Poetry / poems by individual poets
Oberlin College Press Random Symmetries
Book SynopsisThis posthumous volume brings together the poems of Tom Andrews, whose untimely death in 2001 cut off a career marked by early achievement and remarkable innovation. It comprises two previously published books, The Brother's Country and The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle, and two unpublished manuscript, closing with two late uncollected poems.Table of ContentsTom Andrews: An Appreciation — Charles Wright • THE BROTHER’S COUNTRY • The Brother’s Country • Song of a Country Priest • May I Read You a Few Lines from Pepy’s Diary? • Four Purgatory Poems • Triptych: Augustine of Hippo • Paul Celan • Animist • After Bobrowski • Thinking of Wallace Stevens • Private Collection • Dr. Farnsworth, a Chripodist, Lived in Ohio, Where He Wrote Only the First Lines of Poems • Postcards to Günter Eich • A Language of Hemophilia • Notes • THE HEMOPHILIAC’S MOTORCYCLE • The Hemophiliac’s Motorcycle • At Burt Lake • Ars Poetica • Praying with George Herbert in Late Winter • A Visit to the Cathedral • Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital • Reading the Tao Te Ching in the Hospital • When Comfort Arrives • Evening Song • Hymning the Kanawha • Codeine Diary • Notes • 25 SHORT FILMS ABOUT POETRY • The Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Six One-Line Filmscripts • Doves and Fire • Scenes from a Marriage • The River of Barns • Jacques Derrida and God’s Tsimtsum • Portrait of a Red-Haired Man • the Pornography of Cinema Vérité • Rabelais in the History of Abuse • Intermission: The Discreet Charm of Unfilmable Films • Instructions for the Director of an Unfilmable Film • Joyce Kilmer, in Picardy, Worries about Plagiarism in “Trees” • Brooding Kilmer, a Documentary • William Makepeace Thackeray Follows His Bliss • The Marble • Lecture on Snow • Battle for the Planet of Laurence Sterne • the Mysterious Disappearance of Laurence Sterne • The Mexican Jumping Bean’s Will • Cinema Vérité: The Embrace • Cinema Vérité: William Wordsworth Rejects the Spirit of Carnival • Film Beginning with a Line by Roberto Juarroz • A Map Is Not a Territory • Script for Home Video and Flashlight • In a House Besieged • Cinema Vérité: The Color Wheel • THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT AUGUSTINE • Argument • Left Panel • Central Panel • Right Panel • Notes • LAST POEMS • In the Twentieth Century • North of the Future
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Oberlin College Press The Lightning Field Field Poetry Paperback
Book SynopsisCarol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-reaching and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetusTable of ContentsStudies in Pen and Ink • Festina Lente • Appraisal • Lou Reed in Istanbul • Insomnia • Pelagos • Conduit • The Lightning Field • Timetable for Birds • Geese • Wind above the Weather • Report • Birthstone • Bear Claws • Anastylosis
£12.00
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press The Deep Hearts Core is a Suitcase
Book SynopsisThe shape-shifting realms of longing are fitful setting for local genius. But here, in Lisa Fishman's beautiful first collection of poems, is where for the love of the world we find ourselves. As a reader, I could say I see in these poems a devotion approaching to love, if love ever stayed still enough to take a linguistic reading of. The poet sees much more, though. There's possibly no harder stance for the young poet to take up than one of love and longing. . .William Olsen, from the foreword
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press A Hog Slaughtering Woman
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Black Hope
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Fifth Season
Book SynopsisFifth Season is an amalgamation of losses transformed into a state of serenity for the individual. The fifth season is that imaginary place where time becomes less relevant, where the poet attempts to make sense of the tangible world around him. The fifth season represents a unique path, one which may not be traveled twice.
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Downsides of Fish Culture
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Daughter of the Hangnail
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Distance Learning
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Greatest Hits
Book SynopsisIn Greatest Hits, Marc Sheehan tells the story of the dispossessed better than anyone since Raymond Carver, with a lyrical élan that seems to reveallike a brushing away of light snowfallthose things in our lives we hold most dear, whether it's an old stolen fiddle, a recycled Xmas tree, or the Portable Nietzsche one reads while on break at the factory. In a voice that is gentle yet honest, Sheehan is able to lay bare our most desperate moments and to leave in the stillness a redemption offered up by something as simple and beautiful as a blue snake gliding over stones at the edge of a grassy quarry.
