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Teoría de los cuerpos: Descripción explícita de la correspondencia
by ZaharaTeoría de los cuerpos es un análisis poético de las maneras de relacionarnos que tenemos los seres humanos: cuerpos que se mueven, se repelen y se imantan con sus iguales por razones a veces difíciles de comprender. «Intenté entender qué nos sucedía desde todos los ángulos posibles. Observé el ansia, la espera, el deseo, la tristeza, el vacío. La carne, áspera a veces, rugosa; el pulso caliente, la búsqueda a toda costa. »Reconozco que allí no había respuestas. Encontré otras vidas dentro de un solo cuerpo y vi cómo su relación con los otros condicionaba su propia existencia. Así a veces se sentía sustraído, partido o en expansión con ellos. »Busqué dentro lo que siempre había sentido fuera. Tuve que abrirme con mis propias manos, dejar que otras también lo hicieran. Y solo cuando atravesé el dolor y la nostalgia, el placer y la soberbia, descubrí que lo que había ahí enterrado era real, que absolutamentetodo era cierto.»Zahara _____________ A través de poemas, textos más narrativos y semaforismos, la cantante y escritora Zahara demuestra una vez más que el talento no se compartimenta. Crea, a través de este poemario dividido en tres partes («Clausuras de un cuerpo», «Correspondencias de los cuerpos» y «Extensión de un cuerpo»), su propia interpretación de la teoría matemática de los cuerpos, que estudia sus propiedades. Un libro que sorprende por su originalidad y su calidad y que, al mismo tiempo, contiene todos los ingredientes a los que ella nos tiene acostumbrados y que tanto nos gustan: su humor, un toque de surrealismo, el exceso, el amor, el dolor, el deseo e incluso la náusea, mezclados y agitados en su justa medida. De Trabajo, piso, pareja se ha dicho...«Hay debuts literarios que logran sorprender a propios y extraños. Da igual que ya conocieras la faceta musical de Zahara: no estás preparado para Trabajo, piso, pareja, un fresco íntimo sobre la vida de una relación que actúa como un diagnóstico íntimo de algunas patologías generacionales.»Revista GQ «Un certero retrato generacional de los anhelos y las decepciones de los treintañeros.».El Confidencial «Un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional en una época en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Todo envuelto en el papel de una sociedad en la que sostener en pie una relación es más difícil que conseguir que un castillo de naipes sobreviva a una ligera brisa.»Vogue
Terminator: Poems, 2008-2018
by Richard KenneyLove, science, and politics collide in this sharp assessment of who we are now, in a generous selection of work by the award-winning poet.The terminator--the line, perpendicular to the equator, that divides night from day--is the organizing concept for this collection, which examines a world where "pert, post-apocalyptic / entertainment trades have trod the pocked / planet raw." Kenney's division of light verse from darker poems serves to remind us that what makes us laugh is often dead serious, and what's most serious can be best understood through wordplay, an ironic eye, the cleaving and joining magically effected by metaphor. With grace and candor, Richard Kenney thumbs through our troubles like a precious but scratched collection of vinyl: "the nature of emotion's analog, while languages are digital." From "Siri, Why Do I Wear a Necktie?" to the eternal springing of love ("Magnetic swipe to the blinking lock / is me to you"), Kenney reminds us that art's the best weapon to maintain our wits in very challenging times.
Terms of Survival: Poems
by Judith Ortiz CoferA cultural legacy and a woman's desire "to be released from rituals" -- are the terms that Cofer confronts in her poetic dialectic of survival. Cultural icons, customs and rites of passage take root in an imagery that is lush, tropical and piercing.
Terra Firma
by Thomas CentolellaThomas Centolella writes about appreciating everyday wonders in the urban and forested settings of the Bay Area and San Francisco while remniscing about his forefathers in the Old World.
Terrapin: And Other Poems
by Wendell BerryTom Pohrt spent years gathering those poems of Wendell Berry's he imagined children might read and appreciate, making sketches to accompany his selection. <P><P>Over the past several years a dialogue has evolved in which the poet has come to advise the illustrator on the natural history of the animals and plants seen so intimately in the poems. Then came the august book designer Dave Bullen, who has been designing the books of Wendell Berry for more than thirty years.The resulting volume of 21 poems includes dozens of the sketches, drawings and watercolors in what amounts to a visual meditation on the poem they work to illustrate and is simply staggering in both its beauty and its meaning to those of us who remain lovers of the book as physical object.In the full-color Terrapin we have not only a volume of staggering beauty but a consummate example of the collaborative effort that is fine bookmaking, the perfect gift for children, grandchildren or anyone who remains a lover of the book as physical object.
