Poetry / Poems
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Elegy The New Critical Idiom
Book SynopsisIn a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term, outlining its characteristics, cultural background and theoretical reception in the twentieth-century.Table of Contents1. Form without frontiers 2. What was elegy? 3. The work of mourning 4. The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 5. Female elegists and feminist readers 6. After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias and the work of dread 7. Elegy diffused, elegy revived
£27.95
Taylor & Francis Ltd Blake and the New Age Routledge Revivals
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Penguin Putnam Inc Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisA bold, transformative new translation of Ovid''s classicOvid''s epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the flight of Icarus, the music of Orpheus, Perseus'' rescue of Andromeda, the fall of Troy - speak toward the essence of human experience: of power, of fate and, most fundamentally, of transformation.Stephanie McCarter''s new rendering, the first female translation in over sixty years, places its emphasis on the sexual violence at the heart of the poem - nearly fifty of the epic''s tales involve the rape or attempted rape of women. While past translations have often obscured or mitigated this fact, expressing Ovid''s language in consensual terms, McCarter considers it explicitly, and so offers a powerful new exploration of this essential work.Trade Review“The true brilliance, that is, the true reading, the accessibility, of McCarter’s tapestry lies in her use of poetic form.(…) Throughout, McCarter produces gorgeous basso continuo undertones juxtaposed against sharp and high-pitched rhymes. Such formal elements of the translation ultimately represent McCarter’s interpretation of Metamorphoses and the art of translation itself—that humble human craft that has the capacity to stand against and despite the will of gods, power, and time. McCarter has produced her own masterpiece that ‘Jove’s wrath cannot / destroy, nor flame, nor steel, nor gnawing time.’ ‘My name,’ she writes, ‘can’t be erased.’” —Anna Deeny Morales, 2023 American Poets Prize citation for The Academy of American Poets“The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year was Stephanie McCarter's marvellous new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fresh, readable, vivid iambic pentameter. McCarter captures Ovid's wit and cleverness, making us laugh at the escapades of abusive, lust-crazed, arrogant gods and hapless, also lust-crazed and arrogant mortals. But she also brilliantly evokes Ovid's more serious sides, including his attentiveness to power and the magical vivacity of the natural world. Her wonderful handling of the metrical poetic form is a fitting match for Ovid's artful, fluent Latin verse.”—Emily Wilson, The New Statesman“McCarter confronts the tricky issues associated with both the poet and his epic not only in her forthright introduction but in the translation itself, where, like an art restorer removing decades of browned varnish from an Old Master, she strips away a number of inaccuracies and embellishments that have accreted in translations over the decades and centuries, obscuring the sense of certain passages, particularly those portraying women and sexual violence… McCarter’s translation reproduces Ovid’s speed and clarity. Even better, she is alert to many of the sparkling verbal effects for which the poet was famous in his own time… If you didn’t know she was writing about the concerns of someone who died twenty centuries ago, you’d think her subject was still alive.”—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker“McCarter adroitly captures Ovid’s glittering darkness. There is horror here but there is also so much wonder and delight, all conveyed in nimble, fresh language.” —Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire“The Metamorphoses has it all: sex, death, love, violence, gods, mortals, monsters, nymphs, all the great forces, human and natural. With this vital new translation, Stephanie McCarter has not only updated Ovid's epic of transformation for the modern ear and era --- she's done something far more powerful. She's paid rigorous attention to the language of the original and brought to us its ferocity, its sensuality, its beauty, its wit, showing us how we are changed, by time, by violence, by love, by stories, and especially by power. Here is Ovid, in McCarter's masterful hands, refreshed, renewed, and pulsing with life.” —Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung“Stephanie McCarter’s gorgeous verse translation of the Metamorphoses is ground-breaking not just in its refreshingly accessible approach to Ovid’s syntax and formal devices but for how she reframes the controversial subjects that have made Ovid, and Ovidian scholarship, so fraught for contemporary readers. McCarter’s translation understands that the Metamorphoses is a complex study of power and desire, and the dehumanizing ways that power asserts itself through and on a variety of bodies. McCarter’s deft, musical, and forthright translation returns much needed nuance to Ovid’s tropes of violence and