Poetry / poems by individual poets
University of Pittsburgh Press Earnest Earnest Poems Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisIn Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest.
£14.25
University of Pittsburgh Press Second Story Poems Pitt Poetry Series
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Blues of Heaven
Book SynopsisAn expansive, ardent, and memorable book of personal poetry.
£14.25
University of Pittsburgh Press Peach State
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University of Pittsburgh Press Cemetery Ink
Book SynopsisPoems exploring understandings of belonging - from places and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving.
£18.40
University of Pittsburgh Press Dark Traffic
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University of Pittsburgh Press My Wilderness
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University of Pittsburgh Press Gumbo Ya Ya
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University of Pittsburgh Press Little Pharma
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry.
£18.40
University of Pittsburgh Press Imperfect Present
Book SynopsisBy confronting the urgencies of daily life, from questions of identity to sexual abuse to racial unrest to the ubiquity of plastic, these poems investigate ways to sustain ourselves in our fraught public and private lives.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Prelude
Book SynopsisPrelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena
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University of Pittsburgh Press Every Form of Ruin
Book SynopsisA rebuttal to Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Every Form of Ruin posits the Erinyes’ fury as righteous, understanding Clytemnestra’s rageful response to loss, and refusing Iphigenia’s relegation to a footnoted sacrifice.
£15.00
University of Pittsburgh Press banana
Book SynopsisThe poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos's debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such as history books, declassified CIA documents, and commercials. The book includes collage, Ecuadorian decimas, a sonnet series in the voices of Incan royalty at the moment of colonization, and a long poem interspersed with photos and the author's mother's bilingual idioms. Traversing language and borders, history and story, traditional and invented forms, this book guides us beyond survival to love.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Endurable Infinity
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University of Pittsburgh Press Territorial
Book SynopsisTerritorial explores the bargains that women make to stay safe from violence. Using the characteristics of violence - repetition and escalation - the collection connects subjects that range from the dawn of recorded sound to the mapping of myths onto constellations, the ecosystem of a leach pond, and the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Blessing the Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisWritten over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert’s poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author’s father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net.
£12.82
University of Pittsburgh Press Take Me to Stavanger
Book SynopsisAmid the din of Russia's patriotic sentiments and Instagram instants, is there any room left for the voice of a poet? Despite the many entertainments and distractions of modern life, Anzhelina Polonskaya's spare but cutting poems in Take Me to Stavanger declare a wholehearted Yes. This bilingual Russian-English volume makes a refuge for the poet and her readers, plumbing the depths of contemporary melancholy and ennui. Beautifully crafted idiosyncratic dissections of a strong individual who refuses to go along with the currents of popular culture or political jingoism invite readers to slow down and pay attention.
£15.00
Fordham University Press Midden
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Midden, When Glory Comes xiii I Walk My Road at Dusk 1 The Way Home 3 Dear ghosts, I pick the list 5 The Story of Fire 6 Their Objects 7 Shipwreck at New Meadows 8 Bas-Relief: Jake Marks 9 Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes 10 Interview with the Dead 11 Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again 16 So Many Things 17 The Tray of Spades 18 Dear ghosts, my neighbor catches you with her camera 21 The Schoolteacher Answers the Call 22 Sestina Fragments: Our Teacher Prays for Bread 25 Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body 27 No Man’s Land 28 Annie in the Boat 30 Dear ghosts, how can we stop the sunlight spinning the story 31 John Eason Stops Preaching 32 This Is Our Home Now 33 Sucker Fish 35 What William Marks Knows, Age 3 36 Dear ghosts, with a red pencil I draw a map. 37 Each Morning Drowns in Open Air 38 The Procedure 39 Upon Opening Another Folded Day 40 Feeble-Minded 41 Dear ghosts, because you are dead and restless 42 Lottie Marks Dreams Escape 43 Dear ghosts, there was a man who lived here 44 Lottie Marks on Silence 45 Agent Pease’s Defense 46 Midden 48 Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land 49 Yellow Surprise 50 How to Build a Houseboat 51 Shed Night 52 Potter’s Field 53 Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper 54 Paddling the Storm 55 Descendant’s Riddle 56 Untold 57 Dear ghosts, this land harvests the body to rubble. 58 Erasure 59 Saudade 61 Final Invocation for Ghosts 62 Afterword 65 Notes 69 Acknowledgments 73
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Fordham University Press Cathay
Book SynopsisAn extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.
