Egyptian Dimension? 5. The Language of the Encomium 6. The Meter of the Encomium 7. A Note on the Transmission of the Text Sigla Theocritus, Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Commentary References Subject Index Index of Greek Words Index of Passages Discussed
£67.45
University of California Press Miyazawa Kenji
Book SynopsisThe poet Miyazawa Kenji was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who is known for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. This book collects his poetry and provides an introduction to his life and work. It includes poems translated by Gary Snyder. It features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien.Trade Review"A worthy edition to the library of any Kenji fan." -- Kyoshin The Flowering HeartTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword: A Modernist in the Mountains Geoffrey O'Brien Introduction A Note on the Translations POEMS From Spring & Asura (First Collection) Proem Refractive Index The Snow on Saddle Mountain Thief The Thief Love & Fever Spring & Asura Daybreak Sunlight and Withered Grass Cloud Semaphore A Break Rest Annelid Dancer (Annelida Tanzerin) Report The Landscape Inspector Haratai Sword-Dancing Troupe A Mountain Patrolman Traveler Bamboo & Oak Masaniello The Morning of the Last Farewell Pine Needles Pine Needles Voiceless Grief White Birds Okhotsk Elegy Volcano Bay: A Nocturne Commandment on No Greed Love in Religious Mode Past Desire Single-Tree Field Ice Fog in Iihatov Winter & Galaxy Station From Spring & Asura (Second Collection) The Moon on the Water and the Wound Trying to drink from the spring Smallpox Rest The Weather Bureau The Crow The Sea-Eroded Tableland Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: A Modernist in the Mountains Geoffrey O'Brien Introduction A Note on the Translations POEMS From Spring & Asura (First Collection) Proem Refractive Index The Snow on Saddle Mountain Thief The Thief Love & Fever Spring & Asura Daybreak Sunlight and Withered Grass Cloud Semaphore A Break Rest Annelid Dancer (Annelida Tanzerin) Report The Landscape Inspector Haratai Sword-Dancing Troupe A Mountain Patrolman Traveler Bamboo & Oak Masaniello The Morning of the Last Farewell Pine Needles Pine Needles Voiceless Grief White Birds Okhotsk Elegy Volcano Bay: A Nocturne Commandment on No Greed Love in Religious Mode Past Desire Single-Tree Field Ice Fog in Iihatov Winter & Galaxy Station From Spring & Asura (Second Collection) The Moon on the Water and the Wound Trying to drink from the spring Smallpox Rest The Weather Bureau The Crow The Sea-Eroded Tableland Mountain Fire From under a poplar Reservoir Note Spring The railroad and the national highway The Tsugaru Strait The Horse Cow The Bull Transition of a Bird Mr. Pamirs the Scholar Takes a Walk If I pass through this forest Spring Spring: Variation Wind & Cedar Cloud When the wind comes Harvesting the Earless Millet Wet in soggy cold rain Night dew and wind mingle desolately Good Devil Praying for Absolution Excursion Permit Zen Dialogue Fantasy during a Journey Wind & Resentments Shadow from the Future Love-Hate for Poetry Some Views Concerning the Proposed Site of a National Park An Opinion Concerning a Proposed National Park Site Drought & Zazen The Iwate Light Railway: July (Jazz) Residence A Valediction The National Highway From Spring & Asura (Third Collection) Spring Somehow I walk up The Snake Dance Field The corn baking in the blue smoke Banquet Distant Labor Distant Work Cabbage Patch Hospital Flowers & Birds: November Crows in a Hundred Postures The buckets climb Cultivation Sapporo City Ambiguous Argument about a Spring Cloud Pig Malice Now burnt-out eyes ache In DQshin-chQ toward daybreak The Unruly Horse The Politicians Politicians Devil's Words: 4 We lived together The Prefectural Engineer's Statement Regarding Clouds At the very end of the blue sky Raving Colleagues A Rice-Growing Episode Flood The Master of the Field The Breeze Comes Filling the Valley What a coward I am No matter what he does, it's too late Impressions of an Exhibition of Floating-World Paintings In the leaden moonlight The Third Art The Landowner Hateful Kuma Eats His Lunch Since the doctor is still young Night A few more times A horse A Young Land Cultivation Department Technician's Recitative on Irises The man I parted from, below From During Illness & Other Poems Koreans Pass, Drumming Pneumonia ah that Talking with Your Eyes past noon it's three o'clock when that terrifying black cloud thump thump thump thump thump desperately trying to sleep to sleep Wind is calling me out in front my chest now When I open my eyes an April wind Night While III and it must be that I will die soon (February 1929) October 20th (October) 28 Untitled November 3rd Two Tanka On Miyazawa Kenji Four Images Tanikawa Shuntaro We Are All Excellent Musical Instruments Yoshimasu Gozo Miyazawa Kenji Michael O'Brien Glossary of Japanese Names and Terms Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments
£27.00
University of California Press The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
Book SynopsisThis landmark collection brings Ted Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry together in a single authoritative volume for the first time. Edited by the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons, The Collected Poems demonstrates the remarkable range, power, and importance of Berrigan's work.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chronology THE SONNETS GREAT STORIES OF THE CHAIR MANY HAPPY RETURNS IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN TRAIN RIDE MEMORIAL DAY by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman SHORT POEMS RED WAGON EASTER MONDAY NOTHING FOR YOU IN THE 51ST STATE A CERTAIN SLANT OF SUNLIGHT LAST POEMS EARLY UNCOLLECTED POEMS Notes Glossary of Names Credits Index of Titles Index of First Lines
£31.50
University of California Press Selected Poems of Paul Verlaine Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPOEMES SATURNIENS-1866 Melancholia Eaux-Fortes Paysages Tristes Caprices FETES GALANTES-1869 LA BONNE CHANSON-1870 ROMANCES SANS PAROLES-1874 Ariettes Oubliees Paysages Belges Birds in the Night Aquarelles SAGESSE-1881 JADIS ET NAGUERE-1884 Jadis A La Maniere De Plusieurs Notes Bibliography
£20.70
University of California Press The Poems of Catullus
