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University of Pittsburgh Press The Law of Truly Large Numbers
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University of Pittsburgh Press Antediluvian
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University of Pittsburgh Press Gravitation
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University of Pittsburgh Press Winter Stars
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Carcanet Press Ltd Forms of Distance
Book SynopsisA second bilingual collection since the author's enforced exile from China in 1989.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWonderful! Hughes' edition is unexcelled! --Carol V. Kaske, Cornell University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Book SynopsisThis daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical. An Introduction treats Chaucer's works, influences, life, learning, and the world of 14th-century London. Includes a glossary.Trade ReviewThis version of The Canterbury Tales is indeed 'fast-paced and entertaining'. It includes translations of most of the tales (certainly all of the most popular ones) and abridgments and summaries of a few others. Glaser's main innovation in this translation is a rather striking decision to render Chaucer's standard iambic pentameter line in iambic tetrameter. . . . Those who read his translation of The Canterbury Tales will likely be motivated to tackle a linguistically more challenging, yet more rewarding Middle English edition. Those who lack the time for such a task will still be able to appreciate the humor and variety of one of Chaucer's greatest works and will, through the basic and clear Introduction, get a sense of the historical and literary background of Chaucer, his times, and his works. The near conversational tone of the Introduction, furthermore, makes for an unintimidating encounter with a period of literature that, for many, is foreign and remote. As a kind of gateway text, therefore, Glaser's new translation of The Canterbury Tales will be much appreciated and valued by a non-specialist audience. --Jennifer A. Smith, Comitatus
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo
Book SynopsisA collection of fifty prose poems provided with accurate translation that conveys the lyricism and nuance of the original French text. It includes an introductory essay, explanatory notes, and a bibliography that show the development of Baudelaire's work over time. It also features a translation of Baudelaire's early novella, "La Fanfarlo".Trade ReviewAttractively produced and presented, this useful edition of Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo reads as both serious and engaging. The introduction is clear without being condescending. It seems to me very much to the point--as is Baudelaire as always. --Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, CUNYA new translation is certainly welcome for providing fresh perspective on this provocative work, and the added bonus of Baudelaire's early novella, La Fanfarlo , makes this edition particularly useful and illuminating of the author's career as a whole. --Marc Caplan, Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages, The Johns Hopkins UniversityIn this new translation Raymond MacKenzie has followed recent tradition in placing together Baudelaire's early novella and the collection of fifty prose poems which were published after his death. La Fanfarlo , published in 1847, is discussed in MacKenzie's clear and thought-provoking introduction under the heading "an experiment in narrative." As a narrative experiment Baudelaire's novella is one he judged to have failed, but MacKenzie's translation of the tale has a lightness of touch that captures the humour and pacing of this baroque fantasy and places it in the context of the poet's defiance of narrative expectations. The true experimental writing here is to be found in the prose poems of Paris Spleen . . . . if this translation is more prose than poetry, it allows a contemporary and fresh way of looking at the prose poems, and most importantly, to paraphrase Walter Benjamin, succeeds in not blocking the light of the original. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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City Lights Books The Fall of America
Book SynopsisWinner of the National Book Award for PoetryBeginning with long poem of these States, The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg''s Planet News ? chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness.Includes Ginsberg''s condemnation of America''s actions in Vietnam, along with commentary about the moon landing, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the death of Che Guevera, and more personal events such as the passing of Ginsberg''s friend and former lover Neal Cassady. Many of the poems were initially composed on an Uher Tape recorder, purchased by Ginsberg with the help of Bob Dylan.Poems in the collection include: Beginning of a Poem of These States; Elegy For Neal Cassady; On Neal''s Ashes, Please Master, Hum Bom! and September on Jessore Road.[Ginsberg] is never negligible, and he is often (the only true test) unforgettable.?Helen Vendler, New York Times Book ReviewFollowing in the footsteps of legendary photographer Robert Frank''s groundbreaking The Americans and Jack Kerouac''s opusOn the Road, Allen Ginsberg gives us deep insight into his poems in The Fall of America ? every poem this book refers to is a prismatic hall of mirrors ? ?Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