change, demonstrating to a new generation of readers how our identities are always in flux, while reminding us all of the Metamorphoses’ enduring relevance.” —Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale"A graceful and fluid and deeply meaningful translation. Compared to the other translations of the Metamorphoses on which I’ve relied in the past, it’s as though this is of an entirely different book. The reader follows the lines with genuine emotion. And so do worlds open up—" —Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University "Stephanie McCarter’s translation offers an attractive alternative to the finest versions to appear in recent decades, while the abundance of her introductory and explanatory material gives her work a clear advantage over those predecessors. As a vehicle for serious engagement with Ovid’s poem in English, McCarter has no rival." – Richard Tarrant, Harvard University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Faber & Faber Logue C War Music
Book SynopsisFor the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer''s Iliad. The volumes that appeared from War Music (1981) onwards were distinct from translations, in that they set out to be a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer''s tale of warfare, human folly and the power of the gods, in a language and style of verse that were emphatically modern. As each instalment, from Kings to Cold Calls, was published, it became clear that this was to be Logue''s masterpiece.Sadly, illness prevented him from finishing it. Enough, however, of his projected final volume, Big Men Falling a Long Way, survives in notebook drafts to give a clear sense of its shape, as well as some of its dramatic high points. These have been gathered into an appendix by Logue''s friend and one-time editor, Chris
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Faber & Faber Snow Approaching on the Hudson
Book SynopsisAugust Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has lived. Snow Approaching On The Hudson is a collection of poetry that moves back and forth across the country and abroad, and through the realm of dreams, past and present, and inner and outer landscapes. The haunting, shifting atmosphere Kleinzahler creates is peopled by characters intimate, historical and imaginary.Kleinzahler''s signature rhythmic propulsion serves as the engine for his newest collection, and his always-masterful free verse conveys a life thoroughly lived and brilliantly perceived.
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Faber & Faber New Selected Poems
Book SynopsisAn overview of Frederick Seidel''s best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craft.This collection provides readers with a perpetually exciting, compact edition of the revolutionary poet's most powerful work. Frederick Seidel has been hailed as ''the poet of a new contemporary form'' (New York Review of Books), and ''the most frightening American poet ever'' (Boston Review). His ambitious, disturbing and tender work has mystified and captured critics, poets and readers for decades. New Selected Poems allows readers to appreciate the scope of Seidel's work over the past half-century and his uncanny ability to say the unsayable. Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, ''the best American poet writing today''.Trade Review"I'm opting for Frederick Seidel's Peaches Goes It Alone [as New Statesman Book of the Year], with its gerontian lucidity and juvenile senility, its outrageousness, inventiveness and radical indifference to the idea of causing offence." - Geoff Dyer, New Statesman Books of the Year'The divisive bad-good poet, whose terrible-beautiful rhymes and offensive-tender sentiments will have you levitating one minute and on the floor with horror the next. I don't smile often in these strange and anxious times, except when I read any poem by Seidel.' - Kathryn Maris, New Statesman Books of the Year
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Always Crashing Always Crashing Issue Two 2
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Chaotically Beautiful
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Random House USA Inc Plantains and Our Becoming
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Random House USA Inc Tanya
Book SynopsisThe award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers, as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda Shaughnessy dwells in memories of the women who set her on her artistic path. In the title poem, she explores the eternal quality of an intense touchstone relationship with Tanya, about whom she writes, Everyone's not you to me . . . Worth loving once, why not now? We all have our own Tanya, and in this book we meet friends, mentors, sisters, lovers, who inhabit a verse classroom where Shaughnessy's passion for literature—forged in her own formative studies, as in the poem Coursework—is our teacher. In flowing stair-step tercets, Shaughnessy leads us down int
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Weave Magic Into Your Life
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Harvard University Press Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams
Book SynopsisThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.