Book SynopsisCatullus' poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. This work is a bilingual translation of Catullus' poems. It provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, and a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which he lived.Trade Review“A splendid new translation.” * London Review of Books *“It is a superb piece of work. . . . Green’s translation should encourage readers of all kinds to read or re-read Catullus, one of the greatest and most influential of all classical poets. . . . Like Catullus himself, Green combines vast ambitions with a likeable boyish insouciance. His energetic and bracingly intelligent translation will bring new readers to Catullus and will bring a new Catullus to readers who thought they knew him. It deserves, as Catullus said of his own book, to ‘outlast at least one generation!’” -- Emily Wilson, * New Republic *“With typical zestful belligerence [Peter Green] assesses almost every aspect of Catullan scholarship. His translations . . . catch the Catullan tone, jazzily pitched between the schoolboyish and the erudite.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Green offers an accurate and spirited version in accentual equivalents of the Latin quantitative meter, with facing Latin text. In his informative introduction, which takes account of much recent scholarship, Green ranges from discussion of Catullus’ life and times to accounts of the Catullus manuscript tradition and literary influence to a defense of his own metrical practice. . . . The expository portions are characteristically exuberant.” * CHOICE *“Capably delivers on the longer poems and gives vivid color to the invective and to the lighter erotic verses.” * Bookforum *“Green is a celebrated classicist and his boyish enthusiasm is a perfect match for the bawdy ferocity of Catullus. . . . He perfectly captures Catullus’ voice-whose outrageousness may shock even the most jaded sophisticate. You don’t have to be a regular reader of poetry to like these poems.” * Slate *“Any fan of the Latin language, any student of the Roman Empire, which is so like and so unlike our own, must be grateful to Green and his publishers for such a useful and handsome book.” * Los Angeles Times *“In Green’s scrupulous translations, we feel the very pulse of this brilliant poet. A truly exciting discovery.” * Providence Journal *"Peter Green's rendition of Catullus is an important addition to the body of existing translations . . . Green's translations are elegant and stylish throughout, if not totally literal; his commentary, which touches on an impressive (if not, understandably, complete) range of modern scholarship, is compact and allusive, designed to pique the interest of the advanced student or the non-specialist scholar. . . . All in all, this is without question a book worth owning." * Classical Journal *"Green's work is a major contribution to the tradition of Catullan translation in English, achieving perhaps better than any attempt in the last hundred years a sense of Catullus' urbanity (as against obscenity), and, for those without Latin, an excellent way into the ancient poet." * Translation and Literature *"Peter Green's Catullus reveals care in translation, primarily in the most emphasized objective, that is, in maintaining the rhythm of the text." * Gnomon *"This is the finest English Catullus we now have or probably will have for the indefinite future. All future translators of Classical poetry should do what Green has done in detail . . . : lay out the exact forms of English rhythm and their variations that will represent quantitative meters. Translators who fail that minimum requirement should not see print." * Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Life and Background Lesbia/Clodia The Literary Context The Text: Arrangement and Transmission Reception and Reinterpretation Translation and Its Problems The Catullan Meters The Poems (1--116) Explanatory Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Ours
Book SynopsisFeatures poems about gardens, particularly the 17th century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. Using the imagery of the garden, this title considers topics ranging from human society to the formal structure of poetry. It probes the 2 senses of Le notre to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.Trade Review"Engaging and delightful." Publishers Weekly "Highly recommended for contemporary poetry collections." -- Karla Huston, Appleton Art Ctr., WI Library Journal "The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem." -- Norman Weinstein Archnewsnow.com "The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on the [gardens] allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history." -- Mary Jo Bang Harvard ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction HISTORY A Garden Is a Start Paradise Leaving the Middle Ages The Birth of Landscape Architecture The Garden as Architecture Itself The Garden as Extension Sir Mine Gardens Belong PRINCIPLES In an Effort to Make the Garden a Standing Proof Certain Principles Must Be Observed A Garden Occurs in Four Stages A Garden as a Letter A Garden as Between A Garden as a Unit of Measure Anamorphosis Euclid's Eighth Theorem Because a Garden Must End VAUX-LE-VICOMTE If a Garden of Numbers Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space Working Conditions Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) Water Labyrinths and Mazes OTHER GARDENS Saint-Germain-en-Laye Chantilly Saint-Cloud Meudon THE MEDICIS Catherine (1519-1589) Marie (1573-1642) The Luxembourg Gardens VERSAILLES Versailles the Unfurled The Divinity of the Sun King The Garden as a Map of Louis XIV Le Notre's Drawings And the Birds, Too The Ghost of Much Later STATUARY ORANGERIES "YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NOTRE" On Happiness Psychic Botany The Gardened Heart Tuileries, January 2007 Keeping Track of Distance
£20.70
University of California Press The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 19752005
Book SynopsisShowcases thirty years of work by an American poet, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight books of poetry ranging from "Hello: A Journal" (1978) to "Life & Death" (1998) and "If I were writing this" (2003).Table of ContentsNote Old Poetry Author's Note Hello: A Journal, February 29 - May 3, 1976 Later Mirrors Memory Gardens Windows Echoes Life & Death If I were writing this On Earth Unpublished Poems Credits Index of Title and First Lines
£27.00
University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisA volume that collects poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan. Including "Letters: Poems 1953-1956", it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan's distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet's development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period.Trade Review"Relentlessly beautiful... Everything seems to be here, laying the groundwork for a major career." Publishers Weekly "Reminds us that [Duncan] wrote some of the most stunningly beautiful lines in postwar American poetry." -- Micah Mattix Books & Culture
£42.50
University of California Press Thing of Beauty
Book SynopsisFeatures poetry, performance pieces, 'traditional' verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art - that span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty", his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements PART I: 1937-1954 PART II: December 1954 - March 1979 PART III: September 1979 - September 2004 Publications Credits About Jackson Mac Low About Anne Tardos Index of Titles
£28.50
University of California Press Nicole Brossard
