Poetry / Poems

Book SynopsisA meditation on the mystery of what happens at the moment it happens.Trade Review"These tiny quatrains are compressed meditations that expand in the mind to reveal glimpse after glimpse of a cosmic vision in which what happens in the world of animals resonates in the human world and in the realm of the divine. They have a kinship with cultural paradigms that reach back to a time before written language. Like the poems of Emily Dickinson and the songs of William Blake, their surprising energy is not the result of simple aggregation, but resides in and releases from the fact that the whole of Blodgett's poetic universe is present in each of its parts." George Amabile"E.D. Blodgett's An Ark of Koans is a series of deeply meditative, zoological-themed quatrains by a typically sublime Edmonton-based, Governor General's Award-winning poet. The perfect chunks of verse in this book are almost holographic in nature, each snippet embodying its own complete poetic universe, plumbing philosophical depths without ever losing sight of everyday vernacular comfort....You can't ask for better bedside reading." Gilbert A. Bouchard, The Edmonton Journal"Energetic, wonderfully presented, and celebrating natural and animal life, these moving verses offer reflections to quietly ponder at leisure." - Wisconsin Bookwatch"Governor-General's-Award winner E.D. Blodgett presents an excellent new volume, An Ark of Koans. Montreal illustrator Jacques Brault (a poet himself) accompanies the poems with a series of whimsical watercolours that recede as watermarks on the page (a curling fish, a slumping frog, and two insects are particularly notable). The book comprises a series of quatrains on animals, all admitted to the ark of a riddling mind, where they are preserved, one would like to think, from a flood of human indifference. This is by no means a book of environmental protest, but a poetry of identification, of imaginative engagement with the creaturely domain, the meditative word that incarnates and preserves....Blodgett's moving poems build a second ark of sorts, minute riddlings in a fallen rational world that bring love and wonderment to the cause." University of Toronto Quarterly, Vo. 74, No. 1, Winter 2004/5" The thematic furniture is outsize-but they are handled so lightly and dreamily that the poems seem like so many snow-globes with their two or three primary elements falling in a soft flurry of words..These paragraphs offer a master-class on the use of repetition, or in other words, on how to walk elegantly in long dress without having to gather up the train of your own utterances and without once tripping. As the last line tells it, these poems turn continually upon themselves, which is what makes them mesmerizing." Jeffery Davidson, Volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2006."The poems in An Ark of Koans can be read simply for the beautiful images of the natural world or, on a deeper level, as a search for universal truths made visible through the natural world. Each four-line poem paints a picture with depth and beauty, quietly conveying far more than a simple description of the creature." Susan McKnight, Candian Book Review Annual, 2004

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire..Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire." Douglas Barbour, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2005."I reviewed E.D. Blodgett's An Arc of Koans last year, and have decided that it must speak well of Blodgett's versatility that the poems included in open the grass (both are part of his apostrophes series), are so different in manner. Picture broad, page-wide paragraphs (in a square-format book) threaded with long, sinewy, wistful sentences. The former volume was made up of diminutive riddle poems, evoking impressions more in what they do not say than in what they make explicit. These poems work just as interestingly from the other direction, from the side of prolix extension and operatic accumulation. The thematic furniture is outsize - stars, sky, trees, moon, sea, silence, and of course fields and fields of grass - but they are handled so lightly and dreamily that the poems seem like so many snowglobes with their two or three primary elements falling in a soft flurry of words." Jeffery Donaldson, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 75, No.1, Winter 2006

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Book SynopsisA lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography compose the landscapes of remembrance.Trade Review"[Readers] will find it easy to immerse themselves in the meditation that is Elegy. Nineteen black and white landscape photographs by Yukiko Onley ("portraits of nature," according to Blodgett) further illuminate the poems and ensure the book will remain open in readers' hands long after they have finished reading." Mark Wells, The St. Albert Gazette, August 31, 2005"The resulting book-weaving long poem and photographs-is a beautiful, vibrant exploration of loss and growing understanding...For her part, Onley's photographs often have the diffused haunting qualities of her husband's watercolours." Chris Wiebe, VUE Weekly, October 13-19, 2005"Elegy is a unique collaboration of the poetry of E.D. Blodgett and the black and white photography of Yukiko Onley, to create a wistful remembrance of loss, death, and transition. The gentle, reflective poetry quietly muses about the unknown, while the still images of natural beauty evoke a picturesque mood that complements the verses perfectly. Elegy is not subdivided into separate poems per se; it is rather one long poem of memory, wonder, longing, and healing." The Wisconsin Bookwatch, February, 2006."...Blodgett has crafted Elegy with a compassionate and meditative hand....[T]his is a shared lament, a prayerful journey through loss." Eric Barstad, poetryreviews.ca, February 16, 2006."I am increasingly impressed with how versatile E.D. Blodgett can be. In last year's review I spoke of how different were his 'broad, page-wide paragraphs (in a square-format book) threaded with long, sinewy, wistful sentences' in apostrophes (2004) from the diminutive riddle pieces of 2003. Now we have something in between, not the prolix revolvings of last year's volume or the sly encryptions of the one before. Elegy is the title and subject of this year's crop..I had the sense with this book, as I often do with Blodgett's work, of a raffle-ticket barrel being turned and turned, the same words falling over one another in myriad arrangements.and the poet going in deep each time and coming up with a poem. I found the accompanying photographs quite suggestive, if a little on the sentimental side (nudging this volume in the direction of the coffee-table book), but a nice account of the project's genesis concludes the book." University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1, Winter 2007"In Elegy, E.D. Blodgett does not focus on specific landscapes; rather, he draws his inspiration from a more abstract, elemental landscape of rain, sea, rivers, earth and trees. Blodgett's is a landscape of memory and grief, physical surroundings appropriated to make a sense of loss and cling to remembrance." – Laura Knowles, Oxford Brookes University, British Journal of Canadian Studies, 19.2Table of ContentsA Bend in the River to 1700; The Meeting Place 1700 to 1869; The Manitou Stone 1870 to 1891; Newcomers 1892 to 1913; The Emerging City 1914 to 1946; The New City 1947 to 2004; Index.

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Book SynopsisParis remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas as social history and personal memoir. The result is a wide-ranging discussion of the city''s history in 20th century literature and thought, which will appeal to all those who love Paris, or who have ever walked on its streets.Trade Review#4 on the Edmonton Journal "Edmonton Top 10" Bestseller list"Stephen Scobie is a prolific poet and literary critic, the author of 23 books, the founding publisher of Longspoon Press, a retired University of Alberta English professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In his latest work, Scobie takes the measure of Paris through personal journal entries, poetry, literary theory and criticism as well as through architectural and cultural history. It is the act of moving through the city on foot, however, that ties these disparate approaches together.. The Measure of Paris is also autobiography; it is an expression of personal fascination by a lifelong intellectual. When walking Paris with Scobie, the reader is alternatively dazed by a surfeit of the unfamiliar and exhilarated by the thrill of discovery." Doug Horner, Alberta Views"Measure of Paris by Stephen Scobie is a travelogue, memoir, literary criticism and poetic look at Paris.... Scobie is the ultimate flâneur and his philosophical meanderings through Paris takes readers to sites of art, architecture and transit. His history of the city planning, and the itineraries of Canadian writers in Paris, makes for interesting reading and a different look at a city that is larger than life. His personal musings were my favourite, along with the insights into Haussman¹s influence and transformation of Paris through the large-scale construction of the streets and boulevards that make the Paris we know today." September 26, 2010 [http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/book-review-measure-of-paris-by-stephen-s cobie/"...Scobie weaves together a book that is part straightforward academic criticism, part anecdotal history and part autobiography." Michael Brown, http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2010/08/Authorlooksbackat theEnglishdepartmentsrisetoprominence.aspx#7 on the Edmonton Top 10 Non-Fiction List (Edmonton Journal), Aug 15/10"As Alain De Botton does in The Art of Travel (2002), Scobie offers a personal, evocative meditation on the meaning of place. For him, the place is Paris, a city that has inspired a multitude of literary responses. This one--which is illustrated with romantic, painterly photographs by Eugene Atget (1857-1927)--is especially notable: with a poet's sensibility and eloquence, the author combines literary criticism, cultural history, poetry, and memoir to create a work that is astonishingly fresh and engaging... Most fascinating is Scobie's evocation of the 'ethos of Paris topography' through an architectural and historical tour of the city's streets; and most elegant and moving is his remembrance of his last visit to Paris, when, grieving over the death of his wife, he revives his love for a city that embraces him. A fine example of travel writing. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." L. Simon, Choice, December 2010"Scobie's interest has turned to love and part of the intent of The Measure of Paris is to express this love by examining the many ways in which Paris can be "measured": that is, experienced, understood, viewed, appreciated, and fondly collected in memory and art - in short, the way a lover recalls his mistress. Scobie's approach is multidimensional and he appreciates that ultimately Paris is unattainable. To paraphrase the British writer John Berger, Paris is an older woman loved by a young man, and in this case it is Scobie who is the young man. It is also a book about seeing (after all, are not one's feelings about the beloved based on how she appears?) the city through the eyes of past and contemporary writers as well as through the very personal eye/I of Scobie near the end of the book. The book thus is layered, or works like a mosaic with a series of sharp, well-defined but varied tiles, allowing for a complete picture only when the viewer pulls back." Carmelo Militano, Prairie Fire, April 2011 [Full review found at http://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/prairie_fire/article/view/137/128]"'We'll always have Paris.' Bogart's immortal farewell in Casablanca could also serve as a fitting conclusion to Stephen Scobie's recent book The Measure of Paris. Here, he explores the iconic city as not only a place but an inexhaustible, mutable idea that shapes and is in turn shaped by those drawn to walk its streets. Paris, Scobie claims, is a city that "never ends.' ... Scobie is clearly a man of keen and dynamic mind. But this book also shows us a man in love-in love with his subject, with literature, and with the personal Parisian experiences he shared with his wife, whose memory and influence are touchingly honoured in the book's later chapters.... What emerges clearly from Scobie's book is that Paris is indeed a city of dreams-a locus of memory, inspiration, and creativity that is continually dreamed into fresh myth and meaning by new visitors who are themselves subtly changed forever. As Scobie says, in an echo of Bogart, 'There are many farewells to Paris, and none of them is ever final.'" Amy Reiswig, The Malahat Review, May 2011 [Full review at http://www.malahatreview.ca/issues/174reviews_reiswig.html]"Stephen Scobie is a well known figure in Canadian literary circles and his book The Measure of Paris is clearly from the hand of a poet and critic. In fact, it sometimes breaks into verse. It is the work of a geographical outsider who has come to know the place deeply over the years, and who is generous with his wide reading and shrewd personal observation." George Fetherling, Diplomat and International Canada, Spring 2011"Bringing all the elements together under one Parisian banner, Scobie shares his enthusiasm and knowledge of this great city by creating a diverse text and organizing it into six parts. Blending historical exploration with memoir, poetry, and assorted 'travel guide bits'..." Linda Alberta, Prarie Books Now"This cover is elegant and understated, as befits the subject matter, yet still rich and eye-catching; indeed, it grabs one immediately, and makes a lasting impression. The tone and content of the photo convey the subject matter perfectly, and the design itself is marked by a well-resolved, elegant integration of type and image. The typeface is strong and appropriate, the subtle graphic element added to the cover enriches it, and the overall composition is beautifully handled." Winner of Book Cover / Jacket Design, 2011 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Jury"Because Scobie knows those literary parts of Paris inside out and generously provides details along the way, he is able to vividly recreate the writers' routes and lives, thus adding his own contribution, indeed, to the literature inspired by the city of his dreams." Christine Lorre-Johnston, Canadian Literature"The book, as the note on the back cover says, is a mixture of history, criticism, poetry, and memoir.... This strange mix of materials is beautifully and intelligently executed.... Scobie's book revealed to me a set of ideas that have been out there for a long time-the connection between walking and creativity, but more important for me, I learned that the practicing street photographer is an art-making flâneur.... Anyone interested in Paris or literature associated with Paris will find The Measure of Paris enjoyable and useful, but for me reading it was the beginning of an ongoing revelation." Larry E. Fink, May 18, 2014 [Full post at http://finkstreetphotography.com/?p=200]

