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A Very Small Something
by David Hickey Alexander Griggs-BurrFrom A Very Small Something:Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and underanother sun, where favourite earrings find new earsand missing marbles run, the hillsides madetheir marvelous shapes for a town called Covington-And a great pink factory as long as the breezeweighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegum.Olivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the world's biggest bubblegum factory, where its citizens blow bubbles all day. But Olivia can't blow a single one and feels as if everyone looks down on her. Leaving Covington to find a place where she might belong, she learns the true meanings of family and home.A Very Small Something, beautifully illustrated by Alexander Griggs-Burr, is a story to which all children-and any tuned-in parent-will be able to relate. Blowing bubbles may indeed be a very small something . . . but when you are a small child and it's the thing you most want to do, a bubble can mean the whole world.David Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada, and the author of two collections, including Open Air Bindery . He has tested his children's poems in schools across the country for the last seven years. He is finishing a PhD at the University of Western in London, Ontario.Alexander Griggs-Burr illustrated the Ontario Library Association Red Maple-nominated Nieve in 2010. He lives and works in Stratford, Ontario.
The Very Stuff: Poems on Color, Thread and the Habits of Women
by Stephen BealFrom the book: 991 Every red haired woman in the world has worn this green. When the movies went to Ireland in 1952, a chorus line of lady leprechauns tricked out in 991 - satin caps and satin shorts and snappy satin vests- greeted Gene Kelly as he danced off the ship, and down the pier, and through the town, and over the hill, slick two-leaf clovers of green rumps blossoming behind. Blue-green, really, an August color in the shade, deep shade, a shade of the texture and the longing and the long afternoons in the Alabama of Kurt Weill. There is smoke in this green, smoke and romance, as Susan Hayward in a hoop skirt strolls the verandah impatient for her swain. So what we've got here is a movie green, the designer Edith Head swirling out a bolt of 991 - always in satin, only in satin- and draping it around Rita Hayworth, who is perfect, and smooth, like a woman made of peaches, peaches and cognac and vanilla ice cream. How can God make such beauty? How can God resist? The Whole Class When I consider the colors I have written poems for, I see a photo of a class of children in 1948. You can tell the leaders-those who are big, or well dressed, or not intimidated by the camera: the girl with the ribbon in her long blonde hair, the tall boy with the rakish smile, the pretty twins. If these children were the colors I have written poems for, I would say I know them well; I would say they do good work. Yes, I would say, I regard them as my stars. But I would also say I love the rest of the class, those whose features and abilities are not developed yet, the kids who tend to look like each other until you get to know them, until you hold their hands and take them for a walk. So, if you should ask me, "Which colors do you love?," I would have to say, "All." I would have to say, "Here are all my friends," as I take from the drawers of Grandmother's Italian chest the bags and boxes in which I keep my floss, then overturn them on the rug where the colors jumble together in the sun, humming with contentment- like jewels unearthed from Ali Baba's cave, like kids set free from school. ISBN: 1-88301046-0
Vessel
by Parneshia JonesThe imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones' debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms of Chicago, Jones knits "a human quilt" with herself at the center. She relates everything from the awkward trip to Marshall Fields with her mother to buy her first bra to the late whiskey-infused nights of her father's world. In the South, "lard sizzles a sermon from the stove"; in Chicago, we feast on an "opera of peppers and pimento." Jones intertwines the stories of her own family with those of historical Black figures, including Marvin Gaye and Josephine Baker. Affectionate, dynamic, and uncommonly observant, these poems mine the richness of history to create a map of identity and influence.
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
by Maxine Hong KingstonNational Book Award Winner Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace, has been leading writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans for more than a decade. The practice of meditating together, writing stories and poems, and then reading their works aloud has been extremely healing for these individuals and has produced some extraordinary writing - Tolstoy-like descriptions of battle scenes, Hemingway-esque flashbacks, and gripping accounts of growing up in military families, serving as medics in the thick of war, coming home to homelessness, and finally doing the work to experience first-hand the deep transformation that is possible when one truly comes to grips with one's whole past.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets)
by Annelyse GelmanA mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter’s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman’s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader’s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets)
by Annelyse GelmanA mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter’s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman’s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader’s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
The Via Veneto Papers: Translated from Italian by John Satriano
by Ennio FlaianoThe first section is an evocation of the Rome of La Dolce Vita, of the early stages in the writing and the realising of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant little sketches, a commemoration of the ageing poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, sceptical survivor from an earlier time, representative of an altogether different life. "Occasional Notebooks" comprises the second section and the third section is an interview given by Flaiano shortly before his death.
