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The Dunciad in Four Books: The Dunciad (1728) And The Dunciad Variorum (1729) (Longman Annotated Texts)
by Valerie RumboldThe Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope’s text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years’ scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland’s The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes extensive suggestions for further reading.
The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729) (Longman Annotated English Poets)
by Valerie RumboldAlexander Pope (1688–1744) is one of the greatest poets in European literature, comparable to the likes of likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and Wordsworth. He is not easy to read though: his poetry uses dense literary and contemporary contextual allusions. This is why a book that gets the readers to the meaning of his poetry as painlessly as possible is so important.This volume features the complete text of Pope’s most significant poem, The Dunciad. The first-rate annotations that accompany this edition of the poem provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to the contemporary reader.
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
by Valerie WorthAll four Small Poems books in one volume plus fourteen new poems "every bit as worthy as their predecessors" (The Horn Book).
The Ramayana
by ValmikiAn idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honour, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals, and terrifying demons.
Collected Body
by Valzhyna Mort"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended."-Library Journal"A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight."-Midwest Book Review"Mort's style-tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism-recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska."-Los Angeles TimesValzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and Collected Body is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. "Death hands you every new day like a golden coin," she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows "it gets harder to turn down.""Preface"on a bare tree-a red beast,so still, it has become the tree.now it's the tree that prowls over the beast,a cautious beast itself.a stone thrown at its breastis so fast-the stone has become the beast.now it's the beast that throws itself like a stone,blood like a dog-rose tree on a windy day,and the moon is trying on your facefor the annual masquerade of the dead.death decides to wait to hear more.so death mews:first-your story, then-me.Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her American debut, Factory of Tears, appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers. She has received many honors and awards, including a Civitella Raineri fellowship. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
by Valzhyna MortWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet’s voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.
Kicks: Sneaker Microfiction And Poetry
by Van G. Garrett“A brilliantly written and illustrated ode to sneakers and sneakerheads, young and old. A gift to us all.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA fun, lyrical debut picture book, Kicks is an essential read for sneaker fans of all ages, from award-winning poet Van G. Garrett and New York Times bestselling illustrator Reggie Brown.This is a love letter to sneakers. But not just any sneakers. Only the flyest, floatiest, you-est kicks you can get—the ones that let you soar!This colorful, rhythmic adventure has something to offer anyone who prizes a great pair of shoes and any reader who loves to play with words.
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
by Vanessa Perez RosarioWhile it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
Beast Meridian
by Vanessa VillarrealBEAST MERIDIAN narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cultural displacement, the inheritance of generational trauma, sexist and racist violence, sexual assault, economic struggle, and institutional racism and sexism that disproportionately punishes brown girls in crisis. <p><p> Narrated by a speaker in mourning marked as an at- risk juvenile, psychologically troubled, an offender, expelled and sent to alternative school for adolescents with behavioral issues, and eventually, a psychiatric hospital, it survives the school to prison pipeline, the immigrant working class condition, grueling low- pay service jobs, conservative classism against Latinxs in Texas, queerness, assimilation, and life wrapped up in frivolous citations, fines, and penalties. The traumatic catalyst for the long line of trouble begins with the death of a beloved young grandmother from preventable cervical cancer—another violence of systemic racism and sexism that prevents regular reproductive and sexual health care to poor immigrant communities—and the subsequent deaths of other immigrant family members who are mourned in the dissociative states amidst the depressive trauma that opens the book. <p> The dissociative states that mark the middle—a surreal kind of shadowland where the narrator encounters her animal self and ancestors imagined as animals faces brutal surreal challenges on the way back to life beyond trauma—is a kind of mictlan, reimagined as a state of constant mourning that challenges American notions of "healing" from trauma, and rather acknowledges sadness, mourning, and memory as a necessary state of constant awareness to forge a "way back" toward a broader healing of earth, time, body, history.
Gabriela: Time for Change (American Girl #3)
by Varian JohnsonGabby has never been so busy! In this third novel featuring American Girl's 2017 Girl of the Year, Gabby is already juggling homework, school leadership activities, dance classes, and rehearsals for a spoken word competition when she's offered an exciting dance opportunity. It's too good to pass up, but soon, Gabby finds there aren't enough hours in the day to do it all, let alone be a good friend to her BFF, Teagen. And she can't help but notice that more and more, she wishes she were working on her poetry instead of doing pliés and grand jetés. Gabby's changed a lot this past year. By the time the competition rolls around, she begins to wonder--have her dreams changed, too?