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Book SynopsisListen to the voices of the muses in a Scottish-Canadian daughter's homage to her parents.Trade Review"Ready your Kleenex. Edmonton's former poet laureate, Alice Major, delivers tears in torrents in her homage to her parents and ill sister. Avoiding over-sentimentality, Major relies on history, brutal facts, Greek myth and biblical metaphors in a perfect homage." Telegraph-Journal, February 27, 2010"Alice is a prodigious poet, whose Office Tower Tales (the 2009 winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award) rivaled Chaucer's 'frame story' in the Canterbury Tales;.She sustains a classical context in this new collection." Anne Burke, Prairie Review, Spring 2010#7 on the Edmonton Journal 'Edmonton Top 10' bestseller list#3 on the Edmonton Journal "Edmonton Top 10" Bestseller list"Memory's Daughter, by Alice Major, moves beyond the harrowing experience of infirm parents and final illnesses, to a celebration of two remarkable people. Wielding meticulous research and a keen sense of place, Alice Major recreates the industrial world of Clydeside, the wartime Glasgow of her parents' heritage. With glosas, ballads, sonnets, and lullabies, she tells of clocks and photographs, love and politics, of birds and butterflies, factories and alchemy. Memory's Daughter contains some of the finest formal poetry of the past decade, but handled gently, unobtrusively, helping pure memory to glow just as a gas mantle's structure helps the old fashioned gaslight illuminate a cobbled street." Pat Lowther Memorial Prize jurors, April 2011"Elegiac and tender without sentimentality, Major's poems pay homage to her parents, and especially her father, as he dwindled into dementia and eventually death. Although personal, the pieces in Memory's Daughter are made richer by their infusion of myths such as that of Eve & Penelope, as well as through their delving into the early technologies of clocks, ships, gas lights and iron works. Embracing scientific diction, forms like the glosa and the adapted ghazal, refusing to shirk the difficult in either emotion or craft, Major's collection is a consistently strong distilling of the world into poetry's invaluable metals." "A remarkable book in its poetic craftsmanship, Memory's Daughter rewards the reader anew with each reading. Major's moving poetic exploration of family and memory on both emotional and lyrical levels reveal a mature poet taking her craft to a new level into various poetic forms and structures and bringing everything together with an apparent ease that comes only from the most skilful of poets." Winner of the WGA's Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, 2011 Alberta Literary Awards jury comments."Arranged in six parts, Alice Major's Memory's Daughter enhances the long-poem tradition by adapting biblical and Greco-Roman myth to depict metamorphosis through life's seasons.... The Muse of Poetry, Mnemosyne's daughter, grants Major dominion over microcosm, macrocosm, and time itself, a 'pinprick hole in the sky,' illuminating memory... The fourth suite, 'Time is How,' is a remarkable linguistic tour de force, radiant in self-referential language, exploring signifying limits and polysemous freedoms." Karl Jirgens, Canadian Literature, Winter 2010 [See full review at http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=15222]"Award-winning Canadian poet, Alice Major, has been recognised for the way in which her writing evokes the universal character and concerns of human nature that connect us with those who came before and those who will come after. Major's latest collection of poems, Memory's Daughter, is no exception. This collection meshes the past with the present, drawing together the sacred and the secular while elevating the daily struggles and tragedies of quotidian experience to mythical heights.... Major's collection remains a lyrical and moving tribute to the power of our stories and memories, which shape us even as we imagine we are shaping them. Sharon Selby, University of Edinburgh, British Journal of Canadian Studies, 24.1

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Book SynopsisAward-winning poet exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity.Trade Review"I warmed up to these characters easily, even Hades, and was soon caught up in the narratives, in their sometimes wicked humour, in their sad and surprising turns. Many poems have a kind of double-edged voluptuousness. Demeter Goes Skydiving handles its old material in a new way, the modern terminology adding zing to the classical allusions." David Zieroth, Governor General's Award winner for The Fly in Autumn"How well this story fits our time, while keeping its numinousness. So many phrases and lines I love and say Amen. 'The Muse is the parts of yourself thrown overboard'-ah yes! Goddess bless McCaslin for this tough, sharp and strong work!" Alicia Ostriker, author of the volcano sequence"What an exhilarating romp through Greek mythology and the modern underworld in language both elegant and original! Demeter Goes Skydiving is a contemporary tour de force taking on disenchantment, the pillage and rape of Gaia, patriarchy and its toxic effects, warmongering, and consumerism. This mini-epic reveals how women are wrenched out of spiritual and physical shape by the demands of the culture and ripped apart like Orpheus. It addresses the commoditization of women (and in a larger sense everyone) in our society and the need for a healthy conversation between the two hemispheres of the brain with a view to wholeness and balance-in short, the oneness of heaven, earth, and underworld. This collection is a dramaturgy like a Greek play, with speaking parts, choruses, and music. Individual poems soar, but it is best appreciated as a whole, a jewel with many facets." James Clarke, poet, memoirist, and retired Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario"'Allergens' was the word that threw me violently into a contemporary voice. I was holding on. And it kept me. Big leaps from poem to poem, covering huge territories. These poems are political and lyrical in a way that feels utterly natural." Kate Braid, poet and memoirist"Demeter Goes Skydiving uses the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to reflect the underlying theme of struggles between mother and daughter. McCaslin relates this myth to Homer's Odyssey and describes the story of Demeter and Persephone as an epic for women. Such a myth is rarely seen in modern works, McCaslin says. In this collection, Mother Demeter must negotiate an alien world of health clubs, paparazzi and 'reality' shows that illustrates a mother's unconditional love for her daughter. Her lyrics have been described as hilarious, sad, surprising and profound.... Not only does McCaslin's work provide insight into mother-daughter relationships but, through her use of the underworld as a backdrop in her work, she's able to reference the capitalist, materialistic world we live in today that encourages and enforces perfectionism. McCaslin's work allows readers to realize how much we are caught up in consumer society." Nicole Freeston, Event Magazine, May 27, 2011 [Full article at http://tinyurl.com/3lomyof/]"In this collection, Demeter is trying to restore the daughters of today. She ranges from watching High Noon and Extreme Makeover in her hotel room, to trying to adopt Britney Spears. She goes skydiving (of course) and does lunch at the Savoy Grill. She wanders the globe, ending up in Iraq and at the foot of the Kokanee Glacier in B.C.... In addition to the Demeter series, this collection contains a second section of poems called Old Love, which also include some mythical references, to Gaia, to Sophia, and of course to the many permutations of love. [The] poems themselves are very beautiful and memorable, and I really loved this piece. They also reflect and incorporate classical references, in a different way than the Demeter poems, but still carrying that resonance. I am so glad to have discovered this poet... The Indextrious Reader, [Full post at http://indextrious.blogspot.com/2011/09/demeter-goes-skydiving.html]""McCaslin transplants the ancient Demeter-Persephone myth into 21st-century culture, adding complications of body image, addiction, and consumerism to the mother-daughter separation trauma. The resulting poems are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating." Prairie Books Now, Summer 2011"The latest collection of poems by Susan McCaslin draws upon many of the themes and motifs that have engaged her for years: love, the North, the generational relations of women, the search for Sophia or wisdom, and mythology in its various iterations. But with "Demeter Goes Skydiving" these themes and motifs achieve a maturity of treatment that marks her as a poet of more than passing interest on the national landscape. She is, with this volume, a poet of consequence, a major poetic voice in the country.. "Demeter Goes Skydiving" is bold stuff for a people desperate for wisdom." Michael W. Higgins, Telegraph Journal, April 7, 2012"In McCaslin's modern version, Demeter's search for her daughter takes her not to the underworld, but to our modern world. It's a world of warped body images, addictions, rampant consumerism, and war." Matthew Claxton, Langley Advance, April 5, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/I99d3m]"It's as if McCaslin has, through the first poems, prepared the reader (and herself) for the second section where the person's experiences can be held in the palm of the goddess Demeter and her daughter. It is as if the mother and daughter in one poem can mirror the goddess and her daughter in another but without this connection being overtly pointed out." Yvonne Blomer, Pacific Rim Review of Books"Demeter Goes Skydiving is the best-produced book of the entries in this award category. The cover and page designs are clean and elegant. The text is well edited and readable. The poems torque a common mythological figure into a smart, well-crafted sequence that thrusts the venerable tradition of the Canadian long poem into the 21st century." Jury comments, Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award, WGA"Demeter Goes Skydiving consists of three sections, and the Demeter myth poems, set in a contemporary first-world culture, take up the first half of the book. The critique of contemporary consumerism threads throughout the Demeter/Persephone poems, as is the criticism of war.. In this retelling, gods are as much a product of their culture as contemporary mortals seem to be; indeed, Demeter Goes Skydiving is almost an allegory.. [H]owever one reads Demeter Goes Skydiving, the Demeter poems will leave you wanting more." Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Oklahoma City University, World Literature Today, July, 2012"[McCaslin] fearlessly takes on our two-bit culture.... The last half of the book unleashes the push and pull of a poet engaged with consequence, and the results gleam with her confidence." Andrew Vaisius, Prairie Fire Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2012)"Truly moving work.... [O]ver half this collection explores the Demeter & Persephone myth. The strongest pieces are those in which the author morphs into Demeter, a persona that enables her to express her rage over society's superficiality, a veneer of diet pills, gyms, fashion magazines, reality shows, plastic surgery and other ways of controlling women by weakening their capacity for self love and esteem. The titular poem and others...swell the myth into contemporary prominence in tight stanzas that perfectly convey the tension of quivering 'at the edge of the abyss' without respite from suffering's knowledge apart from a 'brief and heavy catharsis.'" Catherine Owen, The Relentless Adventures of OCD Crow, July 2013 [Full review at http://bit.ly/138mtxN]

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Book SynopsisSumptuous imagery, commanded by musical lines and understated language, reveals the poet's breathtaking vision.Trade Review"'The best part is the moment (often a long one) before one begins a poem. It is that state that Keats calls "negative capability," and it is a state that simply comes over one and almost dissolves one.' This moment or state leads to a particular sensibility that filters through Blodgett's work. "That the world, no matter how brutal and mindless it is tending to be, is a place of incomparable awe.'" Ariel Gordon, Prairie Books Now, Summer 2011Blodgett's weaving of form and content is rare in contemplative poetics.... Blodgett's rhythms, both formal as in traditional sonnets but also relaxed in their line ends and break-up of rhythm, are delicious to the ear. Such poetry is made to read aloud." BC Bookworld"Each time [the imagery of these interrelated poems is] transformed into an elegantly satisfying visual music that pulls the consciousness of the willing reader into a fresh perception of the connections among mind, language, and the world." Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literatures 214, Autumn 2012

