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University of Arkansas Press A Necklace of Bees: Poems
Book SynopsisWith a quirky poignance, Dannye Romine Powell's third collection probes the nature of loss—loss that's actual and loss that's feared. In these poems, loss takes many guises. With its ferny breath, loss is sometimes the lover who waits in secret on the porch. Sometimes even loss recognizes the feeling of loss and "calls the cops / to say his best friend / went fishing and won't answer his phone." Often, the poet mourns a loss of innocence, as when she learns, after attending the funeral of a friend, that the dead woman's husband has a history of infidelity. There's also the loss of romantic love, as when the woman "pulls / toward shore, a shore she calls by a name / she swore she'd never breathe again."Trade ReviewDannye Romine Powell's luminous new poems seem places we've all been, made of words we wished we had said: where we take the dead shopping, where Loss is made flesh, and where a son and a garden teach us too much about sacrifice. Bravo!" - Alan Michael Parker, author of Love Song with Motor Vehicles"The poems in A Necklace of Bees are lyrical, passionate, intimate, and nervy, and they respect the complex reality of love. They do not gloss; they do not lie. They tell the beautiful, painful truth." - Kelly Cherry, author of Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Selected Poems
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Penguin Publishing Group Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSelections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardThe late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” (The New York Times) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from Some Trees, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to A Wave (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery’s major long poems, including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSelected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges'' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators, among them W.S. Merwin, John Updike, Robert Fitzgerald, Mark Strand and Alastair Reid.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisRooted in the Suffolk landscape of his youth, the poetry of George Crabbe is some of the most distinctive and original of the early nineteenth century, exploring ordinary, often harsh working lives in realistic, subtle language. This selection contains the best of Crabbe''s poetry from throughout his career, including ''Peter Grimes'' from The Borough, the powerful ''Sir Eustace Grey'', the complete Tales of 1812 and the remarkable late work ''The Family of Love''. Depicting people struggling against the undertow of the past and against their own frailties, these are works of great generosity and human sympathy. This Penguin Classics volume is edited with an introduction and notes by Gavin Edwards.George Crabbe was born in 1754 in Suffolk. The son of a collector of salt-duties, he spent a period of apprenticeship and unsuccessful practice as an apothecary and surgeon before moving to London to make his way as a writer. Struggling with destitution, he w
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Book SynopsisThe writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express ''great swarms of thought and feeling''. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa''s poets and poetry contribute to the ''mysterious importance of existence''.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisDrawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick''s six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991''s debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. Sky Nails, his selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in Italy.Throughout, McKendrick has been concerned with the charting of space, of the distances between homeland and edgeland, the far-flung and the near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry, unsettling observations. There is remembrance, here, and salv
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Penguin Random House Group Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThe author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This book reveals how much we have been missing. Fascinated by a wide variety of verse techniques, Robert Louis Stevenson produced superb work in styles ranging from folk ballads to witty conversational offerings for his friends. Pieces using Robert Burns''s stanza form and dialect rank among the most attractive Scots poetry of the nineteenth century. Angus Calder has brought together many uncollected poems, substantial extracts from the published collections and the complete Child''s Garden of Verse (1885), an extraordinarily evocative picture of childhood loneliness, visions and fears. Far more than in his famous novels, it was here that Stevenson felt able to give direct expression to his deepest feelings about friendship, love and nostalgia; this definitive anthology captures a