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Siete Cuentos Editorial La Muerte y la Doncella
Book SynopsisLa muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y los oprimidos cohabitar una misma tierra, compartir una misma mesa?" preguntas que hoy dîa siguen tan vigentes como cuando Dorfman escribia esta obra.
£14.20
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence:
Book SynopsisThis anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.
£18.89
Simon & Schuster Twelfth Night
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the incredible comedy about unrequited love, both hilarious and heartbreaking, now presented by the Folger Shakespeare Library with valuable new tools for educators and dynamic new covers.Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; previously caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships. The authoritative edition of Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading -An essay by a leading Shakespeare expert
£9.49
University of Arkansas Press The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring
Book SynopsisThe Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes.An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets.This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
£24.71
Rowman & Littlefield InVerse 2012: Italian Poets in Translation
Book SynopsisPoetry by Sebastiano Aglieco Annelisa Alleva Elisa Biagini Elisa Davoglio Alessandro De Francesco Sonia Gentili Giuliano Mesa Luigi Nacci Elio Pecora Maria Luisa Spaziani Andrea Zanzotto Federico Zuliani Edited by Brunella Antomarini Berenice Cocciolillo Rosa Filardi On the occasion of John Cabot University’s fortieth anniversary, we are proud to present the fifth edition of the InVerse poetry anthology. In publishing InVerse, the University is true to its deepest mission and commitment: to bring together Anglo-American and Italian cultures. Franco Pavoncello PresidentTable of ContentsIntroduction The Task of the Translator Today Translators Credits Andrea Zanzotto Giuliano Mesa Frederico Zuliani Elisa Biagini Luigi Nacci Alessandro De Francesco Elisa Davoglio Maria Luisa Spaziani Elio Pecora Annelisa Alleva Sebastiano Aglieco Sonia Gentili Biographies
£27.00
Josef Weinberger Plays THE HOUSE
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Full Court Press Collected Poems
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Action
Book SynopsisElegy turns into affirmation, `binding the pulse / back into the body’, in this new collection by Eric Gregory Award-winning poet Roger Garfitt. Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. The Action reveals the individual character of each poem and sequence, `written only when the internal pressure demands and the slow pace of craft allows’. Carol Ann Duffy observed in The Guardian that `he clearly believes, quite rightly, in the Muse and his approach has the patience of a journeyman’s to his craft’. Hard-won, but not austere, the poems are marked by tenderness and passion; quiet humour rather than irony runs through them. Sean O’Brien writes, `He is both a meticulous re-creator of, for example, the effects of light, and a sociable poet who sees place as expressive of its inhabitants… The minuteness of his attention is often rewarding… an intriguing counterpart to the more public work of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison.’Trade Review`Garfitt has mastered the art of connecting every sound and image in a poem with the action that propelled it into being.’ - Anne Stevenson
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Prometheus Bound
Book SynopsisThis is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult play is a model of clarity, intelligence, and a profound familiarity with the workings of Greek myth, Greek literature, and literature in general. --Rachel Hadas, Department of English, Rutgers UniversityTrade ReviewThis is the best Prometheus Bound in English. Deborah Roberts' translation is accurate, readable, and true to the original in idiom, imagery, and the combination of a high style with occasional colloquialism. The informative notes and perceptive Introduction will help readers to experience the play with heightened pleasure and understanding. --Seth L. Schein, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
£11.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North
Book SynopsisThough North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped. Known only by his pen name, the poet and author ‘Bandi’ stands as one of the most distinctive and original dissident writers to emerge from the country, and his work is all the more striking for the fact that he continues to reside in North Korea, writing in secret, with his work smuggled out of the country by supporters and relatives. The Red Years represents the first collection of Bandi’s poetry to be made available in English. As he did in his first work The Accusation, Bandi here gives us a rare glimpse into everyday life and survival in North Korea. Singularly poignant and evocative, The Red Years stands as a testament to the power of the human spirit to endure and resist even the most repressive of regimes.Trade ReviewAs a collection of poems by an anonymous North Korean dissident sees the light here for the first time, Katie Law learns the extraordinary story of how he risked his life to smuggle his work out of the country ... The Red Years, a slim volume of 51 short poems, makes for pretty depressing reading, the brutality of life under Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il expressed even more crudely than in the stories. * Evening Standard *In 'The Red Years', we are shown the possibility of this kind of communal solidarity persisting. The collection, then, is a fragment of this private enclave – the ardent defense of an interiority unbroken by propaganda. * NK News *Powerful insights into a world behind walls. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, Guardian *Courageous and confounding ... It's a quiet privilege to be given access to the voiceless by listening to such vivid and uncompromised storytelling. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, New Statesman *A fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, New York Times *Spare, direct, unflinching and bitterly angry. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, Observer *Bandi [presents] a world in which North Koreans are nuanced: broken-hearted, idealistic, still full of life. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, Times Literary Supplement *Its very existence is still a hopeful symbol that change is inevitable, if not imminent. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, Vice *Fascinating and chilling. Heartfelt and heartbreaking. * Praise for Bandi’s The Accusation, Margaret Atwood *Table of ContentsPreface Poem 1. Barren Earth A New Arirang for the North Green Leaves, Falling Blizzard Bloody Fall A Maiden’s Window Song of the Fire Swallows Chajabi (The Hitchhiker) Ugly, White Snow The Mill on the Mountain New Seongcheon Station 2. Exhausted Heart Song of the Red People Roundabout Blues Toads No Ingredients Blues Idol 50 Years of Red Five Thieves Blues Stepmother The Song of Kim Juseok Heartsick Red Locomotive Night at the Military Camp Affliction in the Red House 3. Longing for You, My Love One Heart Long, Long Winter Nights Ah! KBS Educational Channel My Love How Much I Love You Please Deliver Just This Blow, South Wind This Lonely Life I Awaited You, My Love 4. Attached to a Life Youth is a Forking Road O Azaleas Song of Life Pine Trees Thoughts of Mother Woman of Pure Love Oak Tree in Winter A Man Your Lover 5. Wishes Bandi (Firefly) Landscape White with Snow Why I Love Wildflowers Me for Myself The Whistling Man Today The World Where People Live Open-minded Life Sow Love, Reap Love A Dream Afterword: Bandi’s Dream - Do Hee-yun