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Book SynopsisTwo seasoned poets pulse jazz-like variations back and forth via email, from Alberta to Arizona.Trade Review"Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy extend their ... refined and joyful collaboration, which begun in November 2000 via email, in Continuations 2. Very evident in this flowing is the sense of delight that each writer must have had in the interchange, which results in a third, distinctive, voice.... Word play is extended over stanzas in a relentless rhythm that captivates and invites a circling back..." Shawna Lemay, Edmonton Journal, April 7, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/HzQUjb]"The lyric voice throughout these tight, six-line stanzas is sustained by a 10-year collaborative process in which the poets have kept their song alive via email, back and forth from Arizona to Alberta." Prairie Books NOW"[Barbour and Murphy] extend their sequence of ongoing collaborations, producing a rare second volume of a contemporary collaboration between two poets.... Part of what makes this ongoing collaboration interesting is in the experience behind both writers, as Douglas Barbour has been publishing trade poetry collections since the early 1970s, and Sheila E. Murphy has been publishing nearly as long as well, and their collaborative efforts would be difficult to compare to much of their already-published individual works, truly creating something that is different in tone, style and voice.. This second volume continues the play of call and response, where Barbour and Murphy meet in the middle." rob mclennan, July 7, 2012 [Full post at bit.ly/N3IHIW]

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Book SynopsisThrough poetry, Jenna Butler pieces together the life of a cherished grandmother lost to Alzheimerâs.Trade Review"[Wells] explores the structure of the prose-poem, and the prairie narrative stretched out as long as a line can follow. Arranged in poem-sections, the poem-fragments hold up as a series of family photographs either blurry or apocryphal, and write the prairie sentence/long line with exquisite grace." rob mclennan's blog, March 19, 2012 [Full posting athttp://bit.ly/FSaEgs]"The poems use a rich, sensual vocabulary of flora & fauna, delineating each separate item of once loved & now lost local life, now retrieved by the poet to make manifest the world the remembered grandmother can no longer say into being.... Wells is a beautifully sad acknowledgement of the losses all must face, made deeply personal & universal through its sharply observed images of a life now gone. It's a fine example of how to take lyric & shake it into something beyond the merely personal." Eclectic Ruckus, March 23, 2012 [Full post at http://bit.ly/IgulkV]"In a fragmented, sensory assemblage, Butler witnesses her grandmother's disappearance into dementia. The loss of language is not tidy. Post-it notes are found in 'arcane places.'... Wells is a beautiful homage to a beloved grandparent, but also a poignant and gently persistent inquiry into peripheral loss. Butler gets at the difficulty of 'seeing our own lives erased' from another's memory, and how that leaves us 'left doubting, in a deep place, the truth of our own existence.'" Shawna Lemay, Edmonton Journal, April 7, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/HzQUjb]Interview with Jenna Butler on CBC"[English-Canadian poet Jenna Butler] speaks on rural life as well as the family life that we all share... Wells is a charming read..." Wisconsin Bookwatch, May 2012"Jenna Butler blurs the boundaries of identity in Wells." Off the Shelf, Geist, Summer 2012"This cover stood out from the others because its design is evocative of a place and feeling and not otherwise illustrative or symbolic." AAUP's Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Jury Comments, 2013The poems in Wells are all written in the second person, and, by addressing the grandmother who eventually will no longer recognize her, Butler creates not an elegy but an intimate dialogue. She not only speaks to her grandmother but also speaks for her, turning fragments of memory and family lore into a winding narrative of Muriel Butler's life, from childhood to old age. - See more at: http://arcpoetry.ca/?p=6913#sthash.GRZcuKzO.dpuf, Jennifer Delisle, Arc Poetry Magazine, July 25, 2013"[Wells] contains atmospheric and beautiful prose-poems about [poet Jenna Butler's] English grandmother. Those who have been to the area around Wells-next-the-Sea will appreciate how well Butler evokes East Anglia with its coastal lands, where 'the North sea speaks carefully around a mouthful of flints,' and its wide skies over the saltmarshes with birds riding the wind - 'a linnet in aerobatic flight, its song pealing like rain'. But even for those who do not know the locality, Butler's poems will surely conjure them as clearly as she portrays the terrifying swarm of hornets in barley fields that few of us could ever have imagined: 'Nothing saved you from those lividly buzzing fields, not wellingtons to the knee, not the mad frenzied dash affected at each humming cataclysm.'" Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, London Grip [Full review at http://bit.ly/1jhcMB0]"Similarly emphasizing the close connections among place, identity, and loss, Jenna Butler's Wells memorializes a grandmother living with Alzheimer's disease by evoking the sounds,smells, and textures of the English village on the North Sea where she has spent her life... Meticulously crafted, the book consists of eight sections of six poems each in which Butler charts the stages of her grandmother's 'vanish[ing]' and shores up the details of her world in long-lined stanzas of varying lengths.... Butler's emphasis on the persistence of her grandmother's embodied identity here is politically important." -- Sara Jamieson * Canadian Literature *

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Book SynopsisPoet Kimmy Beach has succeeded where every Bond villain has failed: to kill 007.Trade Review"Essentially Beach takes away the main thing that's made Bond films international hits for five decades - the vicarious jolt of escapist adventure they provide for our ho-hum lives. So how does Bond cope with this smothering dose of reality?. Readers will have to peruse The Last Temptation of Bond, an imaginative pastiche of poetry, prose and playwriting, to see whether the one-time spy gets his action-packed life back." Lana Michelin, Red Deer Advocate, March 15, 2013"[Kimmy Beach] has a tremendous skill at drawing readers into whatever world she is creating - we see the characters, we hear them and our senses are starkly aware of their surroundings. Readers truly feel close to what's going on. Honestly, there is little that can compare with her boldness as an author and creativity as an artist. Each word feels like it has been carefully chosen, but at the same time the text clips along with a completely natural feel." Mark Weber, Red Deer Express, April 10, 2013"The poet's fifth collection is an exploration of [James Bond's] essence, the alchemical composition of his fictional (and physical) allure. The Last Temptation of Bond, however, is far more than an erotic exploration of a beloved character; it is also an examination of the limits of that character, the points at which Bond might become fractured and undone. Beach explores Bond at his most vulnerable, at moments of self-doubt, loathing, failure, and fear (the same way Scorsese treats Christ in the film alluded to in the collection's title). Beach is no stranger to exploring seductive pop-culture figures in her poetry.... She handles Bond even more intimately, wriggling her fingers into the fault lines of his psyche and gleefully ripping." Natalie Zina Walschots, Quill & Quire [Full review at http://bit.ly/17ndxbx]#2 on the Calgary Herald's Bestsellers list (Fiction) for the week of June 29, 2013"As a publication within U of A Press's Robert Kroetsch poetry series, the book's freedom of movement among genres and voices honours Kroetsch, who would have appreciated both the elevation and the reduction (but not the demise, Bond is eternal) of the cultural hero. The cover (Roberto Conte's angel) is stunning.... From the start, through highly detailed second-person, as well as third-person prose, Beach pulls her readers into the world of Bond and his women.... The power of this book is its confident enjoyment within fictional and imaginative realities.... The book calculatedly engages its readers on an experiential level and demands readers' responses not only to its content but to the ways the content is delivered. Its light touch is always tongue in cheek..." Cornelia Hoogland, The Coastal Spectator, June 29, 2013 [Full review at http://coastalspectator.ca/]"Red Deer's Kimmy Beach offers her best book yet in The Last Temptation of Bond. In something resembling an experimental thriller/romance novel, Beach's long poem satirizes the pop-culture figure of James Bond.. The Last Temptation of Bond is smarter, funnier, sexier and perhaps even more plausible than any Bond film." Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press, July 27, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/1btKwg0]Quill & Quire asked readers to submit their favourite Canadian titles of 2013, and while the results featured a breadth of authors and publishers, some clear winners stood out, such as The Last Temptation of Bond! http://bit.ly/1jpH8Xj"In this book of wonderful poetry on all things Bond, Beach invents a few what-if situations and also a very exciting but mysterious woman she calls One." Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, February 18, 2014 [Full post at http://bit.ly/1cdzQOe]"In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and narrative poetry to astonishing effect in this, her fifth book. Feasting on the tropes, traps, and types of the James Bond mythos and doubling back on the incendiary narrative of Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ, Beach and her cast of loved-and-left Bond Girls dismantle the man and his mysteries. Fans of Beachs tenacious poetry and readers seeking redemption in explosive narrative and fearless wit will love this book." -- Zane Hannan * Facebook *"This is Beach's most mature and sophisticated book yet and one that lends itself to different readings whether as entertainment, a feminist text, or a sophisticated play of intertextuality.... I woke with a smoker's cough and a vicarious hangover after reading these poems." FreeFall, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 -- Bruce Hunter * FreeFall *

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Book SynopsisWith linguistic keenness and rapid-fire shifts, Cooleyâs abecedarium challenges the way we look at language.Trade Review"Writing his way down to basic elements, Cooley writes through the development of language and writing, various ancient histories, books and writers he has read and admired over the years and prairie landscapes, blending them together in an abecedarium that works to explore the very idea of communication: written, spoken and archival. This is Cooley at smart and serious joyful play, pure and simple, bringing the weight of years of reading, listening, research and knowledge to every motion." http://www.robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2014/05/dennis-cooley-abecedarium.html, accessed May 26, 2014# 4 on the Winnipeg Bestsellers list (Paperback Fiction) for the week of June 8, 2014"Winnipeg poet, editor and critic Dennis Cooley’s new poetry collection, abecedarium is an expansive play of puns and train-of-thought sound play constructed through an exploration of a variety of subjects, including the history of the alphabet, references to the works of writers such as Robert Kroetsch, George Bowering and Andrew Suknaski, prairie histories, crows and what the ear hears, and poems that simply appear to propel narratively through and against the sounds of the words themselves.... This is Cooley at smart and serious joyful play, pure and simple, bringing the weight of years of reading, listening, research and knowledge to every motion." -- rob mclennan's"All writers love language--it's a basic job requirement--but few writers adore the alphabet as much as Winnipeg experimental poet Dennis Cooley.... abecedarium is a convincing challenge to the notion that poetry must be 'difficult' or unpleasant to be relevant. Rather, embracing all that is playful and fun about language, Cooley shows that such poetry can be at its most incisive." -- Jay Smith * Alberta Views *"Cooley’s latest collection invites us down to, and then past, the level of alphabet to shred and rebuild meaning from the smallest elements of language. He often does so using humour, sometimes through poetic-historical essays on pivotal moments in the evolution of language and script, and always with a sense of adventure.... In abecedarium, he continues to discuss language in an engaging and exciting way.... He brilliantly conveys and samples these elements—from miniscule, single sounds to sweeping philosophies of language—that together lead to the varied sound and shared meanings that keep language interesting, and that make it work.... To Cooley’s great credit, he adeptly plays to the linguistic elite while still offering something deeply interesting, thought-provoking and even fun to readers less interested in the backstory than the reward." Accessed May 21, 2015 [Full review at http://arcpoetry.ca/?p=8794] -- Anita Dolman * ARC Poetry Magazine *"In recalling its titular genre’s function as exercise book and devotional text, abecedarium at once invokes conceptual writing and remains anchored in the prairie language poetry tradition in which Cooley has been at home for decades." Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015) [Full review at: https://canlit.ca/article/questionable-concepts/] -- Carl Watts * Literature 226 *