compelling and Table of ContentsSelected PoemsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTable of DatesFurther ReadingUNCOLLECTED POEMS, TO 1885The Light-Keeper"The roadside lined with ragweed, the sharp hills"Spring-SongDuddingston"The whole day thro', in contempt and pity""I sit up here at midnight"DedicationEpistle to Charles BaxterTo Charles BaxterTo Sydney"O dull, cold northern sky"Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor PudoriTo Ottilie"A little before me, and hark!"St. Martin's Summer"My brain swims empty and light"The Cruel MistressStormStormy NightsSong at Dawn"I am a hunchback, yellow faced -""Last night we had a thunderstorm in style"To Charles Baxter [in Lallan]To the Same (On the death of their common friend, Mr. John Adam...)"I saw red evening through the rain""I who all the winter through"John CavalierAlcaics to H. F. BrownLines for H. F. BrownTo Mrs. MacMorlandBrasheanna"Since years ago for evermore"Rhymes to W. E. Henley"Dear Henley, with a pig's snout on""My letters fail, I learn with grief, to please""We dwell in these melodious days"Tales of Arabia"Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful""Now bare to the beholder's eye"Translations from MartialEpitaphium ErotiiDe M. AntonioDe LigguraMORAL EMBLEMS (1882)Moral Emblems II. "See how the children in the print"II. "Reader, your soul upraise to see"III. A Peak in DarienIV. "See in the print, how moved by whim"V. "Mark, printed on the opposing page"Moral Emblems III. "With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee"II. "The careful angler chose his nook"III. "The Abbot for a walk went out"IV. "The frozen peaks he once explored"V. "Industrious pirate! see him sweep"FROM MORAL TALES [1882]Robin and Ben: or, the Pirate and the ApothecaryA CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSESTo Alison CunninghamBed in SummerA ThoughtAt the SeasideYoung Night ThoughtWhole Duty of ChildrenRainPirate StoryForeign LandsWindy NightsTravelSingingLooking ForwardA Good PlayWhere Go the Boats?Auntie's SkirtsThe Land of CounterpaneThe Land of NodMy ShadowSystemA Good BoyEscape at BedtimeMarchng SongThe CowHappy ThoughtThe WindKeepsake MillGood and Bad ChildrenForeign ChildrenThe Sun's TravelsThe LamplighterMy Bed is a BoatThe MoonThe SwingTime to RiseLooking-Glass RiverFairy-BreadFrom a Railway CarriageWinter TimeThe HayloftFarewell to the FarmNorth-West PassageThe Child AloneThe Unseen PlaymateMy Ship and IMy KingdomPicture Books in WinterMy TreasuresBlock CityThe Land of Story-BooksArmies in the FireThe Little LandGarden DaysNight and DayNest EggsThe FlowersSummer SunThe Dumb SoldierAutumn FiresThe GardenerHistorical AssociationsEnvoysTo Willie and HenriettaTo My MotherTo AuntieTo MinnieTo My Name-ChildTo Any ReaderFROM UNDERWOODS (1887)Book OneI. EnvoyIII. The Canoe SpeaksV. The House BeautifulVI. To a GardenerIX. To K. de M.X. To N. V. de G. S.XII. To Mrs. Will H. LowXIII. To H. F. BrownXV. Et Tu in Arcadia VixistiXVI. To W. E. HenleyXVIII. The Mirror SpeaksXXI. RequiemXXVI. The Sick ChildXXX. A PortraitXXXV. Skerryvore: The ParallelXXXVIII. "My body which my dungeon is"Book Two - In ScotsI. The Maker to PosterityII. Ille TerrarumIII. "When aince Aprile has fairly come"IV. A Mile an' a BittockV. A Lowden Sabbath MornVI. The SpaewifeVII. The Blast - 1875VIII. The Counterblast - 1886IX. The Counterblast IronicalX. Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner ClubXI. Embro Hie KirkXII. The Scotsman's Return from AbroadXIII. "Late in the nicht in bed I lay"XIV. My Conscience!XV. To Doctor John BrownXVI. "It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth"FROM BALLADS (1890)The Song of RaheroTiconderogaHeather AleChristmas at SeaUNCOLLECTED POEMS, 1885-1894The Song of the Sword of AlanThe Bour-Tree DenTo Katharine de MattosThe Fine Pacific IslandsTo Henry JamesThe Family"As with heaped bees at hiving time""Fixed is the doom; and to the last of years"To My WifeFROM SONGS OF TRAVEL (1895)I. The VagabondII. Youth and LoveIV. "In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand"V. "She rested by the Broken Brook"VI. "The infinite shining heavens"VIII. "To you, let snow and roses"IX. "Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams"XI. "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight"XII. We Have Loved of YoreXIV. Mater TriumphansXV. "Bright is the ring of words"XVI. "In the highlands, in the country places"XVII. To the Tune of Wandering WillieXVIII. WinterXXI. To Sidney ColvinXXII. "The morning drum-call on my eager ear"XXIII. "I have trod the upward and the downward slope"XXVI. If This Were FaithXXVIII. To the MuseXXXV. To My Old FamiliarsXXXVI. "The tropics vanish, and meseems that I"XXXVII. To S. C.XXXIX. The WoodmanXL. Tropic RainXLIII. The Last SightXLIV. "Sing me a song of a lad that is gone"XLV. To S. R. CrockettXLVI. EvensongAppendix: Note on Scots Language, from UnderwoodsNotesGlossaryIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book Synopsis''Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it'' The New York Times Book ReviewSelf-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented: ''to set the next man - however theoretical he and his needs may be - a bit more free.''This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht, and poems written in English or translated by the author himself. It surveys Brodsky''s tumultuous life and illustrious career, and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Edited and introduced by Ann Kjellberg
