If Not Winter

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307556981

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If Not, Winter by Sappho Pdf

By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043187728

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Fragments by Sappho Pdf

Author : Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780472052530

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Anne Carson by Joshua Marie Wilkinson Pdf

The first book of essays dedicated to the work of noted writer, Anne Carson

Author : Janette Oke
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1585587397

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Winter Is Not Forever (Seasons of the Heart Book #3) by Janette Oke Pdf

Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series!

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566514

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Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling Pdf

An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho’s breathless eroticism tell us anything about settlement—about why we’re here in front of this sign? Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in reverse. This town is one of many with a classical name. Take it as a symbol: perhaps in a place that no longer exists, another kind of future might be possible.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780345807014

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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Pdf

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

Author : Simona Ciraolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1529504252

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If Winter Comes, Tell It I'm Not Here by Simona Ciraolo Pdf

Nothing is better than summertime. But a boy's sister has big news... winter is coming! And with it, the cold... the dark... the rain. A celebration of the passing of seasons and how much joy can be found around each and every sunny, or snowy, corner.

Author : Louise Gluck
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771096716

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Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck Pdf

The dazzling new collection from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Louise Glück's work consistently draws on her own experience, looking for the common threads in it that render it universal. Her poems are not confessional, they are mythic. In Winter Recipes from the Collective, she starts with the dying and death of a near relation to create an indelible group of characters who act in poems that touch on the family romance, loss, art, and immortality. Her poems are so powerful because her portrayal of experience reminds us so trenchantly of what we recognize we too have seen and felt.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872205916

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Poems and Fragments by Sappho Pdf

Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110855389

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Sappho Says-- by Sappho Pdf

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771018220

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Red Doc> by Anne Carson Pdf

A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed poetry bestseller Autobiography of Red ("Amazing" -- Alice Munro) that takes its mythic boy-hero into the twenty-first century to tell a story all its own of love, loss, and the power of memory. In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover "Sad" (short for Sad But Great), a haunted war veteran; and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the somber housewhere G's mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful verse picaresque invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140455571

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Stung with Love by Sappho Pdf

Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241285800

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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod Pdf

The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811213021

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Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson Pdf

Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks", "essays", or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay", a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah", a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome", about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.

Author : Stephen Emond
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316194624

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Winter Town by Stephen Emond Pdf

Every winter, straight-laced, Ivy League bound Evan looks forward to a visit from Lucy, a childhood pal who moved away after her parent's divorce. But when Lucy arrives this year, she's changed. The former "girl next door" now has chopped dyed black hair, a nose stud, and a scowl. But Evan knows that somewhere beneath the Goth, "Old Lucy" still exists, and he's determined to find her... even if it means pissing her off. Garden State meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in this funny and poignant illustrated novel about opposites who fall in love.