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An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle
Par William W. Kibler, Catherine M. Jones, Logan E. Whalen. 2020
While most English-language readers are familiar with Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, through the Song of Roland…
and its tale of gallant martyrdom, this volume provides a broader and richer view of the tradition by introducing songs devoted to the exploits of a different sort of hero—the brave and blustery William of Orange. An Old French Trilogy provides an updated English translation of three central poems from the twelfth-century Guillaume d’Orange cycle. In The Coronation of Louis, the hero saves both king and pope from would-be usurpers and earns the nickname “Short-Nosed William” after a fierce, disfiguring battle with a Saracen giant. In A Convoy to Nîmes and The Conquest of Orange, William conquers two important cities and wins the love of the Saracen Queen Orable. Tremendously popular in the Middle Ages, these works stand the test of time, and the accessible translations capture the sense of the original Old French decasyllabic verse without attempting to preserve or imitate its formal properties. The introduction to the volume discusses literary devices and motifs; historical context; issues of religious conflict, otherness, and gender roles; and themes such as loyalty and courage.Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects
Par André Berger, Djordje Sijacki, Fedor Mesinger. 2011
Experts in climate and water sciences from Canada the United States Brazil Denmark Germany Belgium…
France Serbia and other European countries and the UNESCO gathered at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the occasion of the 130th birthday anniversary of the geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch The collection of their presentations is opened by an update on the climate situation after the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Further topics include various issues of paleoclimatology in particular as it helps reduce uncertainties from which prospects for climate change suffer ecohydrology and climate change at the watershed scale and regional climate models which are discussed in terms of both their improved modeling and their use in studies of a polynya in the Antarctica and expected changes in the Mediterranean regionMezzanine: Poems
Par Zoe Hitzig. 2020
In her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world…
and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her searing lyricism, as well as a raucous energy and willingness to allow her work to dwell in states of uncertainty and precariousness. The result is an original voice that is incisive and unsparing, but also passionate and tender. Her poems probe the authority of language and logic, questioning the sovereignty of the technological, economic, legal, and political systems that mediate our lives. Urgent in its creation of a new way of looking at our social and natural worlds, Mezzanine is an insightful and visceral debut collection from a poet whose work is poised to leave a lasting mark.Salient
Par Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. 2020
A riveting lyrical constellation centered on the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Fields and tibetan protective magic In the…
foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, “This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core ‘severance’ practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint.” Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading “not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning.” Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.Vulgar Mechanics
Par K. B Thors. 2019
Grappling with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roads…
In Vulgar Mechanics, K. B. Thors seeks to invent new strategies for survival through the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The work begins in collapse, the poems acting as witness to the death of a mother. The speaker documents how, as her mother's physical body disintegrates, hidden knowledge rises to the surface in the form of "seismic legacy data." As dark secrets are released, the desire for justice demands improvisation. Moving from the fracked landscapes of the prairies to the steep verticality of New York, this is a collection concerned with hunger, anger, and the shifting fault-lines between play and pain. The poems celebrate the body as a vehicle of excavation and self-determination in a world in which there may be no such a thing as a safe word. Thors pushes against the boundaries of language - the material of sense, meaning - in order to claim a quantum vision of the self, one who transforms trauma into energy through its own multiplicity. The body becomes both ghost and machine, burning the past in its engine to make something beautiful and new, "a thunder egg / bucking the fire pit."Unsun
Par Andrew Zawacki. 2019
In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and dangers of a ‘global…
pastoral,’ exploring geographies alternately enhanced and flattened out by digital networks, international transit, the uneven and invisible movements of capital, and the unrelenting feedback loops of data surveillance, weather disaster, war. Wheeling interference patterns of systems of meaning, from radio signals and runway signage to foreign phrases and babytalk, interact with the ‘langscape’ of English, while punctuation is retrofitted as coding. In creating a politically committed lyric form that opens all the dimensions of language – sonic and semantic, syntactic and graphic – Unsun sustains an oblique conversation with Paul Celan’s Fadensonnen, Chris Marker’s Sans soleil, and Michael Palmer’s Sun. Loosely structured by the settings of analog photography, the book features a suite of the author’s black-and-white, large format images alongside an adaptation of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei and a series of fractured sonnets for – and from – his young daughter.This Is the Emergency Present