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Aiora Press Selected Poems
Book SynopsisVrettakoss poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain divine messages that the lens of poetry can help us to perceive.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Vanity; Reckoning; Apologia to a Mountain; The Great Work; The Difficult Mountain; My Writing; The Landscape s Transformation; Translation; Hospitality; Transfusion; Whatever Happens; A Song for the Earth; A Little Song; A Different Soldier; The Field of Words; Treeplanting; The Idea of Departing; The Ark; The Destruction of Faces; The Contest and the Adjudicator; My Monogram; Poems for the Same Mountain V; Poems for the Same Mountain X; Creation; Poetry; The Pulse; Manifest Evidence; Ive Spoken; Creation; As If At Times Youd Ceased...; My Gaze...; The Constant Dream...; Id Gone...; Other Waves...; I Pondered Much...; Poetry...; Beside My Other...; Chronology; Book-length English Translations; Index of Greek Titles
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Salt Publishing Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA major selection from Monk’s work, including “Interregnum” in its entirety for the first time, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from a key British writer whose approachable experimental works are filled with wit, linguistic virtuosity and a sound grasp of the shifting realities of the worlds we live in.Trade ReviewI am continuously awed by Monk’s opening out of experiential spaces both in terms of drama and close feeling, the way she catches the small words we offer in the face of immensities. -- David Annwn... wild, erotic and deeply strange writing. A poetry that reveals the unspeakable weirdness of the everyday. -- Sean BonneyGeraldine Monk is both a comic and a ferocious writer ... she writes with a sense of fury that is almost drowned out by laughter. -- Tim AllenInterregnum, [Monk’s] piece on the Pendle Witches, is a case in point, ranging over a variety of possible approaches to the construction of a poem – an undeniably fascinating work ... it’s still good to see the work of one of our senior avant-gardistes being given serious attention like this. -- Tony Frazer * Shearsman *Table of Contents Long Wake Rotations La Quinta del Sordo Banquet Angles Diversions Corners Animal Crackers Sky Scrapers Herein Lie Tales of Two Inner Cities Latitudes Interregnum Trilogy Manufractured Moon The Transparent Ones Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text. Absent Friends
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisMichael Hofmann''s poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject-matter has been equally individual, including his remarkable and complex series of ''father-poems'', his subtle portraiture of the lives of others, East and West, together with his acerbic impressionism of contemporary England, and his exploration of Adorno''s injunction that ''it is part of morality not to be at home in one''s home''.Trade Review"'Michael Hofmann is one of the best poets writing in English.' Helen Dunmore, The Observer"
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
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Valley Press Selected Poems
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Book SynopsisThe poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. ''Tableaux parisiens'' portrays the brutal life of Paris''s thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as ''Le Beau Navire'', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as ''La Chambre Double'' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal, show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisW.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century – an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his poetry was unavailable in Britain for over 35 years until Bloodaxe published this edition of his Selected Poems in 2007. This new selection covers over five decades of his poetry, from The Dancing Bears (1954) to Present Company (2005). Most of the book is drawn from his major American retrospective, Migration, winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry. It was followed in 2009 by The Shadow of Sirius, which won him a second Pulitzer Prize, and then by The Moon Before Morning (2014) and Garden Time (2016). Merwin’s poetry has moved beyond the traditional verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engage a vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of his work: ‘I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn’t take so much from it into my own life.’ His recent poetry is perhaps his most personal, arising from his deeply held beliefs. Merwin is not only profoundly anti-imperialist, pacifist and environmentalist, but also possessed by an intimate feeling for landscape and language and the ways in which land and language interflow. His latest poems are densely imagistic, dream-like, and full of praise for the natural world.Trade ReviewThe work of more than five decades, gathered from 15 volumes, is here compressed into a selection that is more luminous than voluminous. Bulk is not Merwin's style. A fastidious, elegant writer, he is a calligrapher of consciousness, a fine penman aware that he is writing not on parchment but in water… Merwin is the unmistakable heir of the Emerson and Whitman who so ecstatically hymned flux. Like them he wonders constantly at how "all that I did not know went on beginning around me"; and like them he possesses a rare gift for pristine sensation. Yet between him and them there is a difference, evident from the minor key of his psalms, written as they mostly are in what can only be called the "passing tense". That difference is the measure of the history of the American century and of the present American world. As much American Noah as American Adam, post-modern Merwin is aware of launching a porous ark of language. Behind even his most serene raptures lies always the quiet imagination of apocalypse: "I hope I make sense to / you in the shimmer / of our days while the world we / cling to in common is // burning." To which one can only gratefully answer: yes, indeed, this volume does make very good sense. -- M. Wynn Thomas * Guardian *He has attained – more and more with every collection – a wonderfully streamlined diction that unerringly separates and recombines like quicksilver scattered upon a shifting plane, but remains as faithful to the warms and cools of the human heart as that same mercury in the pan-pipe of a thermometer. -- James Merrill
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Everyman Selected Poems
Book SynopsisIt is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of nineteeth-century culture in Britain and America. His literary revolution was founded on three principles: introspection, nature worship and the cult of ordinary experience. These three he blended together in a verse which is simple in manner but profound and deeply moving in content. In an age of revolutionary upheaval, industrial stress and religious doubt, Wordsworth rediscovered spiritual value in the individual’s encounter with nature. In our own age of ecological disaster and moral uncertainty, his achievement speaks to us more urgently than ever. From the poet’s extensive output, this comprehensive selection includes everything non-specialist readers are likely to need.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca was born into an educated family of small landowners in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898. A poet, dramatist, musician and artist, he attended the university at Granada, where he acquired a fine knowledge of literature. In 1919 he went to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and during his long stay there he met all the principal writers, critics and scholars who visited the place, which was then a flourishing centre of cultural liberalism. In 1928 his Gipsy-Ballad Book (Romancero gitano) received much public acclaim. In 1929 he went to New York with Fernando de los Ríos and his volume of poems Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) was published posthumously in 1940. On his return to republican Spain, he devoted himself to the theatre, as co-director of La Barraca, a government-sponsored student theatrical company that toured the country. He now wrote fewer poems, but these include his masterpiece Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejía
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HarperCollins Selected Poems
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Penguin Random House Group Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and repeatedly savaging its enemies. Yet the finest works of his political and spiritual imagination- Absalom and Achitophel and The Hind and the Panther-develop the themes of envy, ambition, and misdeed in ways that far transcend their era. During the Glorious Revolution, Dryden fell from patronage and favor: he then transformed himself into perhaps the greatest of English translators, a superb interpreter of Virgil and Horace, Juvenal and Persius, Boccaccio and Chaucer. This edition contains a preface and annotations accompanying each poem, modernized spelling and punctuation, and an informative introduction and chronology.For more than seTable of ContentsJohn Dryden: Selected PoemsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDryden's CareerThe TextBibliography and Further ReadingAcknowledgementsChronology1749 Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings1659 Heroic Stanzas1660 Astræa Redux1661 To His Sacred Majesty1662 To Dr. Charleton1667 Annus Mirabilis1671 Prologues, Epilogues and Songs from The Conquest of