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City Lights Books Gasoline
Book SynopsisGasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso''s individual (therefore universal) desire.—Allen GinsbergGregory is a gambler. He suffers reverses, like every man who takes chances. But his vitality and resilience always shine through, with a light that is more than human: The immortal light of his muse.—William S. Burroughs . . . A touch young kid from the Lower East Side who rose like an angel over the rooftops and sang Italian songs as sweet as Caruso and Sinatra, but in words . . . Amazing and Beautiful Gregory Corso, The one and only Gregory the Herald. Read slowly and see.—Jack Kerouac[M]ore than fifty years on from when it was first published in 1958, Gasoline (City Lights, 1958) by Bea
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City Lights Books Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Metamorphoses: "Ovid’s Metamorphoses takes on a new hue in Kennedy’s magical work. Drawing on ancient Rome, the details of his own life, and the epochs that divide them, Kennedy considers nature, the body, and other matters against the backdrop of modern-day San Francisco.”—Alta Magazine"Kennedy stands on the literary foundations of Ovid and Kafka as he exalts the beauty and transcendence of the natural world while intersecting the fluidity of sex, gender, and spirituality....Kennedy's collection echoes a deep, timeless human longing to be understood and kept safe."—Michael Ruzicka, Booklist“With a leer as feral as Pan’s and a resignation as inventive as Ovid’s, Evan Kennedy’s new book feels like witnessing the marriage of the Delphic oracle with Madonna. Witty and insouciant, learned and inventive, Metamorphoses is an amazing, sexy book.”—Peter O’Leary, author of The Phosphorescence of Thought “The devotional and visionary poet, the rare writer of consciousness, the still small voice and “confounding microclimate,” Evan Kennedy—whose prior triumphs include a “subtractive autobiography” and a lyric account of self mapped onto the works and canticles of St. Francis—continues his ecstatic project by widening, maximizing his embrace. How else “account for everything” but to “take the forms of all living things”? Of scale, plume and pelt; of petal and bark, here he occupies Ovid like a dressing room, busily “cutting confetti for the day I make a wildlife sanctuary of my body.” It may be this is the debut of a new genre: the auto-treasury.”—Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies “Kennedy’s poems enact a cross-epochal, trans-global set of impersonations with famous writers in a giddy quest to locate his true voice. It’s a breathtaking heartbreaking ever-inventing whirlwind of language, marked by a voracious hunger for history, and a bit of post-punk bravado queered to the max. Stripped of self-aggrandizement, and awake to the nuances of San Francisco life, he invites us to join him in a discovery of self, and to participate in the recovery of our lost world and its mesmerizing particulars.”—Aaron Shurin, author of The Blue Absolute“Think of him as a circus Beckett or a Beckett circus or an early Dylan of the early twenty-first century. Think of the pleasure of language as it rises and as it ebbs. Think that you know what to expect and you will be surprised. Meet the author. Evan Kennedy. Say it again. Evan Kennedy. He is The One.”—Lisa Jarnot, author of A Princess Magic Presto Spell Praise for Evan Kennedy: "What stands out most in Evan Kennedy’s poetry are its interlinks. What might appear at first as stylistic or syntactic innovation, and indeed is also that, turns back in order to link or relink the various delusory tenses (past, present, future) of a biomass of innocence or humility, Blakean maybe, or Wordsworthian.”—Bruce Boone, Jacket2 “Kennedy seems actively interested in having the writing be identifiable with everybody and anybody’s experience. Yet Kennedy is in essence only thereby revealing the process beneath which his practice lies. Intent upon pushing such identification deeper than mere surface associations Kennedy embraces activities/routines that could belong to ‘just about anyone,’ thereby shedding much of himself in search of the shared preoccupations of others in order to write anew the freshly forming ideas of self out onto the page.”—Patrick James Dunagan, author of After the Banished “His language—some kind of nouveau sermon—breathlessly conjures divine presences while in delis bagging radishes, while scaling impossible hills with baseball bros and sordid queerphobes, barrel-chested men and sneaky sickos.”—Noah Ross, author of Swell
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City Lights Books The Crystal Text