£24.69
University of Hawai'i Press The Great Fool Zen Master Ryokan Poems Letters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is the biggest, most thoughtful English collection of Japan's most famed and humble poet, Taigu Ryokan." —Parabola"Whereas ... earlier works concentrated upon the poetry of Ryokan, [this] volume aims at a broader presentation of the man and his life." —Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press Night Is a Sharkskin Drum Talanoa Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.
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Jewish Publication Society Radiance
Book SynopsisThis first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and modernizing fifty years of his insights intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas to rouse individuals and communities to transform our lives, communities, and world. Trade Review"Danny Siegel is a magician and this book is a collection of his best tricks. Open it to any page and smile or weep. Read any essay or piece of poetry and recognize humanity at its most open-hearted. This volume should be in every library and many personal collections. Rabbis can mine its contents for sermons. Students, synagogues and schools can find ideas for individual and community projects. Foundation professionals can find inspiration for difficult moments (which we especially need now)."—Fred Isaac, Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews“No one has inspired the Jewish community to perform acts of kindness more than Danny Siegel, and this comprehensive collection of his most radiant works sings out to us all. Radiance is a spiritual masterpiece!”—Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor emeritus, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion“This volume is a unique mix of prose, poetry, classic texts, Torah insights, models of good deeds, portraits of Mitzvah heroes, and Danny Siegel’s unflagging affirmation of the good in people and in living. In a classic comic book trope, a hitherto ordinary person is hit by a powerful, mysterious ray and becomes endowed with superpowers. If you allow yourself to be hit by this collection’s rays of love and life wisdom, you will emerge a Mitzvah superhero.”—Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, author of For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity“It’s impossible to think about Mitzvah heroes and the way they inspire others to change the world without the work of Danny Siegel. Through his poetry, his stories, and, perhaps most of all, his person, Danny helps us to believe in the possibility of tikkun—healing and repair—for everything that is broken. Radiance is aptly named: this beautiful collection fills the reader with light and hope!”—Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Stephen Wise Temple, Los Angeles“In today’s world Siegel’s Radiance is a much-needed guide—each text becomes a source of action, and any Mitzvah, no matter how ostensibly small, changes the world.”—Harlene Appelman, executive director, Covenant Foundation“Danny Siegel was one of the first people in the 1960s to call for a new approach to Jewish communal life: seeking out ways to give and ‘do’ Tzedakah. Within a short time, young people, their parents, and entire communities were thinking differently about Tzedakah. Radiance, the best of Siegel’s transformational teachings through the years, is a welcome volume that continues to challenge and teach us today.”—Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University“Danny Siegel is that rare writer who dazzles us by spelling out timeless values and inspiring suggestions that can change our lives—and the lives of those who may need our help.”—William Novak, coauthor of the best-selling memoirs of Lee Iacocca, Tip O’Neill, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North, Magic Johnson, and others“My father, Rabbi Noah Golinkin z”l, was one of Danny Siegel’s Tzedakah rebbes; Danny Siegel is my Tzedakah rebbe. We have learned in the Talmud: ‘Greater is one who convinces others to do [Tzedakah] than one who does’ (Bava Batra 9a). ‘One who learns in order to do, they enable him to learn and to teach, to observe and to do’ (Avot 4:5). Danny Siegel has taught tens of thousands of people how to do Tzedakah. May he continue to learn, to teach and to do—ad meah v’esrim, until 120.”—Rabbi David Golinkin, president, Schechter Institutes, JerusalemTable of ContentsA Rebbi's Proverb Foreword: Teaching Goodness by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Acknowledgements Introduction: Seeking Out Places Where Light is Hidden by Rabbi Neal Gold About This Book How to Get the Most Out of This Book Using This Book in Your Personal and Organizational Life Notes on Language and Utility Part I: Prose1. Mitzvahs and How to Implement Them The Dress (1981) Gym Shoes and Irises (1982) Proposed Course Titles (1987) Why People Who Are Blind Should Own Their Own Cars or: How to Think Mitzvahs (1995) Holy Balloons (1997) Songs of Love (1997) Three Prongs (2000) Occupation: Mitzvahs (2000) David Copperfield (2000) The Starfish (2000) The Butterfly (2000) Wow à Duh! (2000) The