£23.70
Simon & Schuster Fireflies at Midnight
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£14.99
Princeton University Press The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
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Alma Books Ltd Hometown and Other Poems
Book SynopsisThirty years in the making, Hometown' was left unpublished at the death of its author, who regarded it as his most important work. Published here for the first time, alongside the rest of his poetry, including some uncollected pieces, this poem will restore Lyman Andrews's place among the great American poets of the twentieth century.
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Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd Journey With Me
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Andrews UK Limited Which Planet Did You Say I Was On Again
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Octopus Publishing Group WOMXN Sticks and Stones
Book SynopsisSticks and stones may break your bones, but words need never hurt you. A tool for transformation and resilience for womxnSticks and Stones is a powerful reclamation of the slurs and insults thrown at womxn for centuries. It's a righting of wrongs - a rewriting of sexist, belittling and shaming language. It's a tool for breaking free from the stereotypes and impossible standards used to confine womxn, transforming them into messages of resilience and resolve. And, most importantly, it's a rallying call for change, healing and empowerment.No matter your race, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, this book is for all womxn everywhere. It takes the words, slurs, insults and labels that are used to diminish womxn every day and breaks them down and tears them apart. It transmutes and rewrites these words - sometimes with all of the pain they trigger, sometimes in the form of positive affirmations, mantras and poems - all told in acrost
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Imagine a Nation
Book SynopsisHamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of over 25 books and focuses on the social and intellectual history of Iran and Islam, both classical and contemporary. Among his most recent books are Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (2019), The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021), and An Iranian Childhood: Rethinking History and Memory (2023). He is a prominent commentator on global affairs, writing regularly for Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and other news outlets.
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AuthorHouse The Plight of a Feather Recovery in Rhyme
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Taylor & Francis Japanese Women Poets An Anthology An Anthology
Book SynopsisThroughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse. The poems describe not just seasonal changes and the vagaries of love - which form the thematic core of traditional Japanese poetry - but also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.Sections of poetry open with headnotes, and the editor has provided explanations of terms and references for those unfamiliar with the Japanese language. Other useful tools include a glossary of poetic terms, a chronology, and a bibliography that points the reader toward other works by and about these poets. There is no comparable collection available in English.Students and anyone who appreciates poetry and Japanese culture will treasure this magnificent anthology. Editor and translator Hiroaki Sato is a past winner of the PEN America translator prize and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission's 1999 literary translation award.Table of ContentsTwelve Months, Introduction, Ancient Songs, Songs from the Kojiki, Songs from the Nihon Shoki, Poems from the Man’y÷osh÷u, The Age of Haikai and Kanshi, Interludes, The Modern Age, Japanese Verse Forms and Poetic Terms
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Each One a Furnace
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Iter Press The Poems and Letters of Tullia dAragona and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hairston has constructed a full personal, cultural and literary biography for d’Aragona, using newly discovered letters, archival material of other kinds, and contemporary theory about gender in women’s writing. Footnotes establish the intricacy of Tullia’s intellectual networks and her courting of intellectuals in rhyme. Hairston includes poems written to d’Aragona, including Girolamo Muzio’s long pastoral, Tirrhenia. She addresses with tact the question of how sexual Tullia’s relationships were with her various interlocutors. At times, as she says, one just can’t know, but that the issue is much less important than the poems themselves. I agree wholeheartedly. This is the editor Tullia has been waiting for: an indefatigable researcher, a creative biographer, and a precise and appreciative literary critic." * Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Editorial Norms and Note on Translation 55Abbreviations 59Poems by Signora Tullia di Aragona and by Others to Her (1547) 61Miscellaneous Poems by Tullia d’Aragona and Exchanges with Her 253Letters 287Index of First Lines in Italian 307Structure of the Poems 315Bibliography 319Index 345