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Northerners Inland Seas
Book SynopsisIn James Armstrong's pellucid poetry the drifting of autumn leaves shares space with the baroque architecture of nineteenth century England. A woman peruses a book of pharmaceuticals in a coffee shop looking for hints of happiness. And a naked woman wearing hip boots stares out of the 1940s in a photograph hung in a Michigan bar. Twilight is always moving the shadows of our urban lives out toward the country, our inherited past, where a deer or a heron waits like an angel glimpsed through the fog. Armstrong's poems elucidate the mystery and beauty of borders temporal and historical, as well as geographical while his pastoral sensibility floods our senses with images of the natural world, seemingly stopping time, edifying us, and helping usfor a few moments anywayto transcend our enervated contemporary lives. Reading this book is like diving into a deep lake. It cleanses the soul.
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Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Less of Her
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New Issues Poetry and Prose Rain Through High Windows
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Old Cove Press Black Box
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Old Cove Press Isaac Murphy I Dedicate This Ride
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Swan Isle Press Con las debidas licencias With Leave and Licen
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£12.00
Swan Isle Press Frivolous Women and Other Sinners Frívolas y
Book SynopsisA collection of poems that invites readers to visit the darker and lighter sides of laughter and love and feel the tenderness of recovered memories as they cross the bridges of relationships and stroll down the mysterious streets of childhood.
£21.00
Harvard University, Korea Institute Azalea 3 Journal of Korean Literature and Culture
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Lotus Press Inc Heathen
Book SynopsisDivided into four sections, Heathen is a unified collection of poetry satisfying both intellectual and emotional appetites. The vocabulary, phrasing, and figurative language prove author R. Flowers Rivera to be a master of technique.
£16.16
Whale & Star Press Joy Goswami
Book SynopsisJoy Goswami is probably the most highly regarded Bengali poet today, a worthy successor, in a land of poets, to Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das. Although his life has never been easy, his vocation as a poet has never been in doubt. Goswami has written more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose. This is the first American publication of his poems.
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MH - Indiana University Press Precarious
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Swan Isle Press Alliance and Condemnation Alianza y Condena
Book SynopsisA collection of poems that temper the joy of existence - the bounty that turns the author's flawed breath into prayer - with a questioning of empirical reality. It includes poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness, and the joys of sorrow and existence.Trade Review"Abstract yet colloquial, Claudio Rodriguez's poetry is not easily rendered into English. Philip W. Silver's splendid translations, as precise as they are idiomatic, not only do full justice to the originals but demonstrate why Rodriguez is one of modern Spain's greatest poets." (Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Columbia University)"
£15.00
Swan Isle Press The School of Solitude
Book SynopsisPeruvian poet Luis Hernandez is legendary in his native country. Including images from Hernandez's notebooks, this book can be read not only for its powerful poetry and imagery, but also as a means to learn more about this enigmatic Latin American poet and the mystery of his life and work.
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Swan Isle Press Lost Cities Go to Paradise
Book SynopsisComposed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention.
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Swan Isle Press The White Islands Las Islas Blancas
Book SynopsisI only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jews after the Alhambra Decree, which ordered their expulsion from Spain. Inspired by her own journey to Salonika and the Greek Islands, Rhodes, Crete, as well as the Balkans, Marjorie Agosin searches for the remnants of the Sepharad. Presented in a beautiful bilingual Spanish-English edition, Agosin's poems speak to a wandering life of exile on distant shores. We hear the rhythm of the waves and the Ladino-inflected voices of Sephardi women past and present: Paloma, Estrella, and Luna in the fullness of their lives, loves, dreams, and faith. An evocative and sensual voyage to communities mostly lost after the Holocaust, The White Islands offers a lighthouse of remembrance, a lyrical world recovered with language and song, lament and joy, longi
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Deep South Books Head on Fire A Deep South Publication
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Washington State University Press Balefire
Trade ReviewShann Ray brings to American poetry a voice that is at once rugged and unapologetically vulnerable. In these poems, Ray writes with the same incisive eye that has won him so much praise for his fiction, but with an even sharper ear. Like any decent bluesman, Shann knows when to wail, when to whisper, and when to let the silences do their own damn work. Here, folks, is an able and true 'vessel for the song of this world.'" - John Murillo, author of Up Jump the Boogie
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Swan Isle Press Everything I Kept
Book SynopsisMoving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep and carry with us. Behar's vivid renderings of wilted gardens, crashing waves, and firefly-lit nights recall the imagery of her inspiration, Dulce María Loynaz, who is often known as the Cuban Emily Dickinson. Presented in a beautiful bilingual English-Spanish editionBehar serves as her own translatorEverything I Kept/Todo lo que guardé will haunt readers with the cries and whispers which illuminate the human spirit and the spectrum of emotions that make for a life and lives well-remembered.