Par Vincent Pagé. 2019
Poems about modern romance by a modern romantic Moving through a human landscape that exists both in the past…
and present, the speaker/speakers in This is the Emergency Present attempt to unearth an understanding about love, romanticism, and connection. Using chemistry and physics, the early works of Pablo Neruda, and the abstract broken language around him, Vincent Pagé attempts to define something tangible about presence and absence. By asking "at what point in a transition/ does one thing become the other thing?" he challenges us to consider what it means to be here, and at what point are we finally there?National Gallery
Par Jonathan Ball. 2019
A poetic collage of art in the modern world: from Rilkean elegies for an iPhone to a meditation on Melville's…
classic Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking fewer prisoners. Loose sonnets that consider the artistic creations of Leatherface, monster-killer from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, sit alongside Rilkean elegies for an iPhone. Surreal meditations on the collage work of Guy Maddin are followed by all of the lines from Melville's Moby-Dick that mention "salt." Politicians and painters jostle while absurdist humour crashes into stark admissions of vulnerability in the wake of having children. A startling diversity of styles and subjects feed into the maelstrom of The National Gallery, and its dark currents will draw you in to drown.Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
Par Nicole Brossard. 2020
In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize…
been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian. Avant Desire moves through Brossard’s body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia, lectures, and more. Just as Brossard foregrounds collaboration, this book includes new translations alongside canonical ones and intertextual and responsive work from a variety of artist translators at various stages of their careers. Through their selections, the editors trace Brossard’s fusion of lesbian feminist desire with innovation, experimentation, and activism, emphasizing the more overtly political nature of her early work and its transition into performative thinking. Devotees of Brossard will be invigorated by the range of previously unavailable materials included here, while new readings will find a thread of inquiry that is more than a mere introduction to her complex body of work. Avant Desire situates Brossard’s thinking across her oeuvre as that of a writer whose sights are always cast toward the horizon.All Day I Dream About Sirens
Par Domenica Martinello. 2019
From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism. What started as a small…
sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All Day I Dream About Sirens is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon with the enduring cultural fascination with siren and mermaid narratives as they span geographies, economies, and generations, chronicling and reconfiguring the male-centered epic and women's bodies and subjectivities.The Passionate Years
Par Caresse Crosby. 2020
A mad, amusing, and revealing look at Paris in the twenties and at the people Caresse Crosby knew—Hemingway, F. Scott…
Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Picasso, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence of Arabia, and a host of others. In a single day, a visitor to the Crosby home outside of Paris might have found Salvador Dali at work in one room, Douglas Fairbanks Senior playfully swinging from the rafters, and D. H. Lawrence sunning himself by the pool.“In her autobiography Mrs. Crosby has added a valuable footnote to the literary history of our time....She tells some amazingly good stories. Her account of Lindbergh’s arrival in Paris is a superb piece of straight reporting and her description of a Quatre Arts ball at which she won first prize for reasons that cannot be mentioned in a family newspaper is funny and sad at the same time. Her fostering of unknown or otherwise unpublishable writers (Crane, Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, among others) through the Black Sun Press can now be seen clearly for the important project it was.—The New York Times“The Passionate Years becomes immediately an essential document of its era. Also it is an entertaining book.”—New York Herald TribuneThe Story of a Hypnotist
Par Kurt Singer, Dr Franz Polgar. 2020
"Dr. Franz Polgar (April 18, 1900 - June 1979) was a renowned psychologist, hypnotist, lecturer and entertainer. Born in city…
of Enying, Hungary, he earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of Budapest. In his 1951 autobiography Polgar claimed that he had served as Sigmund Freud's "medical hypnotist" (Polgar's term) in 1924 and had worked in close association with Freud for six months and had assisted in the treatment of Freud's patients. He immigrated to the United States in 1935 and honed his hypnotism skills by working in speakeasy bars in New York City. He married his wife, Lillian, in 1938 and she became his booking and publications manager. They had two children, Julian and Risa."Oxford Poetry by Richard Eedes and George Peele (Routledge Revivals)
Par Richard Eedes. 1995
Published in 1995: The present volume contains two comparatively lengthy Latin hexameter poems that emanated from this circle. One is…
by Richard Eedes; the other is anonymous, although for the purposes of this book the author provisionally accepted Tucker Brooke’s attribution to George Peele.El fin del principio
Par Manolo García. 2020
Manolo García regresa a la literatura con su cuidada y personal poesía. Descubre las palabras desnudas de uno de los…
