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The Value of Milton
by John LeonardIn The Value of Milton, leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose. Milton's work includes one of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon, yet he remains impressively popular with general readers. Leonard demonstrates why Milton has enduring value for our own time, both as a defender of political liberty and as a poet of sublimity and terror who also exhibits moments of genuine humanity and compassion. A poet divided against himself, Milton offers different rewards to different readers. The Value of Milton examines not only the significance of his most celebrated verse but also the function of biblical allegory, classical culture, and the moods, voice and language that give Milton's writings their perennial appeal.
Vancouver for Beginners
by Alex LeslieIn Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone and a developer who paces at the city's edge, shoring it up with aquariums.In these poems you will traverse a city lined with rivers, not streets. Memory traps and tourist traps reveal themselves, and the ocean glints, elusive, in the background. Here there are many Vancouvers and no Vancouver, a city meant for elsewhere after the flood has swept through. This place of the living and the dead has been rewritten: forests are subsumed by parks, buildings sink and morph, and the climate has changed.Vancouver for Beginners is a ghost story, an elegy, a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on fire.
Vancouver for Beginners
by Alex LeslieWinner of the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Lohn Foundation Prize for PoetryIn Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone and a developer who paces at the city's edge, shoring it up with aquariums.In these poems you will traverse a city lined with rivers, not streets. Memory traps and tourist traps reveal themselves, and the ocean glints, elusive, in the background. Here there are many Vancouvers and no Vancouver, a city meant for elsewhere after the flood has swept through. This place of the living and the dead has been rewritten: forests are subsumed by parks, buildings sink and morph, and the climate has changed.Vancouver for Beginners is a ghost story, an elegy, a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on fire.Praise for Alex Leslie:"Alex Leslie is a tremendously gifted and compassionate writer. This bold and searing collection is a wonder." —Madeleine Thien, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing"A magnetic collection that must be read over and over." —Kirkus Reviews
Vanilla
by Billy MerrellA bold, groundbreaking novel about coming out, coming into your own, and coming apart.Vanilla and Hunter have been dating since seventh grade. They came out together, navigated middle school together, and became that couple in high school that everyone always sees as a couple. There are complications and confusions, for sure. But most of all, they love each other.As high school goes, though, and as their relationship deepens, some cracks begin to show. Hunter thinks they should be having sex.Vanilla isn't so sure. Hunter doesn't mind hanging out with loud, obnoxious friends.Vanilla would rather avoid them. If they're becoming different people, can they be the same couple?Falling in love is hard.Staying in love is harder.
Variations on Herb
by John B. LeeWinner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of Variations is Herb Lee, John B's grandfather (and an absolutely unforgettable curmudgeon) but the background of rural Ontario is also made palpable entirely without indulgent explanation. This grain, this rich vein that appears in book after book, may well be inexhaustible; the cumulative effect certainly has few parallels in Canadian writing.
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry
by T. S. EliotThe famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy. While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as a poet and critic living in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally termed &“metaphysical&”—philosophical and intellectual poetry that revels in startlingly unconventional imagery. Eliot came to perceive a gradual &“disintegration of the intellect&” following three &“metaphysical moments&” of European civilization—the thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth centuries. The theory is at once a provocative prism through which to view Western intellectual and literary history and an exceptional insight into Eliot&’s own intellectual development. This annotated edition includes the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1933. They reveal in great depth the historical currents of poetry and philosophy that shaped Eliot&’s own metaphysical moment in the twentieth century.
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2: The Songs and Sonets (The\variorum Edition Of The Poetry Of John Donne Ser.)
by John DonneThis volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.
La vasija que Juan fabricó
by Nancy Andrews-GoebelIn Spanish. This vibrant storyis sure to enlighten all who are fascinated by traditional art forms, Mexican culture, and the power of the human spirit to find inspiration from the past.Juan Quezada is the premier potter in Mexico. With local materials and the primitive methods of the Casas Grandes people - including using human hair to make brushes and cow manure to feed the flames that fire his pots - Juan creates stunning pots in the traditional style. Each is a work of art unlike any other. The text is written in the form of "The House That Jack Built" and accompanied by a comprehensive afterword with photos and information about Juan's technique as well as a history of Mata Ortiz, the northern Mexican village where Juan began and continues to work. This celebratory story tells how Juan's pioneering work has transformed Mata Ortiz from an impoverished village into a prosperous community of world-renowned artists. Translated from The Pot That Juan Built, La vasija que Juan fabricó is sure to enlighten all who are fascinated by traditional art forms, Mexican culture, and the power of the human spirit to find inspiration from the past.