£11.39
Counterpoint The Mad Farmer Poems
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£12.74
Simon & Schuster A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisThe authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night''s Dream from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” This edition includes: -Freshly edited text bas
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Word Planting
Book SynopsisKendel Hippolyte’s poetry moves easily, boldly between the worlds of public engagement and the intimacies of domesticity. What unites this movement are the distinctive sounds and rhythms of his voice, and whilst some poems have a named recipient, and some are addressed to himself, all engage the reader in an implicit dialogue. His is an art of sound, of the rhythms of the long, supple line, of form that sometimes disguises itself as no form, of the beauty of the crooked basket. He wants the poem to draw us in rather than hold us outside in admiration at its skill – and skill and craft are what his poems display in spades. His is a vision that extends outwards in illimitable ways in space and time, but where the scale is always the human body, the human mind.The challenge comes in the way his poems address the dread reality of a Caribbean world of disappointed dreams, of sovereignty swamped by the new economic and cultural imperialism that masquerades under the mask of globalisation, of waking “one morning and the Caribbean was gone”, of continuing environmental degradation. The questioning comes from looking inwards to wonder why this has happened, what failures of vision, what empty sloganizing, what dishonesties, arrogance and failures of mutual respect led to the defeats so that “the rivers of Babylon clog into vomit…” The comfort comes from both the small loving kindnesses of the domestic – the rituals of coffee-brewing, of bed-making – but also the refusal to retreat, to look to the moment when flint and iron can “flare into the hot bright moment of a spark”.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Theban Plays
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff''s dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles'' Theban cycle, presenting the translators'' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff''s Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful, hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruff''s Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, the composition of the plays, and the plots and characters of each; it also offers thoughtful reflections on major critical interpretations of these plays.
£32.39
Tristan Publishing Paw Prints in the Stars A Farewell and Journal
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Midwinter Day
Book SynopsisPerhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts.Trade Review"Love and the seasons and the exigencies and opportunities of daily survival are the inevitable occasions of a body of work that is as radical as it is Horatian, able as little else is both to delight and instruct." -- Edwin Frank - Boston Review"One of the most interesting, exciting, and open of late-20th-century experimental poets." -- Tom Clark - San Francisco Chronicle"Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation… All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination." -- Michael Lally - The Washington Post"The richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in this magnificent work of prose and poetry that teaches us at the end why 'no one knows why / Nothing happens.'"" -- John Ashbery
£12.34
Forgotten Books The Complete Poetical and Prose Works of Robert Burns With Life Notes and Correspondence Classic Reprint
£32.29
Christian Publishers LLC 100 Duet Scenes for Teens: One-Minute Duos for
Book SynopsisEasily staged scenes with believable characters in a wide variety of comic and dramatic situations. The duets are divided into four categories: Gender Neutral; Male & Female; Male Only; Female Only. The short length of each duet scene makes it easy for students to memorise lines. Excellent for contests, acting practice or comedy revue shows.
£18.04
Hardpress Publishing Annus Mirabilis 1
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Broadview Press Ltd Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800
Book SynopsisLong central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work’s transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace.Trade Review“Lyrical Ballads, the collection that, in many accounts, launched Romanticism, has often been reprinted, but never in a wholly satisfactory edition. ...Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter, in yet another splendid Broadview edition, have provided the solution that scholars and students have longed for. This remarkable volume provides both the 1798 and 1800 volumes in full. But more than this; in eight appendices, they provide an astonishing wealth of extra material. ... This is a volume that will surely become a standard in the field, a vital tool in teaching and scholarship. ...[It is] more than one could possibly have hoped for.” — Year’s Work in English Studies (2010)“An edition we’ve all been waiting for, as teachers and as scholars—containing more than one would have thought possible to include in one volume. Herein is all the contextual material one could wish for: reviews from periodicals, including Southey’s and Jeffrey’s famous articles; discussions in correspondence, including comments by Coleridge, Lamb, Southey and Dorothy Wordsworth; critical discussions from Biographia and “My First Acquaintance with Poets”; poetic sources by Burger, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams; verse responses by Southey, Mary Robinson; even a section detailing how the poems were rearranged in Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Collected Works. All this plus the texts of poems excluded from the 1798 and 1800 editions, a handy appendix plotting the poems’ locations on maps of Britain and the Lakes, and a magisterial introduction.” — Tim Fulford, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge: A Chronology A Note on the TextLyrical Ballads, 1798 EditionAdvertisement “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” “The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Dramatic Fragment” “Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite” “The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798” “The Female Vagrant” “Goody Blake, and Harry Gill, A True Story” “Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the person to whom they are addressed” “Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman” “Anecdote for Fathers” “We Are Seven” “Lines Written in Early Spring” “The Thorn” “The Last of the Flock” “The Dungeon” “The Mad Mother” “The Idiot Boy” “Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening” “Expostulation and Reply” “The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject” “Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch” “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” “The Convict” “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” Reviews of the 1798 Edition [Robert Southey], Critical Review (October 1798) Monthly Mirror (October 1798) Analytical Review (December 1798) New Annual Register for 1798 (1799) Monthly Magazine (January 1799) New London