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The Best American Poetry 1992
Par Charles Simic. 1992
The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
Par Richard Howard, Horace, Sidney Alexander. 1999
The diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes of Horace are translated by Alexander He…
explains how Horace expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest level of Italian characterThe Last Shift: Poems
Par Philip Levine. 2016
The final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful…
collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night/to discover that rain in New York City/is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift."From the Hardcover edition.New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995
Par Thomas Lux. 1999
One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic,…
and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."Immagini Scritte
Par Antonio Carlos Mongiardim Gomes Saraiva, Annalisa Farina. 2016
Tra il Cielo e la Terra
Par Antonio Carlos Mongiardim Gomes Saraiva, Annalisa Farina. 2016
"Tra il Cielo e la Terra", em inglês, espanhol, italiano, espanhol, espanhol e português. As informações seguintes não estão ainda…
disponíveis em Português. Para sua comodidade, disponibilizamos uma tradução automática: Cielo onírico, lutar e delle grandi verità do nostro io profondo, sembra aver bisogno di una comunione e di un'integrazione forte with the Natura e l'Universo, nella sua dimensión infinita ... Questo mondo è rappresentato in quest'opera Con la "Poesia". L'altra metà, i "Testi" (prosa), introduzir a sensação da realidade real e cruda do cimento terrene e comuni. Ancora sorgono, in questo contesto, frammenti di idee e pensieri su temi qua coinvolgono e integrano. È in questa costante e dinamica alternância para a ópera e a realização, cercando de condume il lettore su una strada tortuosa e suggestiva. Dove le preoccupazioni, i dubbi, i sogni e le realizzazioni, sono parte integrante dello stesso viagra misterioso ed emocionante che è la vita.Narrative Poems
Par C. S. Lewis. 2017
A repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of four poems: "Dymer," "Launcelot," "The Nameless Isle," and "The Queen of…
Drum."C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—was also a talented poet. In this collection of four longer works of verse, Lewis displays his deep love for medieval and Renaissance poetry and themes, influences that shaped—and resonate through—his fiction.Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing
Par Marianne Boruch. 2016
A starred review in Library Journal says this about Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing: "Only a poet as accomplished…
as Boruch could make such beautiful verse while leading us through the everyday, of life’s subtle, steady shiftings ('the bird’s hunger, seeking shape’). If the opening image of a pool filled with cruelly dredged up roses bespeaks quiet assent ('I stood before them the way an animal/ accepts sun’), the next poem turns immediately to progress (and hence progression) as a modern invention beyond the heaven-and-hell alternatives; finally, the poet concedes, 'I lose track of my transitions.’ In fact, transition defines us. Here, a static painting gives way to 'between and among,’ a simple typeface never yields a perfect copy, and even in a medieval score, two exquisite quavers are connected by a slur. Highly recommended.”"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: She sees and considers with intensity."-The Washington Post"Boruch refuses to see more than there is in things-but her patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw."-PoetryIn her tenth volume of poetry, Marianne Boruch displays a historical omnipresence, as she converses with Dickinson, envisions Turner painting, and empathizes with Arthur Conan Doyle. She looks unabashedly at the brutality of recent history, from drone warfare to the disaster in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. Poems that turn her gaze towards childhood, nature, animals, and her own poetics are patches of light in the collection's chiaroscuro.From "Before and Every After":Eventually one dreams the real thing.The cave as it was, what we paid to straddlea skinny box-turned-seat down the middle, narrow boatmade special for the state park, the wet, the trickypassing into rock and underground river.A single row of strangers faced front, each of usbehind another closeas dominoes to fall or we were angels lined uppolitely, pre-flight...Marianne Boruch is the author of ten collections of poetry. She is the 2013 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and has taught at Purdue University since the inception of their MFA program. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.The Groove of the Poem: Reading Philippe Beck
Par Jacques Rancière. 2016
"Music is the brute that shows. It is the avowal of materials, And stutters between its clanging of things."How should…
one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles the material of ordinary language and revives the frozen speech of old chants? This question by renowned French thinker Jacques Rancière is the entry point for his earnest and careful reading of one of France's most singular and important contemporary poets. For Rancière, Philippe Beck sets himself the task of a poetry after poetry whereby Beck re-writes and transforms the poems of the past, reanimating faded genres, poetizing the prose of popular tales and even commentaries regarding poems. To read and follow this groove traced as such cannot simply be done by way of taking the poems as objects of study. It supposes a dialogue regarding what these poems attempt to do as well as an idea of a poetry which serves as their foundation. This book on Philippe Beck is thus also a book made with him.Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
Par Anthony Holden, Ben Holden. 2014
Grown men don't cry. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men--distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater…
and human rights--confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures not prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. Their selections include classics by visionaries such as Walt Whitman, W.H Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as contemporary works by masters including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. Seventy-five percent of the selected poems were written in the twentieth century, with more than a dozen by women including Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. Three men have suffered the pain of losing a child; others are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope's famous phrase, "what oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. From J. J. Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, Billy Collins to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth, and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Par Morgan Parker. 2017
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black…
American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems
Par B. H. Fairchild. 2014
"[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic."--New York Times Gathering works…
from five of B. H. Fairchild's previous volumes stretching over thirty years, and adding twenty-six brilliant new poems, The Blue Buick showcases the career of a poet who represents "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (New York Times). Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theaters, and skies "vast, mysterious, and bored." Ultimately, its cultural scope--where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Gödel, and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s--transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy Eldridge Garcia, a machinist/poet/philosopher who sees in the landscape and silence of the high plains the held breath of the earth, "as if we haven't quite begun to exist. That coming into being still going on." From the machine work elevated to high art that is the subject of The Arrival of the Future (1985) to the despairing dreamers of Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2002) to the panoramic, voice-driven structure of Usher (2009), Fairchild's work, "meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, stakes out an American mythos" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). From "The Blue Buick:" A boy standing on a rig deck looks across the plains. A woman walks from a trailer to watch the setting sun. A man stands beside a lathe, lighting a cigar. Imagined or remembered, a girl in Normandy Sings across a sea, that something may remain.At the Foundling Hospital: Poems
Par Robert Pinsky. 2016
"Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or…
before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky." --James Longenbach, The NationWith all the generosity and mastery we have come to expect from out three-time Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky has written a bold, lyrical mediation on identity and culture as hybrid and fluid, violent as well as creative: the enigmatic, maybe universal, condition of the foundling. At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from "the emanation of a dead star still alive" to the "pinhole iris of your mortal eye." What is a particular person? How unique? What is anyone born as? Born with? Born into? The poems of Robert Pinsky's At the Foundling Hospital engage personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it can be invisible.Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities
Par Marcelo Reguero, Francisco Goin, Tania Dutra, Sergio Marenssi, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche. 2012
One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and,…
in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America (Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the "Overlapping" model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and teleostean taxa.Drivers at the Short-Time Motel
Par Eugene Gloria. 1992
Ephemeral lives and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war displacement and ruined love find hope…
redemption and a common voice in Eugene Gloria s artful concoction of American and Filipino vernaculars While some of these thirty poems deal with the landscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos others locate themselves on the streets and byways of present-day America Like many poets of dual heritage Gloria s work is concerned with self-definition with the attempt to reconcile a feeling of exile and homelessness Frequently taking the form of character studies and first-person narratives Gloria s poems poignantly illuminate the common man s search for connection to the self and to the world Eugene Gloria s Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery Gauged by a keen eye history is scrutinized but through a playful exactness These wonderful poems are trustworthy --Yusef KomunyaakaComplete Poems
Par William Maxwell, Claude Mckay. 1932
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range…
of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay's first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as "If We Must Die." After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin's Soviet Union. By then, McKay's pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism. McKay's verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry.A Deed to the Light
Par Jeanne Murray Walker. 2004
In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go,…
and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."The Disappearing Trick
Par Len Roberts. 2007
In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son…
moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sharon Olds has said, "emotional courage, powerful music, and a deep balance." Like the light shining on a face, or a girl's thigh back in a sixth-grade class, the poems often come as Proustian flashes--lasting just a second, but seeming eternal--amid an increasing darkness.The Hollow Log Lounge: POEMS
Par R T Smith. 2003
"This is no fairy tale. / It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. / It's my life, a raspy song,…
that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons' voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smith's stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.Barter: POEMS
Par Ira Sadoff. 2003
Ira Sadoff's new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: "But because truly being here is so much;…
because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . ." The poetry collected here is a response to this call. Rooted firmly in the "fleeting world," Sadoff's poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter delve deeply into the past, the personal past of regret, travel, love, divorce, and bereavement, as well as the global past of Beethoven, Vietnam, and the fall of communism. Each poem is offered up by Sadoff as a barter, something to be traded for a little more time, a little more understanding. The poems in Barter comment on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. They also talk about commerce, the trading of bodies, the way we as a nation "use" and exchange and appropriate -- and like Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich, try to bargain with and evade the urgency of our time on earth. In the poem "Self-Portrait with a Critic," Sadoff makes what could be a succinct statement of purpose: "And inside, let's not make it pretty, / let's save the off-rhyme and onomatopoeia / / for the concert hall, let's go to the wormy place / where the problematic stirs inside his head."