grandes compositores de la música española en su libro más personal. El fin del principio es un punto y aparte, un viaje de ida y vuelta,«como si de los viajes se pudiera volver», para el que no hay billete de regreso. Un poemario que constituye un cable a tierra, un discurso de vida, de amor y de posicionamiento ante la sociedad de uno de los más grandes compositores y letristas de la historia musical de nuestro país. «"Un mantra puede ser una elección de amor", me repito sentado a la puerta de una alquería largo tiempo abandonada. Y rezo, no sé por qué, cien veces la misma oración. Al menos he conseguido despegarme de la punta de mi nariz; al menos he conseguido silbar un pasacalles que me aleje de mí».Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace
Par Bronwen Wallace. 2020
Bronwen Wallace was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant…
figure in the growth of the feminist movement. The author of five collections of poetry and a book of short fiction, most of which have been out of print for decades, Wallace worked in a range of poetic styles in a voice as intimate as a conversation between friends. Offering the full breadth of this celebrated poet's output in a single, long-awaited volume, Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace brings the text of all five published collections back into print alongside unpublished poems from earlier in her career, allowing readers to see the stylistic evolution of her poetry from its first incarnation to her last written work. In an engaging and often moving tone, the poems draw the reader in even as they document the poet honing her craft during the turbulent 1970s and reveal her fascination with the politics of the personal, the everyday concerns of ordinary people, and inequality and violence. Carolyn Smart's introduction and notes supplement the collection, along with a bibliography that catalogues the scholarly and literary responses to Wallace's work for the first time. An exhilarating reading experience, Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace celebrates the clarity, humour, righteous anger, and inclusivity of Wallace's poetry, which remains timely and original thirty years after her death.A Different Wolf (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #54)
Par Deborah-Anne Tunney. 2020
In her debut poetry collection, Deborah-Anne Tunney delves into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most…
influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Just as Hitchcock's work looks unflinchingly at some of the darkest elements of human nature, A Different Wolf turns a lens on the director himself, revealing the interplay between the social mores of his time and Hitchcock's distinctive psychological makeup. A Different Wolf views the iconic director's cinematic masterpieces through the optics of the poet's personal quest for meaning. Tunney reveals how guilt and innocence, universal and timeless subjects, work to define character and motivate plot. Other poems illustrate Hitchcock's presentation of women as a sign of his fixations, but also as a product of his era. His desire to expose the qualities of time - how film can slow it down or speed it up, qualities he considered filmmaking's most important tool - points to the deep resonance of his work. Providing a sharp-eyed analysis of Hitchcock's life and art, A Different Wolf offers a unique take on the filmmaker's enduring relevance.Después de morir
Par Ana Folhadela. 2020
Tal i como se nos advierte desde el mismo título, este libro toma a la muerte como motivo central, entendida…
no como transcendencia, sino como parte indisolciable de la vida mundana. Así, la autora sittúa su discurso en la vía del existencialismo, desarrollando algunos de sus corolários: el absurdo, el desdoblamiento, la disolución de la identidad, la náusea... No renuncia, sin embargo, al lirismo, generalmente comedido, conciso, centrado en conceptos, tales com el río o la niebla, que eleva a símbolos.This volume aims at cultivating and enlightening our philanthropic imagination. It addresses us all as present and future philanthropists, as…
human beings who give, serve, and seek to promote the well being of others. It suggests that we are continually confronted with choices about giving, and offers a collection of writings intended to help us reflect more seriously on these choices, and to make philanthropic acts, when they are undertaken, more meaningful. The readings contained in The Philanthropic Imagination come from a variety of cultures, time periods, and genres. They represent classical works of literature, philosophy, and religion, but also contemporary and popular writings. Selections are drawn from the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, C. S. Lewis, Alexis de Tocqueville, Martin Luther King, P. G. Wodehouse, Sholom Aleichem, and Shel Silverstein, among others. They are organized by the specific question they address: When, why, how, to whom, and what should we give? Amy Kass provides a general introduction to the book, as well as introductions to each selection. The introductions offer context for each reading and questions to guide reflection, but they do not supply uniform answers. The answers must come from the reader.Buquê de Rosas
Par Maki Starfield. 2020
"Maki Starfield é uma poeta que escreve em muitos estilos, entre os quais está o haiku. Ela estudou haiku japonês…
tradicional sob Keishu Ogawa e Minoru Ozawa, e trabalhou com Banya Natsuishi para promover o haiku de vanguarda em escala mundial. O haiku de Maki tende a pender para o lado tradicional ao escrever em japonês, ou seja, em forma fixa, usando palavras das estações (“kigo”) e a métrica de 5-7-5 sílabas, mas ao escrever em inglês ou traduzir para o inglês, ela escreve em forma livre. A forma livre não exige palavras das estações nem métrica 5-7-5, e, em vez disso, exige a falta de um ritmo apropriado, e que seja curto o suficiente para maximizar os efeitos “kire” tradicionais do haiku (“kire” é frequentemente traduzido como “corte”, mas na conotação japonesa original, é mais conhecido como "excitação da imagem") com seu uso de palavras-chave (as palavras das quatro estações são tipos de palavras-chave)." - Kika Hotta, no Prefácio.Türen im Duett: Autorinnen aus Ost und West im poetischen Dialog
Par maki starfield/Yesim Agaogle. 2020