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Book SynopsisStephen Scobie reflects on the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard with poems for 44 Godard films.Trade Review"Stephen Scobie's newest collection is a chronological, poetic study of the films of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. And like the work of the man about whom Scobie writes, the book is pleasingly esoteric and sharply focused.... this book studies and examines Godard in a sharp and thrilling way, and Scobie invites his reader to further explore the world of the great filmmaker. Scobie's knowledge of Godard is vast, to be sure, but his poetics-and his love for the films-are what truly shine here." Kimmy Beach, ARC Poetry Magazine, February 2014 [full review at http://arcpoetry.ca/?p=7755]“In the poem on one of Godard’s masterpieces, Weekend, Scobie writes: ‘What a rotten film / All we meet are crazy people / eating each other.’ A funny barb, with a hallucinatory development in the image, that works against expectation by insulting Godard’s film, the stanza stands on its own. At the same time, the ‘insult’ contains a quotation from the film, thus replicating Godard's own method of incessant quotation—deepening the poem for those who know the film…. Scobie’s poems intelligently engage Godard’s films.” -- Jonathan Ball * Winnipeg Free Press *"The collection is held together by a dense net of recurring motifs.... At the Limit of Breath is a textual space where Godard's characters, places, images, and actors take on a Pirandellian existence, crossing borders of both poems and movies." -- Chiara Falangola and Michael Meagher * Canadian Literature *

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Book SynopsisE.D. Blodgettâs visceral musings explore the intertwining connection between the human and the natural worlds.Trade Review"How succinctly Blodgett captures the fragility and incompleteness of human perception, and our powerful yearning to exceed these limitations.... With poetry, it's one thing to read the words; that happens quickly. Comprehending them is a slower process. Blodgett's poetry is unique, however--it forces you to read much more slowly the first time through. No doubt it's the even-paced phrasing, the deliberate and sparse language.... Poems to think about and think about again. To read, put down and consider, then read again." -- Jay Smith"Blodgett’s latest book in his Apostrophes series is two books in one. Both are contemplations of wisdom and identity. The first is a book of poetry—words laid down in measure, printed on paper. Its words are made of artful language.... The second book is an energy field, conjured by a reader reading that first book. Its words are not human language but the ghosts of the earth, conjured by human speech.... Blodgett’s consciousness is fluid here. His world moves between book, reader, memory, and earth with the surety of dream.... It is a bold undertaking, this business of bridging a half-century of Canadian poetry. Blodgett does it by making each physical word leave the book of words and enter the mind through the book of energies." [Full review at http://arcpoetry.ca/?p=8188#sthash.NwEPOoUQ.dpuf] -- Harold Rhenisch * Arc Poetry *

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Book SynopsisAn early collection from a widely published poet featuring sometimes ironic poems on subjects ranging from haunted houses to lycanthropy to a tongue-in-cheek poem about editors.

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Book SynopsisThis Series Has Been Discontinued is an early collection from a prolific journalist, historian, biographer, and poet.

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Book SynopsisParis Paint Box, New and Selected Poems, brings together over forty-five years of poetry by Helena Minton. The book opens with a sequence about the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot. Additional new poems focus on everyday moments, and meditations on the past. In selections from her previous work, poems touch on family, gardens, New England history and landscapes, and the Alaska wilderness. In a quiet but determined voice, the poet draws the reader into her world with direct, spare language and a keen eye to detail.

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Book SynopsisJacob Smullyan''s Dribble, a cycle of 144 poems written in 1983, sets itself the task of exploring a peculiar, seemingly unpromising corner of poetic space. Its apparent subject matter is the grotesque obscenity of physicality: excrement, innards, foodstuffs, the reek of loss and sexuality, the pancake-like weight of words and representation. But what emerges is quite different from what its monstrous image repertoire might suggest: an extended meditation on the inner forces of creation and destruction. Dribble''s surreal mechanisms, by which the derangement of sense becomes ordinary, reveals new paths through experience, and in this new world, discredited matter, impelled by a powerful transcendental yearning, takes on new meaning and form; soul arises from the mire with cathartic impact and an unexpected tenderness.

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Book SynopsisA captivating, no-holds-barred collection of new poems from an acclaimed poet and novelist with a fierce and original voice Dothead is an exploration of selfhood both intense and exhilarating. Within the first pages, Amit Majmudar asserts the claims of both the self and the other: the title poem shows us the place of an Indian American teenager in the bland surround of a mostly white peer group, partaking of imagery from the poet’s Hindu tradition; the very next poem is a fanciful autobiography, relying for its imagery on the religious tradition of Islam. From poems about the treatment at the airport of people who look like Majmudar (“my dark unshaven brothers / whose names overlap with the crazies and God fiends”) to a long, freewheeling abecedarian poem about Adam and Eve and the discovery of oral sex, Dothead is a profoundly satisfying cultural critique and a thrilling experiment in language. United across a wide range of tones and form

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Book SynopsisDiverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader accounts of contemporary critical debates, social contexts, and political history, this book offers a formalist argument about how these poems understand themselves and their situation, and a historicist argument about the meanings of their forms. The poetry of the canonical modernists T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens is placed alongside the poetry of Ford Madox Ford, better known for his novels and his criticism, and the poetry of Joseph Macleod, whose work has been largely forgotten. Focusing on the years from 1914 to 1930, the book offers a new account of a crucial moment in the history of British and American modernism.Trade Review'Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World offers a compelling account of poetic modernism's ambivalent relationship to a fallen modernity through nuanced readings of a spectrum of canonical and lesser-known British and American poets, among them Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Edith Sitwell, and Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod. Bookended by his absorbing account of Ford's 'On Heaven' and his recuperation of Macleod's extraordinary esoteric masterpiece, The Ecliptic, Sean Pryor's exploration of 'the incompatibility of poetry and heaven' is a significant intervention in modernist studies.' Lee Jenkins, University College Cork, Ireland'Pryor's account of the poem is subtle and generative, demonstrating that the real strength of his book lies more in its close textual encounters …' Peter Nicholls, Modern Philology'An insightful meditation on modernist poetry as at once a reflection of a fallen world and an attempt to grapple with that condition through poetic forms that are by necessity doomed to fail in their endeavours, Pryor's work is remarkably clear in its argument and moving in its articulation of how and why modernist poetry recognizes its own limitations when faced with the problem of the world it inhabits, and with the problem of its own generic identity.' Matthew Levay, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ford's fall; 3. Eliot's line; 4. Loy's cries; 5. Stevens's accidence; 6. Macleod's signs; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFriendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City."I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too.” —Eileen Myles Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz''s path through these poems. From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as "Ivanka Skirting" and "This Beautiful Bubble" we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry. In this moving collection, we enter Katz''s world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.