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Beacon Press The Kural
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LSU Press The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
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Louisiana State University Press Sentence
Book SynopsisIn The Sentence, Morri Creech interrogates our daily lives and experiences to examine the anxieties and despair that often attend our awareness of mortality. Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, he takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.Trade ReviewAll poets start out as artists, a blessed few eventually become craftspeople, too. Morri Creech is a craftsperson as well as an artist, and the poems in The Sentence are uncommonly well-made things." - Shane McCrae"The Sentence is a book of reflections, refractions, raveling, and ramifications with breathtaking branchings of syntax, sonic permutations, and Frostian forks foreclosing other lives." - Dora Malech"Somehow, remarkably, this collection seems both more impersonal and more personal than Creech's earlier work, more wide-ranging in its expression of common experience yet even more deeply felt, sentence by artful sentence." - Joseph Harrison"The Sentence is Creech's best book to date, its feats of imagination his most sweeping and its reckonings his most clear-eyed." - David Yezzi
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Black Mountain Poems
Book SynopsisAn essential selection of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements
£12.34
The University Press of Kentucky Gay Poems for Red States
Book SynopsisThis poetry collection offers insight into life in Appalachia and hope for the members of the LGBTQ+ community that live there.Table of ContentsPreface Minnie Mouse Toy Supermodel (You Better Work) Goodbye First Crush Clean Room Found Kitten Biscuit Girl Self-Hating Preacher Creek Cornmeal and Water Pancakes Neckbones Embarrassing Thank You, Jerry Springer Library Hard to Take Seriously Clubhouse Character Food Stamp Holiday Song Waiting for God Gay Road Home Salt-Free Funeral Power of Ain't Josh A Guy Named Casey Who I Had Never Met I'm Sorry, Chris The Space Under the Pews Mountain Learning Charisma Scientist Promise Ramen Noodles Bluegrass Moon Trombone Cogitating Builder Someday Child Reassurance Family Dollar Orange Drink Product and Beef Jerky Take a Seat The Truth will Stand Acknowledgements
£25.65
University Press of Kentucky Feeding the Ghosts
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Ohio State University Press Scripting the Nation
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£90.20
Wesleyan University Press Dybbuk Americana
Book SynopsisInventive poetry explores Jewish identity in America/>/>How can I teach a prayer / I only know how to recite? America, whose death / didn't you come from? These are some of the questions that poet Joshua Gottlieb-Miller wrestles with in his beautiful, gripping new collection. By turns experimental and documentary, Dybbuk Americana draws out the questions around Jewish identity in the United States, and what it means to pass on Jewish identity to one's child. This hybrid text draws on art, mysticism, and history, taking the dybbuk, a figure from Jewish folklore, as its central metaphor. A dybbuk is a restless spirit who inhabits another's body, and as a possessing spirit the dybbuk is often treated as a demonic force, but it can be read as merely trying to climb the ladder of the afterlife. In other words, a kind of striver. Enacting the idea of competing selves in one body, Dybbuk Americana plays with form via a series of text boxes that create a multi-channel effect on the page. The b
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Wesleyan University Press Soon and Wholly
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Wesleyan University Press The Father of the Predicaments Wesleyan Poetry
Book SynopsisWhether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Querida
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
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University of Pittsburgh Press 2000 Blacks
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
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University of Pittsburgh Press Pink Lady
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Sweating Sickness
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Volcano and After
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University of Pittsburgh Press Steeplechase
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University of Hawai'i Press Indigenous Pacific Islander EcoLiteratures
Book SynopsisIn this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Paper Collage