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Swan Isle Press Satan and His Daughter the Angel Liberty
Book SynopsisSatan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment.
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WW Norton & Co Blessed as We Were
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection An illuminating and irascible compilation of selected and new poems from National Book Award winner Gerald Stern.Trade Review"One of our most influential and beloved poets, fifty years after the publication of his first book, Gerald Stern is still in love, still angry, still outraged, and still funny. Blessed as We Were is the expression of a full life of loving, a crowning achievement, the luminous offering of an American original." -- Toi Derricotte
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WW Norton & Co Hybrida
Book SynopsisA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood.Trade Review"One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years... With equal parts hope and terror, and no self-delusion, this book summons the kind of love only the imagination can sustain; Chang writes to, and for [her son] Roman, praying that his pure being will transcend the millions of gazes that will try to define his life by his skin color." -- Craig Morgan Teicher - NPR"Tina Chang's piercing Hybrida is a breakthrough book...The poet's eloquence meets a mother's ferocity channeling the experience of parenting mixed-race black children in the current cultural climate... She tears apart categories that would define her kids into harm and she rages with a power that will have readers weeping and shouting." -- Brenda Shaughnessy - O Magazine"Chang asks evocative questions about identity... [She] weaves powerful narratives and uses various poetic forms to create a momentous landscape." -- Elizabeth Lund - Washington Post"A beautiful meditation of home and hope and hurt... There's an earned gentleness to [Chang's] lines—call them inspirational (imagine it: a poem can make us love each other better!). Hybrida is a song of love, and creation myths; or perhaps they are our creation truths. " -- The Millions"A tour-de-force of fury and love. Further proof that poetry's power to negotiate polarized space explains why it's so potent now... A number of [these lyrics] ought to be anthologized into the next century." -- John Freeman - LitHub"[Hybrida] grapples with mothering a mixed-race child in the precarity of the current political and social environment. Chang experiments with style and form...[Her] untraditional conventions will ring true to many readers." -- Ms. Magazine"I have loved Tina Chang, and her work, since long before either of us were published poets. In Hybrida’s poems of deep conscience and urgent compassion, I recognize her fearless imagination and searching intelligence. I also find a new sense of need. These poems are clear-eyed and unblinking—written to save lives." -- Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Life on Mars"‘When he was born, our mutual exhaustion was a hybrid sound,’ Tina Chang writes in this daring collection’s title poem. With inexhaustible technical and emotional dexterity, Chang mixes and remixes social and familial resonances; reconfigures forms, myths, and prophecies; and records the hybrid sounds of love. Hybrida is a mature, masterful collection by a poet who never fails to astonish." -- Terrance Hayes, National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin"I find myself reading [Hybrida] with my heart in my throat—having to remember to swallow. Tina Chang’s grace and ferocity in the face of what it means to mother a brown boy, to raise brown children in this particular moment in time, is everything so many of us—until now—didn’t have the words for…So grateful for the stunning way she writes and the language she is teaching us to speak." -- Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming"With keen resolve, abiding trepidation, and powerful empathy, Tina Chang explores what it takes to survive in these times. Timeless concerns are intertwined with our shocking current events, often through the lenses of color and hybridity. Moreover, the collection itself is hybrid: lineated open verse, prose bursts, ekphrastic ventures, and list poems. But whatever form her words assume, Hybrida is glorious poetry." -- Kimiko Hahn, author of Brain Fever
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WW Norton & Co Battle Dress
Book SynopsisA terrific and sometimes terrifying collection-morally complex, rhythmic, tough-minded, and original. -Rosanna Warren, 2018 Barnard Women Poets Prize citation
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WW Norton & Co Middle Distance