Review (January 1799) [Charles Burney], Monthly Review (June 1799) The British Critic (October 1799) Naval Chronicle (October and November 1799) Antijacobin Review (April 1800) [Daniel Stuart], Morning Post (April 1800) [Daniel Stuart], Courier (April 1800) [Daniel Stuart], Courier (June 1800) Portfolio (January 1801) Lyrical Ballads, 1800 EditionVolume IPreface “Expostulation and Reply” “The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject” “Animal Tranquillity & Decay, a Sketch” “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” “The Last of the Flock” “Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite” “The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Narration in Dramatic Blank Verse” “Goody Blake & Harry Gill, A True Story” “The Thorn” “We Are Seven” “Anecdote for Fathers” “Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they areaddressed” “The Female Vagrant” “The Dungeon” “Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman” “Lines Written in early Spring” “The Nightingale, Written in April, 1798” “Lines Written when sailing in a Boat at Evening” “Lines Written near Richmond upon the Thames” “The Idiot Boy” “Love” “The Mad Mother” “The Ancient Mariner, A Poet’s Reverie” “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” NotesVolume II“Hart-Leap Well” “There was a Boy” “The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem” “Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle” “Strange fits of passion I have known” “Song” “A slumber did my spirit seal” “The Waterfall and the Eglantine” “The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral” “Lucy Gray” “The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral” “’Tis said, that some have died for love” “Poor Susan” “Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert’s Island, Derwent-Water” “Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere” “To a Sexton” “Andrew Jones” “The Two Thieves, or the last Stage of Avarice” “A whirl-blast from behind the hill” “Song for the Wandering Jew” “Ruth” “Lines Written with a Slate-pencil upon a Stone” “Lines Written on a Tablet in a School” “The Two April Mornings” “The Fountain, a Conversation” “Nutting” “Three years she grew in sun and shower” “The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral” “Written in Germany, On one of the coldest days of the Century” “The Childless Father” “The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description” “Rural Architecture” “A Poet’s Epitaph”“A Character, in the antithetical Manner” “A Fragment” “Poems on the Naming of Places” “Michael, a Pastoral Poem” NotesReviews of the 1800 Edition [John Stoddard], The British Critic (February 1801) Monthly Mirror (June 1801) Portfolio (June 1801) Portfolio (December 1801) American Review and Literary Journal (January 1802) Monthly Review (June 1802) [Francis Jeffrey], Edinburgh Review (October 1802) Edinburgh Magazine (July 1803) Appendix A: Additions to the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems (1802) William Wordsworth, “Appendix:—by what is usually called Poetic Diction” (1802) Appendix B: Poems by Coleridge Originally Intended for Lyrical Ballads “Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant” “Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie” “Christabel” Appendix C: Correspondence about Lyrical Ballads Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (8 June 1797) Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (ca. 3 July 1797) Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (ca. June 1797) Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (13 March 1798) Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (ca. 28 May 1798) William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (2 June 1799) Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. John Marshall (10 and 12 September 1800) Samuel Coleridge to Humphry Davy (9 October 1800) William Wordsworth to Charles James Fox (14 January 1801) Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth (30 January 1801) Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning (15 February 1801) William Wordsworth to Samuel Coleridge (early March 1801) Charles James Fox to William Wordsworth (25 May 1801) Robert Southey to Grosvenor Bedford (19 August 1801) Samuel Coleridge to William Sotheby (13 July 1802) Samuel Coleridge to Robert Southey (July 1802) Samuel Coleridge to Thomas Poole (14 October 1803) Appendix D: Commentary on Lyrical Ballads From Samuel Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817) From William Hazlitt, “My First Acquaintance With Poets” (1823) From William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick (1857) Appendix E: The Dispersal of Lyrical Ballads into the CollectedWorks of Coleridge and WordsworthAppendix F: Prose Contemporaries From Joshua Reynolds, A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy (1771) From James Beattie, Essays: On Poetry and Music, as they Affect the Mind (1776) From Erasmus Darwin, “Interlude I,” The Botanic Garden (1789) From George Dyer, Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793) From Erasmus Darwin, Zoönomia; or,The Laws of Organic Life (1794–96) From Joanna Baillie, “Introductory Discourse” to A Series of Plays (1798–1812) From Mary Wollstonecraft, “On Poetry” (1798) From Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1800) Appendix G: Verse Contemporaries From George Crabbe, The Village (1783) Charlotte Smith, “Sonnet III:To a Nightingale” (1784) From William Cowper, The Task (1785) Helen Maria Williams, “To Sensibility” (1786) [William Wordsworth], “Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress” (1787) From Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1789) Gottfried August Bürger, “Lenora” (1796) Charlotte Smith, “Sonnet LXX: On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic” (1797) Robert Southey, “Inscription III. For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon” (1797) From Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, a Tragedy (1798–1812) Robert Southey, “The Idiot” (1798) Thomas Beddoes, “Domiciliary Verses: December 1795” (1799) Robert Southey, “The Mad Woman” (1799) Robert Southey, “English Eclogues: Eclogue IV: The Sailor’s Mother” (1799) Mary Robinson, “The Haunted Beach” (1800) Appendix H: Mapping the PoemsSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Michael Field: The Poet: Published and Manuscript
Book Synopsis“Michael Field” was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siècle literary culture.This Broadview Edition offers selections from all published books of poetry by Michael Field, and a substantial section of transcriptions from largely unpublished manuscript letters and diaries that gives insight into the extraordinary life and work of the authors. A critical introduction, bibliography, and selection of contemporary reviews are also included.Trade Review“This selection from the extensive oeuvre of the two women, aunt and niece, who called themselves ‘Michael Field,’ is a revelation. The editors have given us the most generous selection of the poems to date. The cold fire of Michael Field’s lyricism, its compact, enigmatic language, is fully contextualized in the poet’s debt to Nietzsche, to late century aestheticism, Hellenism, and feminism. The joint diary and the letters of this astonishing poet, with their intellectual astringency, wit, and frankly sensuous homoeroticism, and their acquaintance with major figures of aesthetic culture Pater, Vernon Lee, Browning, and the Berensons enable us to read the late nineteenth-century’s modernism in a wholly new way.” — Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, University