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The passionate mixture of assertion and negation in the prose pieces resonates.” * On the Seawall *“Do we still have room in our lives for a livre de chevet, the kind of book we keep on our nightstands and dip into at random, when we are more likely to get all the bon mots we need from Twitter? Perros’s Paper Collage comes to us as a relic from an earlier era of reading. . . . An aphorist is a gambler; he turns out as many as he can in the hope that one in a hundred will ring true. . . . Perros is at his best when he’s creating wonderfully weird little machines for thought. He also has a sensitive spot for the hard work and isolation of writing. . . . This new volume should contribute to building his reputation abroad, not least because of its quaint, nearly unmarketable format. Tout mieux.” * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction From Paper Collage 1 From Paper Collage 2 From Paper Collage 3 From So to Speak The Magic Slate Notes
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Seagull Books London Ltd Come Take a Gentle Stab
Book SynopsisIntroduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry.Trade Review"Barakat's exceedingly resistant and exhilaratingly strange verse--paradoxically written by someone who seems absolutely rooted to the depths of the earth while yet able to see humanity as if through the mind of some other being, perhaps language itself--is finally available to English readers. One can only hope that Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen's resounding translation summons greater interest in the work of this astonishing modern master."--Ammiel Alcalay, poet, scholar, critic, and translatorTable of ContentsEvery Insider Shall Hail Me and Every Outsider Too (1973) Dinoka Breva, Come, Take a Gentle Stab (excerpt) Union of Lineages Pike (1980) Dylana and Diram (excerpt) With the Same Traps, with the Foxes that Ride the Winds (1982) Fog Composed like a Gentleman Revenge The Recklessness of Sapphire (1996) Ledgers of Plunder (excerpt) Digression in an Abridged Context Confrontations, Pacts, Troughs, and Others … (1997) Plastics (excerpt) Ran’s Farm From Syria (2015) From All the Doors (2017) Lineages of Animal (2019) Dog Turtle Flea Fish Homo Erectus
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OUP Oxford The Minor Poems of William Lauder
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Iliad
Book SynopsisGripping. . . . Lombardo''s achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer''s dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"It is hard to overstate the attractions of this translation. In a rhythm sinewy and flexible, with language that is precise, lyrical and fresh, Lombardo's Iliad pulses with all the power and luminosity of the Greek. He shows extraordinary sensitivity to the images and aural effects of the ancient poem. There are brilliant touches on every page. . . . Altogether this is as good as Homer gets in English." —Richard P. Martin, Princeton University"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. [Lombardo's] taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters." —Richard Janko, University College, London"Lombardo's Iliad should be required for every History of Civilization class in America!" —David R. Wilson, Brigham Young University"[R]emarkably true to the centrality of performance in Homer, the varied pacing and tone, the clarity, speed, narrative drive, and moments of breathtaking beauty." —Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University"Homer has been well served in recent years by good translators. But this reviewer predicts that the dominant translation for the 21st century will be this masterful version by Stanley Lombardo. . . . In her extremely useful Introduction, Murnaghan lucidly summarizes and makes available for the student and general reader the results of complex scholarship on Homer, and she offers sensitive guidance for reading the Iliad as a work that documents the triumph of the human spirit and not merely as a war poem." —Leon Golden, CHOICE"Accessible as Lombardo's translation is, it is rendered even more so by the superb Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan, which provides a rich but lucid discussion of the classical context of the epic. This handsome, superbly done Iliad will be enjoyed by everyone. Highly recommended." —T. F. Merrill, Library Journal
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Faerie Queene Book Two
Book SynopsisPart of a series of Spenser's great work, this title includes a general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters. It also contains Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser.Trade ReviewTeachers of Spenser will also welcome two more installments of the Hackett editions of separate books of The Faerie Queene under the general editorship of Abraham Stoll, this time on books 2 and on books 3 and 4. In my view, these are the most attractive, inexpensive, but also comprehensive editions to date, with far better (and easy to read) notes on mythology and name symbolism (matters increasingly foreign to our undergraduates) than almost all previous versions. --Catherine Gimelli Martin, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900In his introduction, Erik Gray offers a tidy preface to book 2 of The Faerie Queene, providing a brief but provocative discussion of some of Spenser's sources and poetic models. In his introductory subsections, Gray's analysis begins with more basic material and becomes progressively complex in sequential paragraphs, offering compelling points of departure for further study by readers at all levels. In addition, Gray offers a list of some later writers influenced by Spenser's writing, situating Spenser in the broader literary canon and defining some preliminary connections for students for many literary fields. To encourage the reader's further inquiry, Gray highlights a particularly troubling passage from book 2, offering various critical perspectives on the portrayal of Temperance therein, and grounding further interpretation. --Rachel E. Frier, Sixteenth Century Journal