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text:"There’s a majesty in this book with a crystalline center that refracts and reflects this extended, wandering meditation on what it means to write and to be in the world. And there is also an ease and a luminous beauty and such a depth that this book remains resonant years after its original publication.”—Juliana Spahr, author of That Winter the Wolf Came"The Crystal Text is at once a philosophical poem in the lineage of Lucretius and a word-jazz excursion in the spirit of Monk and Lacy. Here, the poet’s stylus becomes a drumstick that patterns a nonlinear logic of fleeting reflections, performing cymbal-clash as symbol-crash. The result is a unified field theory of music, thought, and poetry. The reissue of Coolidge’s long out-of-print masterpiece deserves a standing ovation."—Andrew Joron, author of O0“In The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge, language is restored to its original grace. And what is the origin of language? Is it innovation? Does it subvert while instructing? This poem brings the written word to life. It was written in the 1980s, serving as a deep source for poets and all those who cherish literature. The poet spars with history, memory, and what it means to be fully human. The informative afterword is a rare treat.”—Neeli Cherkovski, author of The Crow and I"Like the mouth to a cave or mine, The Crystal Text offers the best entry to Clark Coolidge's writing. Here's a sui generis American poet, an eager amateur geologist, conversing with a mineral gifted to him, locating the surfaces along language that allow light's passage. Impossible to imitate, Coolidge tests the hardness of syntax, scratching new registers upon it to clarify human perception and the ways we lend it language.”—Evan Kennedy, author of Metamorphoses"Summoned from a translucent bedrock made of equal parts diamond and table salt, snowflake and graphite, and operating a mineral eon or two away from the more obvious sorts of time, The Crystal Text affirms an irreducible poetic truth: small things are fathomless.”—Paul Ebenkamp, author of The Louder the Room the Darker the ScreenPraise for Clark Coolidge:“Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde.”—Peter Gizzi, author of Archeophonics“A long-time master of the jazzy long work.”—Bernadette Mayer, author of Works and Days"[I]f one merely lies open to it, Coolidge's arresting words will sink in and provide a seldom experienced refreshment. This is still true and the receding monumentality of his landscape enterprise is fuller today than ever before. We are lucky to live in the world he chooses to reflect back at us."—John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror“In poem after poem he produces lines of abstract, bright, musical phrasing”—Michael Leddy, World Literature Today “An inexhaustible writer capable of taking a subject, any subject, and improvising endless bebop glissandos around it.”—Eliot Weinberger, author of Karmic Traces: 1993-1999 "Clark Coolidge is unquestionably among the finest and most legendary American poets of our time."—Irakli Qolbaia, Caesura“Nothing can prepare you for the experience of reading Clark Coolidge’s poetry. You can listen to Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and the Rova Quartet; you can read the Beats, and examine every Philip Guston painting; you can go spelunking and spend days staring at rock structures. You can even memorize every word of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett and recite it all as a soundtrack to a black-and-white cowboy movie. These may contextualize some of the elements in Coolidge’s work, but they will not adequately equip you for the heady mixture of intellectual pleasure, semantic frustration, and visceral musicality that Coolidge’s work is likely to provoke.”—Jake Marmer, Hyperallergic “Coolidge subjects the comforting syntax of traditional lyric to a radical torque as a means of discovering new possibilities of song.”—Aldon L. Neilson, Pacific Coast Philology
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City Lights Books Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia 19431966
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University of Regina Press Dislocations
Book SynopsisIn all these poems I'm partly somewhere else. With you, without you, walking toward you or away, but you are there, your small face watching from the shadow of a doorway or a set of stairs, from behind a curtain or a table. Sometimes I see you at the piano. You stop playing, turn to me, and in that pause, tell me something necessary. Poet Karen Enns takes the reader on a lyrical journey, wrapped in the vicissitudes of seasons and weather while observing human and other-than-human lives. Enns invites us to peer and is concerned always with the locations and dislocations perspective implies and creates.
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Colenso Books The fruitful discontent of the word a further
Book SynopsisA selection of mainly late poems by Lawrence Durrell which were not included in COLLECTED POEMS 1931-1974, but appeared only in prose works and have not been collected before. Poems drawn from SPIRIT OF PLACE, SICILIAN CAROUSEL, THE AVIGNON QUINTET and CAESAR'S VAST GHOST. Edited by Peter Baldwin.