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her native Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world as one of the greatest writers of her generation.Trade Review"A renowned French-Canadian poet and essayist, Brossard marries aesthetic daring with political consciousness ... and creates an almost tactile reading experience." BookforumTable of ContentsContents Introduction Key to Translators Texts The Echo Moves Beautiful (1968) from Logical Suite (1970) everything gels white mutual attractions between the lines the liquid slides afterward it's so little it's ony initial and doesn't stop being so to act and tend again and without cease there is the palpable night shifts feverish suspension of the act Subordinating Words The White Centre (1970) from Daydream Mechanics (1974--1980) Reverse{hrs}/{hrs}Drift A Rod for a Handsome Price The Part for the Whole (1975) from Lovhers (1980--1986) (4): Lovhers/write July the Sea The Barbizon Hotel for Women from Double Impression (1984) The Marginal Way from Aviva (excerpts, 1985, 2008) from To Every Gaze (1989) Cities by the Touch If Yes Seismal Obscure Languages (1992) Vertigo of the Proscenium (1997) from Installations (1989-2) Passage Eternity Taboo Color Separation Margin Tongue Shadow Installation Contemporary Tympanum Generation Mores Downtown Sweep Encore Gesture Rai Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (1990) Ultrasounds (1992) from Museum of Bone and Water (1999--2003) Museum of Bone and Water Typhoon Thrum The Throat of Lee Miller Shadow: Soft et Soif (excerpts from Ardor, 2003) from Notebook of Roses and Civilization (2003--2007) while caresses draw us close the color of tears at the bottom whatever the month or wound to the dawn add i am in a time blue and easy Precautions Suggestions Heavy-Hearted Smooth Horizon of the Verb Love Rustling and Punctuation Every Ardor It's Lively Soft Link 3 from Ardor (2008) all thirsts are hollows of light one calls noise of beauty Nape 9 Nape 10 Nape 12 from After the Words (2007) Documents Poetic Politics (1990) I am a woman of the present (1999) Process of a Yes Its Energy in Progress (1993) Why Do You Write in French? (2) Interview with Nicole Brossard by Lynne Huffer (1993) Catalog of Works Credits
£27.00
University of California Press Green is the Orator
Book SynopsisAddresses the challenge of representing nature through language.Trade Review"Orator's speech springs from revelation and desire, but its heart is in its observational exactness and reticence." Kenyon ReviewTable of ContentsContents 1 Coefficient Salt Marsh, Thick with Behaviors Table of Consanguinity (The Cousin Chart) Diminution of the Clear Thing Half Seas Over Jardins sous la Ppluie Sweet Habit of the Blood Is He Decently Put Back Together? Under the Veil of Wildness Coming to the Festival of the God of Boundaries Makes an Arrangement Return of the Native to the Widespread Hour Midlander Thicket Play Honey Ants Recessive Sending Owls to Athens William James, Henry James Arethusa Arrowsic Eidothea Sunrise with Sea Monsters Where Hardly Hearth Exists 2 Sonnet on Fire The Bad Infinity Baroque Miscellany Baroque A General Discrimination of Synonyms Baroque Antonyms & Intermediaries Baroque First Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide, Pneumatic Institute, 1799 Baroque Second Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide 3 Disheveled Holiness Medieval Physics A Boredom of Spirit Gothic Tropical Film in Place of a Legal Document Japonisme Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Acousmatic The Orator's Maximal Likelihood The Beauty of Where We Have Been Living Anatomy of Listening Sighting If It Be Not Now Ovation Morse Gives Up Portraiture Intrinsic Intimations Constable of the Sweet Oblong Work Salon/Saloon Strokes Building Box (Atlantic) Posthumous Oratorium Summer Reading Notes Acknowledgments
£18.90
University of California Press Writing the Silences New California Poetry 30
Book SynopsisFeatures the poems that are selected from the author's seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008.Trade Review"Almost 60 years of thoughtful, terse, decidedly modernist verse and prose poetry come together in this first collection... much of it tersely humble, both philosophical and political, with cadence reminiscent of George Oppen." Publishers Weekly "Richard O. Moore's no sapling by a long shot, but his poetry is lithe. It expands itself in the off-handed dialect of this country's newest voices, but remains rooted to the old codes of keen sincerity. It is real poetry, sure enough to break from silence and, when need be, return." Bomb Magazine (Bomblog) "[These poems] are at once sensual and intellectual, erotic and philosophic, and they appeal to all the senses." -- Jonah Raskin Redwood Coast ReviewTable of ContentsContents Photographs follow page Preface Brenda Hillman Acknowledgments [Therefore, set forth over the black river] Shadow and Light Itinerary By the Lake Utensils Driving to Fort Bragg Dog in the Forest History Columbia 1960 Ten Philosophical Asides Marginalia: Whitehead Quotations Analects from d{ens}e{ens}l{ens}e{ens}t{ens}e "Come Live with Me" :{ems}It{ems}: from Writing the Silences "Come Sunday" Birthright Notebook This Morning Aftershock Visiting Hours The Parachutist's Annunciation Holding On ... a divertimento ... Footnotes A Funeral of Memory The Winter Garden A Treasury of Darkness Introit Over the Shoulder Meanwhile Early Poems from A History Primer Seascape from September Elegy from At Caesar's Gate A Reminiscence Birthday View Opening on a Garden Notes
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University of California Press Voyager
Book SynopsisDrawing its name from the spacecraft departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, this title culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity.Trade Review"These recastings form a highly ambitious book of political poetry that speaks hauntingly of our world." Publishers Weekly "The paradoxical lives of historical figures have long inspired poets, a tradition Reddy embraces and transforms in his audacious, deeply interrogative second collection... Nuanced yet piercing." Booklist "Through Reddy's 'erasures' and the negative capabilities of his excavated text we feel, even if we cannot see, what's missing, what's gone-into outer space, into self-denial, into the ironies of history and of the role between the wielders of pens and of swords. We find ourselves-culpable, impressionable, alive-in the human space he has created." Chronicle Of Higher Education "Srikanth Reddy's much-anticipated second volume ... assumes a planetary perspective on the 20th century." Publishers Weekly "Reddy has fashioned an arresting, very personal voice by committing himself to using only words and phrases that appeared in-wait for it-Kurt Waldheim's memoirs... Reddy is so gifted that the poems, despite their weighty origins, soar." -- Dan Chiasson New Yorker "Voyager is a nuanced and haunting book of geopolitical, literary, moral, and spiritual inquiry." WBEZ-FM "Erasurists find their imaginative space by reading creatively. One of the genre's most creative readers in Srikanth Reddy. Not only is his erasure, the book Voyager, conceptually captivating, but the writing is amazing. Let me repeat that: the writing is amazing." -- Jeannie Vanasco The Believer Magazine "An ambitious, richly imaginative work that poses vital questions about truth, authorship and narrative possibility in contemporary literature." -- Mia Ayumi Malhotra The International ExaminerTable of ContentsBook One Book Two Book Three Epilogues Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of California Press Ian Hamilton Finlay
