Poetry

Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and musicOrphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States. Adopting the myth of Orpheus as its...

This book sheds new light on the work of Robert Hayden (1913-80) in response to changing literary scholarship. While Hayden's poetry often reflected aspects of the African American experience, he resisted attempts to categorize his poetry in racial terms...

Jose Garcia Villa, a twentieth century Philippine phenomenon, took by storm the Filipino and American literary establishments, winning wide acclaim for short stories and poems in English.Turning to poetics - what poetry is and does - he lectured at his...

United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey's range of forms and subjects is wide. In compact sonnets, elegant villanelles, ballad stanzas,...

Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609383039Author Raphael AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 406g

Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many exceptional long poems as Levine, and his influence has...

Indifference is a common, even indispensable element of human experience. But it is rare in poetry, which is traditionally defined by its direct opposition to indifference-by its heightened emotion, consciousness, and effort. This definition applies...

This analysis of Walcott's ""Omeros"", argues that the poem is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. The book examines Walcott's writing career and traces his development of devices, themes, techniques and a narrative style essential to epic...

From the modernist explorations of the first half of the 20th century to the diverse styles and practitioners of the 21st century, contemporary American poetry has forged a vital and enduring tradition. This volume explores the genre's recent history and...

Poetics and Praxis 'After' Objectivism examines late twentieth-and early twenty-first-century poetics and praxis within and against the dynamic, disparate legacy of Objectivism and the Objectivists. This is the first volume in the field to investigate...

A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, "is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared,...

Were the urbane, avant-garde poets of the New York School secretly nature lovers like Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard? In `Urban Pastoral', Timothy Gray urges us to reconsider our long-held appraisals of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara...

Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works-poetic, novelistic, and programmed-as technical objects.With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary...

C. S. Lewis is best known as the creator of the fanciful world of Narnia and as a masterful writer of literary criticism and Christian apologetics. But he began his literary career as a poet, under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton, and only later did he...

Larry Eigner (1927-1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite profound physical limitations caused by cerebral palsy. Using only the thumb and index finger of his right hand, Eigner generated a torrent of urgent and rich language,...

Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the "Long Schoolroom" of poetic principle--where he...

Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most...

The Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. Yeats' works vary from complex and highly symbolic to short and...

This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. It begins with three chapters on ancient poetry (including The Iliad and The Odyssey,...

Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan is the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan. In it William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers provide translations and introductory material to the work of the...

Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the state to the work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609380731Author Bill MohrFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 330g

The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time offers original readings of poems composed in this century-poems that are challenging to follow, challenging to understand, challenging to discuss, and challenging to enjoy. Difficult poetry of the past...

Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) was a poet, translator, teacher, critic and editor. His letters - written mainly to Theodore Roethke, Edmund Wilson and Louise Brogan - contain portraits of some of America's literary giants and give rare glimpses of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523498Author Dean RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 480g

In these 59 essays, published female poets share a wealth of practical advice and inspiration. Aimed at students and aspiring and experienced poets alike, the essays address such topics as the women's collective writing experience, tips on teaching in...

The first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer winning poet's oeuvre.About the AuthorStephen Dunn is the author of sixteen books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is Distinguished Professor of...

Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), one of the leading poets of the twentieth century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. However, an image persists of Stevens as an aesthete who was politically removed from his times and who also...

Prince of Darkness or Angel of Light? The pastoral masterpiece the Soledades garnered both titles for its author, Luis de Gongora, one of Spain's premier poets. In The Soledades Gongora's Masque of the Imagination, Marsha S. Collins focuses on the...

For William Butler Yeats, ""poetic license"" sometimes meant misquoting writers or misspelling Irish words. This reference guide illuminates the poetry of the Irish writer. ""A Yeats Dictionary: Names of the Persons and Places in the Poetry of W.B...

In The Wheel of Language, Coley explores representations of speech in English poetry of the later Middle Ages, proposing that the spoken word, both within Ricardian and Lancastrian poetry and within late medieval English culture, was understood as an...

The opening essay of this collection defines the difference between poetry and propaganda. Succeeding essays explore the meaning of politics, love and the spiritual life in the works of a number of leading poets.'Book InformationISBN 9780472066964Author...

Praise for David Mason". . . richly evocative and rare . . ."-Publishers Weekly"David Mason has succeeded in restoring to poetry some of the territory lost over recent centuries to prose fiction."-Paul Lake, First ThingsIn this new collection of essays,...

The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform-from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to imagining and building a more just and peaceful world,...

"Impressive-Marsh successfully rewrites the founding moment of American Modernist poetry." ---Mark Van Wienen, Northern Illinois University"Cogently argued, instructive, and sensitive, Marsh's revisionist reading opens new insights that will elicit...

David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the cultural, technological, and political transformations...

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti,...

Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural...