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Book SynopsisL. W. Conolly is a leading authority on Shaw. He is Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate, Vice-President of the International Shaw Society, a Corresponding Scholar of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and the author and editor of numerous essays and books on Shaw. Professor of English Literature at Trent University in Ontario, Dr Conolly is also a Senior Member of Robinson College, Cambridge, and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.Trade Review'Compact but comprehensive...Students and general readers will find it both accessible and enlightening, Shaw scholars will regard it as an excellent resource, and directors of future productions of Pygmalion will wish they could hire Leonard Conolly as their dramaturg.' Shaw: The Annual Bernard Shaw Studies (September 2009) 'The prosicuity of shaw's drama of the fortunes of the cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle continues to coruscate.' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 19.05.10 'Pygmalion is not just about accents or class. It is about the battle of the sexes, of control.' Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, 19.05.10 'This is Shaw's most serious and politically provocative comedy, an elegant attack on a society at war with itself.' John Peter, Sunday Times, 23.05.10 'It's no great stretch of the imagination to discern that the play's ingenious arguments about poverty, accent, education and identity hold good for multicultural Britain today.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 26.05.10

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Book SynopsisBodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis edition of the multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton offers a thorough reconsideration of the text, comprehensive notes and glossary, together with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Witch of EdmontonAppendixNotes

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Book SynopsisEccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman''s passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which he is best known and, even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a phenomenon. From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman''s talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the soul of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now collected in book form for the first time, his broadcasts represent one of the most compelling archives of twentieth-century broadcasting, reawakening the modern reader to Betjeman''s unique perspective and the compelling magic of the golden age of wireless.Trade Review'A real treat ... A lovely, lovely anthology' * Daily Mail, Val Hennessy, Critic's Choice *'Games... has produced a volume which no Betjemaniac will be without.' * Evening Standard: A.N. Wilson *'What a joy' * Sunday Herald Magazine *'Beautifully produced... Betjeman was evidently a comic writer of the highest class' * Guardian *'Excellent' * Spectator *'Informative and entertaining' * Scotsman *'In Trains and Buttered Toast Betjeman's voice is gloriously new again' * The Times *'Stephen Games has made a useful, entertaining selection of Betjeman's radio talks' * Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisJohn Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a broad range of subjects from conservation and church architecture to tradition and Englishness. In this selection of his greatest poetry and prose, cherished classics such as Slough, Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden and A Subaltern’s Love-song sit beside rare gems like Metro-land, Betjeman’s critically acclaimed film script.Trade ReviewHis humour is remarkably versatile, for it can be used to serve both his deepest love and his most remorseless hatred * Observer *His poems spring from what he really feels about real life, and as a result he brings back to poetry a sense of dramatic urgency it had all but lost * Philip Larkin *Betjeman is perhaps as completely original a writer as has ever existed * Times Literary Supplement *'This "best of", which shows just why Betjeman came to be regarded with more affection than any other poet of the 20th century, lives up to the claim with a selection of his greatest poetry and prose' * Western Daily Press *'Who could ever tire of the amusing and poignant pictures he painted in verses...' * Oxford Times *

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Book SynopsisShakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, is available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.The Shakespeare in Autumn Seasons Edition--Fall: Features selected works from William Shakespeare, history’s greatest and most influential writer of the English language. His poetry and plays have been recited and studied for generation upon generation and remain iconic works of literature Presents a small yet wide-reaching collection of the Bard’s finest works, including The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and the complete sonnets Is distinctively and seasonally nuanced for autumnal reading Explores such important themes as love and romance, the economic ramifications of marriage, the immutable irreversibility of fate, the destructive nature of jealousy, the power dynamics of relationships, and the absurdity of ambition Is ideal for special-edition book collectors, fans of literary fiction and classic literature, Anglophiles, and people who love all things Shakespearean and the many cinematic adaptations of the Bard’s work Whether you’re buying this as a gift or as a self-purchase, this remarkable limited edition features: Beautiful hardcover with a distinctive one-of-a-kind, high-end/high-treatment laser-cut jacket, perfect for standing out on any discerning fiction-lover’s bookshelf Trim Size: 6 x 9 Beautiful decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes distributed throughout An exquisite matching laser-cut bookmark Part of a 4-volume Fall Seasons series including Anne of Green Gables, Dracula, and Sense and Sensibility William Shakespeare has been lauded as one of history’s greatest and most influential writers of the English language. His poems and plays have been recited and studied for generations, and remain iconic works of literature. Shakespeare in Autumn includes a nuanced selection of Shakespeare’s finest works, including: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Twelfth Night As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew Romeo and Juliet The Sonnets Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare (Seasons Edition--Fall) is one of four titles available in the Fall Seasons series. The Fall collection also includes Anne of Green Gables, Dracula, and Sense and Sensibility.