Book SynopsisSurveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique 'poem of place' in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics.Trade Review"Almost wherever Finlay leads us, in verse, prose, or garden, there is a pervasive wit and invention of great brilliance in evidence... Finlay's son Alec has edited together and introduced a hugely enjoyable anthology of Finlay's writings, in prose, and truly beautiful-especially when surreal-verse. We should all be grateful to him." -- Andrew McNeillie Country Life "A hugely enjoyable anthology of Finlay's writings, in prose, and truly beautiful-especially when surreal-verse." -- Andrew McNeillie Country Life "[Finlay's] temples are mock-historic edifices, but who are we to say that they are not sacred sites?" Booktryst "This welcome new volume ... is full of revelations that cast new light on the subject." -- Gerald Mangan Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "This welcome new volume, Selections, ranging from Finlay's first stories and plays to his final inscriptions and aphorisms, reminds us that most of his career consisted of unilateral declarations of independence, in a territory staked out by his own definitions and designs. It is full of revelations that cast new light on the subject-notably in the sixty-page introduction by Alec Finlay, the author's son. His portrait of his father ... manages to sound objective as well as affectionate. He clarifies the poet's debts to international and avant-garde movements, but invites us to recognize the irreducible Scottishness of his character and inspiration." -- Gerald Mangan Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Scottish poet Ian Hmilton is one of the most influential artists of the late twentieth century... [Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections] is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the poetry of the second half of the twentieth century... it's a delight." -- Alison Croggon Oyster Boy ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Autobiographical Sketch Introduction: Picking the Last Wild Flower EARLY WRITINGS Postcard from Glenlednoch The Money Walking through Seaweed From The Dancers Inherit the Party: The Dancers Inherit the Party Angles of Stamps O.H.M.S. Love Poem Ah, So That Is Why Bedtime Black Tomintoul Gift Frank the Bear Writes His Deb Friend Orkney Interior Optimist Milk Bottles Archie, the Lyrical Lamplighter The Writer and Beauty Finlay's House (in Rousay) The Chief Crop of Orkney Bi-Lingual Poem Island Moment Castles Jess The Island Beasts Wait for the Boat Two Variations on an Orkney Theme, with Notes Orkney Lyrics Twice Spring Holiday Catch Art Student Scene Poet End of a Holiday The Tug Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd Voyage Fishing from the Back of Rousay Another Huge Poem for Hughie Blossom Quarry, Rousay How to Be Happy Lucy's Wee Brother My Little Beat Mill in the West Poem on My Poem on Her and the Horse Such Is the World Lucky Midhope (All Gone) Dalchonzie The Pond of Oo (in Orkney) No Thank You, I Can't Come LATER WRITINGS Concrete, Fauve, Suprematist, Sequential, Kinetic and Optical Poems: Detached Sentences on Concrete Poetry Homage to Malevich A Peach an Apple Lullaby Acrobats Ring of Waves Green Waters First Suprematist Standing Poem Cythera Column Poem 3 Happenings Little Calendar Arcady Purse-Net Boat Net / planet Seams Net 3 Blue Lemons Names of Barges Point-to-Point 3 Norfolk Dishes From 'The Analects of Fishing News' From 'TA MYTIKA of Fishing News' From 'The Illuminations of Fishing News' From 'The Metamorphoses of Fishing News' Headlines, Pondlines One-Word Poems: a bird of dawning sea a heart-shape a spray, from a breton sea-hedge a sea-saw a water-lily pool osiris drip-dry curfew the boat's blueprint elegy for 'whimbrel' and petrel the cloud's anchor an orchard of russets a scotch daisy hill wave a grey shore between day and night a pinnate evergreen a patch for a rip-tide a keel with a tuck in it a machine for fishing from purse seine a sepia wild flower eec sea channel light-vessel automatic One-Line Poems and Monostich (I): The ABC of Tea Epicurus at Chatou A Pittenweem Fancy The Sea's / Waves Elegiac Inscription Stem Sea Your Name From Domestic Pensees Steam Drifter Evolution of the Boat Magic Vessel Sound Poem Kit Elegy for A From A Mast of Hankies: Preparations The Hanky Sails The Harbour The Old Nobby The Stopped Sailboat The End So You Want to Be a Panzer Leader? Fly Navy After Gael Turnbull Sundial Inscriptions: The Four Seasons as Fishingboats The Four Seasons in Sail The Four Seasons as Fore-and-Afters H)Our / Lady Be in Time Dividing the Light Earth * Air * Fire Umbra Solis Sundial (After Paul Claudel) From Detached Sentences on Gardening From Detached Sentences on the Pebble From Detached Sentences on Exile Two Translations Errata of Ovid Ovidian Flowers From Interpolations in Hegel The Months From Camouflage Sentences A Dryad Discovered Arbre (Tree) Hitler's Column From Table Talk of Ian Hamilton Finlay From Detached Sentences on Weather in the Manner of William Shenstone Heroic Anagrams Aphrodite Detached Paragraphs on the Anagram Anagrams: A Postscript Idylls Myosotis arvensis Memory Wildflower Stiles I One-Line Poems and Monostich (II): Dove, Dead in its Snows Poverty Pitted with Larks Fax, Idling in its Sails Monostich An Eighteenth Century Line on a Lukewarm Hotwaterbottle A Classic Monostich A Line Struck from James Thomson's Seasons A Valentine The Colours of the Vowels A Question for Lovers Posters (from The Little Spartan War) Some (Short) Thoughts on Neo-classicism And Even As She Fled (1) And Even As She Fled (2) It Is Not True In the First Chapters For the Best of the Jacobins You Cannot Step The French Revolution From The Ivory Flute Selected Dispatches of Louis Antoine Saint-Just: Clay the Life King The Sound of Running Water Heard through Chinks in a Stone Dyke His Bed a Meadow Mystic Sublime The Revolution 1794 From 'Clerihews for Liberals' A Reflection on the French Revolution Streiflichter From Proverbs for Jacobins From Detached Sentences on Friendship The Inscriptions From Flakes From Spring Verses Images from the Arcadian Dream Garden Epitaph The Brewster Buffaloes From Glider Days In the Manner of the Early Winters From New Proverbs From A Book of Wildflowers Homage to Lorine Niedecker Creels and Creels Lines of Foam Found Free-style Haiku Oak / Bark / Boat Line Light Lade Adaptation Variations Expectation Romanticizing 10 Sentences Cinema-Going Event A Stone Lemons without Bitterness Boat Boat Lore A Last Word Pledge (for Pia) Frisson Schlachtschiff The End ... Notes A Note on the Critical Heritage Selected Bibliography Credits
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University of California Press Of Indigo and Saffron New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a poem sequence, it includes the poems that are grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world. It reveals a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku.Trade Review"Like Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, and Jim Morrison (to whom one section is dedicated), McClure infuses ecstatic direct address and colloquial diction with an exquisite sensibility." Publishers Weekly "McClure's poetry seems as vital to the 21st century as it was to the 20th." Library Journal "A young reader can be inspired by McClure's radical questioning of the established social order at every turn... McClure, among all the Beat poets, is perhaps the softest, most tender, most yielding." San Francisco Chronicle