Viability
by Sarah VapSelected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo BangSarah Vap's sixth work of poetry, Viability is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in an effort to understand and to ask questions about the bodies (and minds, maybe even souls) that are owned by capitalism. These threads of language include definitions from an online financial dictionary, samples from an essay on the economics of slavery, quotations from an article about slavery in today's Thai fishing industry, lyric bits and pieces about pregnancy and infants of all kinds, and a wealth of quotations falsely attributed to John of the Cross. The viability that Vap is asking about is primarily economic and biological (but not only). The questions of viability become entwined with the need, across the book, to "increase"--in both a capitalist and a gestational sense. John of the Cross tries, at first with composure, to comment on or to mediate between all the different strands of the collection.
El viaje mínimo de Hernán Medina
by Juan Medina¿Poesía de autoayuda? ¿Relato de mis días contigo? ¿Cuaderno de viajes de tu mano? Poemas para cuando explores el mundo. Sus dilemas, sus euforias, su intemperie. Porque existir es delicado. Pero tú decides. Aunque no lo creas. Estás vivo. Nada menos. No es fácil. Pon atención. A ti. Aquí. Ahora.
Vice: New and Selected Poems
by AiCollected here are poems from Ai's previous five books--Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed--along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
The Vicinity
by David O'MearaWinner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region -- Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards In The Vicinity David O'Meara gives us a new kind of cityscape, one that brings its unseen, and usually unsung, materials to the foreground. Brick, concrete (that "not-so-silver screen / our walk-on parts are posed upon"), glass, steel, wire: they step boldly from anonymity into fresh focus, backdrops goaded into stardom. Full of casually-worn wit and humour, often using intricate forms that deftly reflect their subjects, these poems probe our conventional attitudes while walking us down present or remembered streets -- "Some-such Avenue / Rue Saint Whatever."
Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle
by Charlotte Boyce Páraic Finnerty Anne-Marie MillimTennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.
The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona (Routledge Revivals)
by Joseph BristowThe practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted it as a natural vehicle of expression, and for some subjects, in particular sexuality, the only literary mode. Indeed, the sexual question was made even more acute by the sudden phenomenon of the ‘poetess’, and the relation of poetry to gender raised interesting new critical questions. At the same time, the cultural role of the poet came under increasing debate: Victorian poetry was the first contemporary poetry to be studied. This selection of central texts illustrates these pressures on the Victorian practice of poetry, and the introductory remarks suggest ways in which theory can be related to the understanding key poems themselves.
Victorian Poetry and Modern Life: The Unpoetical Age (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Natasha MooreFaced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.
Victorian Sappho
by Yopie PrinsWhat is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife. Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies.
Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought (Routledge Revivals)
by George P. LandowThe importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the secular culture of the Victorian age: its art, literature and thought. George Landow considers the way in which the average English believer learned to read their Bible in terms of the types and shadows of Christ, the various ways in which Victorian poetry and hymns employed certain imagery, and the use of typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding chapter, he investigates the particularly complex, and often ironic, combinations of typological image and typological structure.
Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life
by Lee Behlman Olivia Loksing MoyVictorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms and their surrounding social and media landscape. The volume offers insight into two central concepts of both the Victorian era and our own—status and taste—and how cultural hierarchies then and now were and are constructed and broken. By recovering the lost diversity of Victorian verse, the book maps the breadth of Victorian writing and reading practices, illustrating how these seemingly minor verse genres actually possessed crucial social functions for Victorians, particularly in education, leisure practices, the cultural production of class, and the formation of individual and communal identities. The essays consider how “major” Victorian poets, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were also committed to writing and reading “minor” verse, further troubling the clear-cut notions of canonicity by examining the contradictions of value.
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology (Longman Annotated Texts)
by Virginia BlainThere has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian women poets from Christina Rosetti and Felicia Hemans to the witty, iconoclastic May Kendall. The book starts with a substantial general Introduction which places the work of the poets into a context both historical (that of the poems' production) and modern (that of their past and present reception). Each poet's work is introduced by an expansive headnote which tells the story of her life and writing career. The poems all have full explanatory notes to help readers unfamiliar with the period. A Bibliography lists general sources as well as useful further readings. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, the extensive annotations throughout Victorian Women Poets ensure that this fascinating poetry is enjoyable for undergraduate and non-specialist readers.