Pedestal (2000) Whatever I Want for Myself, I Want for Other People (2000) 24 Questions Parents May Wish to Ask Themselves (2004) 100 Possible Reasons Why You May Have Decided to Do More Tikkun Olam—in No Particular Order of Importance (2006) A First Exercise: The Relationship Between Doing Tikkun Olam Jewishly and Your “Jewishness” (2006) The Four Questions (2006) The Good Stuff and the Crud (2006) Jewish Optimism—From Radical to Mainstream (2019) 2. Interpretations of Jewish Texts The Angels (1980) Commentary on Bava Batra 8a (1989) Life (1995) Life is the Good People (1995)Jewish Jewish Leadership (1995) DNA Analysts: Parashat Shemot (1996)Va-yishlah: Our Ancestor Jacob, the One with the Bad Hip, and Other Tales (1999) Teaching Jewish Texts Today (2019) 3. Portraits of Mitzvah Heroes The Giants of Jerusalem (1981) Trevor Ferrell (1988) Yossi Samuels and Shoshana Weinstock (1997) The Rabbanit Bracha Kapach (1988) Samantha Abeel: The Kid Who Got It All Wrong in Class (1998) Mitzvah Heroes are Everywhere—We Just Have to Know How to Look (2019) 4. Living a Life of Menschlichkeit My Father’s Personal Passover Ritual (1978) A Tribute to My Friends in the Rabbinate (1981) A Story I Once Heard from a Medical Student (1981) The Lamed Vavniks (1988) The College Interview (1988) Li’at in the Park (1988) Klal Yisrael—All Jews (1989) Tzedakah and Tzedek (2019) 5. How and Why to Give Tzedakah Money Away The First Tzedakah Report (1975) Theology and Tzedakah: Two Points (1982) The Second Rule of Tzedakah: There’s No Such Thing as a Small Mitzvah (1982) Does Tzedakah Money Really Belong to You? (2006) What Does It Mean “to Do Tzedakah Jewishly”? (2006) Should You Always Do Your Tzedakah Giving Anonymously? (2006) Will You Find “The Meaning of Life” by Doing Tzedakah? (2006) How Do You Evaluate Financial Information from a Tzedakah Program So You Can Decide to Whom to Give or Not to Give? (2006) From the Ziv Tzedakah Fund Final Report (2008) A Smaller World (2019) Part II: Poetry6. From Soulstoned (1969) Father Abraham–Genesis Chapter 22 Slightly Changed 7. From And God Braided Eve’s Hair (1976) The Crippler A Recent Immigrant Comes from the Soviet Union to His Family in the U.S. Selig and the Judge Personal Preference Hebrew Psalm 55 Mashiachtzeit or Davidson from Egged Knife, Birds 8. From Between Dust and Dance (1978) A Blessing Frumka 9. From Nine Entered Paradise Alive (1980) Surveying the Jewish Multitudes Erev Shabbas Blessing the Children The Tree and the Mashiach 10. From Unlocked Doors (1983) Children’s Games Rav Sheshet and the Angel Carolyn’s Last Snow 11. From The Lord is a Whisper at Midnight (1985) The Geese and Hoopoes Praise You Number My Days This Way A Prayer for Teachers of Torah 12. From The Garden (1985) All Red White and Blue, We American Kids Wallenberg I Wallenberg II Snows of My Childhood 13. From Before Our Very Eyes (1986) Sunflower Seeds and Name-Brand Shirts A Certain Holiness Summer 1976, Wine in the Streets 14. From The Meadow Beyond the Meadow (1991) Anthropology With a Kiss The Old Tapestry in the Den The Imaginary Conference of the International College of Poets, Tampa, June 12-15, 1982 Spring Storm The Four Children Be Not Irrelevant 15. From A Hearing Heart (1992) King Solomon Asks for a Hearing Heart Above All, Teach This Newborn Child Bat Mitzvah Speech of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman Mitzvah Therapy The Late Bloomer Where Heaven and Earth Touch So Closely, They Appear to Be Kissing A Recitation for Students of Anatomy Statement by a Woman Who Has Chosen to Be a Jew Commencement Address for Rabbinical School Speech to the Camp Counselors Just Before the Kids Arrive A Dream: A Touch of Glory 16. From Healing: Readings and Meditations (1999) The 23rd Psalm (Adapted)–A Responsive Reading The Restaurant of Broken Dreams 17. From From the Heart (2012) Muse The Bears In Loco Eshet Chayil
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Liverpool University Press Amores Bk 2 Classical Texts 2 Classical Texts
Book SynopsisOvid’s books of personal love elegies are arguably his most attractive work. This edition of Amores II offers a Latin text with parallel prose translation, and critical essays written especially for the reader with little or no Latin. For more advanced scholars, there is a line by line commentary on the Latin text and an apparatus criticus.Trade Review‘A distinguished addition to the excellent classical series... Booth is a sure and amused guide to the genre... Every reader will derive knowledge and pleasure from this book.’LACTTable of Contents PrefaceAddendum 1999Abbreviations and Index of Works CitedIntroduction I. ‘The glory of the Paelignian people’: Ovid and his poetic career’ II. ‘Poems a lass would like to hear’: love-elegy III. ‘Frivolous muse’: The Amores IV. What came naturally: Ovid’s elegiac style V. The text VI. The translationText, Translation and DiscussionsApparatus Criticus CommentaryGeneral Index
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Liverpool University Press Ovid Metamorphoses Books IIV