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University of California Press Gravesend
Book SynopsisDelving into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more, this title explores the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of gravesend, implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end.Trade Review"A book-length meditation on ghosts and ghost stories in Swensen's haunting style." Publishers Weekly "It is poetry that honestly admits the inchoate, affirms mystery and responds to successive readings: it is alive." The VoltaTable of ContentsOne: Have you ever seen a ghost? Echo Body If Sometimes the Ghost Etymology A Ghost He Who Was Varieties of Ghost Ajar The Ghost Is in Itself The End of Antiquity According to Scripture More Miracula Going Home The Hellequin's Hunt Who Only Living The Gesta The Ghost Story History What Ghosts Interview Series 1 Walking Through A Face Toward the End The Beginnings of the Modern Era Fairy Tale Two: How did Gravesend get its name? Ghost Stories A Good Friend Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman Some Paintings of Ghosts Some Ghosts in Paintings Gravesend Gravesend Gravesend Interview Series 2 Pocahontas (1595, Powhatan Confederacy--1616, Gravesend, England) The Ghost Dance The Name Engraved Kent Three: What do you think a ghost is? Cicatrice Ghosts in the Sun Whole Ghost Traveling Ghost Crowds And Are Ghosts Interview Series 3 Old Wives' Tales Freud Claims Some Chinese Ghosts Across Ghosts Who Did After This Death There Will Be No Other Haint Blue One No How a Ghost Might Age Who Walked The Ghost Orchid Acknowledgments Notes
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University of California Press This Earth That Sky
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£28.90
University of California Press A Poem at the Right Moment
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University of California Press The Poetry of Homer
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays . . . a great help to all readers." * CHOICE *"The Collected Later Poetry and Plays represents the assured completion of the vital gathering already underway with The Collected Early Poetry and Plays. With these two volumes the canon of Duncan's poetry is fully established and readily available to a broad audience." * Bookslut *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovery Making The Opening of the Field (1960) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance The Law I Love Is Major Mover The Structure of Rime I The Structure of Rime II A Poem Slow Beginning The Structure of Rime III The Structure of Rime IV The Structure of Rime V The Structure of Rime VI The Structure of Rime VII Three Pages from a Birthday Book This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom The Ballad of the Enamord Mage The Ballad of Mrs Noah The Maiden The Propositions Four Pictures of the Real Universe Evocation Of Blasphemy Nor Is the Past Pure Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony A Poem of Despondencies Poetry, a Natural Thing Keeping the Rhyme A Song of the Old Order The Question The Performance We Wait For At Christmas Proofs Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face, A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar The Structure of Rime VIII The Structure of Rime IX The Structure of Rime X The Structure of Rime XI A Storm of White Atlantis Out of the Black Bone Dance Under Ground The Natural Doctrine The Structure of Rime XII The Structure of Rime XIII Another Animadversion After Reading Barely and Widely Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal Food for Fire, Food for Thought Uncollected Work 1957–1960 A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller’s The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits) Melville after Pierre Solitude The Song of the River to Its Shores Pre-face I Saw the Rabbit Leap Roots and Branches (1964) Roots and Branches Roots and Branches What Do I Know of the Old Lore? Night Scenes A Sequence of Poems for H.D.’s Birthday A Letter Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women The Law Apprehensions Sonneries of the Rose Cross Now the Record Now Record Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake Cover Images Come, Let Me Free Myself Risk Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang Structure of Rime XV Structure of Rime XVI Structure of Rime XVII Structure of Rime XVIII Osiris and Set Windings Two Presentations After a Passage in Baudelaire Shelley’s Arethusa Set to New Measures After Reading H.D.’s Hermetic Definitions Strains of Sight Doves Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode Two Entertainments The Ballad of the Forfar Witches’ Sing A Country Wife’s Song What Happened : Prelude A Set of Romantic Hymns Thank You for Love From The Mabinogion Forced Lines A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Answering Adam’s Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes Cyparissus A Part-Sequence for Change Structure of Rime XIX Structure of Rime XX Structure of Rime XXI The Continent Uncollected Work 1961–1964 A Play with Masks Weaving the Design Old Testament New Testament Bending the Bow (1968) Introduction Sonnet 4 Structure of Rime XXII 5th Sonnet Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow Tribal Memories Passages 1 At the Loom Passages 2 What I Saw Passages 3 Where It Appears Passages 4 The Moon Passages 5 The Collage Passages 6 Envoy Passages 7 Structure of Rime XXIII As in the Old Days Passages 8 The Architecture Passages 9 These Past Years Passages 10 Shadows Passages 11 Wine Passages 12 Structure of Rime XXIV Structure of Rime XXV Reflections The Fire Passages 13 Chords Passages 14 Spelling Passages 15 A Lammas Tiding My Mother Would Be a Falconress Saint Graal (after Verlaine) Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) The Currents Passages 16 Moving the Moving Image Passages 17 The Torso Passages 18 The Earth Passages 19 Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20 The Multiversity Passages 21 In the Place of a Passage 22 Benefice Passages 23 Orders Passages 24 Up Rising Passages 25 The Chimeras of Gérard de Nerval El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth’s Winter Song Moira’s Cathedral A Shrine to Ameinias Narrative Bridges for Adam’s Way The Soldiers Passages 26 An Interlude Transgressing the Real Passages 27 The Light Passages 28 Eye of God Passages 29 Stage Directions Passages 30 God-Spell Epilogos Uncollected Work 1965–1968 At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style We heard it as a cry. It was the Word. Keeping the War Inside Yes I care deeply and yet Christmas Present, Christmas Presence! From a Poem by John Ashbery If I Had Kin Ground Work: Before the War (1984) Some Notes on Notation Achilles’ Song Ancient Questions A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings Despair in Being Tedious The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals) Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals) Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals) The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals) Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals) Santa Cruz Propositions A Glimpse And If He Had Been Wrong for Me