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Book SynopsisA gorgeous selection of the humane and moving poetry of David Young, a celebrated poet of the midwestern landscape and the people who live in it, with an expanded section featuring sixteen new poems exclusive to the paperback edition. A newly expanded career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language, and new poems that reflect a continued artistic interest in these subjects. Young’s settings are at once local and universal—an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature, between the literary and the philosophical, microcosm and macrocosm. Here are poems on Osip Mandelstam and Chairman Mao, the meaning of boxcars on the track, the beautiful names of the months, and a fox at the field’s edge, charged in each case by Young’s fierce intelligence and candor in the face of grief and loss.“We float through space. Days pass,” Young writes in “The Portable Earth-Lamp.” “Sometimes we know we are part of a crystal / where light is sorted and stored.” His metaphysical reach, balancing remarkable humility with penetrating vision, is one of the great gifts of this exemplary career in poetry.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of the best cowboy poetry from the wranglers of yesteryear and today includes works by Ian Tyson, Wallace McRae, Mike Logan and Corky Williams. Settle down by the campfire and pull out this little gem for a taste of the Old West.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is to present a wide range of poetry written in English. [Though the poems are arranged chronologically], we have compiled not a historical survey, but rather a collection of poems that represent a variety of times, places and English-speaking cultures. Our selection process was guided by a wish to combine works long accepted as part of the English-language ‘canon’ with material not always well represented in anthologies—such as, most notably, the poetry of women since the seventeenth century..."Another notion implicit in the framing of this anthology is that English-language poetry has dramatically expanded within the last century. Writers in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, India, Africa and the Caribbean all hold in common with writers in Britain and the United States an English-Language tradition that helped to shape their history and their institutions, and that laid the groundwork for new writings..."In trying to include as wide a selection as possible of representative work…we have had to leave out several well-known long poems. In almost all cases, however, we have chosen to represent a poet by several poems, inviting readers to take a broader view of a given writer’s work and ways of thinking." - from the PrefaceTrade ReviewIn reconsidering the canon of English language poetry, the editors have been as creative as they are generous. This is a lively anthology—it shows views where previous anthologies hadn't planned for windows." - David Shevin, Tiffin UniversityTable of Contents GEOFFREY CHAUCER from: The Canterbury Tales (1387?) ENGLISH BALLADS Lord Rendal (c.1400-1500) Sir Patrick Spens (c.1400-1500) Barbara Allan (c.1400-1500) SIR THOMAS WYATT The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar (1557) Who so list to hounte I knoiv where is an hynde (1557) Ffarewell, love, and all thy lawes for ever; (1557) They fie from me that sometyme did me seke (1557) Blame not my lute, for he must sownd (1557) HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY The Soote Season (1557) Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought (1557) SIR WATER RALEGH The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (c.1600) Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace (c.1610) EDMUND SPENSER from: Amoretti Sonnet XXXVII (1595) Sonnet LXXV (1595) Sonnet LXXIX (1595) Sonnet LXXXI (1595) Prothalamion (1595) LADY MARY WROTH from: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus When Night’s Black Mantle Could Most Darkness Prove (1621) Faulce hope which feeds butt to destroy, and spill (1621) Love a child is ever criing (1621) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY from: Astrophil and Stella (1598) Leave me 6 Love, which reachest but to dust (1598) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love (1600) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 18 (1609) Sonnet 29 (1609) Sonnet 30 (1609) Sonnet 55 (1609) Sonnet 73 (1609) Sonnet 106 (1609) Sonnet 116 (1609) Sonnet 129 (1609) Sonnet 130 (1609) Sonnet 146 (1609) Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun, (1609) O mistress mine, where are you roaming? (1599?-1600) THOMAS CAMPION My Sweetest Lesbia (1601) When Thou Must Home (1601) There is a Garden in her face. (1617) JOHN DONNE The Good-Morrow (1633) The Sunne Rising (1633) The Canonization (1633) The Flea (1633) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633) The Extasie (1633) Holy Sonnets (1633) Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (1633) BEN JONSON On my first Sonne (1616) Inviting a friend to supper (1616) Song. To Celia (1616) A Hymne to God the Father (1640) To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. ’William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us (1623) ROBERT HERRICK Corinna’s going a Maying (1648) Delight in Disorder (1648) Upon Julia’s Clothes (1648) To the Virgins, to make much of Time. (1648) To Blossoms (1648) GEORGE HERBERT Easter Wings (1633) Prayer (I) (1633) Jordan (1) (1633) The Flower (1633) The Collar (1633) The Pulley (1633) JOHN MILTON Lycidas (1638) On Shakespeare (1632) How Soon Hath Time (1645) On the Late Massacre in Piemont (1673) When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (1673) Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint (1673) from: Paradise Lost: Book I (1667) ANNE BRADSTREET The Prologue (1650) The Author to Her Book (1678) Before the Birth of One of Her Children (1678) To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678) A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Enployment (1678) Upon the Burning of Our House July Wth, 1666. (1867?) ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet (1681) A Dialogue between the Soul and Body (1681) To his Coy Mistress (1681) The Definition of Love (1681) The Garden (1681) MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The Poetresses Petition (1653) Natures Cook (1653) A Woman drest by Age (1653) KATHERINE PHILIPS A marryd state affords but little Ease (c.1667) L’Amitie: To Mrs M. Awbrey (1664) Friendship’s Mysterys: to my dearest Lucasia (1667?) JOHN DRYDEN To the Memory of Mr. Oldbam (1684) To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting. An ODE (1686) from: Absalom and Achitophel (1681) APHRA BEHN Love in fantastick Triumph sat (1684) To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against fruition. Ode. (1688) The Disappointment (1684) LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH To the Ladies (1703) The Resolve (1703) ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA The Introduction (1689?) A Nocturnal Reverie (1713) The Unequal Fetters (1713) JONATHAN SWIFT A Description of the Morning (1710?) A Description of a City Shower (1710) ALEXANDER POPE from: An Essay on Criticism (1711) from: The Rape of the Lock (1714) LADY WORTLEY MONTAGU The Resolve (1747?) from: Six Town Eclogues (1747) from: Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (1733) THOMAS GRAY Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (1748) Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (1751) Sonnet on the Death of Richard West (1775) CHRISTOPHER SMART from: Jubilate Agno (fragment B) (1759-63, 1939) MARY LEAPOR Strephon to Celia. A Modern Love-Letter (1748) An Essay on Woman (1748) The Epistle of Deborah Dough (1748) WILLIAM COWPER On The Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch (1788) The Poplar-Field (1785) from: The Task: Book II (1785) The Cast-Away (1.803) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley (1825?) The Rights of Woman (1825) Washing-Day (1825) WILLIAM BLAKE How sweet I roam’d from field to field (1783) from: Songs of Innocence The Lamb (1789) The Chimney Sweeper (1789) Holy Thursday (1789) from: Songs of Experience London (1794) The Tyger (1794) The Sick Rose (1794) The Chimney-Sweeper (1794) Holy Thursday (1794) from: Milton (1804-10) ROBERT BURNS To a Louse (1786) Holy Willie’s Prayer (1785) The Banks O Doon (1792) A Red, Red Rose (1796) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798) Strange fits of passion have 1 known (1800) She dwelt among the untrodden ways (1800) I travelled among unknown men (1807) Three years she grew in sun and shower (1800) A slumber did my spirit seal (1800) Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1807) It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (1807) London, 1802 (1807) Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room (1807) Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan (1816) Frost At Midnight (1798) Dejection: An Ode (1817) GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON She Walks In Beauty (1815) So We’ll Go No More A-Roving (1836) Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa (1830) from: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1816) The Prisoner of Chilian (1816) On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year (1824) from: Don Juan (1824) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Mont Blanc (1816) Ozymandias (1816) Sonnet: England in 1819 (1839) Ode to the West Wind (1820) The Cloud (1820) To a Skylark (1820) JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816) When I have fears that I may cease to be (1848) If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d (1836) La Belle Dame sans Merci (1820) Ode to a Nightingale (1820) Ode to a Grecian Urn (1820) Ode on Melancholy (1820) To Autumn (1820) RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Snow-Storm (1847) Blight (1847) Terminus (1867) ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING from: Sonnets from the Portuguese Sonnet XXII (1850) Sonnet XLIII (1850) A Musical Instrument (1862) from: Aurora Leigh: Book I (1857) from: Aurora Leigh: Book V (1857) HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls (1880) Snow-Flakes (1863) In the Churchyard at Cambridge (1858) My Lost Youth (1858) Divina Commedia (1867) EDGAR ALLAN POE The City in the Sea (1831) Dream-Land (1845) The Sleeper (1831) The Haunted Palace (1845) To Helen (1845) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Lady of Shalott (1842) The Lotos-Eaters (1842) Ulysses (1842) Break, Break, Break (1842) from: In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) Crossing the Bar (1889) ROBERT BROWNING Porphyria’s Lover (1842) Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (1842) My Last Duchess (1842) The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church (1845) Fra Lippo Lippi (1855) EMILY BRONTË The Old Stoic (1841) Shall Earth no more inspire thee (1841?) Remembrance (1846) No Coward Soul (1846) Often rebuked, yet always back returning (1850) ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH The Latest Decalogue (1862) Say not the struggle nought availeth (1862) from: Dipsychus (1865) WALT WHITMAN from: Song of Myself (1881) When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865) Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (1867) Cavalry Crossing a Ford (1871) A Noiseless Patient Spider (1881) To a Locomotive in Winter (1881) HERMAN MELVILLE The House-top (1866) The Maldive Shark (1888) Art (1891) MATTHEW ARNOLD Shakespeare (1849) Isolation. To Marguerite (1857) To Marguerite - Continued (1852) Dover Beach (1867) The Buried Life (1867) DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Blessed Damozel (1870?) The Card-dealer from: The House of Life Sonnet (1881) Silent Noon (1881) A Superscription (1881) The One Hope (1881) EMILY DICKINSON 214:1 taste a liquor never brewed (1861) 241:1 like a look of Agony (c.1861) 258: There’s a certain Slant of light (1890) 303: The Soul selects her own Society (1890) 341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes (1929) 449:1 died for Beauty (1890) 465:1 heard a Fly buzz- when I died (1896) 5S5:1 like to see it lap the Miles (1891) 712: Because 1 could not stop for Death (1890) 986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1866) 1227: My triumph lasted till the Drums (1935) CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market (1862) LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky (1871) The White Knight’s Song (1871) THOMAS HARDY Hap (1898) Nature’s Questioning (1898) Drummer Hodge (1902) The Darkling Thrush (1901) The Converge of the Twain (1914) Channel Firing (1914) In Time of ’The Breaking of Nations’ (1917) Transformations (1917) GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS God’s Grandeur (1918) Spring (1918) The Windhover (1918) Pied Beauty (1918) Spring and Fall (1918) I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. (1918) No worst, there is none (1918) Carrion Comfort (1918) Thou art indeed just, Lord (1918) ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD The Camp of Souls (1905) The Dark Stag (1883) The City Tree (1880) A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (1896) To an Athlete Dying Young (1896) Is my team ploughing (1896) On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble (1896) Terence, this is stupid stuff (1896) The chestnut casts his flambeaux (1922) The night is freezing fast (1922) CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS Tantramar Revisited (1883) The Potato Harvest (1886) The Solitary Woodsman (1897) The Sower (1884) The Winter Fields (1890) The Skater (1901) BLISS CARMAN Vestigia (1923?) Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893) A Northern Vigil (1905) The Eavesdropper (1905) The World Voice (1921) ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN The Frogs (1925) Heat (1888) Morning on the Lièvre (1925) The City of the End of Things (1899) Winter Evening (1899) DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT The Onondaga Madonna (1898) Watkwenies (1898) On The Way To The Mission (1905) The Forsaken (1905) At Gull Lake: August, 1810 (1935) RUDYARD KIPLING Cities and Thrones and Powers (1906) The Way through the Woods (1910) Recessional (1899) The Hyaenas (1919) WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Sorrow of Love (1892) When You Are Old (1892) Easter 1916 (1920) An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919) The Second Coming (1921) A Prayer For My Daughter (1921) Leda and the Swan (1928) Sailing to Byzantium (1927) Among School Children (1927) Lapis Lazuli (1.938) The Circus Animals’ Desertion (1939) ROBERT FROST Mending Wall (1914) After Apple-Picking (1914) The Road Not Taken (1916) Birches (1916) Fire and Ice (1923) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) Acquainted with the Night (1928) Desert Places (1936) Neither Out Par Nor In Deep (1936) Design (1936) The Silken Tent (1942) ROBERT SERVICE The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew (1907) Only a Boche (1916) WALLACE STEVENS The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1931) Anecdote of the Jar (1931) Thirteen ’Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1931) The Idea of Order at Key West (1936) The Motive for Metaphor (1947) E. J. PRATT The Shark (1923) From Stone to Steel (1932) The Prize Cat (1937) The Highway (1932) from: Towards the Last Spike (1952) WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Red Wheelbarrow (1923) Queen-Anne’s-Lace (1921) This Is Just To Say (1934) At the Ball Game (1923) The Yachts (1935) The Dance (1944) Landscape With The Fall of Icarus (1962) D. H. LAWRENCE Piano (1918) Snake (1923) How Beastly the Bourgeois Is (1.929) Bavarian Gentians (1923) After The Opera (1919) The Ship of Death (1932) EZRA POUND Portrait d’une Femme (1912) The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (1915) In a Station of the Metro (1916) Commission (1916) The Garden (1916) Canto I (1925) SIEGFRIED SASSOON A Night Attack (1918) Conscripts (1917) Base Details (1919) H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) Oread (1924) Leda (1921) Helen (1924) Fragment Thirty-six (1924) Fragment Forty (1924) MARIANNE MOORE Poetry (1921) Poetry (Revised version) (1967) The Fish (1921) Critics and Connoisseurs (1924) No Swan So Fine (1932) EDITH SITWELL The Swans (1942) Still Falls the Rain (1942) Two Songs of Queen Anne Boleyn (1945?) The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age (1945) JOHN CROWE RANSOM Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (1924) Blue Girls (1927) Jack’s Letter (1927) T. S. ELIOT The Love Song of ]. Alfred Prufrock (1917) Preludes (1917) Sweeney Among the Nightingales (1919) The Hollow Men (1925) Journey of the Magi (1927) EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music (1928) Journey (1917) Elegy Before Death (1921) Love is Not All (1931) Menses (1939) HUGH MACDIARMID In the Children’s Hospital (1935) We must look at the harebell (1955) In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1955) ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The Silent Slain (1926) The End of the World (1926) Ars Poetica (1926) You, Andrew Marvel (1930) “Dover Beach” — A Note to that Poem (1936) WILFRED OWEN Arms and the Boy (1920) Insensibility (1920) Dttlce et Decorum Est (1920) Anthem for Doomed Youth (1920) Strange Meeting (1920) DOROTHY PARKER Bohemia (1928) A Pigs-Eye View of Literature (1928) On Being a Woman (1928) Sonnet For the End of a Sequence (1931) E. E. CUMMINGS the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls (1923) goodby Betty, don’t remember me (1923) somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond (1931) anyone lived in a pretty how town (1940) i sing of Olaf glad and big (1931) i thank You God for most this amazing day (1950) ROBERT GRAVES Down (1947) The Cool Web (1947) Recalling War (1938) Down, Wanton, Down! (1933) A Slice of Wedding Cake (1958) F. R. SCOTT The Canadian Authors Meet (1945) Lakeshore (1954) Laurentian Shield (1954) Trans Canada (1945) Last Rites (1954) W L. M. K. (1954) BASIL BUNTING Personal Column (1930) What the Chairman Told Tom (1967) I am agog for foam (1930) Nothing (1950) KENNETH SLESSOR Wild Grapes (1932) Five Bells (1939) Beach Burial (1939) LANGSTON HUGHES The Weary Blues (1926) Trumpet Player (1947) Harlem (1951) A. J. M. SMITH The Lonely Land (1936) News of the Phoenix (1943) Prothalamium (1967?) The Archer (1967?) STEVIE SMITH The River God (1950) Away, Melancholy (1957) Mother, Among the Dustbins (1971?) The Blue from Heaven (1957) Not Waving but Drowning (1957) COUNTEE CULLEN Yet Do I Marvel (1925) To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time (1947) From the Dark Tower (1927) RICHARD EBERHART The Groundhog (.1936) The Fury of Aerial Bombardment (1944) EARLE BIRNEY Vancouver Lights (1948) Anglosaxon Street (1942) From the Hazel Bough (1948) Bushed (1952) The Bear on the Delhi Road (1962) El Greco: Espolio (1962) JOHN BETJEMAN The Cottage Hospital (1954) Late-Flowering Lust (1954) A Subaltern’s Love-song (1945) W. H. AUDEN Lay your sleeping head, my love, (1940) Musée des Beaux Arts (1940) In Memory of W. B. Yeats (1940) The Unknown Citizen (1940) Our Bias (1940) September!, 1939 (1940) Song (1940) LOUIS MACNEICE Bagpipe music (1937) The British Museum Reading Room (1939) Thalassa (1963?) THEODORE ROETHKE My Papa’s Waltz (1948) The Waking (1948) Elegy for Jane (1953) I Knew a Woman (1954) Dolor (1948) A. D. HOPE Imperial Adam (1955) Australia (1939) The Return of Persephone (1955) Parabola (1971) The Pleasure of Princes (1955) Meditation on a Bone (1956) STEPHEN SPENDER The Express (1933) The Pylons (1933) A. M. KLEIN Psalm VI: A Psalm of Abraham, Concerning That Which He Beheld Upon The Heavenly Scarp (1942) For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu (1947) Autobiographical (1943) Montreal (1944) The Rocking Chair (1945) Political Meeting (1946) DOROTHY LIVESAY The Difference (1929) Bartok and the Geranium (1955) The Three Emilys (1953) Lament (1955) On Looking into Henry Moore (1956) The Unquiet Bed (1967) ANNE WILKINSON Lens (1955) In June and Gentle Oven (1955) My Bones Predict Nature be damned (1957) On a Bench in a Park (1955) ELIZABETH BISHOP The Fish (1946) In the Waiting Room (1976) One Art (1976) The Armadillo (1965) Sestina (1965) ALLEN CURNOW House and Land (1941) The Unhistonc Story (1941) Out of Sleep (1943) The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (1943) IRVING LAYTON The Birth of Tragedy (1954) Butterfly on Rock (1963) The Bull Calf (1956) The Cold Green Element (1955) Cain (1958) From Colony to Nation (1956) KENNETH MACKENZIE Shall then another (1961) Caesura (1952) The Snake (1952) Two Trinities (1953) HENRY REED from: Lessons of the War I: Naming of Parts (1942) II: Judging Distances (1943) IV: Unarmed Combat (1945) RANDALL JARRELL Losses (1948?) The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945) The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1945) WILLIAM STAFFORD Traveling through the Dark (1962) A Message from the Wanderer (1977) At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border (1977) JOHN BERRYMAN A Professor’s Song (1948) Desires of Men and Women (1948) from: The Dream Songs (1959) DOUGLAS LEPAN Coureurs de Bois (1948) A Country Without A Mythology (1948) An Incident (1953) DYLAN THOMAS The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower (1933) And Death Shall Have No Dominion (1933) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1951) Fern Hill (1946) A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London (1946) In My Craft Or Sullen Art (1946) After the Funeral (1939) JUDITH WRIGHT Song (1955) The Bull (1949) Woman to Man (1946) Woman to Child (1946) Request to a Year (1953) At Cooloola (1954) P. K. PAGE The Stenographers (1946) Young Girls (1946?) The Landlady (1946) The Permanent Tourists (1954) T-bar (1967) Stones of Snow (1967) After Rain (1967) The Selves (1981) ROBERT LOWELL As a Plane Tree by the Water (1946) Skunk Hour (1956) For the Union Dead (1959) The Public Garden (1964) MIRIAM WADDINGTON Thou Didst Say Me (1955) Sea Bells (1966) Ten years and More (1976) MARGARET AVISON The Butterfly (1960) Voluptuaries and Others (1960) The Swimmer’s Moment (1965) Butterfly Bones or Sonnet Against Sonnets (1960) The Dumbfounding (1966) A Nameless One (1966) New Year’s Poem (1960) AL PURDY Remains of an Indian Village (1962) The Cariboo Horses (1965) The Country North of Belleville (1965) Wilderness Gothic (1968) Lament For the Dorsets (1968) On the Decipherment of "Linear B" (1959) RICHARD WILBUR Digging For China (1956) The Pardon (1957) The Death of a Toad (1957) Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (1956) Beasts (1956) A Late Aubade (1963?) RAYMOND SOUSTER Young Girls (1964) Memory of Bathurst Street (1965) Queen Anne’s Lace (1974) Words Before a Statue of Champlain (1975) Lagoons, Hanlan’s Point (1952) PHILIP LARKIN Poetry of Departures (1955) Church Going (1955) Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album (1955) Ambulances (1964) Sad Steps (1974) An Arundel Tomb (1964) The Explosion (1974) Aubade (1977) DEMISE LEVERTOV Laying the Dust (1956) The Jacob’s Ladder (1958) The Dog of Art (1959) Matins (1962) The Novel (1964) Caedmon (1987) The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why NISSIM EZEKIEL The Company I Keep Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher (1965) In India (1965) Night of the Scorpion (1965) In The Garden CAROLYN KIZER from: Pro Femina (1961) Three (1961) The Ungrateful Garden (1961) The Copulating Gods (1963) JAMES MERRILL Angel (1962) After Greece (1961) The Broken Home (1966) ROBERT CREELEY The Hill (1959) The Rain (1959) The Door (1959) W. D. SNODGRASS April Inventory (1959) The Mother Diplomacy: The Father The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics ALLEN GINSBERG A Supermarket in California (1956) My Sad Self (1963) JAMES K. BAXTER The Bay (1948) Elegy for an Unknown Soldier (1953) The Homecoming (1952) My love late walking (1958) PHYLLIS WEBB A Tall Tale (1962) Patience (1954) Marvell’s Garden (1956) Breaking (1962) ANNE SEXTON Her Kind (I960) In the Deep Museum (1962) Cinderella (1971) MAYA ANGELOU Caged Bird (1983) Our Grandmothers (1990) ADR1ENNE RICH Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (1951) Planetarium (1971) Orion (1969) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (1971) Final Notations (1991) PETER PORTER Sydney Cove, 1788 (1964) Annotations of Auschwitz, (1961) Soliloquy at Potsdam (1962) An Australian Garden (1975) DEREK WALCOTT A Far Cry from Africa (1962) Ruins of a Great House (1962) A Letter from Brooklyn (1962) Map of Europe (1965) The Sea Is History (1979) Menelaus TED HUGHES The Thought-Fox (1957) Hawk Roosting (1957) Pike (1960) The Jaguar (1954) Second Glance at a Jaguar (1967) Wodwo (1967) EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE Wings of a Dove (1967) Calypso (1967) JAY MACPHERSON The Boatman (1957) The Fisherman (1957) A Lost Soul (1974) The Well (1974) SYLVIA PLATH The Colossus (1960) Black Rook in Rainy Weather (1971) Crossing the Water (1962) Face Lift (1962) Last Words (1971) Ariel (1966) Daddy (1966) Edge (1965) ALDEN NOWLAN Warren Pryor (1961) The Bull Moose (1970) The Execution (1962) I, Icarus (1967) In Those Old Wars (1967) The Word (1967) LEONARD COHEN Elegy (1956) You Have the Lovers (1961) A Kite is a Victim (1961) I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries (1965) Suzanne Takes You Down (1968) IMAMU AMIRIBARAKA (LEROI JONES) Three Modes of History and Culture (1979?) I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer (1964) Ostriches & Grandmothers! (1979?) AUDRE LORDE Outside (1976) Stations The Art of Response Hanging Fire (1978) FLEUR ADCOCK Wife to Husband (1964) Unexpected Visit (1.964) Leaving the Tate Below Loughrigg (1979) KOFI AWOONOR On the Way to Durham, N.C. (1978) The First Circle (1978) I Rejoice (1987) GEORGE BOWERING Grandfather (1964) The Swing (1965) My Father in New Zealand (1987) Dancing Bones (1987) Leaves Flipping (1992) The Kingdome 1974 (1974?) MARGE PIERCY The secretary chant (1971?) I will not be your sickness (1969) The cat’s song (1989) Barbie Doll (1971) DARYL HINE Northwest Passages Tabula Rasas? Point Grey (1968) JUDTH RODRIGUEZ Eskimo occasion (1975) A lifetime devoted to literature (1975) Rebeca in a mirror (1975) SEAMUS HEANEY Personal Helicon (1966) Poor Women in a City Church Docker (1966) The Grauballe Man (1975) The Railway Children (1984) From the Frontier of Writing (1987) MARGARET ATWOOD This Is a Photograph of Me (1966) Journey to the Interior (1966) At the Tourist Centre in Boston (1968) Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer (1968) from: The journals of Susanna Moodie Further Arrivals (1970) Death of a Young Son by Drowning (1970) Dream 1: The Bush Garden (1970) Thoughts From Underground (1970) Tricks With Mirrors (1974) IS / NOT (1974) DENNIS LEE from: Civil Elegies (1972) PATRICK LANE Pissaro’s Tomb (1975) Winter 6 Winter 9 Winter 40 GWENDOLYN MACEWEN Eden, Eden (1961?) Inside the Great Pyramid (1969) The Discovery (1969) Dark Pines Under Water (1969) The Child Dancing (1972) Letter to a Future Generation (1969) JENI COUZYN House of Changes (1978) Spell for Jealousy (1978) Spell to Soften the Hard Heart of a Woman (1978) DAPHNE MARLATT from: Steveston Ghost (1974) from: Touch to My Tongue in the dark of the coast (1984) ARTHUR NORTJE Letter from Pretoria Central Prison (1973) Immigrant (1973) Native’s letter (1973) MICHAEL ONDAATJE Henri Rousseau and Friends (1967) Dates (1973) King Kong meets Wallace Stevens (1973) Letters & Other Worlds (1979) The Agatha Christie Books By The Window (1978?) from: Tin Roof (1982) TOM WAYMAN Long Beach Suite (1979) SHARON THESEN Mean Drunk Poem (1980) Hello Goodbye (1980) WANDA COLEMAN Coffee (1979) Three Trees (1979) Voices Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead MAXINE TYNES Womanskin (1987) SUSAN MUSGRAVE At Nootka Sound (1970) Equinox (1973) Lure (1976) DIONNE BRAND Canto I (1982) Canto II (1982) PATRICIA YOUNG Three Point Five Nine (1991) The Third Sex (1991) Photograph, 1958 (1991) READING POETRY GLOSSARY BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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Book SynopsisThere are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form ‘doesn’t matter’ in poetry. It is an impression that has not been dispelled by the emphasis of some of the existing texts in the area on forms that are now rare or outmoded. The irony is that simultaneously in the past decade interest in formal matters among many poets and literary scholars has been on the increase; the reality is that prosody is today on the cutting edge of literary studies.Stephen Adams’ text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help ‘heighten the experience of poetry.’Trade ReviewOne of the book's most salient strengths is how gracefully the author handles some of the knottiest problems a teacher of prosody will encounter. This is a very strong book." - Annie Finch, Miami University, Ohio."One of the most impressive features is Adams' mastery at introducing various intricacies as they surface in his examples instead of giving lists of rules and the like. Adams' writing style is impeccable, lucid and tightly controlled. He manages to get through a great deal of material quite quickly, without ever sacrificing accuracy and thoroughness." - Demetres Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick"A very good guide to the subject, full of erudition, but also full of pedagogical savvy. There is a fine and informal ear evident throughout." - Don McKay, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry"Adams offers help to students and teachers of poetry with his lively, accessible guide to the mechanics of verse. [His] clear and measured examination of the elements of poetry and straight-ahead style make Poetic Designs a valuable resource" - Quill and QuireTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Meter and RhythmTHE IMPORTANCE OF PROSODY / The Sound of Meter / Different Metrical Systems and Their Histories / The Meaning of Meter / THE ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC SYSTEM / The Regular Iambic Pentamenter Line / Variation 1: The Reversal of Accent (Trochaic Substitution) / Variation 2: The Principle of Relative Accent (Spondaic and Pyrrhic Substitution) / Variation 3: Added Syllables (Anapestic and Dactylic Subsitution) / Variation 4: Omitted Syllables / SYNTACTIC RHYTHM AND THE LINE UNIT / Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia / Facility2. Beyond Iambic PentameterACCENTUAL METERS AND THE BALLAD STANZA / The Accentual Meters / THE LONGER AND SHORTER IAMBIC METERS / The Trochaic Meters / The Triple Meters: Anapestic and Dactylic / SYLLABIC AND QUANTITATIVE SYSTEMS3. Stanza and FormTHE DYNAMICS OF STANZA AND FORM: RHYME, LINE AND CLOSURE / Some Standard English Stanzas / Beyond the Single Stanza / Some Virtuoso Pieces / SOME STANDARD VERSE FORMS: FIXED AND NOT SO FIXED: The Sonnet / The French Forms / The Ode4. Figures of SpeechRHETORIC AND FIGURE / THE SCHEMES: Figures of Balance and Parallelism / Figures of Repetition / Figures of Amplification and Omission / Figures of Address / Figures of Syntactic Deviation / Figures of Verbal Play / THE TROPES / Metaphor and Simile / Metonymy and Synecdoche / Personification / Irony and Paradox5. Form in Free VerseLines: The Master Convention of Free Verse / Numbers: Metrical Presences in Free Verse / Figures: Syntactic Patterning in Free Verse / THE MARGINS OF GENRE: Shaped Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry / The Prose PoemAppendix 1: The Terminology of RhymingAppendix 2: Sample Scansions, with CommentaryIndex of SourcesIndex of Names and Terms