of London“The two women who loved and wrote as ‘Michael Field’ feature in recent histories of Victorian sexuality, but this collection convincingly demonstrates their importance in the history of British poetry. A balanced and informative introduction and generous selections highlight the breadth of elements their lyrics synthesized—ancient Greek and Persian, Elizabethan, German, French, Roman Catholic, and even painterly. Extracts from Bradley and Cooper’s journals and correspondence place them amidst aesthetes and critics from Ruskin and Wilde to Berenson, although contemporary reviews show them denied proper recognition. This anthology surveys a unique literary partnership that both reflected and influenced the main artistic currents of turn-of-the-century Britain.” — Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware“Perhaps the most important of the year’s publications, in terms of its effect on the future direction of Victorian poetry studies, was Michael Field, the Poet: Published and Manuscript Materials, edited by Ana Parejo Vadillo and Marion Thain. Bringing together a wide range of writings by the two women who worked under the name ‘Michael Field’, this single-volume edition is a product of the growing scholarly interest in this important fin-de-siècle writer, and it will surely be a spur to further work on the poet.” — review in The Nineteenth Century: The Victorian PeriodTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsMichael Field: A Brief ChronologyMichael Field’s Circle: A Key to NamesIntroductionPoetry1. From Long Ago (1889)[Epigraph]PrefaceI. “They plaited garlands in their time”II. “Come, dark-eyed Sleep, thou child of Night”III. “Oh, not the honey, nor the bee!”VI. “Erinna, thou art ever fair”XI. “Dreamless from happy sleep I woke”XIV. “Atthis, my darling, thou did’st stray”XVI. “Delicate Graces, come”XVII. “The moon rose full: the women stood”XX. “I sang to women gathered round”XXI. “Ye rosy-armed, pure Graces, come”XXV. “Ah for Adonis! So”XXVIII. “Love, fatal creature, bitter-sweet”XXX. “Thine elder that I am, thou must not cling”XXXIII. “Maids, not to you my mind doth change”XXXIV. “‘Sing to us, Sappho!’ cried the crowd”XXXV. “Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place”XXXVI. “Yea, gold is son of Zeus: no rust”XLIV. “Nought to me! So I choose to say”LII. “Climbing the hill a coil of snakes”LVII. “My shell is mute; Apollo doth refuse”LXI. “There is laughter soft and free”LXIII. “Grow vocal to me, O my shell divine!”LXV. “Prometheus fashioned man”LXVIII. “Thou burnest us; thy torches’ flashing spires”“O free me, for I take the leap”2. From Sight and Song (1892)[Epigraph]PrefaceL’Indifférent,WatteauVenus, Mercury and Cupid, CorreggioLa Gioconda, Leonardo da VinciThe Faun’s Punishment, CorreggioThe Birth of Venus, Sandro BotticelliSpring, Sandro BotticelliA Portrait, Bartolommeo VenetoSaint Sebastian, CorreggioVenus and Mars, Sandro BotticelliA Fête Champêtre, Antoine WatteauSaint Sebastian, Antonello da MessinaA Pen-Drawing of Leda, SodomaMarriage of Bacchus and Ariadne, TintorettoThe Sleeping Venus, GiorgioneL’Embarquement Pour Cythère, Antoine Watteau3. From Underneath the Bough (1893)[Epigraph]InvocationThe First Book of Songs“Mortal, if thou art beloved”“Death, men say, is like a sea”“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”“Men, looking on the Wandering Jew”“Love’s wings are wondrous swift”An Apple-Flower“Through hazels and apples”“Say, if a gallant rose my bower doth scale”“Ah me, if I grew sweet to man”The Second Book of Songs“Others may drag at memory’s fetter”“Little Lettuce is dead, they say”A Death-Bed“A curling thread”“She mingled me rue and roses”Unconsciousness“When the cherries are on the bough”“Thanatos, thy praise I sing”The Third Book of Songs“Already to mine eyelids’ shore”Cowslip-Gathering“A girl”“Methinks my love to thee doth grow”“If I but dream that thou art gone”Love’s Sour Leisure“I sing thee with the stock-dove’s throat”“A gray mob-cap and a girl’s”“It was deep April, and the morn”An InvitationThe Fourth Book of Songs“Across a gaudy room”“As two fair vessels side by side”“The lady I have vowed to paint”“The iris was yellow, the moon was pale”“I lay sick in a foreign land”“The roses wither and die”“There are tears in my heart”“On, o Bacchus, on we go”“I would not be a fugitive”“Sunshine is calling”4. From Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908)[Epigraph]Pan AsleepPenetrationOnychaVioletsSweet-Basil“The woods are still that were so gay at primrosespringing”EmbalmmentWhat Is Thy Belovéd More Than Another Belovéd?Love: A LoverA Violet BankRealityEnchantmentFrom BaudelaireFifty QuatrainsReveilleThe PoetA Forest Night“I love you with my life—’tis so I love you”A VisionIV:The Mummy Invokes His SoulOctoberEbbtide at SundownSirenusaAvowalRenewalLife PlasticAbsencePartingOld IvoriesBalsamConstancyA PalimpsestAbsenceWhym ChowA Minute-HandGood Friday5. From Poems of Adoration (1912)Of SilenceReal PresenceAnother Leadeth TheeRelicsA Dance Of DeathImple Superna GratiaAfter AnointingViaticumTransit 6. From Mystic Trees (1913)The Captain JewelThe Winding-SheetThe Five Sacred WoundsWhite Passion-FlowerPraisesBefore RequiemThe Rosary of BloodDread St. MichaelShe is Singing to Thee, Domine!Caput Tuum ut Carmelus7. From Whym Chow: Flame of Love (1914)[Epigraph]IV. “O Dionysus, at thy feet”V.TrinityVI. “What is the other name of Love?”VIII. Out of the EastIX. “My loved One is away from me”XXII. “Sleeping together: Sleep”XXIX. “O Chow, the Peace of her I love above”8. From Dedicated: an Early Work by Michael Field (1914)Dionysus ZagreusThe Genethliacs of WineDe ProfundisSylvanus CupressiferCaenis CaeneusErosThe MaskFellowship9. From The Wattlefold: Unpublished Poems by Michael Field (1930)Blessed HandsMy BirthdayPoetsHow Letters Became PrayersHow Prayers Became Letters AgainPomegranatesLovers“Lo, my loved is dying”RespiteThey Shall Look on Him“I am thy charge, thy care!”A Cradle SongFading“What shall I do for Thee to-day?”Life-Writing1. DiariesFrom Works and Days: The Diaries of Michael Field, 1888–19142. Letters Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper to Each Other and to Family (1885) From John Ruskin (1877) To and From Robert Browning (1884–85) To John Miller Gray (1893) To and From Bernard Berenson (1891–?1912) To Mary Costelloe, later Mary Berenson (1892–?1912) To and From Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon (1895–1907) To and From John Gray (1907–?1912) Other Interlocutors (1884–90) Reviews Review of Long Ago by John M. Gray, The Academy (8 June 1889). Review of Sight and Song by W.B.Yeats, The Bookman (July 1892). “Women and Men:Women Laureates,” by T.W.H. [T.W. Higginson], Harper’s Bazar (17 June 1893). Review of Underneath the Bough [Anon], The Athenaeum (9 September 1893). Review of Wild Honey [Anon], The Academy (8 February 1908). Appendix: Index to Names of Major Artists and Literary Figures Appearing in the Life-Writing SectionBibliography of Bradley and Cooper’s Major Published VolumesSelect Bibliography of Critical and Related Work
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Graywolf Press WHEREAS Poems
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Broadview Press Ltd The Witlings and The Woman-Hater