Book SynopsisOvid’s poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. This edition of Books I–IV offers the Latin text with facing translation and commentary. The notes trace Ovid’s sources and discuss how and why he adapted them. The history of Ovid’s influence on his successors in literature and art is also extensively treated.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book I Book II Book III Book IVCommentaryAbbreviationsIndex
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Liverpool University Press Ovid Metamorphoses Books VVIII
Book SynopsisOvid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a treasure-house of mythology. The complete work has been edited in four volumes by D. E. Hill. Each volume stands alone, offering the Latin text with facing prose translation and notes tracing Ovid’s sources and his influence on literature and art. This volume, the second of four, contains Books V–VIII.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIIICommentaryBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Satires Bk 1 Classical Texts 001 Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisHorace’s first book of verse satires is the earliest fully extant example of the genre in European literature. This edition has a new text and prose translation, and aims to make the poems readily accessible to the modern reader by elucidating their content, structure and background. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review‘An edition which provides a very helpful guide and is highly recommended.’Classical Review‘Never less than helpful and circumspect.’Greece and RomeTable of Contents PrefaceBibliographyIntroduction I. Life and Works of Horace II. Roman Satire Before Horace III. The Satires of Book I IV. Manuscripts and ScholiaHorace: Satires Book I - Parallel Latin Text and English TranslationCommentary
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Liverpool University Press Horace Satires Book II 2 Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisHorace’s second book of Satires, mostly written in the newly-adopted dialogue form, displays great literary and intellectual sophistication. This edition includes a wealth of background information, exploring the social context, the history of satire in Rome and the ethical-philosophical content. Text with translation, introduction and commentary.Table of Contents PrefaceBibliographyIntroduction 1.Horace in the late 30s B.C. 2. Satire — an anti-genre? 3. The satiric self-portrait 4. ‘Diatribe’, dialogue and philosophy 5. The structural patterns of Book 2 6. The focus on food 7. Text and manuscripts 8. Notes on references and abbreviationsChronological TableHorace: Satires Book II - Parallel Latin Text and English TranslationCommentaryIndex
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Liverpool University Press Homer Iliad VIII and IX Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisBooks VIII &IX are crucial to the structure of the Iliad, and, while both of them have been extensively discussed in the Unitarian/Analyst debate, neither has perhaps received the attention that their fine literary qualities deserve.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Introduction; Basic Homeric Grammar; Scansion: The Homeric Hexameter; Parallel Greek Text and English Translation; Commentary; Index
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Liverpool University Press Metamorphoses Bks 912 Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisOvid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a treasure-house of mythology. The complete work has been edited in four volumes by D. E. Hill. Each volume stands alone, offering the Latin text with facing prose translation and notes tracing Ovid’s sources and his influence on literature and art. This volume, the third of four, contains Books IX–XII.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book IX Book X Book XI Book XIICommentary Notes on Book IX Notes on Book X Notes on Book XI Notes on Book XIIBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Catullus Poems 6168
Book SynopsisAlthough Catullus is one of the best known Roman poets, it is his shorter poems that are more familiar. This is the first edition of the long poems of Catullus in a single volume which, with John Godwin’s companion edition of the shorter poems, completes all Catullus' surviving work. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review‘This is an extremely useful edition of Catullus which would be helpful to teachers and sixth form students. [...] The commentary on the text is very helpful both to student and teacher and includes a summary of the main points contained within each poem as well as more detailed comments on style.’ JACT‘Godwin’s Catullus is an admirable example of the series at its best: the commentary is clear, helpful and undogmatic [...] the introduction helpfully sets Catullus’ poetry in its historical and literary context.’ Greece and RomeTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionText and TranslationCommentaryAppendix (Callimachus Fragment 110) Glossary of Literary TermsBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Catullus The Shorter Poems Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisThis volume completes Godwin’s edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to new readers. It describes and discusses recent scholarship on the poems, seeing them in their context as fully as possible. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and detailed commentary.Trade Review‘Catullus would have been delighted with Godwin’s edition of his shorter poems [...] It is attractively produced [...] This is a work of tremendous scholarship [...] His introduction is particularly good [...] for all teachers of classics and for university students this is an edition much to be recommended, as it adds many new ideas to the body of scholarship on Catullus.’ The Classical Review‘Godwin’s Catullus is an admirable example of the series at its best: the commentary is clear, helpful and undogmatic [...] the introduction helpfully sets Catullus’ poetry in its historical and literary context.’ Greece and Rome‘This is an extremely useful edition of Catullus which would be helpful to teachers and sixth form students. [...] The commentary on the text is very helpful both to student and teacher and includes a summary of the main points contained within each poem as well as more detailed comments on style.’ JACTTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Catullus' Life and Times Poetry and Performance Neoteric Poetry Interpretative Strategies The Metres The Transmission of the Text Sigla Text and Translation Commentary
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Liverpool University Press Propertius Book I Aris Phillips Classical Texts
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to be in love in Rome? Th 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (publisehed in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic.Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Select Bibliography; Introduction; I The Poet; II The Poetry; III The Girl; IV The Book; V The Translation; VI The Commentary; VII The Text;Parallel Latin text and English translation; Commentary; Indexes.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Present Hour The French List Seagull titles
Book SynopsisA collection of poems that echo each other, returning to and elaborating upon key images, thoughts, feelings, and people. Intriguing and enigmatic, it is a mixture of sonnet sequences and prose poems.Trade Review"Beverley Bie Brahic does a splendid job of translating the latest work of Yves Bonnefoy. She catches his unique combination of human detail and a groping for the beyond.... Brahic does full justice to the profoundly moving text-with its frequent shifts between the personal and the searchingly philosophical."-Joseph Frank, author of Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture"
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Nomads My Brothers Go Out to Drink from the
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of poetry, which takes you to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, pink from time to time. These poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace.Trade Review"With Waberi, the juxtapositions-surprising, provocative, and original-form a good part of the thrill themselves." (Words Without Borders)
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Anchors Long Chain
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Seagull Books London Ltd These Figures Lining the Hills
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Inventors
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Seagull Books London Ltd in field latin
Book SynopsisLutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispers, weather, time's relentless passing, the dead and their ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landscape, fully aware of its literary and non-literary forebears, a walker's view of the place Seiler lives, anchored by close, unhurried attention to particulars. With his precise, memorable languagerendered here in compelling EnglishSeiler has pulled off a difficult feat: recontextualizing and radically personalizing the long tradition of German nature writing for the twenty-first century.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Ursa Major
Book SynopsisYves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations overheard, dropped without any possible conclusion each pregnant with half-hidden, half-visible meaning. Limpid, punctuated with silences, the poems of Ursa Major are like stones picked up, turned over and set back down on the edge of life.Countless voices traverse us; endless, almost, as the meanders of dreams or the starry scintillations of summer nights. Only listen, and a few words rise from the murmur, referring to precise things, making allusions one would like to understand, offering opinions perhaps worth mulling over. With these words Bonnefoy introduces the collection, newly available in English by the master translator Beverly Bie Brahic. This deeply moving sequence of prose poems invites readers to attend to the multitudinous voices that carry on their conversations within us, to trust them just as on summer nights we would lie down in the grass of the meadow, behind our houses, to go forth among the millions of stars with a feeling of falling.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Things That Happen And Other Poems