For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos And Hell Is the Realm of God’s Self-Loathing Childhood’s Retreat Fragments of an Albigensian Rime O! Passages 37 Bring It Up from the Dark Structure of Rime XXVII Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens Over There The Museum Interrupted Forms Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn’s Moly Preface to the Suite The Moly Suite Near Circe’s House Rites of Passage: I Moly Rites of Passage: II A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590–1690) 1. Love’s a great courtesy to be declared 2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life? 3. Go as in a dream 4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe 5. “A pretty Babe”—that burning Babe 6. George Herbert, Jordan (I) 7. George Herbert, Jordan (II) 8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971 Passages 36 9. Ben Jonson, Hymenæi: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers 10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness Coda Dante Études Preface Book One We Will Endeavor Secondary Is the Grammar A Little Language To Speak My Mind Everything Speaks to Me In the Way of a Question Speech Directed Enricht in the Increment The Individual Man Of Empire The Meaning of Each Particular The Whole Potentiality The Work The Household Let Him First Drink of the Fountain And Tho They Have No Vowel Letting the Beat Go Book Two A Hard Task in Truth Lovely The One Rule Our Art but to Articulate In Nothing Superior Enacted On Obedience Zealous Liberality We Convivial in What Is Ours! Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante’s Convivio Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me Book Three My Soul Was as If Free Nor Dream in Your Hearts For the Sea Is God’s Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes Then Many a One Sang In My Youth Not Unstaind And a Wisdom as Such Four Supplementary Études Of Memory Hers I Too Trembling But We, to Whom the World Is The Missionaries Passages The Torn Cloth Songs of an Other Empedoklean Reveries Passages Jamais Passages An Interlude of Winter Light “Eidolon of the Aion” The Presence of the Dance{ths}/{ths}The Resolution of the Music Circulations of the Song Uncollected Work 1969–1982 O tree of lights! tree of colors Childless After Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 Second Take on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 She Something Is Moving A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam Feb. 22, 1973 I have{ths}/{ths}nothing to go on A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts Johnny’s Thing An Epithalamium Poe et Cie Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987) An Alternate Life In the South Homecoming Supplication The Quotidian To Master Baudelaire Toward His Malaise Among His Words The Face At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue Le Sonnet Où Sonne la Sonnette dès Dernières Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour Pour Souffrir l’Envie Jusqu’à l’Amour en Vie Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, & Bird Preliminary Exercise Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics The Recall of the Star Miraflor The Naming of the Time Ever I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough The Turbine What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means For the Assignment of the Spirit The Cherubim (I) The Cherubim (II) Styx The Sentinels An Eros/Amor/Love Cycle Et Passages In Wonder Passages Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees In Waking From the Fall of 1950, December 1980 Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects Regulators Set of Passages The Dignities Passages The First Passages Stimmung Passages Enthralld Passages Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages In Blood’s Domaine Passages After Passage Passages With In Passages Seams Passages You, Muses Passages Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs The Five Songs Whose Passages Close At the Door Illustrative Lines After a Long Illness Uncollected Work 1983–1988 In Passage Hekatombé Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines
£27.00
University of California Press W. B. Yeats
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£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Beowulf An Edition
Book SynopsisDescribes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior. This book opens with an introduction to "Beowulf" and the critical debates surrounding it. The poem itself is presented with footnotes. A selection of related poetry, an illustrated chapter on Anglo-Saxon archaeology, and a full glossary are also included.Trade Review"Mitchell and Robinson's Beowulf: An Edition has all of the features one hopes to find in a classroom edition: glossary, notes, copious but clear explanatory material. But it is more than an edition. It is a distillation of decades of affectionate attention to the poem by two of the top scholars in the field. From the smallest of details like punctuation to the broadest interpretations, Mitchell and Robinson display an abiding respect and admiration for the magnificent artistry of Beowulf." Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University "This is an admirable introduction to the poem." Forum for Modern Language Studies "[...] we should rejoice in what Mitchell and Robinson have provided: a new student's edition of a masterpiece of Old English poetry that has made Beowulf much more accessible to a whole new generation of students." Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyTable of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. List of Figures/Illustrations. Map: The Geography of Beowulf. Part I: Introduction:. 1. Manuscript. 2. Date, Place, and Circumstances, of Composition. 3. Language. 4. Structure. 5. Tone, Style, and Metre. 6. Subject Matter. 7. Two Views of Beowulf. Part II: Text and Notes:. Part III: How We Arrived At Our Text:. 8. Problems in Editing the Text. 9. Punctuation. Part IV: The Background:. 10. Genealogical Tables. 11. The Geatish-Swedish Wars. 12. Archaeology and Beowulf. 13. Some Related Poems In Old English:. 14. Widsith. 15. Deor. 16. Waldere. 17. The Battle Of Finnesburh. 18. Maxims I. 19. Documents Bearing on Beowulf:. 20. Genealogies. 21. Cain And Abel. 22. The Flood. 23. Letter Of Alcuin To A Mercian Bishop, 797. 24. Hygelac. 25. The Flight Behind The Waterfall. 26. The Dragon Fight. Bibliography. Short Titles. Suggestions For Further Reading. Glossary. Abbreviations and Symbols. Notes on the Glossary. Glossary of Beowulf. Proper Names.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Order and Disorder
Book SynopsisOrder and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos were printed anonymously in 1679, but fifteen further cantos remained in manuscript, probably because they were so politically sensitive.Trade Review"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References. Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:. Lucy Hutchinson. Reading the Bible. Biblical Verse. The Divine Narrative. Politics and Religion. Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer. Note on the Text and Editing. Acknowledgements. Order and Disorder. Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3. Further Reading. Bibliography.