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City Lights Books The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
Book SynopsisTrade Review“the delicacy of embracing spirals treats the page as a cinematic space; lines dance down and across the page with beautiful abandon–the poems transition into each other hypnotically, loose delineations between where each work begins and ends that suits the flow and tone so well."—Summer Farah, The Millions"The anthology catapults audiences head-on into a harrowing yet beautifully vivifying narrative detailing Tempestt’s personal experiences as a Black, queer femme — alongside sociopolitical commentary that is visceral and macrocosmic.”—Allison Yager, The Daily Californian"tempestt is a self-proclaimed 'daughter of California,' and her collection begins by gazing inward, before moving seamlessly into questions of queerness and Blackness that drive a searing social and political critique."—Alta Magazine "This dynamic collection is a vivid exploration of identity, creative expression, heartbreak, sex, and the sociopolitical experience of Black queerness."—Allison Escoto, Booklist *Starred Review "Intelligent, raw and radically honest, tempestt's poetry is above all intimately human."—Laura Moreno, Bay Area Reporter“Artist mimi tempestt delivered a show-stopper of a slam piece, the title poem from the delicacy of embracing spirals (City Lights, Oct), one of PW’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for fall. tempestt performed the piece from memory: ‘It’s in my bones now,’ she said of the poem.”—Nathalie op de Beeck, Publishers Weekly, on the CALIBA fall conference"To encounter the words of mimi tempestt on the page, or in performance, is to witness the rare transcendency of language where the line becomes an exacting blade."—Truong Tran, author of book of the other"mimi has honed her super power as a dynamic writer who is able to swiftly insert oneself into her art in a rhythmically unique and immortal kinda way. A way that makes you see her, yourself and the placement of the universe as we’ve known it to be. the delicacy of embracing spirals is an astonishing creation that will be to the times what Lorraine Hansberry’s Young, Gifted and Black was in the 70’s and beyond. This work of art spirals from the page to the stage. From the personal (innerspace) to the universal (outerspace). mimi tempestt is truly out of this world! "—Leelee Jackson, playwright, author of Comb Your Hair (Or You'll Look Like a Slave)“the delicacy of embracing spirals (re)tracks mimi tempestt making a bloody break north: out the ravenous L.A. grotesquerie Mama Wanda warned us about over and again. And like the late Mz. Coleman, this poet has it down pat that grit teeth sometimes mean to be shivs as much as grimace and that a grimace may as well be a smile under misogynoir’s butchering ogle. Recognize, as tempestt does, that what distinguishes a casting call from a cattle call is how long the gaze fixes on you and whether the credits say your name. For tempestt, whose “body armor is a pound of sweat,” the role has been to be gored again again again again, dying fiercely in scenes of such drylongso vérité you might mistake them for surreal. In this way, she carries Coleman and Kaufman with her to make a poetry I found too livid to be abject and too vivid to forget. Even as the theater’s lights go up: tempestt, tempestt, tempestt.”—Douglas Kearney, author of Sho"the delicacy of embracing spirals is a ritual assemblage of flower-bearing armed spirits beautifully bleeding, brutally hewn self overstandings onto pages that can barely contain the divinity of the dance that tumbles forth between its pages. reading this book will make you better at loving yourself."—Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, First Poet Laureate of Oakland, author of Sorrowland OraclePraise for mimi tempestt's the monumental misrememberings "I love this book, and I think I won't be able to do it justice by speaking about it because it's experimental. . . . The book is a tool for understanding America from an intersection I do not exist at and how living, if unchecked, could contribute to the harms that meet people like Black fem folks, Black queer folks, and Black trans folks at those intersections. It's a book I'm drawn to practically, but also just aesthetically, because it is stunning."—Hanif Abdurraqib, in his "8 Favorite Things He Can't Live Without" in New York Magazine's "The Strategist"
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University of Iowa Press Worth
Book SynopsisRobyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary Pickford to Marilyn Monroe.
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Anthroposophic Press Inc In the Light of a Child
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