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Certain Magical Acts
by Alice NotleyAn important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeAlice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness. Her newest work sets out to explore the world and its difficulties, from the recent economic crisis and climate change to the sorrow of violence and the disappointment of democracy or any other political system. Notley channels these themes in a mix of several longer poems - one is a kind of spy novella in which the author is discovered to be a secret agent of the dead, another an extended message found in a manuscript in a future defunct world - with some unique shorter pieces. Varying formally between long expansive lines, a mysteriously cohering sequence in meters reminiscent of ancient Latin, a narration with a postmodern broken surface, and the occasional sonnet, these are grand poems, inviting the reader to be grand enough to survive, spiritually, a planet's ruin.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Certain Plume
by Henri Michaux Richard Sieburth Lawrence DurrellA bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French.The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject to innumerable pratfalls and disgraces, and yet indestructible for all that. In this new bilingual edition, with translations by Richard Sieburth, the entire Plume cycle appears for the first time in English in the form in which Michaux originally published it.
A Certain Sense
by Jibanananda DasSeveral volumes of poems most of which are quite remarkable in their themes and structural sophistication.
The Certainty Dream
by Kate HallShortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize. Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry, but without the trappings of traditional philosophy. Kate Hall's bracingly immediate, insistently idiosyncratic debut collection lays bare the tricks and tools of her trade: a mynah bird perches in poems but 'stands for nightingale'; the poet's antelope turns transparent; she dresses up her orange trees with bark and leaves. As the dream world and the waking world blur, the body and the dimensions it inhabits become a series of overlapping circles, all acting as containers for both knowledge and uncertainty. At times disarmingly plainspoken, at others, singing with lyric possibility, these poems make huge associative leaps. Taken together, they present the argument that to truly 'know' something, one must first recognize its traces in something else.
Cesar: Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!
by Carmen T. Bernier-GrandPoetry book for children about migrant workers.
César Vallejo: A Poet of the Event (Studies in Revolution and Literature)
by Víctor VichThis book argues that the poetry of César Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality. It studies the emergence of a subject who affirms a truth that exceeds the law, interrupts hegemonic repetition, asserts universal solidarity, and defends "lost causes" despite political failure. The author reconfigures the traditional reading of Vallejo only as a poet of pain and human suffering, and offers new ways of understanding the relationship between poetry and politics.
Chadhta Suraj
by Gauhar JalaliThe poems from Gauhar Jalali are filled with the human religion. The literature is idealistic as well as progressive.
Chadhta Suraj
by Goohar JalaliThe poem Chadhta Suraj by Gaurav Jalali states that time is moving fast and the generation of today would be looked by generation of tomorrow as dead and decomposed. The creation of poet resembles of Kabir.
Chain 7: memoir/anti-memoir
by Juliana Spahr Jena OsmanMemoir/Antimemoir presents new works that show the expanse and range of contemporary memoir. The works gathered here reveal memoir as re-invention, as generic interplay, as conversations among works, as travel back and forth and across times and states of mind. One can see in these works the political and psychic stakes involved in self-representation. Features work by C. S. Giscombe, Lisa Jarnot, Shirin Neshat, Edwin Torres, Ron Silliman, Anne Waldman, and Rosmarie Waldrop.
The Chair
by Richard GarciaOne of America's foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia's The Chair simultaneously takes place in the natural world and a speculative world rich in the fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts, time is pulled and twisted, and narrative spins effortlessly out of language. A core of autobiography grounds these poems that are rife with surprises uniting the mythic and the everyday.Richard Garcia's awards include an NEA, a Pushcart Prize, and the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He teaches creative writing in the Antioch University Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA program and lives on James Island, South Carolina.