£44.60
Harvard University Press To Be the Poet
Book SynopsisTo Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.Trade ReviewOn the opening page of this slim volume, Kingston declares that after decades of writing acclaimed memoirs and fiction...she has decided to devote herself to writing poetry. This work...explores this new dimension of her life, mostly written in verse. Kingston relays her past, how she looks at herself, and how she works to take on the life of a poet. What results is a multilayered book that is irreverent, serious, and playful but always instructive. She gives her readers the opportunity to see an accomplished artist at work in the creative process--a new one for her. This book should appeal to all who have had the urge to put pen to paper. -- Ron Ratliff * Library Journal *A handsome, sub-sized book, To Be the Poet includes drawings by the author and journal jottings of lunches, telephone calls, trips and conversations with friends. It's fast and interesting, and useful as a blueprint on how to get a poem. -- Chris Watson * Santa Cruz Sentinel *Maxine Hong Kingston's To Be the Poet reads like a documentary on the daily life of a writer, and it has the potential to become a classic...Her new book...is not simply about being a writer; it's also a memoir with suggestions for coping with life...A lifelong writer of prose transforming herself into a poet--becomes the central image of the book, establishing the structure for its collage of reflections and notes...She takes the reader with her as she rededicates herself to poetry...Every writer should have a copy of this book, along with more copies in storage, to pass out to friends and family who look askance at the writing life...[Kingston's] lyrical prose uses the specifics of one woman's life to make a universal statement about how writers live and work. -- A. Van Jordan * Washington Post *The poems themselves are not only good writing, but a kind of personal prescription for the development of wisdom. Poetry, Kingston said, has become an antidote and companion to the hard work of prose writing. I especially enjoyed how she moves from mundane tasks like selling her house to the loftiness of imagining peace in her poetry. Somehow, in the masterful hands of this writer, these disparate activities become whole. This first book of poetry by the author is also a sort of workbook of instructions for the creative, and I would highly recommend it to other writers and artists as well as those who love words. -- Ann-Marie Stillion * Northwest Asian Weekly *Kingston has written some mighty serious books over the years, and now, at 60, she's kicking up her heels and enjoying the fun of wordsmithing. To Be the Poet is her "manifesto"...Kingston pillages her past and plunders the future, assembling a slim volume that's deeply observational and disarmingly witty. -- Burl Burlingame * Honolulu Star-Bulletin *A suitably brief, lucid and intriguing invitation to the process of poetry, in which [Kingston] shares her own path after she "choose the poet's life"...Once again, she blazes her own trail. * Honolulu Advertiser *
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Harvard University Press Thebaid Volume II
Book SynopsisGreek literary education and Roman political reality are evident in the poetry of Statius. His Silvae are thirty-two occasional poems. His masterpiece, the epic Thebaid, recounts the struggle for kingship between the two sons of Oedipus. The extant portion of his Achilleid begins an account of Achilles’ life.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Baldo: Volume 2
Book SynopsisFolengo (1491–1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published—as “Merlin Cocaio”—the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo. This edition provides the first English translation of this send-up of ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance.Trade ReviewThe "Baldus," as it also became known, is the Renaissance's masterpiece of macaronic poetry, a burlesque satire that blends farce, humor and social commentary in hexameters that knead together Latin and various Italian dialects. The overall effect sounds like so many slips of the tongue, double entendres, or the Latinate effusions of an improviser akin to the 1950s prototypical rapper Lord Buckley...Published in two volumes with the original macaronic-Latin text on facing pages, this is a very accessible prose translation of Folengo's last revised edition of the Baldus, which was published posthumously in 1552. Apart from the fact that this last edition was over twice the length of the first 1517 edition, its polish and fine-tuning reflect the dedication Folengo bestowed on it over three decades--gradually removing personal grudges, refining and increasing its macaronic quality, and making it more delightful...Baldo is not for the faint of heart or delicate of nose, and at times one needs an iron gut to digest it. But keep Folengo's injunction in mind--to at all times laugh with and not at its author--and welcome to the world of macaroni. Eat your fill, hold your sides; words will never taste the same again. -- Olivier Burckhardt * The Guardian *
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Harvard University Press Cristoforo Landino Poems
Book SynopsisCristoforo Landino (14241498) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra. Also included in this volume is the Carmina Varia, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Imagination and Logos
Book SynopsisThis book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy. Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard Dellamora, Mark Doty, James Faubion, and Diana Haas.Trade ReviewThe cross-disciplinary nature of the collection is its most enticing quality; it presents concerns from sociocultural, historical, anthropological, prosodic, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives. -- M. F. McClure * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Poems
Book SynopsisMichael Marullus (c. 1453/4–1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar in Italy. Later poets imitated him in vernacular love poetry, especially Ronsard. This edition contains Marullus’ complete Latin poetry. All of these works appear in English translation for the first time.
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Harvard University Press The Annotated Poe
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe is perhaps America’s most famous writer. Yet he remains misunderstood, his works easily confused with the legend of a troubled genius. In this annotated edition of tales and poems, Kevin J. Hayes debunks the Poe myth, enables a larger appreciation of Poe’s career and varied achievements, and investigates his weird afterlives.Trade ReviewThe Annotated Poe is a stupendous hit. The annotations—presented in the form of marginalia and printed, delightfully, in red—provided by Hayes are perfectly, uncannily pitched to appeal both to readers who’ve never read a word of Edgar Allan Poe and readers who know his works backwards and forwards… It’s a bravura performance, lavish with illustrations. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *A lushly illustrated volume that elucidates some of Poe’s best-loved works. -- Jan Gardner * Boston Globe *Poe startles and enchants, but he springs traps for the unwary. There is no better guide through Poe’s magic house of mirrors than Kevin Hayes, who brings a wealth of expertise to his annotations. This handsomely produced edition is a treasure-house for Poe novices and initiates alike. -- Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRecommended…for anyone who has an interest in Poe’s life and work. -- Morris Hounion * Library Journal *By giving Poe the scholarly attention he deserves, Harvard University Press’s beautifully designed new edition The Annotated Poe combats the demeaning cliches. Novelist and critic William Giraldi’s foreword elegantly places Poe within his historical, biographical, and critical context. Editor Kevin J. Hayes picked a savvy selection of tales and poems and provides richly detailed and deeply insightful notes that consistently add complexity and depth to the texts. The beautiful illustrations from all manner of media amplify some of the more ethereal of Poe’s imaginative creations. This new edition invites readers to take a fresh look at Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy. -- Matt Hanson * Arts Fuse *
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Harvard University Press Satires. Eupolemius
Book SynopsisThe Satires of Amarcius unrelentingly attack both secular vices and ecclesiastical abuses of the late eleventh century. The Eupolemius is a late-eleventh-century Latin epic that recasts salvation history, from Lucifer's fall through Christ's resurrection, fusing Greek and Hebrew components within a uniquely medieval framework.Trade ReviewThis ninth volume of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, taken as a whole, offers a fascinating glimpse at the intellectual and literary accomplishment of German monastic culture in the eleventh century. Both of the texts in the volume contain a multiplicity of styles, topics, and interpretive practices; they look back to the ‘platinum Latin’ of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages as much as they look forward to the combination of humanistic learning and contemporary concerns. We are lucky to have these texts available with introductions, notes, and translations in a handsome and affordable volume… One exciting aspect of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library is its promise to redefine ‘obscurity.’…This new series has the potential to enlarge the broader scholarly conversation by making fascinating and little-studied works like these known and accessible to non-specialists. Ronald Pepin and Jan Ziolkwoski are to be thanked for contributing to this goal. -- Jonathan Newman * Medieval Review *
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Harvard Department of the Classics The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow
Book SynopsisThe Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis in 1979 “for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness.” This volume contains translations of two late collections, the second published months before his death in 1995.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Selected Poems
Book SynopsisNikos Engonopoulos (19071985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. This volume offers a collection of his most representative poems, including his long poem Bolivár, an emblematic act of resistance against the Nazis and their allies who occupied Greece in 1941.