Book SynopsisThis Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney's linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a "femme savante" whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the "elle" figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney's fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century conventions; The Woman-Hater, more melodramatic, both expresses and warns against the excessive sensibility of romanticism. Together, these two plays constitute a miniature history of English drama from the Restoration to the French Revolution and beyond. This edition contains a valuable selection of appendices, including: Burney’s "Epilogue to Gerilda"; letters and diary entries; contemporary writings on comedy; and Burney’s cast-list for The Woman-Hater.Trade ReviewIt is no longer a secret for specialists only that Frances Burney wrote some of the finest stage comedies of the eighteenth century. Thanks to Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill, this splendid edition makes two of her best plays available to readers, directors, actors, and students alike." - Brian Corman, University of Toronto"Burney’s comedies, like her novels, have lively and funny moments, but are likely to appeal to modern readers as much for their uncomfortably vivid depictions of embarrassment, vulnerability and marginalisation on the basis of gender, class, status and money. Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill’s edition effectively contextualises The Witlings and The Woman-Hater within eighteenth-century theatrical culture and Burney’s own preoccupations, literary and personal. This is an attractive, affordable, and excellently annotated edition." - Jacqueline Pearson, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsShort TitlesIntroductionFrances Burney: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Witlings (1778-80)The Woman-Hater (1800-02)Appendix A: Burney’s Earliest Theatrical Writing: Epilogue to GerildaAppendix B: Contemporary Letters and Diary Entries on The WitlingsAppendix C: Burney and MolièreAppendix D: Contemporary Critical Essays on “Laughing” and Sentimental ComedyAppendix E: Literary Allusions in The Witlings and The Woman-HaterAppendix F: Burney’s Cast-List for The Woman-HaterAppendix G: Similarities between The Witlings, The Woman-Hater, and Burney’s NovelsSelect Bibliography
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Hal Leonard Corporation Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman: Eight Plays
Book SynopsisA collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia ä Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound ä Aeschylus; Oedipus the King ä Sophocles; Antigone ä Sophocles; Medea ä Euripides; The Bakkhai ä Euripides; Oedipus ä Seneca; Medea ä Seneca.
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Whiskey Words a Shovel III
Book SynopsisBestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.Trade Review"R.H. Sin uses poetry to share his accounts of heartbreak and unhealthy relationships. He speaks of his muse, who is every woman who has struggled to find love and felt like she wasn't worthy of it." (Dominique Etzel, Alloy)"That [past] relationship continues to fuel his writing, which encourages women to dump lesser men, avoid jerks, and stand up for what they want." (Sheila Marikar, The New Yorker)"...deliciously sizable...final book in his groundbreaking trilogy." (Adrian Liang, Omnivoracious)
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Verve Poetry Press Big Sexy Lunch
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dublin Oldschool
Book SynopsisEpic.In small ways. Jason, a wannabe DJ, is making his way through the streets of Dublin on a chemically enhanced trip, stumbling from one misguided misadventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past: his brother, Daniel.Daniel is an educated, homeless addict, living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven't seen or spoken to each other in three years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge, perhaps they have more in common than they think, but how long can this buzz last?This programme text edition of Dublin Oldschool was published to coincide with the revival of the play at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, on 11 January 2016.Trade ReviewIt's as a great onrush of sometimes laugh-out-loud verbal virtuosity that Emmet Kirwan's very talented two-hander bowls you over . . . There's the swagger and linguistic self-intoxication of rap and a kind of vernacular concrete poetry that you can almost see materialising in mid-air as it is uttered. * Independent *With its up-tempo energy and fast-flowing but lyrical urban poetry . . . it's a buzz * Evening Standard *He is driven by a lust for language and there is no doubt he has a gift for a telling line. * Guardian *
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Open Book Publishers The Theatre of Shelley
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Dog Horn Publishing Poetry, Grief and Healing
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Salmon Poetry Daytime Astronomy
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Observances
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. In the informal rituals of the tide remaking its tideline, of a painter absorbed in the act of painting or of an old couple greeting the night, the English poet Kate Miller sees and charts the creative process at work. As its title suggests, Miller's striking debut collection explores perception, the poet's eye and ear trained on distances that stretch beyond comfort zones. This is a book full of movement: even quiet reflections on home and family life are rarely still. Throughout the collection Miller dwells on the unfixed and restless image and shows herself as subject to it - to the difficult illusion of physical energy in sculpture, to the changeability of skies and the insistent rhythm and presence of the sea.Table of Contents1 WAVE ... CLOUDS PASSRegarding a Cloud 13Promise 14The Long Goodbye 15Lines To Convey Distance 16Longest Day 17Every Book is a Long Walk 18Couple in the Park with No Kids 19No Place 20The Hoopoes Have Come Home 21Against This Light 22all'antica 23On Lower Marsh, the Wallflowers 24Not Dormant Now, la Belle au bois 25Passage 262 LIFE CLASSPatient at Paimio 29Observances: The Chapels at Paleochora 30The Deposition 32From the Gods at Oz Adana, Pas de deux 33Pilgrimage 34The Apple Farmers' Calendar 35Girl Running Still 36Under the Hill 42Life Class 43And now you 44Isolated Vocal Track 453 VIGILSLandscape in Light Cast by the Moon 49Minding the Antiquarian Bookseller's House 50From the Sleeping Car 51God of Flame 53Colour Beginnings 54At the Root of the Wind is Strife 56Single Figures 58The Realism of Late Roman Portraits 59Solo 60Emergency Landing 614 ENTER THE SEAEnter the Sea 65As It Was 66At the Dew Pond, West Dale 67The Shift 68Of Vertigo 70Sallyport 71After the Ban 72The Sea is Midwife to the Shore 74House at Sea 75Nelson's Last Walk 76Sea View and Separation, Sole Bay 77Stay 80The Crossing 81Again (reprise) 82
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Wrecking Ball Press Cornrows And Cornfields
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Double Falsehood: Third Series