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LEGARE STREET PR What is History
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Creative Media Partners, LLC What is History
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Taylor & Francis Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth
Book SynopsisThis book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal writers who were strongly influenced by very different movements: they are Gertrude Stein and Cubism, William S. Burroughs and Dada, J. G. Ballard and Surrealism, and Douglas Coupland and Pop Art. For these authors the presence and influence of these art movements is not limited to a small cluster of texts, but can be felt much more expansively across their work, infiltrating all manner of multifarious and complex dimensions. These authors are all keen to explore new methods of shifting the signature styles and forms of visual art into the literary world. Alongside these more overt methods of artistic transposition, the authors also often demonstrate a deep philosophical affinity with their chosen movements. This book uproots and examines these kinds of artistic engagements, and also explores the authorsâ own p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poems of Lord Byron
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Pan Macmillan Wound is the Origin of Wonder
Book SynopsisI can’t undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C. Popa's poems explore the capacity of wonder to reawaken our appetite for the world, at a time that is fraught with the threat of endings, engaging lucidly with the most profound questions we face in our collective responsibilities and our relations with each other.She writes with love and wonder of a world poised at a perilous moment: “My children, will they exist by the time / it’s irreversible?” she asks. “Will they live / astonished at the thought of ice / not pulled from the mouth of a machine?” Popa takes seriously the poet’s duty to pay attention, to seek what Seamus Heaney called “the images... adequate to our predicament”.To read her poems is to pause again and again aTrade ReviewWhitman declared ‘what I assume you shall assume’ and Popa’s audacious reply is to transcend deadlock and reveal beauty wherever her gently subversive lyric freely wanders, with phrases freshly minted in lines whose intensity is as impactful and affirmative as lived experience. -- Daljit NagraBeautiful, musical, imaginative and blink-back playful poems. A very original voice in real lyric conversation with the self, with the other, with life and the creaturely world. A joy of a book. -- Ruth PadelMaya C. Popa’s new book is an astonishment. In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure . . . Wound is the Origin of Wonder reflects to us our own historical moment with unusual clarity, even as its lyric exploration of psychic and social landscapes stand outside of time. -- Meghan O'Rourke''Wound Is the Origin of Wonder is stunning for how it miraculously balances tenderness and terror, poems of hovering anxiety and longing that also allow themselves to be turned toward pleasure. I am now, as always, thankful for poems that balance the fullness of the human experience. Maya C. Popa has done that here.' -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of The Little Devil in America 'I am stuck in an almost life, / in an almost time,’ Maya C. Popa writes in the titular poem from Wound Is the Origin of Wonder. Suspended in the uncanny amber of such a time, such a place, we readers encounter ourselves, endlessly reprocessing our own pasts and worrying our futures as the vast roiling moment corrodes both. Still, Popa insists upon, if not hope exactly, then a world beyond the hopelessness this one inspires: ‘There are still things that cannot be imagined.’ Wound Is the Origin of Wonder is a complex, searching collection, one I will be returning to for years.' -- Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell '"Dear Life," the opening poem of Maya C. Popa’s stunning Wound Is the Origin of Wonder, is worth the price of entry on its own. If I’d stopped there, this book would have given me more than I’d hoped for, but who could stop? Each poem, every single one, startled me with its precision and clarity. At times I gasped. Of course wonder is related to wound, awe to pain, and ‘every bright thing has at its heart a hiddenness / it offers when you’ve just about stopped looking.’ So we keep looking. We keep going. When I reached the end of this book, I wasn’t ready for its spell to be broken, not yet, so I began it again. -- Maggie Smith, author of Goldenrod 'Wound is the Origin of Wonder showcases Popa’s ability to weave together rich internal reflections with finely wrought observations of the natural world. True to its title, Popa’s collection traces the titular emotion all the way back to its origins, shedding light on the wound so that we may look with wonder on the fuller picture that emerges' * Harvard Review *'In Wound Is the Origin of Wonder, Popa's elegant and moving exploration of grief and its causes and manifestations is more nuanced than simply observing that loss and living go hand-in-hand.' * New York Journal of Books *'Subtle and gorgeous... The ecstatic language of these meditations and confessions is animated as much by pain as by joy.' * Publishers Weekly *A reader will leave these poems hungry with the desire to see, to notice wildly – not only as a writer, but as a human being. * Mslexia *
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Austin Macauley Publishers Before Hope Dies
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Austin Macauley Publishers Cosmic Love
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Austin Macauley Publishers Poems of Life and Love
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Austin Macauley Publishers Longwinded
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Hymns of a Deepman
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Words Behind the Music Volume One Lost in
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Austin Macauley Publishers Gilded Tilting
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Austin Macauley Publishers Early 21st Century Poems
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Austin Macauley Publishers Secrets Lies and Little Joys
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Austin Macauley Publishers Trishas Book of Funny and Amusing Poems
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Austin Macauley Publishers Divine Mystique II
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Austin Macauley Publishers Lessons for Little Me
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Austin Macauley Publishers My Safe Space
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Austin Macauley Publishers Passions A Story of Love
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Austin Macauley Publishers Does the Sun Always Come Out After the Storm
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Relic of Trying
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Austin Macauley Publishers Waves Waves Waves
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Austin Macauley Publishers Materialised Invisibility
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Austin Macauley Publishers When My Soul Wanders
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Austin Macauley Publishers My Choice Your Voice
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Austin Macauley Publishers Transcendence
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Austin Macauley Publishers Monkeys and Trumpets A Collection of Poetry
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Austin Macauley Publishers Before the Drawbridge Closed
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Austin Macauley Publishers Light a Candle in My Soul
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Austin Macauley Publishers Poems For Cecilia Poemas Para Cecilia
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Austin Macauley Publishers Pharaohs Nose
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Austin Macauley Publishers Poetic Gibberish
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