Victories & Foibles: Some Western Haiku
by David SeegalThe following haiku verses, written in an American style, are departures from the exacting nature of this Japanese poem. <P><P>By relaxing the restraints upon subject and style, the American poet gains the opportunity to experiment with and to possibly enhance the classic European examples. Although Japanese savants differ about the precise poetics of haiku, they agree that these short poems, highly successful since the thirteenth century, should be composed of three lines, the first and last bearing five syllables and the second bearing seven syllables.Kyoto BuddhaHe of stone, I of flesh, yetIt is he who smilesthat make a book of rare appeal to the western reader.
Vida - El desafío
by João FilhoEl libro es una reflexión sobre las etapas que la vida nos impone. El autor siempre fiel a su pensamiento estableció como base, política, religión y diplomacia. Los poemas de Vida - El desafío, tras la reflexión diaria del cotidiano común, en el que de forma filosófica deja espacios para que cada lector sienta como si fuese parte del pensamiento. La Obra es parte de búsquedas individuales, desvelando el entendimiento de quiénes somos, como nos imaginamos y cómo nos gustaría ser. Esta es una aventura poética del autor, y durante la lectura, nos sentimos un poco de brujo y mágico, con amplios poderes para justificar la intención de comprender mejor al ser humano y transformarlos en seres mejores.
La vida nueva
by Raúl ZuritaLa reaparición de La vida nueva supone un acontecimiento mayor en la poesía contemporánea de Occidente En 1983, tras haber publicado Purgatorio (1979) y Anteparaíso (1982), dos libros que cambiaron para siempre la poesía chilena y latinoamericana, Raúl Zurita se puso a escribir el libro con el que cerraría una trilogía poética de ambición inaudita y que también apelaría desde el título a la obra de Dante: La vida nueva. Lo escribió durante más de una década y recién en 1994 logró publicarlo, pero quedó disconforme pues debió cortar casi la mitad del libro, debido a que, por su extensión, nadie se lo publicaba. Han pasado 25 años desde esa primera y única edición que el poeta nunca autorizó reimprimir. En el intertanto, Zurita se vio obligado a vender los manuscritos. Hasta que hace un par de años los recuperó. Y lo que hoy presentamos será la edición definitiva de un libro clave en la trayectoria del poeta.
La vida y el arte: Antología poética
by Michael HamburgerMichael Hamburger fue uno de los poetas, ensayistas y traductores más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Conocido sobre todo por su labor como traductor de la poesía alemana al inglés, en especial de Hölderlin y Celan, Hamburger fue asimismo un excelente y genuino poeta, un fino cantor del arte y la naturaleza, de los animales y los jardines, así como de la crueldad del siglo XX. En esta edición, Marías Serra Bradford ha seleccionado y traducido una amplia muestra de toda la obra poética de Hamburger, que nunca antes había sido traducido al castellano. Admirada por Ted Hughes o Seamus Heaney, la poesía de Hamburger es una belleza inimitable e irreductible.
The Vidas of The Troubadours (Routledge Revivals)
by Margarita EganPublished in 1984: These texts which have been little studied for their literary qualities represent a vital link between the didactic tradition of the Middle Ages and the fictional short stories of the Renaissance, such as the thirteenth-century collection of tales known as the Novellino, and later, Boccaccio's Decameron.
Viento entre mis pasos
by Rosa Montolío Catalán¿Sientes los sueños, el amor, la melancolía o las injusticias sociales? <P><P>Vuela entre estas páginas y descúbrelo. Viento entre mis pasos es un poemario joven, lleno de emociones y sensaciones que se perciben a través de los sueños, de la belleza de los colores, del romanticismo, del amor y del desamor que, a veces, nos hace volar a otros mundos alegres o tristes. <P><P>Como pájaros planeamos por el arcoíris, por los grandes mares, somos animales y hojas que en nuestras alas van dejando huellas. Pero, nuestros pies caminan y el viento los frena: se rebela, y bailan nuestros dedos balanceándonos en las ráfagas. <P><P>Rosa, invita al lector a sentir el viento sobre sus pasos, unas veces suave y soñador, y otras duro y cruel hasta alcanzar el dolor de la muerte.