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Bones
Par Tyler Pennock. 2020
Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock’s wise…
and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of tragedy and abuse. With bravery, the poems stand up to the demons lurking in the many shadows of their lines, seeking glimpses of a good that is always just out of reach.At moments heartrending and gut-punching, at others still and sweet, Bones is a collection of deep and painstaking work that examines the human spirit in all of us. This is a hero’s journey and a stark look at the many conditions of the soul. This is a book for survivors, for fighters, for dreamers, and for believers. “Here is a spare and urgent voice that speaks of ‘wounds and beauty,’ that gestures to a story of trauma and abuse while offering us a potent journey of self-reckoning and reclamation.The Iliad
Par Homer, Robert Fagles. 1990
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.…
S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin Classics. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, Achilles storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals. Seven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c. 8th-7th century BC), the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey are attributed. The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature, but the identity - or even the existence - of Homer himself is a complete mystery, with no reliable biographical information having survived. If you enjoyed The Iliad, you might like The Odyssey, also available in Penguin Classics. 'An astonishing performanc e'Peter Levi 'Plain and direct, noble, above all rapid . . . leading the reader forward with an irresistible flow. [Fagles'] version is imbued with humanity' Oliver Taplin, The New York Times Book Review 'Robert Fagles has given us an Iliad to read aloud: eloquent, rhythmical, and full of power' Jasper Griffin, Oxford University.The Poems of Rupert Brooke (Dover Thrift Editions)
Par Rupert Brooke. 2020
The poetry of Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) remains memorable for its charming lyrical quality and the way in which his sonnets…
perfectly recapture the mood of England at the start of World War I. This volume reprints his complete oeuvre, from the early lyric poems to those written shortly before his premature death: "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," "Tiare Tahiti," "The Great Lover," "The Dead," "The Soldier," and many others. Brooke enlisted in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the war in 1914 and entered the literary scene early the following year, when two of his sonnets ("The Dead" and "The Soldier") appeared in London's Times Literary Supplement.The 27-year-old poet died shortly afterward aboard a ship bound for Gallipoli. His 1914 and Other Poems was published immediately afterward to wide acclaim. Brooke remains among Britain's best-loved cultural figures, and his works evoke the tranquility of prewar life and the ideals of heroic self-sacrifice.Two Menus (Phoenix Poets)
Par Rachel DeWoskin. 2020
There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, “the first of excess, /…
second, scarcity.” DeWoskin invites us into moments shaped by dualities, into spaces bordered by the language of her family (English) and that of her new country (Chinese), as well as the liminal spaces between youth and adulthood, safety and danger, humor and sorrow. This collection works by building and demolishing boundaries and binaries, sliding between their edges in movements that take us from the familiar to the strange and put us face-to-face with our assumptions and confusions. Through these complex and interwoven poems, we see how a self is never singular. Rather, it is made up of shifting—and sometimes colliding—parts. DeWoskin crosses back and forth, across languages and nations, between the divided parts in each of us, tracing overlaps and divergences. The limits and triumphs of translation, the slipperiness of relationships, and movements through land and language rise and fall together. The poems in Two Menus offer insights into the layers of what it means to be human, to reconcile living as multiple selves. DeWoskin dives into the uncertain spaces, showing us how a life lived between walls is murky, strange, and immensely human. These poems ask us how to communicate across the boundaries that threaten to divide us, to measure and close the distance between who we are, were, and want to be.Two Menus (Phoenix Poets)
Par Rachel DeWoskin. 2020
There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, “the first of excess, /…
second, scarcity.” DeWoskin invites us into moments shaped by dualities, into spaces bordered by the language of her family (English) and that of her new country (Chinese), as well as the liminal spaces between youth and adulthood, safety and danger, humor and sorrow. This collection works by building and demolishing boundaries and binaries, sliding between their edges in movements that take us from the familiar to the strange and put us face-to-face with our assumptions and confusions. Through these complex and interwoven poems, we see how a self is never singular. Rather, it is made up of shifting—and sometimes colliding—parts. DeWoskin crosses back and forth, across languages and nations, between the divided parts in each of us, tracing overlaps and divergences. The limits and triumphs of translation, the slipperiness of relationships, and movements through land and language rise and fall together. The poems in Two Menus offer insights into the layers of what it means to be human, to reconcile living as multiple selves. DeWoskin dives into the uncertain spaces, showing us how a life lived between walls is murky, strange, and immensely human. These poems ask us how to communicate across the boundaries that threaten to divide us, to measure and close the distance between who we are, were, and want to be.Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World #34)
Par Murray McGillivray. 1990
Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role…
of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the issue, despite extensive discussion, putting forth the theory that the heterogeneity of the poems of this period, grouped under the general heading of ‘medieval romance’, makes generalizations about the history of transmissions unreliable. The book suggests that oral-formulaic theory has been applied over-literally to oral or oral derived works, through the assumption that all poems answer the same structural criteria. The book also looks at the aspects of orality and performance theory alongside the textuality and intertextuality of these medieval texts.Nobody: A Rhapsody To Homer
Par Alice Oswald. 2018
A collage of water-stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book- length poem by acclaimed poet Alice…
Oswald. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Several voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize familiar characters and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves. one person has the character of dust another has an arrow for a soul but their stories all end somewhere in the seaAtticus Boxed Set: Love Her Wild and The Dark Between Stars
Par Atticus. 2017
From the Instagram poetry sensation Atticus, an ebook boxed set of his bestselling collections: Love Her Wild and The Dark…
Between Stars.Atticus’s poetry has captured the hearts and minds of more than a million avid followers on his Instagram account @AtticusPoetry, including superstars like Alicia Keys, Emma Roberts, and Karlie Kloss, who have marveled at his talent for distilling an entire spectrum of emotions into a pitch-perfect, effortlessly evocative line. His first collection, Love Her Wild, captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love in Paris; skinny dipping on a summer’s night; the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit; or drinking whiskey in the desert watching the rising sun. In his second collection, a New York Times bestseller, Atticus turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences, exploring the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. The Dark Between Stars illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
Par Donald R. Prothero, Daniel Loxton. 2013
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the…
Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a book from two dedicated investigators that explores and elucidates the fascinating world of cryptozoology. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero have written an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on cryptids, presenting the arguments both for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience that perpetuates their myths. After examining the nature of science and pseudoscience and their relation to cryptozoology, Loxton and Prothero take on Bigfoot; the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, and its cross-cultural incarnations; the Loch Ness monster and its highly publicized sightings; the evolution of the Great Sea Serpent; and Mokele Mbembe, or the Congo dinosaur. They conclude with an analysis of the psychology behind the persistent belief in paranormal phenomena, identifying the major players in cryptozoology, discussing the character of its subculture, and considering the challenge it poses to clear and critical thinking in our increasingly complex world.A House in Memory: Last Poems (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #52)
Par David Helwig. 2020
"the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to" When the poet and…
novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career. Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, "he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world.Biografía para encontrarme
Par Mario Benedetti. 1995
El libro inédito de Mario Benedetti (1920-2009). Benedetti seleccionó y preparó la edición de estos poemas a lo largo de…
sus últimos meses de vida. «Cuando la poesía abre sus puertas es como si cambiáramos de mundo.» Durante los dos últimos años de su vida, Mario Benedetti corrigió, reescribió y ordenó estos sesenta y dos poemas. Biografía para encontrarme nos invita a descubrir o reencontrarnos con la esencia literaria del escritor uruguayo, a través de su poesía más íntima y conmovedora. Sus versos conjuran el poder de un mar sobrecogedor, evocan la tímida luz de una madrugada incierta o dibujan el mapa de la melancolía universal. La selección de poemas, que el maestro uruguayo dejó lista para ser entregada a sus editores, recorre los motivos poéticos más significativos del escritor: soledad, nostalgia, muerte, amor, belleza, desarraigo... Benedetti en estado puroA título de inventario
Par Mario Benedetti. 1978
Edición en un solo volumen que reúne todos los poemas de Mario Benedetti publicados entre 1950 y 2001, testimonios de…
la propia existencia del autor, engendrados con la sencillez y claridad que tanto le caracterizan. Amar, luchar, trabajar, morir, todo es motivo de poesía para Mario Benedetti. Cada pequeña situación del vivir cotidiano merece una canción, una celebración a la constante sorpresa de existir. Para él, la poesía no tiene sentido si no se comparte, si no se reproduce, si no fecunda. Como es habitual en las recopilaciones de la poesía de Benedetti, cada volumen se abre con la producción más reciente y concluye con la más antigua, quizá con la secreta esperanza de que el lector, al tener acceso a su obra por la puerta más nueva y más cercana, se vea luego tentado a ir abriendo otras puertas, «a beneficio de inventario». Inventario 1 integra todos los poemas publicados en libro entre 1950 y 1985:Sólo mientras tanto (1950), Poemas de la oficina (1956), Poemas del hoyporhoy (1961), Noción de patria (1963), Próximo prójimo (1965), Contra los puentes levadizos (1966), A ras de sueño (1967), Quemar las naves (1969), Letras de emergencia (1973), Poemas de otros (1974), La casa y el ladrillo (1977), Cotidianas (1979), Viento del exilio (1981) y Geografías (1984). Inventario 2 reúne todos los poemas publicados en libro entre 1986 y 1991: Preguntas al azar (1986), Yesterday y mañana (1988), Despistes y franquezas (1990) y Las soledades de Babel (1991). Inventario 3 contiene todos los poemas publicados en libro entre 1995 y 2001: El olvido está lleno de memoria (1995), La vida ese paréntesis (1998), Rincón de Haikus (1999) y El mundo que respiro (2001). Miguel García-Posada dijosobre Benedetti...«Tenía Benedetti el instinto de la palabra creadora, la capacidad de pellizcar el alma que solo poseen los poetas mayores.» «Benedetti era, aunque algunos se escandalicen, un machadiano del verso, que sabía que la poesía se produce en el tiempo o está abocada a la nada.» «Benedetti, hay que afirmarlo de entrada, y sus versos tenían, tienen, la garra de los genuinos poetas populares.»El amor, las mujeres y la vida (Colección Visor De Poesía Ser. #Vol. 341)
