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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by N. K. SandarsGilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality.
Epic Of Gilgamesh: 2nd Norton Critical Edition
by Benjamin R. Foster“This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages from the different ancient versions of this epic that have survived only in fragments, have made available many vivid narrative episodes that will be new to most English readers of the poem.” ―Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world’s oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster’s full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with “The Gilgamesh Letter,” a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE. Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major. A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.
The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Teachings (Harvard Oriental Ser. #67)
by Chittadhar HrdayaA translation of the modern Nepalese classic Winner of the Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism and the Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Translation This award-winning book contains the English translation of Sugata Saurabha (“The Sweet Fragrance of the Buddha”), an epic poem on the life and teachings of the Buddha. Chittadhar Hṛdaya, a master poet from Nepal, wrote this tour de force while imprisoned for subversion in the 1940s and smuggled it out over time on scraps of paper. His consummate skill and poetic artistry are evident throughout as he tells the Buddha’s story in dramatic terms, drawing on images from the natural world to heighten the description of emotionally charged events. It is peopled with very human characters who experience a wide range of emotions, from erotic love to anger, jealousy, heroism, compassion, and goodwill. By showing how the central events of the Buddha’s life are experienced by Siddhartha, as well as by his family members and various disciples, the poem communicates a fuller sense of the humanity of everyone involved and the depth and power of the Buddha’s loving-kindness. For this new edition of the English translation, the translators improved the beauty and flow of most every line. The translation is also supplemented with a series of short essays by Todd Lewis, one of the translators, that articulates how Hṛdaya incorporated his own Newar cultural traditions in order to connect his readership with the immediacy and relevancy of the Buddha’s life and at the same time express his views on political issues, ethical principles, literary life, gender discrimination, economic policy, and social reform.
The Epic of The Cid: with Related Texts
by Michael HarneyThe Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of medieval Spain, a formidable strategist, and a charismatic leader, the Cid deeply impressed his contemporaries, both Christian and Muslim. Already, in his lifetime, songs, stories, and chronicles were devoted to his exploits.In offering both a highly readable, colloquial prose translation of El Cantar de Mio Cid and selections from a wide variety of those contemporary accounts, this volume brings the historical figure back to life for modern readers.Harney's substantial Introduction and annotation provide the historical, military, and literary background necessary for an informed reading of the texts; also included are maps, a compendium of proper names, a bibliography, and an index.
Epic Visions
by Helen Lovatt Caroline VoutThe epic genre has at its heart fascination and horror at viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating and ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with the most celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as both massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. It demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with only her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. On display are the vertical gaze of the gods, mortal responses, prophets as penetrative viewers and rape victims, ecphrasis as objectification, women on the walls gazing sidelong, heroic bodies fragmented and fetishized.
Epigrams: With An English Translation (Modern Library Classics)
by MartialThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet
by Piotr SpyraOriginal and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though interconnected, textual entities, they ought to be studied as a single literary unit that produces meaning through its own intricate internal structure. Piotr Spyra defines the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as an interpretive key which, when applied to the composite text of the manuscript, reveals a fabric of thematic continuity. This book ultimately provides the reader with a clear sense of the poet's perspective on the nature of human knowledge as well as its moral implications and with a deeper understanding of how the poems bring the theological and philosophical problems of the Middle Ages to bear on the individual human experience.
The Epistles of Horace: A Translation
by HoraceMy aim is to take familiar things and makePoetry of them, and do it in such a wayThat it looks as if it was as easy as could beFor anybody to do it . . . the power of makingA perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much.--from "The Art of Poetry" When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Horace for our times." In The Epistles of Horace, Ferry has translated the work in which Horace perfected the conversational verse medium that gives his voice such dazzling immediacy, speaking in these letters with such directness, wit, and urgency to young writers, to friends, to his patron Maecenas, to Emperor Augustus himself. It is the voice of a free man, talking about how to get along in a Roman world full of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies, and how to do so with one's integrity intact. Horace's world, so unlike our own and yet so like it, comes to life in these poems. And there are also the poems--the famous "Art of Poetry" and others--about the tasks and responsibilities of the writer: truth to the demands of one's medium, fearless clear-sighted self-knowledge, and unillusioned, uncynical realism, joyfully recognizing the world for what it is.Available in ebook for the first time, this English-only edition of The Epistles of Horace includes Ferry's translation along with his introduction, notes, and glossary. "Reading these versions we feel as if the streets that Horace walked have opened onto our own" (Peter Campion, Raritan).
