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Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781933517568
A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.
Author : Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781452571478
The Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is revered today for many of the things he was criticized for during his lifetime. Born and raised in the ancient city of Kashan, he was educated in Tehran and travelled widely. A gentle introvert by nature, he was accused of escapism when his reaction to the world around him was to go back to nature, mysticism and mythology, poetry and painting. This mystic of the twentieth century seeks a light that radiates from the individual soul and ultimately affects its relationship with others and the world around it. While Rumi, the mystic of the thirteenth century, dances, sings, and chants out loud that he comes from the world of spirit and is a stranger in the world of matter, Sepehri, quietly aware of humanity in a milieu alien to its physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, in poetry and painting, appeared to stroke human consciousness into a tranquility, almost a state of beatitude, which nevertheless is never quite free of the ongoing struggle for "awareness, understanding and illumination." Sepehri had a free and sometimes convoluted approach to the verities of life, insisting that the book of everyday "illusions" must be closed and ... ... one must rise And walk along the stretch of time, Look at the flowers, hear the enigma. One must run until the end of being ... One must sit close to the unfolding, Some place between rapture and illumination. (Both Line and Space. Bk.8) In this fresh translation, Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid successfully conveys the meaning, feelings, and sensitivity of the Persian original allowing the reader to appreciate the pertinence of Sepehri to the twenty-first century.Sohrab Sepehri, poet and painter, was born in Kashan, Iran in 1928 and was claimed by cancer in 1980. He had an upbringing that tried to discipline and shape him, whether at home or at school, but he was not exactly a conformist. He was an intelligent, sensitive, artistically gifted, poetically expressive, somewhat withdrawn, soft-spoken human being. Sepehri started painting and writing poetry at an early age. He excelled at both. For both he received acclaim and criticism. Now he is enshrined as one of the foremost Iranian poets and painters of the twentieth century. This modern-day aref (mystic), poet. and painter is convincingly sincere in his heartfelt and touching approach to the way we must look at our world, and our fellow humans, in these stressful, problematic times.
Author : E. E. Cummings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871401540
One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.
Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466878488
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry." That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.
Author : William Stanley Merwin
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015013235901
Merwin has created a special voice, unique in all of American poetry. It comes through in this selection Merwin has made from 10 of his previous books, beginning with "A Mask for Janus" and ending with "Opening the Hand." Other selections include "Lemuel's Blessing," "Air," "The River Bees," and "Fly." In "The Coin," considered to be one of his best poems, Merwin re-creates an entire fair, depicting tents, animals, flowers, and three turtledoves with a coin in the grain at the bottom of their cage. ISBN 0-689-11970-4: $22.95.
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781458758026
This rich volume reflects the development of Berry's poetic sensibility. ''the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry's fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature.''
Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0618057048
A selection of poems by contemporary American author Anne Sexton, drawn primarily from eight previously published collections.
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374713997
A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority." Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile Selected Poems 1988–2013, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from Seeing Things (1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; The Spirit Level (1996) where we experience "the poem as ploughshare that turns time / Up and over."; the landmark translation of Beowulf (1999); Electric Light (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past.
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136068508
This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Steven Monte presents more than eighty poems in translation and in the original French, taken from the earliest poetic publications of the 1820's, through collections published during exile, to works published in the years following Hugo's death in 1883. The introduction provides helpful background information about Hugo's life and work, the selection, and what is involved in translating a poet whose effortless rhymes are central to the poetry's power. Detailed notes at the back of the volume offer information about the poems and their publishing and historical contexts. This is an ideal introduction to a poet whose work, for all its renown, remains for Anglophone readers undiscovered.
Author : Jack Prelutsky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394850108
The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.
Author : Hilda Doolittle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811210669
"Like every major artist she challenges the reader's intellect and imagination."--Boston Herald
Author : Emily Dickinson,Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674048676
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called “the history and science of feeling.” In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, “the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.” All of Dickinson’s preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as “a master” of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.
Author : Crane Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136213151
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Author : Steven Heighton
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781487000950
2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist 2017 Raymond Souster Award Finalist Governor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key.
Author : Edward Estlin Cummings
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:49015000573346