Book SynopsisBhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crippling poverty across India, the war in Bangladesh, the influx of millions of refugees, the dark, dictatorial days of Indira Gandhi's reign, and the disillusionment of communist rule in Bengal, Chakrabarti's poems plumb the depths of urban angst, expressing the spirit of sadness and alienation in delicate metaphors wrapped in deceptively lucid language. In this first-ever comprehensive translation of Chakrabarti's work, award-winning translator Arunava Sinha masterfully articulates that clarity of vision, retaining the unique cadence and idioms of the Bengali language. Presenting verses and prose poems from all of Chakrabarti's life from his first volume, When Will Winter Come, published
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Seagull Books London Ltd Very Close to Pleasure Theres a Sick Cat
Book SynopsisIn the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his urban pastoral lines, we encounter street colloquialisms alongside high diction, a combination that at the time was unprecedented. Loneliness, anxiety, and dislocation trouble this verse, but they are balanced by a compelling belief in the redemptive power of beauty. This book presents more than one hundred of Chattopadhyay's poems, introducing an international audience to one of the most prominent and important Bengali poets of the twentieth century.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Under the Aleppo Sun
Book SynopsisAleppo is Alice Attie's home city, where her grandparents were born, and with the poems in Under the Aleppo Sun, she takes us there to the months before Assad unleashed his attack in 2011.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Thick of It
Book SynopsisThe poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to the center of the world and navigates a thicket that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself.
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Seagull Books London Ltd An Infusion of Violets
Book SynopsisUsing the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in AnInfusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones, take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce so much salt a body floats away, where music tuned to loss descends with rain, and where hope is placed in the kill-cure. Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, AnInfusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Mydriasis Followed by to the Icebergs French List
Book SynopsisWhile presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. In Mydriasis, the author proves himself to be precisely that as he takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions. Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Cl zio's richly poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration of the universe--a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux. Michaux is, in fact, at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing, Le Cl zio includes Michaux's 'poem of the poem', 'Iniji', thereby allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation
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Seagull Books London Ltd Poetry and Time
Book SynopsisFor nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone, and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive, and forceful. A lifelong collaborator, Neumann's paintings have accompanied the work of Cees Nooteboom, Seamus Heaney, Fernando Pessoa, and László Krasznahorkai, among many others. In Poetry and Time, Neumann's haunting images are accompanied by a lyrical and penetrating text from poet Joachim Sartorius, who notes that a certain silence is at the very heart of poems, stating: They know what it is they do, but do not say it. Exploring this mystery, he considers examples from Dickinson, Rilke, and Shakespeare, among others, and examines the realities of transience and mortality at the center of poems' reasons for being, their urge to form their own reality and abolish time while being inextricably bound to time. Sartorius's ruminations beautifully complement Neumann's series of thirty poignant paintings, making this volume is an extraordinarily
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Into the Day Breaking
Book SynopsisA description of a domestic world face-to-face with the dry contours and harsh economics of a small sawmill community in the southern Cape, this book traces those not always visible connections that tie us to each other and to the earth.Trade Review'These poems evade nothing. They enter the personal so fully that the personal is transcended.' Robert Berold, Sunday Independent
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Telegraph to the Sky
Book SynopsisSince the publication of his first volume of poetry in 1992, Dikeni has been a regular commentator on the development of his country's democracy. This collection features his exploration of this theme.
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