Book SynopsisA probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.Trade Review"In these beautiful pages, his last gift to us, Stanley Plumly has gathered his beloveds in a single space: the landscapes, the poets, the light of evening, and ‘the one true angel’ of childhood. In poems so easy with cadence you might almost imagine that nature herself had invented the stately stanzas and the five-beat line. In prose so rapt with noticing you can almost believe the page remembers the tree it was. This is the poet’s final blessing: to hold the precious world in two good hands and say goodbye." -- Linda Gregerson"When Stanley Plumly died of cancer on April 11, 2019, I reread everything I could get my hands on, from In the Outer Dark to Against Sunset; the beautiful prose books, too. Nothing, or everything, prepared me for his Middle Distance. Scary, forthright, complete, by necessity in lines and in prose, Middle Distance is the book of Stan." -- James Longenbach
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W. W. Norton & Company Midwood
Book SynopsisMidwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called one of the most original voices of her generation
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W. W. Norton & Company Environmental Science and Sustainability
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W. W. Norton & Company The Widows Crayon Box Poems
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W. W. Norton & Company Smother Poems
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WW Norton & Co An Ordinary Life
Book SynopsisA poet whose work is a cause of celebration (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary
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W. W. Norton & Company The Darkest Pastoral
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W. W. Norton & Company When I Waked I Cried To Dream Again
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd John Milton Complete Shorter Poems
Book SynopsisA splendid student edition. Remarkably fresh and uncluttered, it offers strong historical context as well as specific linguistic guidance for the modern reader. Priority goes to the poetry and the decision to return to original spelling proves no hindrance but rather seems to deepen the reader's engagement with the texts.Trade Review“This new edition gives us an accurate picture of how Milton’s publication of his shorter poems evolved across a lifetime. Its main strength, in my opinion, is that Revard will introduce readers who might otherwise not have considered Milton as a literary polyglot to the 1645 Poemata and other Latin and Italian poems in their proper contexts, which cannot but enrich such readers’ understanding of Milton’s work.” (Milton Quarterly, 2011) “A splendid student edition. Remarkably fresh and uncluttered, it offers strong historical context as well as specific linguistic guidance for the modern reader. Priority goes to the poetry and the decision to return to original spelling proves no hindrance but rather seems to deepen the reader's engagement with the texts. An outstanding edition which is easy to handle and to use.” "Original spelling and punctuation are retained, and in all other ways the volume prioritizes accessibility and clarity, with chronology, introductions to each section and ample but not swamping footnotes to each poem. The introductory essays do not assume scholarly knowledge, and they make every poem seem vibrant, and vital to Milton's development as a writer."(TLS, April 2010) Margaret Kean, St. Hilda’s College, University of OxfordTable of ContentsNote on This Edition xii Acknowledgments xii List of Illustrations xiii Chronology xiv Textual Introduction xxi Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of Mr. John Milton 1 English and Italian Poems 11 Introduction to the Poemata, 1645 125 Elegiarum Liber Primus 143 Sylvarum Liber 203 Introduction to Poems, &c. Upon Several Ocassions, 1673 289 Latin and Greek Poems Added in 1673 339 Poems Added to Sylvarum Liber In 1673 342 Sonnets Published in 1694 357 Unpublished Latin Poems 369 Appendix 513 Select Bibliography 545 Textual Notes 555