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Book SynopsisThe Gorgeous Nothings is a pivotal book: the first full-color publication of Emily Dickinson’s complete envelope writings in facsimile from her visually stunning manuscripts, here in a deluxe, large-scale editionTrade Review"The Gorgeous Nothings claims our attention with a new Emily Dickinson. This edition itself is a work of art." -- Susan Howe"This exquisitely produced book [The Gorgeous Nothings]—lovingly curated by Bervin and Werner—allows you to encounter Emily Dickinson’s ‘envelope poems’ in full-color facsimile for the first time. It’s an experience suspended between reading and looking, of toggling between those two modes of perception, and it thoroughly refreshes both." -- Ben Lerner - The New Yorker"The Gorgeous Nothings works as both an engrossing visual treat and an affecting work of literature, giving us a keen and tangible sense of not only of Dickinson’s writing, but of how she wrote." -- Bookforum"The first and immediate shocks are in the words, with other, lingering, aftershocks following in the visual details of their settings. The great thing about [The Gorgeous Nothings] is, of course, that it gives us all of this, complete." -- Holland Cotter - The New York Times"This book is a rare gift for all poetry lovers." -- Craig Morgan Teicher - NPR"Visual poets around the world will soon be mining these endlessly suggestive fragments." -- Marjorie Perloff - Times Literary Supplement"The beautiful reproduction, on the pages of The Gorgeous Nothings, of what might seem only negligible scraps of waste paper brings us closer to the restlessness of the constantly thinking poet who, in her later years, repeatedly seized her pencil and a fragment of an envelope to write about the lowliest and the most exalted states of being." -- Helen Vendler - New Republic"We see from The Gorgeous Nothings the way [Dickinson's] art and life were not separate endeavors. Dickinson wrote poetry every time she addressed or received an envelope. Whenever there was paper around, she put quill or pencil right to it. Dickinson, master of paradox. started these un-conversations with nobody, and so many years after her death, now — in curled script, with their sweet, perfect Ms and half-formed Ys, unpublished and unseen until now — they speak to us. And they have so much yet to say." -- Brenda Shaughnessy - Los Angeles Times"This book is a testament to the lasting power of Dickinson’s work and a new insight into the way her work arose. It’s suitably gorgeous production and lyrical accompanying essays make it a treat for the eye and the mind. " -- The Australian"An insightful new volume, The Gorgeous Nothings, edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner, also provides a fascinating glimpse of Dickinson by assembling images documenting the poetry she scrawled on repurposed envelopes — envelopes that have themselves been elevated to a new sort of art." -- Chicago Tribune"For years, Dickinson critics have been looking for some kind of order among the manuscripts - some way to describe or theorize the 'filing system' that the poet left and we found. In The Gorgeous Nothings, instead, what's restored to these traces of the work is a sense of occasioned disorder. What's been preserved through time in her handwriting is the decision to occupy the page. The page becomes just as important as the writing." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"The Gorgeous Nothings is one of the most ambitious, important literary feats of the year. It’s stunning, revelatory, and it functions as a key text to Dickinson’s oeuvre: seeing it demands a tectonic shift in the way we read her, brings her back to us even more extremely idiosyncratic than we could have guessed." -- The Rumpus"[The Gorgeous Nothings] opens up an aspect of her craft that suggests she was, in the so-called late ecstatic period of her career, experimenting with creating texts in relation to the visual, spatial, and technological possibilities of her medium—composing in response to the confines of her writing world rather than despite it." -- Quarterly Conversation"The Gorgeous Nothings is proof that one of our most important poets can still amaze and teach us new thing about the practice of poetry." -- Tupelo Quarterly

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, this work displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry.Trade Review'Beyond the simple clear writing, there's a special kind of human being at work, with a lot of wisdom in the cellar, sensible to living in the cosmos... Robin Fulton's translations are authentic English poetry'Herbert Lomas, Ambit

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction by Preti TanejaFlowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena

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Book SynopsisGive me the daggers and I'll pin the blame/ On Duncan's grooms who both are also slain. /A little water clears us of this deed /Though a large scotch might also do the trick...' To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare''s death, this is the first of a new collection of the Bard''s greatest plays, digested to a few thousand words with invaluable side notes from John Sutherland. Funny and incredibly clever, these parodies are a joy for those who know their Shakespeare, perfect for the theatre goer needing a quick recap, and a massive relief for those just desperate to pass their English exam.Trade ReviewWhat finer way to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death than a series of witty modern reworkings...Shakespeare reduced to 100 pages of pithy pentameter with smart side notes. * Evening Standard *Witty, fresh takes on Shakespeare * The Times *Hilarious – and all the better for those of us who know our Shakespeare back to front. -- Harriet WalterHilarious – and all the better for those of us who know our Shakespeare back to front. -- Harriet WalterShrewd interpretations of the Bard; funny footnotes too. -- Hugh Bonneville

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Book SynopsisA poetic odyssey through the origins of the universe from one of Britain’s leading physicists.There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance - a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus… For centuries, poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and before turning to the arts Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations. Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his own scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe, through two long-form poems - ‘The Elements’ and ‘The Galaxies’. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.

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Book SynopsisLemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay''s work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one of the UK''s foremost poets as he ably moves from loud protest through to quiet reflection.Trade ReviewBound to cause a storm rather than a smokescreen, Sissay's poetry is inturn sharp and beguiling, but always fresh...warm and frozen, butalways hard-hitting, Morning Breaks demands that you tune in to thisfrequency * * the Latest * *calmly reflective...so important * * City Life * *

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Book SynopsisThis volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare's plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the USMexico Borderlands and to create space to tell stories of and for La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume open-access scholarly edition. This anthology celebrates the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, and it situates these geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare's global afterlives. The editors offer a critical framework for understanding the artistic and political traditions that shape these plays and the place of Shakespeare within the mulTrade Review"The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1 features a wide range of plays that deftly re-imagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. Unique, ground-breaking, exceptional, thought-provoking, and inherently fascinating, The Bard in the Borderlands is a distinctive, ground-breaking, and unreservedly recommended as an addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Shakespeare studies collections. Of special appeal and value for readers with an interest in Hispanic American Dramas & Plays." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction: Tracing the Traditions of Borderlands Shakespeare, by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero SantosIntroduction to Volume I, by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero SantosPlaytexts and Introductions1. The Language of Flowers by Edit Villarreal2. Kino and Teresa by James Lujan3. The Tragic Corrido of Romeo and Lupe by Seres Jaime Magaña4. Hamlet, El Príncipe de Denmark by Tara Moses5. Ofélio by Joshua Inocéncio6. ¡O Romeo! by Olga Sanchez SaltveitGlossaryBibliography

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Book Synopsis"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell

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Book Synopsis"Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature."—Harold Bloom

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Book Synopsis Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including “San Francisco Blues,” the variant texts of “Pull My Daisy” and American haiku. HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS OF AMERICA All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back to America —Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, and a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes (City Lights) and Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).

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Book Synopsis The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein''s groundbreaking modernist classic, Tender Buttons. This centennial edition is the first and only version to incorporate Stein''s own handwritten corrections—found in a first-edition copy at the University of Colorado—as well as corrections discovered among her papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Editor Seth Perlow has assembled a text with over one hundred emendations, resulting in the first version of Tender Buttons that truly reflects its author''s intentions. These changes are detailed in Perlow''s Note on the Text, which describes the editorial process and lists the specific variants for the benefit of future scholars. The book includes facsimile images of some of Stein''s handwrittenTrade Review"Tender Buttons is a showcase of Stein's joyful draw to words."--Dina Weinstein, Jewish Book Council "What distinguishes this edition from others is over 100 edits, some indicated by Stein in her unmistakable handwriting found by editor Perlow in a first-edition copy held at the University of Colorado, as well as other corrections gleaned from her papers at Beinecke Library of Yale University and from the Library of America edition."--Karren LaLonde Alenier, Scene4 Magazine "She did in writing what Picasso and her other painter friends were doing in their Cubist painting. Writing had to be moved out of the grip of the nineteenth century. All naturalistic description, romanticism and sentimentality had to be left behind."--Renate Stendhal, San Francisco Bay Times "Tender Buttons is a dazzling work that rewards close study and requires a willingness to let go of the need for concrete, literal storytelling."--Christopher Luna, Rain Taxi Review of Books"Tender Buttons is a showcase of Stein's joyful draw to words."--Dina Weinstein, Jewish Book Council "What distinguishes this edition from others is over 100 edits, some indicated by Stein in her unmistakable handwriting found by editor Perlow in a first-edition copy held at the University of Colorado, as well as other corrections gleaned from her papers at Beinecke Library of Yale University and from the Library of America edition."--Karren LaLonde Alenier, Scene4 Magazine "She did in writing what Picasso and her other painter friends were doing in their Cubist painting. Writing had to be moved out of the grip of the nineteenth century. All naturalistic description, romanticism and sentimentality had to be left behind."--Renate Stendhal, San Francisco Bay Times "Tender Buttons is a dazzling work that rewards close study and requires a willingness to let go of the need for concrete, literal storytelling."--Christopher Luna, Rain Taxi Review of BooksTable of ContentsTender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms [The Corrected Text] Reception History by Juliana Spahr A Note on the Text by Seth Perlow