Book SynopsisOn December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was 'Written Originally by W.SHAKESPEARE'. Double Falsehood's plot is a version of the story of Cardenio found in Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605) as translated by Thomas Shelton, published in 1612 though in circulation earlier. Documentary records testify to the existence of a play, certainly performed in 1613, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, probably entitled The History of Cardenio and presumed to have been lost. The audience in 1727 would certainly have recognised stage situations and dramatic structures and patterns reminiscent of those in Shakespeare's canonical plays as well as many linguistic echoes. This intriguing complex textual and performance history is thoroughly explored and debated in this fully annotated edition, including the views of other major Shakespeare scholars. The illustrated introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the debates and opinions surrounding the play and the text is fully annotated with detailed commentary notes as in any Arden edition.Trade Review‘The publication of Theobald's adaptation in the Arden Shakespeare series is to be welcomed.' * Jonathan Bate, Daily Telegraph *‘For most of the three centuries since its debut, Double Falsehood; or, the Distrest Lovers has been ridiculed as a hoax or just disregarded. Yesterday that changed when The Arden Shakespeare, one of the best regarded scholarly editions of Shakespeare's plays, published Double Falsehood, endorsing its credentials and making it available for the first time in 250 years.' * The Times *‘The play's ‘bardic provenance' has been given fresh credibility by publishers Arden, who have included it in a new series of Shakespeare's work. The publication of the play, which is bound to spark heated scholarly discussion, comes after a ten year mission to crack a literary mystery by Professor Brean Hammond, of Nottingham University.' * Daily Mail *‘Professor Brean Hammond will publish compelling new evidence next week that the play is.. substantially based on a real Shakespeare play called Cardenio. Hammond has been backed in his assertion by the Shakespeare published Arden...' * The Guardian *‘This week, British publishers Arden Shakespeare published the play for the first time in 250 years with evidence Hammond has gathered over the past decade that shows Shakespeare's hand in the work, which was co-written by John Fletcher.' * CNN.com *‘Play, possibly reworked from Shakespeare, is added to a literary collection:: A play from the 1700s contains reworked material of Shakespeare's has gained a qualified endorsement from the Arden Shakespeare, a scholarly anthology of that playwright's work.' * New York Times *'...a thorough and judicious account of the relevant scholarship....Brean Hammond's excellent edition is indispensable.' * Times Literary Supplement (May 2010) *'The play was recently published by the Arden Shakespeare, for the first time in 250 years, with evidence Prof Hammond has gathered over the past decade that shows Shakespeare's hand in the work.' * Birmingham Post (July 2010) *'It is brilliant and unusual; the Bard's style and influence seemed irrefutable...even though there is a darker twist to the dialogue and plot than one might expect from him immediately.' * The Observer (January 2011) *
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolas
Book SynopsisIn calling this collection Yoruba from Cuba, a phrase from the poem 'Son Número 6', the translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillén's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. His selection shows Guillén constantly returning to the theme of race and the historical legacies of slavery in both the Caribbean and the USA. But in poems such as 'Balada de los Dos Abuelos', Guillén is also seen stressing the mulatez heterogeneity of Cuban culture in drawing on African, European and other immigrant traditions. As a life-long Marxist and anti-imperialist, Guillén celebrated the Cuban revolution, including the heroic example of Che Guevara, but he also addressed the tendency to a repressive puritanism within the ruling party in such important poems as 'Digo que yo no soy un hombre puro'. In this dual language selection of one of the outstanding poets of the Hispanic world, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres has created lively, very readable English versions that capture both the colloquial vigour of Guillén's language and the incantatory rhythms of those of the poems where he draws on the dance patterns of the Cuban 'son'. The selection covers the range of Guillén's work from Poemas de Transición (1927-1931) up to poems from La Rueda Dentada and El Diario que a Diario, both of 1972. With a translator's preface, an introduction by the distinguished scholar of Cuban culture, Professor Alistair Hennessy, notes, a chronology and a reading list, this is an edition that will bring Guillén's powerful and epochal poetry to both the general reader and to the student. His work is unquestionably one of the towering landmarks of Caribbean poetry.Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres teaches Spanish language and Latin American poetry at the Language Centre, University of Warwick.
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Arc Publications Fast Talking PI
Book SynopsisFast Talking PI reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously togetherTable of ContentsContents, TUSITALA, Googling Tusitala , Not Another Nafanua Poem , Afakasi , Calabash Breakers , Hone Said , Things on Thursdays, Song for Terry, , Langston's Mother, Cardboard Crowns , The Sum of Mum, Wild Horses , Three to Four , Le Amataga / The Beginning, Spare the Rod, A Samoan Star-chant for Matariki, Circle of Stones , TALKBACK Guys like Gauguin, Nails for Sex, Mutiny on Pitcairn, Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894, Venus in Transit , Realpolitik , Contact 101 , Has the whole tribe come out from England?, What's Sarong With This?, The Curator, Hawai'i: Prelude to a Journey, Touring Hawaii and Its People , Alice's Billboard , FAST TALKING PI Acronym , Outcast , Notes and acknowledgements
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Arc Publications Ljubljana
Book SynopsisThe seventy-seven poems that form Meta KuA'ar's "Ljubljana" pay complex homage to her home city, the Slovenian capital. Although her vision of Ljubljana begins with places, buildings, bridges - the city the visitor sees - the poet very soon takes us to the insider's Ljubljana, a personal space alive with associations and images, rich with references. As she senses the depths and inter-connections under the city's skin, the city becomes a place of mind and memory, almost an extension of her body. At the same time, KuA'ar leads us into a wider meditation on the links between who and where we are, and between present experience and cultural heritage. In this beautifully modulated translation, and with introductory material that guides us through unfamiliar territory, the English-language reader can savour and enjoy the work of one of Slovenia's most individualistic and highly-regarded poets for the first time.Table of ContentsTranslators' Preface, Introduction, and 77 untitled poems, numbered 1-77 (Slovene and English translation of each poem on facing pages)
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Dedalus Press Selected Poems
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Dedalus Press Landing Places: Immigrants Poets in Ireland
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Checkpoint Press Poems for Children to Enjoy
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Andrews McMeel Publishing September Love
Book SynopsisA book that will change the way you think about love, relationships, heartbreak, and self-empowerment. Breaking the rules, challenging perceptions, and exploring the secret desires we keep hidden from the world. Beautifully composed and written by international bestselling author Lang Leav, this new collection of poetry and prose will positively influence your life. September Love captures the magic of each passing season, a pearl of wisdom waiting to be discovered with every page turned. A book that will inspire you to reach for the stars.