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Harvard University Press The Epic of Ram: Volume 6
Book SynopsisIn The Epic of Ram, Volume 6, Ram and his allies fight the army of Ravan in a climactic battle, culminating in the demon king’s death. Ram and Sita reunite and board a flying palace to return home. This edition features the Avadhi text in the Devanagari script alongside a new free verse English translation of the beloved Ramayana story.Trade Review[A] cause for celebration—one of India’s most influential texts has been translated into contemporary English by a pivotal scholar who has devoted much of his career to the text, and its afterlives…Gives us a firm starting point for charting horizons and pathways into still-living traditions. -- Nikhil Govind * Scroll.in *Lutgendorf manages a simplicity, elegance and dignity, whereas attempts to rhyme or alliterate by other translators have often resulted in bathos…If this graceful and eminently readable translation can win more readers for this great scripture, which is also the greatest poem ever written in Hindi, it would have served to reaffirm Tulsi’s belief in the countless multiplicity of Ramayans. -- Harish Trivedi * IIC Quarterly *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind in any Western language, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture brings into focus a cluster of issues that are central to the understanding of both the poet and his cultural milieu. Together, the chapters form a varied mosaic of Wang Anshi's work and its critical reception in the larger context of Song poetic culture.
£46.71
Harvard University Press The Life of Padma: Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe Life of Padma, Volume 2 recounts Rama’s exile in the Dandaka Forest with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. When Sita disappears, Rama prepares for war against Ravana. This first direct translation into English of the oldest extant Apabhramsha work appears alongside a corrected text, in the Devanagari script, of Bhayani’s critical edition.
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Harvard University Press Letters of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisApproximately 100 letters are published here for the first time, including almost all of the letters to Jane Humphrey and to Mrs. J. Howard Sweetser. The new material is even more extensive than it might appear, for many of the letters previously published were censored when first made public. This volume, designed to accompany Mr. Johnson's previously published work, the widely acclaimed Poems of Emily Dickinson, assembles all of Emily Dickinson's letters (with the exception of letters presumably destroyed). The editors present the letters chronologically, with manuscript location, previous publication data, and notes for each letter, together with a general introduction, and biographical notes on recipients of letters. The notes for each letter identify persons and events mentioned, and the source of literary allusions and quotations is given wherever known. Since Emily Dickinson rarely dated her letters after 1850, the dates for the most part must be conjectured from careful study of handwriting changes and from internal evidence of the letters. Of the 1,150 letters and prose fragments included in this outstanding edition, the text of about 800 derives from Dickinson autographs.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION NOTES ON THE PRESENT TEXT Symbols Used To Identify Manuscripts Symbols Used To Indentify Publication LETTERS 1."...the Hens lay finely..." Letters 1-14 [1842-1846] 2. "I am really at Mt Holyoke..." Letters 15-26 [1847-1848] 3. "Amherst is alive with fun this winter" Letters 27-39 [1849-1850] 4. "...we do not have much poetry, father having made up his mind that its pretty much all real life." Letters 40-176 [1851-1854] 5. "To live, and die, and mount again in triumphant body... is no schoolboy's theme!" Letters 177-186 [1855-1857] 6. "Much has occurred...so much that I stagger as I write, in its sharp remembrance." Letters 187-245 [1858-1861] 7. "Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that My Business is Circumference." Letters 246-313 [1862-1861] 8. "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." Letters 314-337 [1866-1869] 9. "I find ecstasy in living--the mere sense of living is joy enough." Letters 338-431 [1870-1874] 10. "Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--a House that tries to be haunted." Letters 432-626 [1875-1879] 11. "I hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and each must be the chiefest..." Letters 627-878 [1880-1883] 12. "...a Letter is a joy of Earth--it is denied the Gods." Letters 879-1045 [1884-1886] PROSE FRAGMENTS APPENDIXES 1. Biographical Sketches of Recipients of Letters and of Persons Mentioned in Them 2. A Note on the Domestic Help 3. Recipients of Letters INDEX INDEX OF POEMS
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Harvard University Press Angelinetum and Other Poems
Book SynopsisGiovanni Marrasio was esteemed in the Renaissance as the first to revive the ancient Latin elegy, and his Angelinetum, or Angelina's Garden, and other poems explores that genre in all its variety, from love poetry, to a description of a court masque, to political panegyric, to poetic exchanges with famous humanists of the day.
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Harvard University Press Shelleys Major Verse
Book SynopsisShelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a beautiful and ineffectual angel, in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.Trade ReviewTo trace the life force of his poetry and its transformation and efflorescence in the course of his development, Sperry has taken Shelley’s eight major poetic works—Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound Acts I–IV, The Cenci, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and The Triumph of Love—and examined them chronologically within the context of the poet’s life. Supported by impeccable scholarship, Sperry’s incisive analyses illuminate for modern readers not only Shelley the poet but Shelley the man. -- Sharon Wong * Library Journal *One of the finest books on Shelley to appear in recent years. Its special strength lies in its elucidation of Shelley’s extreme idealism. Sperry finds in the major poetry life-values that are not only defensible but even prophetic for both individuals and societies. -- Donald H. ReimanTable of ContentsPreface 1. Our Proper Destiny: Queen Mab 2. Broodings in Solitude: Alastor 3. The Triumph of Love: The Revolt of Islam 4. The Human Situation: Prometheus Unbound, Act I 5. Hope and Necessity: Prometheus Unbound, Act II 6. The Transforming Harmony: Prometheus Unbound, Acts III and IV 7. Sad Reality: The Cenci 8. Romantic Irony: The Witch of Atlas 9. Love's Universe: Epipsychidion 10. Tragic Irony: The Triumph of Lift Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisIn Latin Poetry, the erudite and playful works of one of Italy’s greatest poets, Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), are translated into English for the first time. This I Tatti edition provides a newly collated Latin text and offers unique insight into the formation of one of the Renaissance’s foremost vernacular writers.Trade ReviewThis important addition to the I Tatti Renaissance Library series offers the first English translation of Ludovico Ariosto’s lyric productions in Latin…It meaningfully contributes to the scholarly understanding of the texts that it restores while also making them accessible to any anglophone reader…Represents a gift and an invitation to researchers in the field of Renaissance studies at large. -- Alessandro Giammei * Renaissance Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press Minor Latin Poets Volume I
Book SynopsisAn anthology of Latin poetry produced during a period of four and a half centuries.
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