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Book SynopsisNative Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.Trade Review“In one of her poems Rita Joe writes, ‘I lost my talk/The talk you took away.’ In another, she claims, ‘And I will relate wonders to my people.’ The first statement brings us face-to-face with the attempted destruction of Native People and their rich and varied cultures, including their mother tongues. The second affirms the blessings that poems can bring to a particular people and to others who want to listen. What the poets in this anthology bring to the page is, indeed, a series of wonders. Such a gathering of writers and words, to borrow a phrase from Wayne Keon, makes ‘all the stars/cooperate/and come out shining.’” — Lorna Crozier, University of Victoria, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry“This collection shows the breadth of contemporary Native poetry, from the resistance literature of the many poems remembering the murdered Helen Betty Osborne to the playful fishing game of Daniel David Moses; it is an excellent anthology.” — Terry Goldie, York University, co-editor of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English“Armstrong and Grauer have arranged a collection of works of extraordinary breadth in their thematic treatment of cultural, political, and spiritual subjects. Instructors will value the accompanying biographical information, the substantial selections from each poet’s work, and the authors’ prefatory comments, all of which situate this collection as an ideal text for the university classroom.” — Canadian LiteratureTable of ContentsFour Decades: An Anthology of Canadian Native Poetry from 1960 to 2000, Jeannette C. ArmstrongTuning Up, Tuning In, Lally GrauerA Note on the TextCHIEF DAN GEORGEA Lament for ConfederationWords to a GrandchildIf the legends fall silentKeep a few embers from the fireMy people’s memory reachesTo a Native TeenagerI have known youRITA JOEI am the IndianYour buildingsWen net ki’l/Who are you?When I was smallExpect nothing else from meShe spoke of paradiseI Lost My TalkDemasduitThe King and Queen Pass by on TrainIndian TalkMigration IndianThe Legend of Glooscap’s DoorSune’wit at Kelly’s MountainA Course of Study in SchoolFishing and Treaty RightsPETER BLUE CLOUD / ARIONWENRATEAlcatrazWhen’s the Last Boat to Alcatraz?Ochre IronBearDawnCrazy Horse MonumentYellowjacketSweet CornSandhills That None May VisitCrow’s FlightSearching for EaglesOld FriendsDUKE REDBIRDThe BeaverThe small drumMy moccasinsTobacco BurnsThe Ballad of Norval MorriseauBETH BRANTHer Name Is HelenTellingHonour SongStillborn NightMARIE ANNHARTE BAKERGranny GoingPenumbraMoon BearBird Clan MotherPretty Tough Skin WomanTrapper MotherBoobstretchRaced Out to Write This UpHis KitchenCoyote Columbus CafeTongue in Cheek, if not Tongue in CheckCoyote TrailBear Piss WaterI Want to Dance Wild Indian Black FaceSARAIN STUMPAnd there is my people sleepingIt’s with terror, sometimesLittle traces in my mindI was mixing stars and sandHe goes awaySeven men on the rock upon the houseLike little handsRound DanceWAYNE KEONHeritagenitean opun letr tu bill bissetta kind of majikthe eye of the ravenmoosonee in augustKirkland Lake, Sept. 21eight miles from Esten Lakein this villagefor donald marshallsmoke nd thymei’m not in charge of this ritualif i ever heardSpirit Warrior Raven: Dream Winterthe apocalypse will beginreplanting the heritage treeGORDON WILLIAMSThe Last CrackleLost ChildrenDark CornersThe Day RunsErnieCreased ClinicJustice in Williams LakeJEANNETTE ARMSTRONGIn-Tee-Teigh (King Salmon)Death MummerWind WomanHistory LessonDark ForestsGreenRocksWorld Renewal SongReclaiming EarthApplesRight ItBETH CUTHANDZen IndianSeven Songs for Uncle LouisWere You TherePost-Oka Kinda WomanFor All the Settlers Who Secretly SingThis Red MoonLENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS(a found poem)At SunriseNew ImageHe FightsIn Katherine’s HouseEMMA LaROCQUEIncongruenceCommitmentThe BeggarNostalgiaThe Red In Winter“Progress”The Uniform of the DispossessedMy Hometown Northern Canada South AfricaLong Way From HomeRASUNAH MARSDENFatherCondolences for MariusThree ObjectsKinanti: A FragmentValley of the BelieversWordmakerDancing the RoundsOnYour PassageTossing AroundYellow LeavesSKYROS BRUCE / MAHARA ALLBRETTwhen the outside is completely darkeelsin a letter frommy brother, atlantisin/dianthe mountains are realin memory of fred quilther husband is a film makerFor MenloLinda Louisein the bathFatherLEE MARACLEMy Box of LettersWarPerformingWomenMister MandelaLeonardRazzleberriesAutumn RoseTa’ahLightGEORGE KENNYRubbie at Central ParkPoor J.W.How He ServedDeath BirdI Don’t Know This October StrangerDUNCAN MERCREDImy red face hurtsMorning AwakeningBlues SingerBettyback roadsHe Likes to Dancesomething you saidborn again indiansearching for visionssearching for visions IIdreaming about the end of the worldracing across the landyesterday’s songthe duke of windsorDANIEL DAVID MOSESSong in the Light of DawnA Song of Early SummerOctoberThe Sunbather’s Fear of the MoonTwinkleBallad froma Burned-Out HouseOf Course the Sky Does not CloseCrow Out EarlyThe Persistence of SongsThe LetterThe LineOffhand SongCould Raven HaveWhite Feathers?Cowboy PicturesJOAN CRATEThe Poetry ReadingCan you hear me?GleichenStory tellerI am a ProphetBeaver WomanEmpty SeasDeparturesSentences: at the Culls’She is crying in a cornerUnmarked GraveLOUISE HALFEPahkahkosNohkom, Medicine BearShe Told MeUkrainian HourEatin’ CrittersPicking LeftoversI’m So SorryIn Da Name of Da FadderDer PoopThese are the Body’s Giftsfrom Blue MarrowMARILYN DUMONTThe White JudgesHelen Betty OsborneBlue Ribbon ChildrenLet the Ponies OutHorse-Fly BlueLetter to Sir John A. MacdonaldCircle the WagonsLeather and NaughahydeIt Crosses My MindInstructions to My MotherThe Sky Is PromisingARMAND GARNET RUFFOPoem for Duncan Campbell ScottSomePoetrySurely Not WarriorsGrey Owl, 1935MirrorI Heard Them, I Was ThereAt Geronimo’s GraveNo Man’s LandBearFish TaleRockin’ Chair LadyJOANNE ARNOTTWiles of GirlhoodThe ShardIn My Dance ClassManitoba PastoralProud BellySong AboutMy Grass CradleLike An Indian: Struggling With OgresMigrationProtectionMidLifeBeachhead DreamingCONNIE FIFERonnie, because they never told you whyCommunications classthe revolution of not vanishingThis is not a metaphorStones memoryWe rememberi have become so many mountainsdear waltthe namingJOSEPH DANDURANDThis was One of ThemI Touched the Coyote’s TongueSomeoneFort LangleyOne yearBefore meFeeding the hungryKATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMMstray bullets (oka re/vision)my grandmotherspoem without end #3my secret tongue and earsfrom turtle island to aotearoapartridge songfrozen breath and knife bladeshummingbirdsnight falling womanGREGORY SCOFIELDWhat a Way to GoGod of the Fiddle PlayersCycle (of the black lizard)UnhingedPawâcakinâsîs-pîsim, December • The Frost Exploding MoonPêyak-Nikamowin • One SongT. ForNot All Halfbreed MothersTrue North, Blue Compass HeartI’ve Been ToldRANDY LUNDYmy lodgeritualghost dancean answer to whya reed of red willowAyiki-pisim/the Frog Moon (April)Pawacakinasisi-pisim / The Frost-Exploding Moon (December)stone gatheringdeer-sleepAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn 1810, while still at Eton, Percy Bysshe Shelley published Zastrozzi, the first of his two early Gothic prose romances. He published the second, St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, a year later. These sensationalist novels present some of Shelley’s earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge, and offer remarkable insight into an imagination that is strikingly modern. This new Broadview Literary Texts edition also brings together the fragmentary remains of Shelley’s other prose fiction, including his chapbook, Wolfstein, and contemporary reviews both by Shelley and about his work.Trade Review“With the current widespread reappraisal of both the importance of Shelley’s early works and the centrality of Gothic fiction to the Romantic Period, this could hardly be a more timely edition, and it is splendidly introduced and edited by Stephen Behrendt.” — Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland“For the first time ever, this edition presents complete texts of Shelley’s two early prose romances, Zastrozzi, A Romance and St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, within a thick context of related materials: contemporary reviews of both works, Shelley’s own reviews of contemporary fiction, Shelley’s other works of prose fiction, and a shortened chapbook version of St. Irvyne. This material, scrupulously edited from original documents, is combined with a knowledgeable introduction, and thus guided, readers of the important source material brought together originally for this edition, will discover a range of illuminating new ways to think about Shelley’s artistic development, his engagements with the aesthetic and political possibilities of prose fiction, and the cultural phenomenon of Gothic writing and reading in the discursive public sphere. Stephen Behrendt’s edition of Percy Shelley’s prose fiction makes a unique and rewarding contribution to studies of Shelley, Gothic fiction, and the literary marketplace during the Romantic era.” — Greg Kucich, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextsZastrozzi, A Romance St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A RomanceAppendix A: “The Assassins” Appendix B: “The Coliseum”Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews Zastrozzi St. Irvyne Appendix D: Shelley’s reviews of contemporary novels: Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff William Godwin, Mandeville Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Appendix E: Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious BanditSelected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.Trade Review“Gregory Eiselein has created an important historical-literary context for Emma Lazarus’s writing; this edition will be invaluable in making her work accessible to twenty-first century readers.” — Diane Lichtenstein, Beloit College“Eiselein’s expertly edited and annotated volume is an invaluable contribution to the recovery of lost texts by women writers. With its well-researched notes, historical contextualization, and supplementary materials, this superb edition is certain to become the definitive edition of Lazarus’s works. An impressive achievement!.” — Denise D. Knight, State University of New York, Cortland“This collection provides a rich introduction to this important and under-appreciated American author. It is necessary reading for any scholar of nineteenth-century American poetry, nineteenth-century American woman writers, or the history of Jewish-American writing.” — Marianne Noble, American UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEmma Lazarus: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsFrom Poems and TranslationsLinksClytieLONG ISLAND SOUNDFrom Admetus and Other PoemsEpochs [I-VII, XVI]In the Jewish Synagogue at NewportHeroesPHANTASIESMOODSTRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANÇOIS COPPÉEARABESQUETHE CRANES OF IBYCUSOFF ROUGH POINTLEDA & THE SWANTHE SOUTHSYMPHONIC STUDIESTHE CREATION OF MANA LETTER, FROM JUDAH HALLEVI TO HIS FRIEND ISAAC CHOPINNIGHT-PIECEDESTINYTHE TAMING OF THE FALCONRASCHI IN PRAGUEASSURANCEECHOESFrom Poems and Ballads of Heinrich HeineMorphineHomeward Bound [LXV]The AsraSongAn Apparition in the SeaQuestionCITY VISIONSPROGRESS AND POVERTYLAURA’S DEATHTRIUMPH OF LOVESongs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems The Dance to Death; A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts Songs The New YearThe Crowing of the Red CockIn ExileIn Memoriam—Rev. 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LyonsThe Valley of BacaThe Banner of the JewThe Guardian of the Red Disk A Translation of Heine and Two Imitations Donna ClaraDon PedrilloFra Pedro Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Mediaeval Spain Solomon ben Judah GabirolNight-ThoughtsMeditationsHymnTo a DetractorFragmentStanzasWine and GriefDefianceA Degenerate Age Judah ben Ha-Levi Love-SongSeparationLonging for JerusalemOn the Voyage to Jerusalem IOn the Voyage to Jerusalem IITo the West Wind III Moses ben Esra Extracts from the Book of Tarshish, or “Necklaceof Pearls”In the NightFrom the “Divan”Love Song of Alcharisi AN EPISTLE FROM JOSHUA IBNVIVES OF ALLORQUITHE WORLD’S JUSTICETHE FEAST OF LIGHTSLIFE AND ARTTHE NEW EZEKIELCONSOLATIONTHE NEW COLOSSUS1492CRITIC AND POETTHE CHOICETHE SUPREME SACRIFICETHE BIRTH OF MANTo R.WE.BAR KOCHBATHE VENUS OF THE LOUVREGIFTSADMONITIONBY THE WATERS OF BABYLONA MASQUE OF VENICESelected EssaysRussian Christianity versus Modern JudaismEmerson’s PersonalityAn Epistle to the Hebrews [V, XII]The Jewish ProblemThe Poet HeineA Day in Surrey with William MorrisAppendix A: BiographyJosephine Lazarus, “Emma Lazarus”Appendix B: Selections from the Correspondence From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 14 April 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 June 1868 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 22 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 Dec. 1874 To Rabbi Gustav Gottheil, 25 Feb. [1877] John Burroughs, to Emma Lazarus, 29 Apr. 1878 To Helena deKay Gilder, 18 Aug. 1879 To Edmund Clarence Stedman, [Summer 1881] To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 14 Jan. 1882 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 23 Aug. 1882 To Samuel Gray Ward, 12 Oct. 1882 To Philip Cowen, 5 May [1883] To Helena deKay Gilder, 4 July 1883 From James Russell Lowell, 17 Dec. 1883 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 29 Jan. [1884] Appendix C: Critical Response · 320 The New-York Times The Illustrated London News The New-York Times The Jewish Chronicle Pereira Mendes The American Hebrew The Literary World Solomon Solis-Cohen Edmund Clarence Stedman Appendix D: Cultural Contexts Heinrich Graetz, from Geschichte der Juden [The History of the Jews] George Eliot, from Daniel Deronda From “The Persecution of the Jews in Russia,” The Times Mme. Z. Ragozin, from “Russian Jews and Gentiles. From a Russian Point of View” Samuel S. Cox, from the Congressional Record Abram S. Isaacs, “Will the Jews Return to Palestine?” Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, from The American Jew: An Exposé of His Career Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process. Situated in medieval Spain, in the heat of Moorish-Christian conflicts, this complex political tragedy is both a rich historical narrative and a commentary by the poet on her own post-Napoleonic world.The Broadview edition also includes selections of related poetry, excerpts from source texts, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“Wherever we encounter significant differences between a manuscript and the published version of a work, we are bound to be intrigued, but when they occur with a major drama that seems purposely and powerfully to have been stalemated by its author the result cannot but be fascinating. Presenting these texts with impeccable care, the editors open up the complex debate within Hemans’s radical tragedy of love and honor to a large, modern audience, and its resonances will be heard over and over again in our continuing inquiry into the tensions within British Romanticism.” — Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania“Depicting a city besieged and a family held hostage to a murderous chivalry, The Siege of Valencia is one of Hemans’s most discussed works. This parallel edition shows the Romantic woman playwright at work, her scenes growing more austere, her language more telling. Wolfson and Fay document the full range of conflict and crisis surrounding the work: the tumultuous legend of El Cid, the French invasion of Spain in 1823, Hemans’s own maternal passions, and the literary politics of her critics.” — Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri, St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFelicia Hemans: A Brief ChronologyEditorial ProceduresThe Siege of Valencia, A Parallel TextAppendix A: Songs of the CidAppendix B: The Chieftain’s SonAppendix C: From Songs of SpainAppendix D: From Poema del CidAppendix E: From Robert Southey’s Chronicle of the CidAppendix F: Letters by Felicia Dorothea Browne (later Hemans), 1808-09Appendix G: Reviews and Receptions The London Literary Gazette, 1823 The Literary Museum, 1823 The British Critic, 1823 The British Review, 1823 New European Magazine, 1823 Monthly Review, 1823 North American Review, 1827 David Macbeth Moir, “Biographical Memoir,”1836 Henry F. Chorley, Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 William Archer Butler, “Introductory Notice,” 1838 Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 W.M. Rossetti, “Prefatory Notice,” 1873; 1878 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances centre on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Select Bibliography Roland and Vernagu Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel a Knight Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel and Roland Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes The Anglo-French Otinel Introduction Select Bibliography Text and Translation Notes Glossary