A Terrible Beauty Is Born (Penguin Little Black Classics)
by W B Yeats'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
The Terrible Stories
by Lucille CliftonThe long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.
Terroir
by Robert MorganThe first full-length collection in more than a decade from the award-winning poet and author of the bestselling novel Gap Creek. Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan's fiction will recognize many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.
Tertulia (Penguin Poets)
by Vincent ToroA fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News)Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own social justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal and the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the human condition.
Tesseracts
by Judith MerrilEach year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from among the best of Canada's writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. This is the anthology that started it all! Featuring fiction by Elisabeth Vonarburg and Hugo and Nebula award winning authors Spider Robinson, and William Gibson.
Test Piece
by Sheryda WarrenerWays of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. They engage with the process and practice of art-making, and specifically with abstract minimalist works like those by Eva Hesse, Anne Truitt, Ruth Asawa, and Agnes Martin. Not-seeing/not-knowing is a motif, as is weave, grid, pattern, rhythm of interiors, domestic life. These poems are informed by collage, by the act of bringing images and lines together. With their echoes and reverberations (hand, mirror, body, clear, form, face), a greater complexity is revealed. "In conversation with visual art, mirrors, and the traces of self we assemble through encounter, Sheryda Warrener’s Test Piece holds an expansive place to dwell with the phenomenological. Interacting with event and object, reflection and parataxis, the writing asks us to consider contingent spaces and the matter of matter and meaning making. The poems adhere as arrangement, as a consideration of relationality. 'What does she whimper in the dog’s ear? / How earthly we behave, believing we’re alone.'" – Hoa Nguyen, author of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure "Sheryda Warrener's newest poetry collection unspools as a complex weave of repeated motifs, ritualistic gestures, and deeply embodied observations. I’m especially struck by the influence of twentieth-century women artists within the collection: meditations on Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, and Sherrie Levine’s works structure much of Test Piece. Palimpsests of photographed interiors, where living and writing collide lyrically and randomly, combine with floating textual cut-ups of variegating transparency. This concretizes, perhaps, how the poems bloom forth from experimental assemblage: 'her body holds/the long blue sentence of it…'" – Marina Roy, artist and author of Queuejumping
Testament
by Robert CrawfordTo make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with ‘Testament’, a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.
Testament
by G.C. WaldrepIn this book-length poem, G.C. Waldrep addresses matters as diverse as Mormonism, cymatics, race, Dolly the cloned sheep, and his own life and faith. Drafted over twelve trance-like days while in residence at Hawthornden Castle, Waldrep responds to such poets as Alice Notley, Lisa Robertson, and Carla Harryman, and tackles the question of whether gender can be a lyric form.G.C. Waldrep's books include Disclamor (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011). He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits West Branch, and serves as editor-at-large for the Kenyon Review.
Testify
by Douglas ManuelThis award-winning debut book of poetry examines race, masculinity, religion, class, and the African American experience in the American Midwest.A book of elegiac ambivalence, Testify&’s speaker often finds himself trapped between received binaries: black and white, ghetto and suburban, atheism and Catholicism. In many ways, this work is a Bildungsroman detailing the maturation of a black man raised in the crack-laden 1980s, with hip-hop, jazz, and blues as its soundtrack. Rendered with keen attention to the economic decline of the Midwest due to the departure of the automotive industry, this book portrays the speaker wrestling with his city&’s demise, family relationships, interracial love, and notions of black masculinity. Never letting anyone, including the speaker, off the hook, Testify refuses sentimentality and didacticism and dwells in a space of uncertainty, where meaning and identity are messy, complicated, and multivalent.&“Manuel charts the raw emotional complexities and the impossible daily reckonings that confront a young black man coming of age today in America. . . . Each powerful testimony in this collection stands as evidence of an eloquent and dramatic new voice in American poetry.&” ―David St. John, author of The Auroras and Study for the World&’s Body &“These potent poems testify to those ambivalent moments that might rend or right us, as when an interracial couple drive past a truck with a Confederate flag painted on its back windshield and from which a little boy turns to smile and wave: his &‘blond hair // split down the middle like a Bible / left open to the Book of Psalms.&’&” ―Anna Journey, author of The Atheist Wore Goat Silk
Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (The Griot Project Book Series)
by Shanee StepakoffSierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker: With New and Selected Jazz Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Miriam Zolin Yusef Komunyakaa Sandy Evans Christopher Williams Sascha FeinsteinPulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto "Testimony." Paying homage to Charlie Parker, "Testimony" was commissioned for a radio drama with original music by eminent Australian composer and saxophonist Sandy Evans. Remarkably rich and evocative, encompassing a wide range of musical energy and performers, this moving affirmation of Parker's genius became a milestone in contemporary radio theater. Twenty-eight additional poems spanning the breadth of Komunyakaa's career are included, including two never previously published. Accompanying the poems are interviews and essays featuring Komunyakaa, Evans, radio producer Christopher Williams, jazz critic Miriam Zolin, jazz writer and editor Sascha Feinstein, and musical director, Paul Grabowsky. Sascha Feinstein writes the foreword. Check for the online reader's companion at testimony.site.wesleyan.edu. (This edition does not include any audio.)
