Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625287Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776113Author Jonathon KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national...

This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves...

London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this...

This New Casebook on Seamus Heaney follows the astonishingly rapid growth of a literary reputation. Using reviews as well as extended academic essays, it presents a debate to which the poet himself has made influential critical contributions and which...

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus...

Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most important poetological statement of the second half of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333395592Author D Z PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic's personality. In literary journalism, the critic is front...

Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to...

Yves Bonnefoy's final poetic work, a collection of reflections about poetry, legacy, and life. The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last...

The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton Chekhov,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495332Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Don Paterson is one of Britain's leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated readership and most of Britain's major poetry prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions,...

`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully...

Paul Muldoon is one of the most exciting and accomplished poets writing in English. Few authors display such mastery of the language, form and measure of poetry, while at the same time opening poetry up to all the contemporary forces of disorder,...

A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention...

Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer has undergone a profound and dramatic transformation. With the publication of a candid biography, a controversial collection of letters and a comprehensive edition of the poems, the abiding...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710810Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

In 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first female Poet Laureate to much public acclaim. This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection. It...

In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthal's despondent Lord Chandos In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter articulated a deep crisis of faith in language. Having "lost completely the ability...

Poet, playwright, and critic, Wystan Hugh Auden was an essential figure in the development of literature throughout the 20th century. With great relevance to the modern struggles of humanity, this collection aspires to represent the power of Auden to...

Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique literary voice owes as much to her character, background and biography as it does to its dialogic openness to other voices. This is the...

It is difficult to capture the flavor of Indian daily life without experiencing the richness of the traditions which permeate people's lives. Daily worship of household deities, local shrines, the tulsi plant, mother earth, the rising sun, God's names,...

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words,...

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth century.What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially committed lyric poetry in the United States-does not...

First full length critical study of Dove's body of work.First full length critical study of Dove's body of work.Reviews"The book's scope is not limited to Dove's poetry. . . . It also includes an unexpected but welcome appendix, a 1998 interview with...

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period:...

Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative...

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to examine works of poetry that engage, question, or reimagine history. Authors question the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of archival work to explore the ways in which poetry has offered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791078877Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Chelsea House PublishersPublisher Chelsea House PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901383553Author Hossein Elahi GhomsheiFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint ArchetypePublisher Archetype

An innovative exploration of Emily Dickinson as a political poet.In this study, Paul Crumbley asserts that, contrary to popular opinion, Emily Dickinson consistently communicated political views through her poetry. Dickinson's life of self-isolation -...

For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476691732Author Ann BeebeFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Originally from Canada, Norma Cole is a revered writer and visual artist who has authored and translated over thirty books and chapbooks. Though highly esteemed internationally in both visual art and poetry circles, Cole's association with the New...

A study of concrete art and poetry, its implications, and influence in Brazil. Concrete art and poetry burst onto Brazil's cultural stage in the 1950s, while the country was embarking on a dizzying period of modernization. Bringing together key poets and...

This book extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry--as opposed to his life and legend--by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set...