The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy (Literature and Philosophy)
by David HaneyInterweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the relationship of interpretation to ethics and whose ideas can be both illuminated and challenged by Coleridge’s insights into and struggles with this relationship.In his philosophy, poetry, theology, and personal life, Coleridge revealed his concern with this issue, as it manifests itself in the relation between technical and ethical discourse, between fact and value, between self and other, and in the ethical function of aesthetic experience and the role of love in interpretation and ethical action.Relying on Gadamer’s hermeneutics to supply a framework for his approach, Haney connects Coleridge’s ideas with, among others, Emmanuel Levinas’s other-oriented notion of ethical subjectivity, Paul Ricoeur’s view about the other’s implication in the self, reinterpretations of Greek drama by Bernard Williams and Martha Nussbaum, and Gianni Vattimo's post-Nietzschean hermeneutics.Coleridge is treated not as a product of Romantic ideology to be deconstructed from a modern perspective, but as a writer who offers a "challenge" to our modern tendency to compartmentalize interpretive issues as a concern for literary theorists and ethical issues as a concern for philosophers. Looking at the two together, Haney shows through his reading of Coleridge, can enrich our understanding of both.
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
by Heather DubrowThis critical exploration of how we define lyric poetry is “thorough, penetrating, and on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship” (Choice).As a literary mode “lyric” is difficult to define. The term is conventionally applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker’s interior thoughts, but many critics have questioned the underlying assumptions of this definition. While many people associate lyric with the Romantic era, Heather Dubrow turns instead to the poetry of early modern England. The Challenges of Orpheus confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric’s negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative.Dubrow offers fresh perspectives on major texts of the period—from Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “My lute awake” to John Milton’s Nativity Ode—as well as poems by lesser-known figures. She also extends her critical conclusions to poetry in other historical periods and to the relationship between creative writers and critics, recommending new directions for the study of lyric and of genre.A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind (Psychology Revivals)
by Margot Waddell Meg Harris WilliamsLiterature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally published in 1991 The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Keats's metaphor for 'the awakening of the thinking principle') is an original and revealing exploration of the seminal role of literature in forming the modern psychoanalytic model of the mind.The crux of the 'post-Kleinian' psychoanalytic view of personality development lies in the internal relations between the self and the mind's 'objects'. Meg Harris Williams and Margot Waddell show that these relations have their origins in the drama of identifications which we can see played out metaphorically and figuratively in literature, which presents the self-creative process in aesthetic terms. They argue that psychoanalysis is a true child of literature rather than merely the interpreter or explainer of literature, illustrating this with some examples from clinical experience, but drawing above all on close scrutiny of the dynamic mental processes presented in the work of Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantic poets, Emily Bronte and George Eliot.The Chamber of Maiden Thought will encourage psychoanalytic workers to respond to the influence of literature in exploring symbolic mental processes. By bringing psychoanalysis into creative conjunction with the arts, it enables practitioners to tap a cultural potential whose insights into the human mind are of immense value.
The Chameleon Couch: Poems
by Yusef KomunyakaaBeginning with "Canticle," this varied new collection often returns to the idea of poem as hymn, ethereal and haunting, as Komunyakaa reveals glimpses of memory, myth, and violence. With contemplations that spring up along walks or memories conjured by the rhythms of New York, Komunyakaa pays tribute more than ever before to those who came before him.
The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker
by Robert FraserThe poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of the century. He fathered fifteen children in several countries, three during one battle-torn summer. By the 1950s he was the toast of Soho. Barker was Catholic and bohemian, frank and elusive, tender and boisterous. In Eliot's phrase, he was 'a most peculiar fellow.' Robert Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and irresistibly entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. Around the central figure cluster painters like Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Johnny Minton and the 'Roberts' Colquhoun and MacBryde; writers such as Dylan Thomas, Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Smart, whose By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept hymns their liaison; the lugubrious humorist Jeffrey Bernard. After closing time at the Colony Room, Minton declared, they had to sweep up the jokes.