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Luath Press Ltd From the Ganga to the Tay
Book SynopsisThe Ganges and the Tay, the largest water courses in their two countries, are sources of life, conflict and industrial and historical change. The Ganga and the Tay is an epic concrete poem in which the River Ganges and the River Tay relate the historical importance of the ties between India and Scotland and their contemporary relevance as a natural symbol of continuity and peace. The poem is illustrated with beautiful photographs of both great rivers, which explore their shared, but unique, personalities through their histories, geographies, mythologies and environments.Trade ReviewThe book is certainly a conceptual and poetic achievement... THE NEWSTATESMAN Bashabi Fraser's epic tale of two nations, Scotland and India, as told by the competing voices of the River Tay and the Ganges, brilliantly reinvents the flyting tradition in Scottish poetry. A rich blend of mythic, historical, and geographical storytelling, her poem explores aspects of India and Scotland from a radically unusual perspective, paying tribute to the close links between both post-colonial nations. The framework of Hindu imagery for the voice of the Ganges come across most vividly, as does the 'leaping salmon' vigour of the Tay. Passages of sublime lyricism, combined with bardic narrative energy, fuse into a poem which displays very much her own vision, a 21st. century one. And it is a great read! Mario Relich. In the art of Bashabi Fraser the cultures of India and Scotland richly blend, and in this magnificent poem the two living traditions speak to each other through the riverine oracles of the Ganges and the Tay.' RICHARD HOLLOWAY
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Harvard University Press Songs in Dark Times
Book SynopsisBetween the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftists reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.Trade ReviewSongs in Dark Times arrives at just the right moment. The internationalist visions of cross-ethnic, multiracial solidarity that Glaser finds in Yiddish poetry of the 1930s are more urgent than ever in our own dark times of crisis. Her original account of the multilingual ‘passwords’ that allowed left-wing poets to connect Jewish experiences to those of other minority groups grows out of an acute sensitivity to the way literary language can forge powerful political affiliations. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and PerpetratorsBefore there was Google, there was poetry. This is a book about passwords that performed not in the technical but in the aesthetic realm: words that allowed for the crossing of the border from Jews to others who suffered. Today, when the uses and abuses of historical comparisons are so intensely debated, Glaser reminds us that thinking through analogies—translating untranslatable suffering—is inextricably bound up with empathy. Though set in the catastrophic ‘long 1930s,’ Songs in Dark Times speaks uncannily to our present moment. -- Marci Shore, author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life And Death In Marxism, 1918–1968Glaser takes us on a truly international journey: from China to riot-torn Palestine to the Jim Crow American South to war-torn Spain to Soviet Ukraine. It is a compelling journey guided by an astute literary scholar with a keen sense of historical context. Intriguing, original, and acutely intelligent, Songs in Dark Times will take its place as one of the finest analyses of Yiddish literature to have been written in several decades. It is a joy to read, and I recommend it heartily. -- Joshua M. Karlip, author of The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern EuropeSongs in Dark Times impresses and delights with close readings, careful analysis, breadth of vision, and unmistakably transnational sensibility. Glaser uses the key term ‘passwords’ to enter a radically reconfigured space in which Yiddish writers of the interwar period used markers of Jewish identity to embrace other marginalized groups. This welcome intervention in Jewish studies and comparative literature has an added bonus: Glaser’s translations of ten Yiddish poems, with work by women writers not readily available elsewhere. -- Harriet Murav, author of David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and FuturityGlaser tells the story of too-little-known interventions in modernist Jewish and North American poetry, chronicling the ingenuity of Yiddish communist poets, who used their ethnic and social particularity as a means to join international struggles against injustice, racism, and economic inequality. Chock full of provocative poems, still simmering debates, and irresolvable contradictions, Songs in Dark Times is fascinating, informative, challenging, exuberantly archival, and necessary. -- Charles Bernstein, author of Near/MissRescues long-forgotten poems from communist periodicals in the United States and Soviet Union and shows how they used Jewish ‘passwords’ in behalf of a vision of multi-ethnic and racial solidarity. Challenging but accessible, poignant and provocative, Songs in Dark Times makes an invaluable contribution to Jewish studies, Yiddish literature, and transnational political discourse. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Jerusalem Post *Deeply probing…Glaser lifts up the work of Yiddish poets grappling with the issues of their day. -- Eric A. Gordon * People’s World *
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Scotland Street Press Ant: Collected Short Stories, War Serials, and
Book SynopsisKnown above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is a collection of these, put together with an introduction by Jean Findlay, author Chasing Lost Time – the life of CK Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator (Chatto and Windus 2014, Vintage 2015, Farrar Straus and Giroux 2015)Trade ReviewTimes Literary Supplement June 18th 2015;It is the season of C. K. Scott Moncrieff. It has been a long season beginning last summer with the publication of Chasing Lost Time a biography of Scott Moncrieff by Jean Findlay, his great-great-niece. CKSM was responsible for a great many translations – in 1926 alone, he published four: three novels by Stendhal and one by Pirandello (Shoot!) – but it is for his rendering of Proust into English that he is best known. Supporters like to invoke Conrad’s remark to the translator, that he was `more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust’s creation.’ …In his TLS review of Ms Findlay’s biography (October 31, 2014), A.N. Wilson complimented CKSM in similar style to Conrad, suggesting that he is `more Proustian than Proust himself.’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Short Stories 5 Evensonge and Morwesong 7 Mortmain 11 Cousin Fanny and Cousin Annie 16 The Victorians 39 Ant 56 Two Tales 66 The Mouse in the Dovecot 78 War Serials 89 Early Poems 125 War Poems 151 Love and Dedicatory Poems 171 Satirical Verse 189
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The University of Chicago Press Lands End New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this comprehensive volume, Mazur demonstrates a remarkable mastery of poetic technique as she depicts human relationships in all of their ambiguities. . . . Here, as elsewhere, the speaker boldly and sensitively proclaims her own lack of understanding. It is this vulnerability, equipped and complemented with extensive erudition, that makes Mazur’s poems as poignant as they are accomplished in their craft." * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *"In her honed and arresting new collection of poetry, Land’s End, Gail Mazur rightly observes that the sycamores along Memorial Drive in Cambridge do something different than the showy blaze of other trees in fall, 'patterning the road and the old river/with their own kind of darkness and light.' . . . In these new and selected poems, Mazur, who lives in Cambridge and Provincetown, writes with sensual specificity of the Cape, its mussels and sand flats and sandpipers, a hummingbird moth, turnips grown in Eastham, the humble and sublime." -- Nina MacLaughlin * The Boston Globe *"In Land’s End, Mazur has done the hard work, building a palette of primal elements, the metaphors of place — gulls, sand, pebbles worn by tides — to express the yearnings of mortality." * Provincetown Independent *"Before I had received Gail Mazur’s Land’s End, it had already been praised to me as an artifact, a book that looks and feels handsome. In this day of cookie-cutter template publication and undistinguished design, that’s already a quality to celebrate, and not simply incidental to the poet’s own work." -- Jim Kates * Arts Fuse *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNew PoemsHall Mirror At 4 A.M. That Was Then My American Poem At Land’s End Walking Barefoot, August Thoreauvian The Conversation Nostalgia End of Summer Eastham Turnips, November Rest Stop The Breakwater * Josef Albers The High Line Snapshots There Came a Time Blue Work Shirt * Early Morning Walks More, More from Forbidden City (2016)Mount Fuji Forbidden City My Studio Believe That Even in My Deliberateness I Was Not Deliberate * Shade Age On Jane Cooper’s “The Green Notebook” Philip Guston The 70s Elephant Memory To the Charles River * We Swam to an Island of Bees Instance of Me The Self in Search of the Sublime Things Family Crucible Grieffrom Figures in a Landscape (2011)Figures in a Landscape Hermit The Age Poem Shipwreck To the Makers Borges in Cambridge, 1967 To the Women of My Family History of My Timidity Dear Migraine, Isaac Rosenberg Inward Conversation Post-Pastoral Concordance to a Life’s Workfrom Zeppo’s First Wife (2005)Blue Umbrella The Mission September Queenie Dana Street, December Zeppo’s First Wife Seven Sons Waterlilies American Ghazal Rudy’s Treefrom They Can’t Take That Away from Me (2001)Five Poems Entitled “Questions” Michelangelo: to Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel Poems Maybe It’s Only the Monotony Young Apple Tree, December I Wish I Want I Need The Weskit Evening Girl in a Library Air Drawingfrom The Common (1995)I’m a Stranger Here Myself In Houston Whatever They Want Bluebonnets Poem for Christian, My Student Foliage Ice Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s Bedroom at Arlesfrom The Pose of Happiness (1986)The Horizontal Man Jewelweed Reading Akhmatova Hurricane Watch Fallen Angels Listening to Baseball in the Car To RTSL, 1985from Nightfire (1978)Baseball
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Vagabond Press Eelahroo Long Ago Nyah Looking MbMb Future
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Unbroken Poetry II: Poésie ininterrompue II
Book SynopsisPaul Éluard’s poetry is concerned with sexual desire and the desire for social change. A central participant in Dada and in the Surrealist movement, Éluard joined the French Communist Party and worked actively in the Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Caught between the horrors of Stalinism and post-war, right-wing anti-communism, his writing sustains an insistent vision of poetry as a multi-faceted weapon against injustice and oppression. For Éluard, poetry is a way of in?ltrating the reader with greater emotional awareness of the social problems of the modern world. Unbroken Poetry II, published posthumously in 1953, pays tribute to Dominique Éluard, with whom Paul spent the last years of his life. It traces the internal dialogues of a passionate relationship as well as of his continuing re-evaluation of the poetic project it-self. It centres on political commitment and places it at the heart of the lovers’ desire.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisAttilio Bertolucci was one of Italy's greatest modern poets. This book is the first English edition of his poetry. His translator Charles Tomlinson was known internationally as one of the most distinguished modern English poets: his poems were described by Hugh Kenner as 'among the best in the English language in this century'. Born in 1911, Attilio Bertolucci published his first book of poems at the age of 18. His second, published in 1934, was recognised and favourably reviewed by Eugenio Montale. There followed a period of silence, broken in 1951 by The Indian Wigwam, which won the Viareggio Prize. He published two other books in the early 50s, but no more poetry until Winter Journey in 1971, his most boldly experimental as well as his most mature book. He also published two bestselling volumes of a novel in verse, La camera da letto, a kind of family history about his parents and childhood, and his love for Ninetta, the mother of Giuseppe and Bernardo Bertolucci, his two film-director sons. A frequent cause of pleasure and also disquiet in Bertolucci's poetry is his sense of time, the calm fire of the days. The critic Paolo Lagazzi speaks of Bertolucci, although slowly bleeding to death because wounded by time, as also drawing from time 'all the gifts, colours, sweetnesses still possible - while darkness and winter advance without truce'. Italian-English bilingual edition.
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