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of 100 poems, written by physicians, exploring the connections between medicine and poetry.

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Book SynopsisTony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. won the Royal Television Society's Best Original Programme Award and prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition.Trade ReviewIf I had the slightest influence over educational policy in this country, I'd see that v. was a set text in every school in the country, but of course if we lived in that sort of country, the poem wouldn't have needed to be written. -- Sir Richard Eyre

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Book SynopsisHere is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines erotic poetry. For what is more intriguing, more satisfying than strong, self-assured writing? This groundbreaking anthology includes some of our most powerful women writersamong them Sharon Olds, Elizabeth Alexander, Anne Sexton, Dorianne Laux, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Glück. These poets fully demonstrate that, far from being prurient, the erotic can permeate even the most mundane aspects of life, from reading a book to buying clothes.At the same time, the collection affirms the enormous meaningfulness of poetryits ability to express the inexpressible and to illuminate the most private and intimate of human experiences. The poets included here represent different ethnicities, geographies, social classes, and sexual preferences. The onlyTrade ReviewAll We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan “I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night— like a lover who wants to take her time but can’t. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom’s shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open.” ―Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family "It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ―Apalachee ReviewTable of ContentsALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE: Poetic Erotica by Women Edited and with an Introduction by Enid Shomer I. THE DISCOVERY OF SEX Woman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN In Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEU She Lays, MOLLY PEACOCK Practicing, MARIE HOWE Corinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURT At Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDER First Sex, SHARON OLDS Stairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKY The Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDS Bar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGAN Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCK Fast Gas, DORIANNE LAUX My Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTON The 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ’72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES “What Do Women Want?”, KIM ADDONIZIO Navy, BARBARA O’DAIR Preference, BETH GYLYS Your Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNI Your Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ Fishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMER When Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTON China, DORIANNE LAUX The Source, SHARON OLDS The French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSON Breasts, MAXINE CHERNOFF Wet, MARGE PIERCY Dream Lover,AMY EDGINGTON Lullaby, MOLLY PEACOCK Orion’s Belt, BRENDA HILLMAN Attraction, ENID SHOMER Space Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSON The Shyness, SHARON OLDS Desire, DEIDRE POPE Skylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN Black Slip, TERRY WOLVERTON First Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIO The Lovers, DORIANNE LAUX Directions, KATHERINE RIEGEL The Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCER Desire, JANE HIRSHFIELD II. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINS Kissing Again, DORIANNE LAUX The Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENO The Knowing, SHARON OLDS The Purr, MOLLY PEACOCK In the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINO Trying, ADA LIMÓN Christ You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROS The Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERS Seamless Beauty, WENDY LEE Downward, ERICA JONG Everything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLER Eros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOV The Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Afternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSO Curtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMAN Capitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERG Buttons, CHERYL CLARKE green boy, KAI CHENG THOM Housebound, AMY GERSTLER More or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMA I Love It When, SHARON OLDS Floating Islands, ENID SHOMER Hold Back, ROBIN BECKER I Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSS In Celebration, ELLEN BASS Something Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROS On a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDE This Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANG Amazon Twins, OLGA BROUMAS The Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS 2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICH Blindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAIN I Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELD III. WHEN THIS OLD BODY Gate C22, ELLEN BASS What Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCK Kisses, KIM ADDONIZIO Your Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOS Wet, CAROLYN CREEDON Love Poem, AUDRE LORDE Phenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOU homage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTON Freed Up, WENDY BARKER To Endings, KATHERINE RIEGEL Marriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASS Four Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMAS the wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOM The animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCY Drowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓN Dulzura, SANDRA CISNEROS Ecstasy, SHARON OLDS After Love, MAXINE KUMIN Afterwards, DORIANNE LAUX Watching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMAN Of Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELD Integrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Searching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMAN Us, ANNE SEXTON Summer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINO Song of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMAN We Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKER mary, LUCILLE CLIFTON The Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCK Foreshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERG The Return, MOLLY PEACOCK The Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONG Making Love to You When You're Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Feasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBER God/Love Poem, LENORE KANDEL Doomsday, MAURYA SIMON Notes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRA autopsky, KAI CHENG THOM Untitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEY January Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZ There's Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK

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Book SynopsisOn 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated ''to the heroic workers of Salonika'' and drawing on the fourteenth-century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary''s lament at Christ''s tomb with popular Greek folk traditions of resurrection and Spring to create a universal lament sung by every bereaved mother ''who sits and mourns on the blood-stained street with her heart flayed, her wing broken.''

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Book SynopsisWhat is a Poem? Where did the genre come from and where might it be going? This book examines the poem from three angles: the idea of the poem, the workings of the poem, and the poem's social and cultural contexts. Chapters will provide information on the history and the theory of the poem to explain how the emergence and maturity of key genres.

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Book SynopsisFormally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity.' – Ocean VuongBread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens.Examining the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on Airea D. Matthews's archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations.As the perspective shifts from watchful child, to teacher, mother, writer and citizen, Bread and Circus asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost.Trade Review'This book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions. Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity, Matthews engages the archive as a breathing document, refusing to let history be done with itself, and thereby accomplishes what I love most about poetry— especially hers—that it lives, is living.' -- Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 'Matthews's writing is bold, innovative and complex.' * Washington Post *'Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.' * New Yorker *'Discerning and significant' * Poetry Foundation *'Unflinching. . . Full of humane wisdom, this powerful volume forces readers to acknowledge systemic inequality.' * Publishers Weekly *'Matthews has earned a place in the accomplished company of Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser.' * Booklist *'When sinking into the work of Airea Matthews within Bread and Circus, "gratitude" is the word that most eagerly leaps to mind. I am grateful to be witness to a writer dismantling the boundaries of form, shape, and language, while not sacrificing any brilliance on the page. This is a stunning collection of work, which feels both ahead of its time and also abundantly on time.' -- Hanif Abdurraqip, author of The Little Devil in America 'From page to unrelenting page in this fierce and brilliant book, Airea Matthews shows us just how high the stakes of poetry should be. If you are not writing to save your life, you are not writing in Airea Matthews’ league.' -- Linda Gregerson, author of Canopy 'Roman poet Juvenal criticized a public distracted with free wheat and mindless entertainment. Toni Morrison said the point of racism is to keep us distracted from fully living our lives. With the genius and ferocity of mother love, Airea Matthews’s Bread and Circus shreds our expectations of what poems can be and do while clearing the air of the illusions that cloud our understanding of past, present, self and other. Lift the cover and breathe in the clarity concentrated on these pages." -- Gregory Pardlo, author of Digest

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Book SynopsisBut & Though is the debut poetry collection by south London poet Jake Hawkey. Jake Hawkey was born in 1990 and grew up in Woolwich. He studied Fine Art at the University of Westminster and holds an MA in Poetry from Queen's University, Belfast. His moving and hard-hitting collection grew out of an investigation into addiction within families for his PhD research, informed by his own experience of south London's socio-political class dynamics. Hawkey's poems are published in several journals and anthologies, including Hold Open the Door (UCD, 2020), The Honest Ulsterman and Proletarian Poetry. He has had sculpture works commissioned and has read his poems internationally, including on Beale Street, Tennessee, and at L'Abri Fellowship, Massachusetts. He was selected for Poetry Ireland's Introductions series in 2020. His chapbook Breeze Block appeared from Lumpen/The Class Work Project in 2020.

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Book SynopsisBilly Collins is the author of twelve poetry collections, including Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Whale Day, and Horoscopes for the Dead. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives with his wife in Westchester County, NY.

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Book SynopsisNo writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of influence, critical acclaim or popular success. And the Bard had plenty to say about the subject of love - the word appears more than 2,000 times in his collected works! Packed full of timeless reflections on the subject - from the star-crossed devotions of Romeo and Juliet to the witty rhetoric in Much Ado About Nothing - and complemented by fascinating facts about Shakespeare and his works - this Little Book contains some of the most romantic and profound lines ever written in the English language.Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you,Did my heart fly at your service. Ferdinand - The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1Did my heart love till now?Forswear it, sight!For I ne''er saw true beauty till this night. Romeo - Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5Doubt that the stars are fire,Doubt that the sun doth move his aides,<

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