Vasko Popa
by Vasko PopaAn original collection of work by the great Serbian poet of the twentieth century.Vasko Popa is widely recognized as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, a riddling fabulist, whose work, taking its bearings from the songs and folklore of his native his Serbia and from surrealism, has a dark gnomic fatalistic humor and pathos that are like nothing else. Charles Simic, a master of contemporary American poetry, has been translating Popa’s work for more than a quarter century. This revised and greatly expanded edition of Simic’s Popa is a revelation.
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Gareth Sparham Khunu RinpocheRevered by many--especially His Holiness the Dalai Lama--as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta--the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Presented in both English and the original Tibetan, this modern classic is a collection of Khunu Rinpoche's inspirational verse.
Vaudeville in the Dark: Poems (Southern Literary Studies)
by R. M. RyanVaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan’s dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find “peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we circle in and out of the dark.” Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we—songsters all—long for a “heart dissolved in melody.”
Vazhiyil Veena Velicham: വഴിയില് വീണ വെളിച്ചം (സമ്പൂര്ണ കവിതാസമാഹാരം) മലയാളം
by P. R. Gopinathan Nairജീവിതത്തിന്റെ വഴിത്താരയില് വന്നു വീണ ഇരുളിനെ സര്ഗ്ഗാത്മകതയുടെ വെളിച്ചംകൊണ്ട് അതിവര്ത്തിച്ച പി.ആര്. ഗോപിനാഥന് നായരുടെ കവിതകളുടെ സമ്പൂര്ണ സമാഹാരം. കാലത്തോടു പ്രതികരിക്കുന്ന, ജീവിതപരിസരങ്ങളുടെ ചൂടും ചൂരും ആവാഹിച്ച സ്വത്വശക്തിയുള്ള രചനകള്. മലയാള കാവ്യപാരമ്പര്യത്തില് വേരോട്ടമുള്ള ഗ്രാമീണന്റെ ബലിഷ്ഠമായ ജീവിത ദര്ശനം അനുഭവത്തിന്റെ കയ്പുകളെ വാഗര്ത്ഥ രസവിദ്യകൊണ്ട് കവിതയുടെ അമൃതക്കനികളാക്കി മാറ്റിയിരിക്കുന്നു. - കെ.എസ്. രവികുമാര്
Vecino
by Alfonso AlcaldeUna amplia selección con lo mejor del destacado poeta Alfonso Alcalde. La figura de Alfonso Alcalde (1921-1992) es ya legendaria en la literatura chilena: admirada por figuras tan distintas como Neruda, Ángel Rama, José Miguel Varas o Bolaño, su obra es irreductible, de una variedad y una riqueza asombrosas. En su poesía combina magistralmente la distancia del observador con la calidez y la cercanía del habitante, del amigo. De ahí el título de esta antología, Vecino, que recoge una parte importante del que fue su gran proyecto poético, El panorama ante nosotros, publicado en 1969, así como una amplia selección de poemas de sus libros anteriores y posteriores. Las voces y los diálogos, la muerte y la imaginación, la risa y el llanto, la expresividad y la delicadeza, las tradiciones y la invención son conceptos que, sin agotarla, permiten dar señas del talante de esta poesía única, que desborda libertad y emoción.
The Veggiecational Book: A Book About Numbers, Colors, Shapes And Letters! (VeggieTales)
by Phil VischerThe Veggiecational Book from Big Idea's "VeggieTales" cast of characters. This 4-in-1 volume includes the full text of Bob & Larry's ABC's, How Many Veggies?, Pa Grape's Shapes, and Junior's Colors.
Veil and Burn
by Laurie Clements LambethConcerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lila Abu-LughodUpdated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
by Agha Shahid Ali Daniel HallBeginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. from "The Veiled Suite" I wait for him to look straight into my eyesThis is our only chance for magnificence.If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice,will let us almost completely crystallize,tell me, who but I could chill his dreaming night.Where he turns, what will not appear but my eyes?Wherever he looks, the sky is only eyes.Whatever news he has, it is of the sea.