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Book SynopsisSince leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians who were eager to learn more about their own heritage, but who were unable to read the language of their parents. He decided to use the quatrains of Omar Khayyam as a vehicle to introduce a small section of Persian literature, philosophy and culture to his children and grandchildren''s generation. Khayyam''s poems are well-known both in the Persian original and in the English speaking world through the translations of Edward FitzGerald. Unfortunately, for the student, FitzGerald''s literary and inspirational poem are not exact translations of the Persian. In this volume, each poem is presented in the original Persian in both the Persian and Latin alphabet. In addition a literal translation and the corresponding poetic translation by FitzGerald are given. The more difficult terms are further explained. Also included is a Persian-English glossary.

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Book SynopsisAhmad Karimi-Hakkak has selected and ably translated the poems of Mandana Zandian''s poems. The translation includes poems which have never been published in the original.

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Book SynopsisPetrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly. . . . [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment. . . . The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New YorkTrade ReviewHainsworth's translations from the Italian are first-rate, both in terms of accuracy to the intent of the originals . . . and in terms of conveying the force of Petrarch’s imagery. The translations from the Latin read freshly and easily . . . they are sure-footed, managing to capture the mix of pride and playfulness which characterizes Petrarch's composite prose style. The notes to the individual poems are well-judged, just enough to keep the reader on track without parading off-putting erudition. --Jonathan Usher, Emeritus, University of EdinburghA judicious selection of the varied writings of the great humanist, translated from both Latin and Italian. The Introduction is admirably structured, clear, and coherent, and presents Petrarch to the reader without didacticism or oversimplification. Hainsworth has a light editorial touch. . . . All in all, a luminous portrait of the 'father of humanism'. --David Marsh, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mending a Broken Lineage: Women, Writing, Theology; Fear & Women's Writing: Choosing the Better Part; 'A Wretched Choice?': Evangelical Women & the Word; 'My God Became Flesh': Angela of Foligno Writing the Incarnation; Speaking Funk: Womanist Insights into the Lives of Syncletica & Macrina; 'A Moor of One's Own': Writing & Silence in Sara Maitland's "A Book of Silence"; With Prayer & Pen: Reading Mother E J Dabney's "What It Means to Pray Through"; Writing a Life, Writing Theology: Edith Stein in the Company of the Saints; Writing Hunger on the Body: Simone Weil's Ethic of Hunger & Eucharistic Practice; The Body, to be Eaten, to be Written: A Theological Reflection on the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee"; Not with One Voice: The Counterpoint of Life, Diaspora, Women, Theology, & Writing; Embodying Theology: Motherhood as Metaphor/Method; Postscript: Wounded Writing / Healing Writing.

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