Par Mario Benedetti. 1996
Este libro reúne los mejores poemas de amor escritos por Mario Benedetti, uno de los poetas más innovadores, divertidos, ambiciosos…
y modernos de la literatura en español. El amor, las mujeres y la vida recoge una selección de poemas aclamados por varias generaciones, aquellos en los que Benedetti vuelca su concepción de la vida: el amor como compensación de la muerte se levanta en sus versos lleno de fe, como fuerza principal que mueve al ser humano, como una proclama de la existencia, que va de la erótica del amante hasta la esperanza del revolucionario o la gratitud del amigo. «El amor es uno de los elementos emblemáticos de la vida. Breve o extendido, espontáneo o minuciosamente construido, es de cualquier manera un apogeo en las relaciones humanas.»Mario BenedettiWorlds Afire
Par Paul B. Janeczko. 2007
In this collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944, in Hartford,…
Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 170 people, mostly women and children.The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual Edition
Par Fernando Pessoa. 2020
A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid…
new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary “heteronym” coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mário de Sa-Cárrneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa’s greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and profound poems in Portuguese literature. This edition of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro is based on the magnificent Portuguese Tinta-da-China edition, published in Lisbon in 2016, and contains an illuminating introduction by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, some facsimiles of the original Portuguese texts, and prose excerpts about Caeiro and his work written by Fernando Pessoa well as his other heteronyms Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, and other fictitious authors such as Antonio Mora and I. I. Crosse.Petrarch the Poet: An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta' (Routledge Revivals)
Par Peter Hainsworth. 1988
In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium…
fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about poetry and language. In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition, creating a new kind of lyric poetry. In particular, he found solutions to the intellectual, linguistic and imaginative problems which Dante’s Divine Comedy posed for the succeeding generation of poets. Petrarch the Poet illumines the complexities of Petrarch’s poetic vision, which is simultaneously a form of autobiographical narrative, a poetic encyclopaedia and a meditation on the nature of poetry. The book will appeal to Italian specialists, to those interested in European poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and also to readers interested generally in the nature and function of poetry.Rates of Evolution (Routledge Library Editions: Evolution #2)
Par K. S. W. Campbell, M. F. Day. 1987
Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists,…
geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates. The book asks questions surrounding the study of evolution, such as did large morphological changes really occur rapidly at various times in the geological past, or is the fossil record too imperfect to be of value in assessing rates of morphological change? What is the measure of ‘rapid’ change? Is stasis at any taxonomic level established? Is it possible to relate genomic and morphological change? What is the role of regulatory and executive genes in controlling evolutionary change? Does the transfer of genetic material between different taxa provide the possibility of increasing evolutionary rates? Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this book will interest anthropologists, palaeontology and scientists of evolution and genetics.Distance Learning
Par Angela Sorby. 1998
For All Our Days: A Collection of Wedding Readings
Par Various. 2020
For All Our Days is a sweeping collection of 50 poems and musings to read at a wedding ceremony.Readings range…
from Shakespearean sonnets and historical love letters to excerpts from classic novels and children's books—and even stand-up comedy routines. Covering a wide range of speech themes and styles, this book ensures there is something for every couple.• A must-have for any couple planning their wedding• Organized into secular and spiritual sections, with religious texts from five major faiths• A sweet reminder of what marriage is all aboutEngaged couples will love exploring For All Our Days before the big day.This elegant collection of readings is also wonderful for wedding officiants and planners alike.You'll love this book if you love books like The Knot Guide to Wedding Vows and Traditions: Readings, Rituals, Music, Dances, and Toasts by Carley Roney; The Wedding Ceremony Planner: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day by Judith Johnson; and A Wedding Ceremony To Remember: Perfect Words For The Perfect Wedding by Marty Younkin.Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
Par Jill Bialosky. 2020
This book-length sequence by the critically acclaimed poet is a seeker's story, revealing personal and historical traumas and how we…
search for understanding and meaning in their wake.In Asylum, poet Jill Bialosky embarks on a Virgilian journey, building a narrative sequence from 103 elegant poems and prose sections that cohere in their intensity and their need to explore darkness and sustenance both. Taken together, these piercing pieces--about her nascent calling as a writer; her sister's suicide and its still unfolding aftermath; the horror unleashed by World War II; the life cycle of the monarch butterfly; and the woods where she seeks asylum--form a moving story, powerfully braiding despair, survival, and hope. Bialosky considers the oppositions that govern us: our reason and unreason, our need to preserve and destruct. "What are words when they meet the action of what they attempt to modify?" she asks, exploring the possible salve of language in the face of pain and grief. What Asylum delivers is a form of hard-won grace and an awareness of the cost of extreme violence, inexplicable loss, and the miraculous cycles of life, in work that carries Bialosky's art to a new level of urgency and achievement.