Granada1676 Macflecknoe1677 Prologue and Epilogue to All For Love1680 The Prologue at Oxford, 16801681 The Epilogue Spoken to the King at OxfordAbsalom and Achitophel1682 Prologue and Epilogue to The Unhappy FavouriteThe MedalPrologues to the Duke and Duchess of YorkReligio Laici1684 To the Earl of RoscommonTo the Memory of Mr. Oldham1685 Translations from Lucretius, De Rerum NaturaFrom the Third Book: Against the Fear of DeathFrom the Fourth Book: Concerning the Nature of LoveTranslations from HoraceBook 1, Ode 3Book 1, Ode 9Book 3, Ode 29To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew1687 The Hind and the PantherA Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 16871688 Lines on Milton1692 EleonoraFrom The Satires of Juvenal and PersiusThe First Satire of JuvenalThe Third Satire of JuvenalThe First Satire of Persius1694 To My Dear Friend Mr. CongreveTo Sir Godfrey Kneller1696 An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell1697 From The Works of VirgilFrom Æneis 1: The TempestFrom Æneis 5: The Funeral SportsFrom Æneis 12: The Combat of Turnus and ÆneasFrom Georgics 2: The CountryFrom Georgics 3: The Battle of the BullsFrom Georgics 3: The PlagueFrom Georgics 4: The Labour of the BeesAlexander's Feast1698 Lines of Tonson1700 From Fables Ancient and ModernPrefaceTo the Duchess of OrmondeTo My Hounoured Kinsman, John DridenBaucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's MetamorphosesThe First Book of Homer's IliasThe Cock and the Fox; or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest, from ChaucerThe Wife of Bath Her TaleThe Character of a Good Person, Imitated from Chaucer and EnlargedCymon and Iphigenia, from BoccaceThe Secular MasqueNotes
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisW.B. Yeats''s Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection of Yeats''s work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats''s work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats''s struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.W B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the ''sedentary toil'' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.If you enjoyed Selected Poems, you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, also available in Penguin Classics.''A compelling poetic presence ... together with Joyce, Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible''Timothy Webb
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Selected Poems
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSince his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God''s Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most recent collection, won the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. For any readers unfamiliar with Don Paterson''s work, this Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to this most captivating of writers; and for fans, an essential gathering from a master craftsman.
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems
Book SynopsisApollinaire is the most significant French poet of early modernism and the only great First World War poet from France. He coined the word 'surrealism' and was at the forefront of literary and artistic experimentalism. This new selection covers the full range of his career in facing-page translations, with some pictorial calligrams.Trade ReviewRepresentative of the poetic career as a whole. * Mark Ford, London Review of Books *Sorrell's lexical choices makes us realize how subtle the challenge to the translator really is, and how successfully that challenge has been met. * Translation and Literature *There's no doubt that reading French books will help you expand your vocabulary and general comprehension skills, but for many, the thought of getting through an entire French novel is rather daunting. An enjoyable alternative is to read poetry which offers French Prose in shorter, more manageable chunks and where better to start than with the poems of one of France's most celebrated poets, Guillaume Apollinaire? * Living France *
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection to introduce English readers to the wonders of Lorca's poetryTrade Review"What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius, a winged heart and a crystalline waterfall, come together in anyone else as they did in him. Federico Garcia Lorca was the extravagant 'duende,' his was a magnetic joyfulness that generated a test for life in his heart and radiated it like a planet." -- Pablo Neruda
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisWallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative speculation with what he called ''the essential gaudiness of poetry'', in an oeuvre of astonishing profusion and exuberance.The Selected Poems was compiled by the poet at the request of Faber & Faber, in 1953, shortly before his death, and was intended to be representative of the range of his acheievement, from the whimsical and exotic lyrical inventions of Harmonium to the pondered large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years.