Tethering World: Poems
by Jody RamboThis enthralling poetry book is lyrical and tactile as Jody Rambo exhibits her beautiful poetic expressions.
Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
by Deven M. PatelWritten in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem's author, his reading communities, the modes through which the poem has been read and used, the contexts through which it became canonical, its literary offspring, and the emotional power it still holds for the culture that values it.Text to Tradition privileges the intellectual, affective, and social forms of cultural practice that inform a region's people and institutions. It also proposes a new way to conduct literary historiography, understanding literary texts as "traditions" in their own right and emphasizing the various players and critical genres involved in their reception. The book underscores the importance of the close study of individual works to building a history of literary cultures. In addition, it creates a groundbreaking model for approaching the study of other venerated South Asian texts.
Textu
by Fady JoudahEmerging in the era of tweets and text-messages comes a new poetic form: textu. The "u" in textu echoes the one in haiku, and also emphasizes the intimate you. A textu poem has a single rule: be exactly 160 characters long. As theme, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways.
Thackeray in Time: History, Memory, and Modernity (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Richard Salmon Alice CrossleyAn intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its varied manifestations. Encompassing the full chronological span of the author's career and a wide range of literary forms and genres in which he worked, Thackeray in Time repositions Thackeray's temporal and historical self-consciousness in relation to the broader socio-cultural contexts of Victorian modernity. The first part of the collection focusses on some of the characteristic temporal modes of professional authorship and print culture in the mid-nineteenth century, including periodical journalism and the Christmas book market. Secondly, the volume offers fresh approaches to Thackeray's acknowledged status as a major exponent of historical fiction, reconsidering questions of historiography and the representation of place in such novels as Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. The final part of the collection develops the central Thackerayan theme of memory within four very different but complementary contexts. Thackeray's absorption by memories of childhood in later life leads on to his own subsequent memorialisation by familial descendants and to the potential of digital technology for preserving and enhancing Thackeray's print archive in the future, and finally to the critical legacy perpetuated by generations of literary scholars since his death.
Thalia Delighting in Song
by Bonnie Maclachlan Emmet I. RobbinsEmmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive and informed readings of poets from Homer to the tragedians. Thalia Delighting in Song assembles for the first time his work from 1975 through 1999, reflecting his close reading of the Greek texts and his firm grasp of their literary, historical and mythological contexts.Among the essays included in this volume are important reflections on the poetry of Homer, Alcman, Sappho, Pindar and Aeschylus. Also featured are Robbins' writings that situate Greek texts in their wider contexts, comparing Greek poetry and modern opera, for example, or assessing the enduring influence of myth in the Indo-European traditions, accounting for links between Greek literature and the poetry, sagas and songs of several other cultures. Thalia Delighting in Song ensures that the next generation of Classicists will continue to benefit from the insights of one of the foremost scholars in the field.
Thamizh Veeranilaik Kavithai
by K. Kailasapathy K. V. BalasubramanianThis book is a translation of veteran author K.Kailasapathy's 'Tamil heroic Poetry' , that is till date a very important work in the field of Research.It introduced 'Sanga Kala Ilakkiyam' to the rest of the world as well.
Thank You, Gracias: A Bilingual Lift-the-Flap Book
by Susie JaramilloFrom the Emmy-nominated, award-winning bilingual preschool series Canticos, comes Thank You, Gracias, a lift-the-flap board book about giving thanks written in rhyming English and Spanish text, perfect for fans of Amor is to Love You.Sing and learn about what it means to give thanks, in both English and Spanish. Thank You, Gracias is full of bright, cheerful art featuring the Little Chickies and other favorite Canticos characters, and engaging lift-the-flaps. This board book is a great way to make learning and singing with your little ones special and unique in not one, but two languages.
Thank You -- You're Welcome
by Louis SlobodkinManners are so important and Jimmy learns how important the words thank you and you're welcome are. Jimmy gets lots of opportunities to learn the value mad finds how happy it makes him feel in this rhyming story with limited picture descriptions.