Veinte gramos de luz
by Juan García CallejasLa luz es una llaga que no se cierra nunca... En este segundo poemario, después de Tierra escondida, Juan García Callejas nos desvela el valor irrenunciable de la poesía como recurso para alumbrar el discurrir de la existencia cotidiana. Inspirándose en una cita de Christian Bobin y en sintonía con el imaginario de Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, entre otros escritores que laten de forma implícita en su propuesta, nos confirma que la experiencia poética es un acceso posible, y necesario, a la certeza de que la luz pesa siempre más que la sombra. Veinte gramos de luz sigue siendo un canto confiado en que el deseo de ver hace posible el don de la iluminación.
Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor
by Fundación Pablo NerudaPremio Nobel de Literatura “El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma”. —Gabriel García Márquez Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las colecciones de poesía más leídas, estableciendo a Neruda como una de las más singulares voces de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Incluso leído hoy, sigue sorprendiendo por su sincera descripción del amor y el sexo. Tan pasional y hermosa como Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Cien sonetos de amor incluye algunos de los más sensuales e intensos poemas de Pablo Neruda. Aunque publicada treinta y cinco años más tarde, retiene la ingenuidad y la intensa pasión del joven Neruda, mezclada con la sagaz mirada de un hombre que lo ha visto todo.
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada: Twenty Poems Of Love And One Song Of Desperation (Biblioteca Edaf Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Pablo NerudaUna de las obras más célebres del poeta Pablo Neruda. «Me gusta cuando callas porque estás como ausente.Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto.Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan.Y estoy alegre, alegre de que no sea cierto.» Reseña:«Neruda significa un hombre nuevo en la América, una sensibilidad con la cual abre todo capítulo emocional americano. Su alta categoría arranca de su rotunda diferenciación.»Gabriela Mistral
Veinte toneladas de lluvia
by Rusty TimesPoesía urbana, poemas que arañan. Poesía urbana, poemas que arañan. <P><P>Por estos poemas vagan amores muertos, perdedores sin esperanza, vagamundos, guerreras con causa, enamorados sin armadura, arañas en la nevera, tumbos, entrañas, oscuridad, alcohol, nostalgia, canciones, anarquía, rebeldes en la ciudad ... y veinte toneladas de lluvia que lo inundan todo. <P>Atraviesa los versos mientras escuchas a tu grupo de rock favorito.
Las veladas del tropero
by Godofredo DaireauxLas veladas del tropero tells a series of stories set in Argentina's 19th century haciendas.
Vellum
by Matt DonovanVellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the poignant "Saint Catherine in an O," a knife bears unlikely duality-an object stirring with danger and grace. "A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs-/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how blood, he knows, will make him whole. " In other poems, he reflects upon master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice.
Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992
by Stephen Dobyns"Stephen Dobyns is one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own." - Thomas Lux
Venera: Poems
by Jay RogoffPraise for Jay Rogoff"[Rogoff's] poetry takes a visible art of movement and translates the feelings it evokes and the history it records into delicate words.... But Rogoff also has an amazing knack for the humor in humanity, as a slew of death-defying poems demonstrates." -- Andrew Burstein, The Baton Rouge Advocate"Quite simply, I love the gravitational, poetic pull of Rogoff 's work." -- Renée E. D'Aoust, Notre Dame ReviewThe poems in Jay Rogoff's Venera explore varieties of love, both sacred and profane, by drawing from the natural world, personal intimacy, and the human imagination as evoked in biblical narratives and art. Rogoff reveals how devotion's many guises collide to startle us: a husband consoles his wife after she is awakened by an imaginary child, a man daydreams of his kindergarten crush, Abraham's fear of God perplexes his love for Isaac, and the Virgin Mary, stunned by the angel Gabriel's inhuman beauty, contemplates the decades of purity that stretch ahead.In Venera's title sonnet sequence, inspired by visions of the feminine depicted in the works of Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck, such collisions evolve into collusions. As Rogoff weds elevated language to plainspokenness and sets the erotic alongside the miraculous, the beloved accumulates many identities -- everyone's mother and everyone's daughter, the laboring handmaid and the Queen of heaven, the fertile field and the elusive bride. Rogoff's poems allow us to ponder the contradictory human concoctions of love, detailing how they drive us to venerate the sacred while also submitting to the power of the sensuous.