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Shearsman Books Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThis Selected provides an overview of Trevor Joyce's multifaceted poetic career and covers some 45 years of work. The books appears simultaneously with the first major scholarly volume devoted to his work.Table of ContentsCapital Accounts earlier / even than / morning Tohu-bohu from The Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine Joinery Coumeenole Seven Songs from Turkic & Finno-Ugric Syzygy Construction Diagram + Sun they found / a bucket cut a god / the wound successively / each emperor's barbarians / are bad Verses with a Refrain from a Solicitor's Letter The Fishers Fished The Course of Nature from Rome's Wreck Without Asylum The Turlough Lines in Fall some forty / years later presence / of the angel Tocharian Music The Peacock's Tale from Outcry Twin Relative Deposition Christchurch. Helix. 9th Month. Mirror: Of Glazier Velazquez Cry Help Cold Course from Love Songs from a Dead Tongue The Roads, People, the River '93/4 To-dp once encountered / you will always the marvellous / bird let's have / a market eye / masked / behind Saws Chimaera light / astral / obdurate examine / your own Hopeful Monsters Elegy of the Shut Mirror Neglect in Camera Spring Comes Two Songs from the Hungarian DARK SENSES PARALLEL STREETS o tiny / universe always / different / isn't it a complete / world not all / plants / are alike De Iron Trote Pentahedron STILLSMAN
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WW Norton & Co Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist and intellectual.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Book SynopsisAn essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves''s poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular visionary whose poems are ''inimitable, eccentric marvels - some of which are extraordinary, many are masterly, all are like nothing else ever written'' (Randall Jarrell).This edition of Robert Graves''s poems is scrupulously selected from across the full range of his lifetime''s verse. It opens with an illuminating introduction in which Longley makes a persuasive case for the importance of this remarkable poet.
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Wave Books Selected Poems
Book Synopsis"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle...Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."--Tony Hoagland of all things standing furthest from what is real, stand these trees shaking with dispensable joy ...Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It, a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow, a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.Trade Review"Her Selected Poems, like the work of William Carlos Williams, is a testimony not only to the power of artfulness, but to human empathy."--Rodney Jones, from his 2011 William Carlos Williams Award citation "This first retrospective collection from Ruefle, which selects from her nine previous books of poetry... shows her to be a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor."--Publishers Weekly "One of the enjoyable paradoxes of reading Ruefle's work is how easy it is to read, but how many possible meanings you can make. Though sometimes described as an experimental or "post-avant" poet, I have always found Ruefle's work intelligently accessible, charming and reader-friendly."--Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Rumpus "Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."--Tony Hoagland, On the SeawallTable of ContentsStanding Furthest; Transpontine; Replica; The Intended; From Memory; Patient; Without an Acre; All the Activity There Is; Barbarians; Perfume River; At the North Pole; The Beautiful Is Negative; The Last Supper; Pen and Ink; Depicted on a Screen; Heaven on Earth; The Beginnings of Idleness in Assisi; Lapland; Diary of Action and Repose; How It Is; Timberland; Cul-de-Sac; The Pedant's Discourse; Instrument of the Highest; Naked Ladies; Towards the Correction of Youthful Ignorance; Trust Me; Entirely, Eventually; Nice Hands; Rain Effect; Cold Pluto; Out of a Hundred; Merengue; Topophilia; Perpetually Attempting to Soar; Talking to Strangers; The Brooch; The Cart; The March; Ancestors; The Butcher's Story; The Hand; Minor Figure; Glory; The Wild Rose Bush; The Balloon; Perfect Reader; Tilapia; The Passing of Time; When Adults Talk; Marked; Argosy; Sentimental Education; Chilly Autumn Evenings; The Jewel; County Fair; The Letter; Pressed for Details; The Edge; Furtherness; Thistle; Nothing Like the Earth; Full Moon; Silk Land; Against the Sky; Mariposa and the Doll; Patina; Mercy; Among the Musk Ox People; Seven Postcards from Dover; The Tragic