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition of Milton's great epic, Paradise Lost, presents the poem in the original language (spelling and punctuation) of its 1674 publication. It thereby recovers pronunciations, sonorities, and rhythms often lost in modernized editions. Barbara K.Trade Review“A welcome complement to the large and growing collection of fine modernized texts of Milton’s poetry and prose currently in print.” (Studies in English Literature, Winter 2008) "[The book] prints its notes on the same page as the text - and thus makes them easily accessible. Its readable typeface makes it the best of the old-spelling editions currently available. It scrupulously adheres to the originally published forms of the language wherever possible." (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008)Table of ContentsNote on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. Chronology. Introduction. Textual Introduction. PARADISE LOST. In Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ (S[amuel] B[arrow] M. D.). On Paradise Lost (A[ndrew] M[arvell]). The Verse. Book 1. Book 2. Book 3. Book 4. Book 5. Book 6. Book 7. Book 8. Book 9. Book 10. Book 11. Book 12. Textual Notes. Appendix: Sketches for Dramas on the Fall, from the Trinity Manuscript. Select Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition of Milton's great epic, Paradise Lost, presents the poem in the original language (spelling and punctuation) of its 1674 publication. It thereby recovers pronunciations, sonorities, and rhythms often lost in modernized editions. Barbara K.Trade Review"Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching. In this exemplary edition of Paradise Lost both qualities are in evidence: the text is scrupulous and the scholarship rigorous, but both the introduction and the notes are accommodated to the needs of students who will be coming to the poem for the first time. This is an edition that will please students and professors alike, and its sheer quality is a tribute to Barbara Lewalski's passion to provide readers with all the help they need to understand the greatest of all English poems." Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester "Teachers and scholars will welcome Barbara Lewalski’s Blackwell edition of Paradise Lost, one not only informed by the erudition of a prominent and highly respected Miltonist but advantaged by her sound decision to reproduce the original language, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics of the 1674 text." Edward Jones, Editor, Milton Quarterly "For the student or general reader, looking for an old-spelling edition that is faithful to the original punctuation, this edition has much to recommend it. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and well-judged." Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor "A superb teaching text. Lewalski’s edition respects Milton’s original poem and offers supremely clear introductions, bibliography and special material to guide the student reader and educated lay person alike to new discoveries in a work that, quite simply, has it all: good, evil, God, Satan, humans, angels, love, despair, war, politics, sex, duty, and sublime poetry—set in a cosmic landscape that inspires wonder and seduces new readers in every generation." Sharon Achinstein, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsNote on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. Chronology. Introduction. Textual Introduction. PARADISE LOST. In Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ (S[amuel] B[arrow] M. D.). On Paradise Lost (A[ndrew] M[arvell]). The Verse. Book 1. Book 2. Book 3. Book 4. Book 5. Book 6. Book 7. Book 8. Book 9. Book 10. Book 11. Book 12. Textual Notes. Appendix: Sketches for Dramas on the Fall, from the Trinity Manuscript. Select Bibliography
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Johns Hopkins University Press The View Were Granted
Book SynopsisThey attain an assurance and stability rare in contemporary poetry, while their careful balance of sadness and joy reminds the reader of the difficult negotiations we make in life.Trade ReviewThis graceful, skilled poet writes especially moving poems. -- Grace Cavalieri Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsIDismantling the BirchesTheh HuntersThe News at 109/12SunflowersThe GlobeOwen's SharkSolitaireChinatownRequiem for the Body SnatchersIISirensVermeerRockyGirl, 2, Pulled from PondBeanbag TossMarking TimeIIISpeed SkatersThe ViewWaterfall, Rock, TroutA Certain GrammarWeatherwiseA County QuiltLetter to Susan in SeattleConstable's CloudsThe Broken PianoA Stand of MapleNotes on the PoemsAcknowledgments
£19.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Book SynopsisAs much as they ponder, they celebrate in exact, careful, and loving terms the haunting and bracing stimuli from which they originate.Trade ReviewLike the night guard in the title poem of his new collection, Daniel Anderson takes us on memorial rounds with him, checking latches and looking into dark corners, sometimes surprised-often not-at what's to be found there. -- Graham Murtaugh Oregon HumanitiesTable of ContentsI. The Night Guard at the Wilberforce HotelPardon and AmnestyAlmostIn Vino VeritasFrom Here to ThereEpithalamion in a Minor KeyAt Advent's EndII. This First Hot Saturday in MayA Late ApologyProvincesTeaching The Merchant of VeniceThe Hills, Beautiful HillsInsomnia at Forty-SixEaster SundaysIII. Labor DayThe Novelist to His CharactersSomeone Is Burning LeavesFour Voices for the AfterlifeMare CognitumNow: A BenedictionAcknowledgments