Chanakya Niti (Chanakya Sutra Sahit): ચાણક્ય નીતિ (ચાણક્ય સૂત્ર સહિત)
by Acharya Rajeshwar Mishraજેમણે ભારતની આર્થિક, રાજનૈતિક, શૈક્ષણિક અને સામાજિક વ્યવસ્થાને સુનિયોજીત બનાવી રાખવાની એક ઉત્કૃષ્ટ બૌદ્ધિક પરંપરાને જન્મ આપ્યો. પોતાની કૂટનીતિઓથી શત્રુઓનું દમન કર્યું, પોતાની પ્રતિભાથી સંસ્કૃત સાહિત્યને મહત્વપૂર્ણ બનાવ્યું. ત્યાગ અને બુદ્ધિમત્તાથી ભારતનું ગૌરવ વધાર્યું, જેમણે આજીવન ચરિત્ર, સ્વાભિમાન અને કર્તવ્યનિષ્ઠાને પ્રમુખતા આપી, એ પુરુષશિરોમણીનું નામચાણક્ય છે. તેઓ બુદ્ધિથી તીક્ષ્ણ, ઈરાદાના પાક્કા, પ્રતિભાના ધની, દૂરદર્શી અને યુગ - નિર્માતા હતા, એમના જીવનનો એક ઉદ્દેશ્ય હતો. પ્રસ્તુત સંસ્કરણ વાચકોને સરળતાથી સમજમાં આવી જાય એ માટે સરળ, સુસ્પષ્ટ અને બોધગમ્ય ભાષાનો પ્રયોગ કરવામાં આવ્યો છે. મારું માનવું છે કે આ અથાગ જ્ઞાનરૂપી ગ્રંથનું અધ્યયન મનુષ્યએ પોતાના જીવનકાળમાં એક વાર અવશ્ય કરવું જોઈએ.
The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity
by Donald WeslingThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Change As A Curved Equation
by Donald Everett AxinnGrounded in nature and the earth, but often soaring to high altitudes (Axinn is a veteran pilot) this new book of poems catches moods, seasons, weather; poses questions large and small about life, the earth, the passage of time and the seasons, about geography and geometry. In this his sixth volume of poems, he hones his language more cleanly and elegantly than ever before.
A Change of World: Poems
by Adrienne RichThis reissue of Adrienne Rich's first poetry collection reaffirms the author's place as one of our most important American poets. A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
by Amanda GormanA lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves. With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, Change Sings is a triumphant call to action for everyone to use their abilities to make a difference.
Change, the Skinny Man
by Robert GregoryWinner of the Blue Lynx Prize. "...these poems KNOCK ME OUT!!! I stand (float) in awe. Thank you for the best gift of the season! WOW! I'll spread the word." -Naomi Shihab Nye "Robert Gregory is a different sort of guide. The country he travels hasn't yet been mapped, it is, in fact, coming into being as he speaks. It is not inappropriate to proceed backwards on the terrain of Mr. Gregory's work, which is accessible from any direction, although basically one ought to read from beginning to end because a narrative of sorts exists. This narrative. . . advances between the cracks of the babble of the Tower of Babel where sense may or may not still persist. The delights are many and one may find in those interstices other things besides sense: freshness, for instance. " -Andrei Cordrescu
Change Your Life (Pushkin Press Classics)
by Rainer Maria Rilke&“Crucefix&’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.&” – Philip PullmanA new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke&’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your lifeIn dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions of love and death, of the chaos of the modern world as well as the spiritual consolation of art and nature.Change Your Life draws from across Rilke&’s career to offer a comprehensive view of his most essential poetry, featuring major selections from the great Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus alongside less frequently anthologised work.
Changes of Heart: A Study of the Poetry of W. H. Auden
by Gerald NelsonThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Changing Destiny
by Ben OkriA bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence of civilization and the complexities of immigration, from the Booker Prize–winning author.Forced to flee Egypt, Sinuhe is captured as a prisoner of war by the foreign Kingdom of Retenu. Stripped of status and tormented by memories, Sinuhe will need great force of will to survive as a stranger in an unknown land. But can he transcend the mysterious powers of Egypt and the tribulations of exile?With two actors incarnating a multitude of characters, Ben Okri&’s play recreates one of the world&’s first known stories, a timeless tale about the strength of the human spirit.