Drama of Joy; The Great Loneliness; The Feast; Zettel; Japanese Bloodgod; Magnificat; My Life as a Farmer (by James Dean); Critique of Little Errors; Concerning Essential Existence; Do Not Disturb; The Little I Saw of Cuba; In the Office of the Therapist I Behold the Extinguished Guests; The Nutshell; Why I Am Not a Good Kisser; Proscenium Arch; Oh Myrtie; From Here to Eternity; A Picture of Christ; Gathered on a Friday in the Hour of Jupiter; How I Became Impossible; The Tenor of Your Yes; My Happiness; The Meal That Way Always There; Kiss of the Sun; Pontiac; My Timid Eternity; Sweet Morning; The Imperial Ambassador of the Infinite; After a Rain; Thirteen; Lines Written on a Blank Space; Little Questions; Quick Note About the Think Source; Kettle; Lullaby
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisChosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Presented chronologically, and ranging from early works such as Paterson' (1949) to selections from White Shroud (198085) and Cosmopolitan Greetings (198692), and including the classic poems Howl (195556) and Kaddish (195960) as well as songs, recent uncollected poems and notes by the author, this volume brings together the most intensely personal verse of a great American poet incandescent explorations that expand the consciousness with their breadth of vision and depth of humanity.
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LEGARE STREET PR Selected Poems
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Graphic Arts Books Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSelected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost’s and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost’s early collections, including A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America’s most iconic poets, a voice to whom generations of readers have turned in search of beauty, music, and life. “Mowing” envisions the poet’s work through the prism of rural labor. “There was never a sound beside the wood but one / And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. / What was it it whispered?” The speaker does not know, but continues his task, hypnotized by its rhythm and simple music. In “After Apple-Picking,” as fall gives over to winter, the poet remembers in dreams how the “Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end” as he climbs the ladder into the heart of the tree. Both a symbol for life and a metaphor for the poetic act, apple picking leaves the poet “overtired / Of the great harvest [he himself] desired”, awaiting sleep as he describes “its coming on,” wondering what, if anything, it will bring. “The Road Not Taken,” perhaps Frost’s most famous poem, is a meditation on fate and free will that follows a traveler in an autumn landscape, unsure of which path to take, but certain he cannot stand still. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Robert Frost’s Selected Poems is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Michael Terence Publishing Hare: Selected Poems
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Selected Poems
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Oxford University Press Selected Poems
Book Synopsis''Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.'' Manuel DuranFederico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca''s poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, though he writes memorably of New York and Cuba too. Often in modernist idiom, and full of startling imagery, he evokes a world of intense feelings, silent suffering, and dangerous love.This selection balances poems from Lorca''s early collections with his better-known work to give a clear vision of his poetic development. Martin Sorrell''s accomplished translations are complemented by D. Gareth Walters''s shrewd Introduction, with its distinctive focus on the achievements of the poet. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
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LEGARE STREET PR Selected Poems
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
Book Synopsis'The patron saint of poetry' (according to Carol Ann Duffy), Roger McGough was born in Liverpool, the son of a docker, and attended Hull University. In the '60s he had a brief flirtation with the pop world as a member of the Scaffold. He has been one of Britain's most popular poets for over 40 years, and has written many books for children and adults. His Selected Poems, entitled Blazing Fruit, is a bestselling poetry title on the Penguin backlist. He lives in Barnes, south-west London, with his wife and two youngest children.
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Eyewear Publishing Selected Poems
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