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Johns Hopkins University Press Couldnt Prove Had to Promise
Book SynopsisFunny, raw, and colorfully musical, Nod plays what teeters, like a tuning fork.Trade ReviewIn these intimate confessions of--as the jacket says--'childish misgivings and adult assurances,' Wyatt Prunty brings a grace and dignity to the speaking voice, as well as ironical humour in the case of the adult assurances. Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. Making FrankensteinRulesThinCrescent Theater, Schenectady, NYThe Gladiator of MisgivingsPromiseBluefinBad DogLong SummersSmall FactsBeginning the EndingWhat KindChecks & BalancesAnother Christmas Tie This YearReading the MapPart II. NodAcknowledgments
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Johns Hopkins University Press That Swing
Book SynopsisThis wise and clever book is rounded out with adept translations of work by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Arthur Rimbaud, and others.Trade ReviewHere, in Kennedy's signature combination of storytelling, formal nimbleness, and comic moments mixed with reverie and melancholy, we find the poet assessing the past and looking out on a future beyond his own lifetime.—The Hudson ReviewTypical of Kennedy’s versatility and willingness to defy poetic expectations . . .—Los Angeles Review of BooksNow eighty-six, we should all hope Kennedy amends this closing prayer, and asks the Lord to let him produce quality work well into his nineties.—Claremont Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Recollections Lonesome George 3 My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books 4 The Odors of New Jersey 5 Hopes 6 Insanity in the Basement 7 Literacy 9 Progress 10 Early Morning in Turks and Caicos Hospital 14 2. Saints and Others Martha Catherine Nicholas Jane Austen Drives to Alton in Her Donkey Trap Thomas Hardy's Obsequies A Word from Hart Crane's Ghost In Tiananmen Square 3. Versions Sonnet for Helene (Pierre de Ronsard) Abyss (Charles Baudelaire) Sea Breeze (Stephane Mallarme) Because the Dinner Meat Was Done to Death (Stephane Mallarme) My Bohemia (Arthur Rimbaud) Pierrot's Soliloquy (Jules Laforgue) Last Poem (Robert Desnos) Mortal Landscape [Robert Sabatier] 4 Diversions Riposte Disabled Music On a Young Man's Remaining an Undergraduate for Twelve Years Cold Beer at the Paul Revere Capture Site 5. Easters Invitation to the Dance Jews Easter Parade in Sorrento 6. Last Acts Departure In the Motel Office Pudge Wescott Tourist Taking Pictures of Children in Mali Rush Hour Rummage Sale How It Happens At Eighty Notes Acknowledgments About the Author
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Johns Hopkins University Press Future Perfect
Book SynopsisThe latest dazzling collection of poems from Charles Martin, a modern poet working within the possibilities of traditional measures. To be modern is to live not in a single era, but in a churn of new technologies, deep history, myth, literary traditions, and contemporary cultural memes. In Future Perfect, Charles Martin's darkly comic new collection, the poet explores our time and the times that come before and after, which we inhabit and cultivate in memory and imagination. Through poems that play with form and challenge expectation, Martin examines the continuities that persist from time immemorial to the future perfect. Sensitive to the traces left behind by the lives of his characters, Martin follows their tracks, reflections, echoes, and shadows. In From Certain Footprints Found at Laetoli, an ancient impression preserved in volcanic ash conjures up a family scene three million years past. In The Last Resort of Mr. Kees and Mr. Kees Goes to a Party, Martin adopts the persona oTable of ContentsDiscontentsI. Self as OthersWhen We Had It AllOctaves of Another EdenFrom Certain Footprints Found at LaetoliVariations on a Theme by MartialThe Last Resort of Mr. KeesNarcissism for BeginnersMr. Kees Goes to a PartyLetter from Komarovo‘Noi Antri’The Woman Taken in AdulteryThe Locked Room Mystery of Mr. KeesA Happy Ending for Iphis and IantheMr. Kees Comes to a ConclusionBlue EyesThe Afterlife of Mr. KeesII. From The Medea Of EurpidesIII. Notes From The Future PerfectNotes From the Future PerfectFarewell, Voyager INotes to the PoemsAcknowledgementsAbout the author
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