No sé si no en la herida: Antología de poetas líquidos
by Varios AutoresFrente a la altura poética, la altura física, frente a la abstracción de lo poético, la materialidad de la piel, de los músculos, de los huesos. Porque el cuerpo está impregnado de historia y siempre es posible leerlo como una gramática. <P><P> Enfermos, sanos, encerrados, censurados, domesticados, aniquilados, atravesados por las lanzas de miles de discursos, nuestros cuerpos, los vuestros, devienen aquí motivo taxonómico-poético. Traumática o catártica, la biopolítica a debate, como apuntando lo necesario de lo somático, como afirmando la existencia (sin)razón de tácticas anatómicas de control. Emergencia política, máquina orgánica, representación, química, poder. <P><P>La ordenación como contra-alegoría paradójica, como microsabotaje utópico del arte eurocéntrico de gobernar los cuerpos libres. Borgianamente, Cervantes decidió. Si sale cara de menor a mayor, si sale cruz de mayor a menor, Cervantes es la cara. Una vuelta, dos, tres, cuatro, quizás cinco o seis, no daba tiempo a contar. Cara. Al fin y al cabo, somos cuerpos por azar evolutivo.
Poesía medieval
by Varios AutoresLos mejores libros jamás escritos. «Qué gran aleve hizieronmis ojos y qué traición:por una vista que os vieronvenderos mi coraçón.»Jorge Manrique Desde el hispanolatino Cancionero de Ripoll hasta la obra de Juan de Mena, el marqués de Santillana o Juan del Encina, pasando por las jarchas, la lírica gallego-portuguesa o catalano-provenzal (cuyo más excelso representante es Ausiàs March) y las obras del mester de juglaría y el mester de clerecía, esta antología recoge lo más significativo de la poesía peninsular de esa larga etapa histórica. A cargo del profesor Víctor de Lama, el cuidado en la selección y el rigor en los criterios aplicados hacen de esta antología la mejor muestra de la poesía escrita en la Edad Media y un instrumento insustituible para su cabal conocimiento.
Un sueño selló mi espíritu (Flash Poesía)
by Varios AutoresEl romanticismo inglés llega a «Poesía Portátil» con Un sueño selló mi espíritu, una antología que reúne los versos más representativos de Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley y Keats. El romanticismo inglés revolucionó la forma de escribir poesía y dio luz a algunos de los grandes autores de todos los tiempos. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley y Keats son estandartes de un periodo que abrió un mundo nuevo. Con traducción de Gonzalo Torné, esta antología acerca al lector a sus sensuales meditaciones sobre el paso del tiempo, sus cantos a la juventud y sus odas a la naturaleza, la libertad y el espíritu revolucionario.
Una fiebre de ti mismo. Poesía del romanticismo inglés
by Varios AutoresUna antología que reúne los grandes nombres del romanticismo inglés. «El soplo de la más humilde de las flores puede ofrecer pensamientos que a menudo encuentro demasiado profundos para desgarrarlos.» Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley y Keats constituyen una secuencia que bajo el nombre de poesía romántica inglesa puede citarse al lado del teatro griego o de la novela rusa como una de las cimas indiscutibles del espíritu humano, y del que ningún lector inquieto debería privarse. Escritos en la encrucijada de un absolutismo que se resiste a desvanecerse y una revolución liberal que no termina de cuajar, y con un ánimo incapaz de confiar en promesas divinas pero que no puede dejar de ver un halo de trascendencia en la naturaleza, estos poemas son ejemplos de tensión humana y de indagación expresiva. Las sensuales meditaciones de Wordsworth sobre la caducidad y el tiempo, los paisajes helados y mágicos de Coleridge, la altivez revolucionaria -en la política y en el corazón- de Byron, las prodigiosas y exquisitas odas de Keats y los desvíos visionarios de Shelley, de quien recogemos por primera vez en castellano su obra maestra, El triunfo de la vida, concurren en las luminosas páginas de un libro que sirve en nuevas traducciones de Gonzalo Torné un conjunto de poemas sin los que la humanidad no sería la misma.
Ellas, poetas
by Varios autoresUna muestra esencial de la poesía escrita por mujeres desde el S.XVI a la actualidad. Una antología de poesía escrita en castellano por mujeres que recoge no sólo a un grupo de poetas, sino una evolución de la poética desde el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad. La visión del mundo de las mujeres expresada a través de las palabras de Luisa Sigea, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Maria Gertrudis Hore Ley, Margarita Hickey y Pellizoni, Rosalía de Castro, Mercedes Velilla, Concepción de Estevarena, Idea Vilariño, Idoia Montero, Patricia Benido, Irene G punto, Zahara, Victoria Ash,Elena barrio Fabregat, Gata Cattana y Alejandra Martinez de Miguel
A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books
by VariousFans of illustrator Mary Blair will cherish this never-before-published treasury of her Golden Books, which includes material that hasn't been in print in decades. I Can Fly is here in its unabridged glory, as are Baby's House, The Up and Down Book, and The Golden Book of Little Verses. Many of the finest pages from The New Golden Song Book are included, to round out this gorgeous collection. All of the original artwork has been digitally reproduced, and has never looked more breathtaking! Academy Award-winning animator John Canemaker—author of The Art and Flair of Mary Blair—wrote the foreword for this highly anticipated book honoring one of the most beloved illustrators of our time.
Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
by VariousPICKED FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2020THE PERFECT READ TO CALM YOUR MIND IN TIMES OF STRESS**** As recommended by RED magazine ****'Dreamy' STYLIST'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some zzzzzs.' the SUN'Hurrah for a book that draws us away from the cold blue light of the smart phone and into the soothing glow of poems, short stories and extracts' THE SIMPLE THINGS Introduced by Lucy Mangan* * * Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep. * * *This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep.A good night's sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away. From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield, to friendly tales of our childhoods, to poetry that reminds us of the simple joys of life, this lovingly curated book will soothe a tired mind and gently carry you to the peaceful land of sleep.So switch off, snuggle down and allow yourself to escape into new worlds and old; magical, mysterious and tender realms that will accompany you to your own sweet dreams.
Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
by VariousPICKED FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2020THE PERFECT READ TO CALM YOUR MIND IN TIMES OF STRESS**** As recommended by RED magazine ****'Dreamy' STYLIST'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some zzzzzs.' the SUN'Hurrah for a book that draws us away from the cold blue light of the smart phone and into the soothing glow of poems, short stories and extracts' THE SIMPLE THINGS Introduced by Lucy Mangan* * * Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep. * * *This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep.A good night's sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away. From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield, to friendly tales of our childhoods, to poetry that reminds us of the simple joys of life, this lovingly curated book will soothe a tired mind and gently carry you to the peaceful land of sleep.So switch off, snuggle down and allow yourself to escape into new worlds and old; magical, mysterious and tender realms that will accompany you to your own sweet dreams.
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them
by VariousFrom grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated.Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Words may not always provide solutions, but they can at the very least offer us a sense of hope, and the reassurance that we are not alone in our experiences and in our feelings.The Poetry First Aid Kit is a ready-made toolkit that offers you a light in the dark, no matter what you are feeling. Comprising poems from literary classics to new, cutting edge voices writing about the world today, this extraordinary collection proves that we are never alone in the suffering we endure, and in the human spirit's capacity to overcome.Whether you are well-versed in poetry or sceptical to the power it holds, we hope that this collection will surprise you, entertain, and ultimately offer comfort through those difficult days.Featuring poems from: Kae Tempest, Hollie McNish, Raymond Antrobus, Salena Godden, Theresa Lola, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and many, many more.
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them
by VariousFrom grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated.Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Words may not always provide solutions, but they can at the very least offer us a sense of hope, and the reassurance that we are not alone in our experiences and in our feelings.The Poetry First Aid Kit is a ready-made toolkit that offers you a light in the dark, no matter what you are feeling. Comprising poems from literary classics to new, cutting edge voices writing about the world today, this extraordinary collection proves that we are never alone in the suffering we endure, and in the human spirit's capacity to overcome.Whether you are well-versed in poetry or sceptical to the power it holds, we hope that this collection will surprise you, entertain, and ultimately offer comfort through those difficult days.Featuring poems from: Kae Tempest, Hollie McNish, Raymond Antrobus, Salena Godden, Theresa Lola, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and many, many more.
For All Our Days: A Collection of Wedding Readings
by VariousFor 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.
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
by Various William SpengemannWhitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.
Our Old Nursey Rymes (Classics To Go)
by VariousExcerpt: "Sing a song of Sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When the pie was open’d, The birds began to sing, Oh, was not that a dainty dish, To set before the King."
Typed Words, Loud Voices
by Various"I'd like coffee, please." "No. I don't believe you. How do I know it is really you who wants coffee and not your friend there subliminally transmitting that to you by touching your shoulder?" Imagine a world where you had to prove you knew your own mind even to get a cup of coffee, where it was generally assumed that you could have no thoughts of your own, so if you did express your thoughts, it must be some trick. What would you do? Would you give up, or demand to be heard? Sadly, this world is not imaginary for many of the writers in this book, who have chosen the path of demanding to be heard. Their best (and sometimes only) mode of communication is sometimes called "discredited" because it was "tested" in ways that make no sense. <p><p> Typed Words, Loud Voices is written by a coalition of writers who type to talk and believe it is neither logical nor fair that some people should be expected to prove themselves every time they have something to say. Read our arguments and hear us. Help us change the world.
Poems to Fix a F**ked Up World
by Various PoetsSometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson Mandela held fast to his 'unconquerable soul' on Robben Island with the help of the words a poet wrote about his battle with tuberculosis a century before. So maybe it's not inconceivable that the words in this little book could help you put some of the sh*t in perspective, get all the important bits of your life - like sleep, work, food, travel, love and learning - in some kind of balance, so you can go back to star-gazing again . . . Taking as its starting point the classic 'wheel of balance' life-coach model, this beautifully packaged collection of extracts and short poems gathers wisdom old and new in a perfect gift for anyone who needs comfort in this f**ked up world of ours.'This is not a poetry book as you know it, this is a life raft.' Emerald Street on Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t.