Epopeya: Antología
by Pablo De RokhaRescate de la gran antología prologada que Carlos Droguett hizo de la poesía de Pablo de Rokha. Epopeya es la recuperación de un grandioso hito de la poesía chilena. En 1974, Carlos Droguett publicó en La Habana una amplia selección prologada de la obra de Pablo de Rokha, quien seis años antes se había quitado la vida. Además de la amistad, los unía una afinidad literaria marcada por el ímpetu, el desborde y la acritud. Fue inmejorable el trabajo de Droguett, hecho para la prestigiosa colección Casa de las Américas de Cuba y hoy reeditado íntegramente por Lumen Poesía: una antología sustancial y maciza antecedida de una extensa introducción que realza con inteligencia el valor de la gran poesía rokhiana, esa escritura única, celebratoria y demoledora a la vez.
Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
by Michael RobbinsBrilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living.How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins’s mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.
Equivocal Prediction: George Herbert's Way to God
by Heather A. R. RossEquivocation replaced Thomistic analogy as a means of predicting God in the minds of many seventeenth-century divines. In this study, Professor Asals analyses George Herbert's use of language as a method of devotion in his major cycle poem, The Temple. Tracing the logical notion of equivocation (here the extensive us of puns and pun-like verbal devices) as prediction through other influences on his poetry, she argues that the very basis of Herbert's work lies in its responsibility in predicting God as One and Love. Asals explains that, for Herbert, the act of writing a poem--the actual handwriting--was a sacramental and ceremonial act of worship recreating Christ's death on the cross: ink becomes blood. The sign on the printed page points sacramentally to the blood it signifies. Thus, the domain of Herbert's poetry reaches from earth to heaven and from heaven to earth. Continuing with an examination of Herbert's language, including aspects of phonology, morphology, and syntax, Asals reveals its two-fold significance in expression and meaning. Through a detailed reading of the entire corpus, she investigates the profound influence of Augustinianism and Wisdom literature on the way poetry works and explores the meaning of gesture and its importance to Herbert's Anglicanism--his belief in the importance of ceremony. In the final chapter, on the topos of Magdalene, its relationship to Herbert's mother, and his mother's importance to his writing, Asals argues that Anglicanism as a way to God (and God as a way to himself) is at the very core of Herbert's poetics. This book establishes a new critical milieu in which Herbert may be interpreted and sheds new light on the poetry of other writers of the period.
Era inevitable
by Mario de las SagrasEra inevitablees el nuevo libro de Mario de las Sagras, más conocido como @soloeme,el poeta que ha conquistado a cientos de miles de personas con sus mensajes y su lenguaje fresco y directo en TikTok.Resulta que el mundoeras tú,lo demás solo decorado.Ir contracorriente es un modo de vida; sentirte distinto al resto, una parte necesaria de la juventud; y darte cuenta de que eres ese tipo al que en otros momentos tanto criticaste, un capítulo obligatorio para hacerse adulto.Era inevitable es una lección de humildad, un golpe en la mesa que nos derrota y a la vez nos atrapa, es una rendición, una bandera blanca a las canciones de amor y la historia del caos que deja la tormenta del deseo al pasar por uno. Aunque no queramos. Es el proceso de desangrado, lento pero constante, del que ve venir y no logra parar el desastre del amor.Mario de las Sagras hace un ejercicio de valentía en este libro poniendo en negro sobre blanco los alegatos y poemas que lo han hecho tan popular en las redes, especialmente en TikTok. En sus páginas están presentes algunos de sus textos más virales y otros muchos que son totalmente inéditos, que se mueven entre lo emocional y lo social y que son verdaderos dardos directos al pecho del lector.Apunten... Fuego.
Érase una pez: Pequeños poemas para niños gigantes
by Miki NaranjaMiki Naranja nos acerca a la vida mediante este delicioso poemario ilustrado. Érase una pez es un libro de poesíapara niños de toda edad, color,sabor y condición. Un canto a la vida común y un reflejode que la belleza se esconde bajoel disfraz de lo corriente.@mikinaranja Delicadamente ilustrado por Lorena Martínez.
Erasures (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Donald Revell"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical," Donald Revell has written, "the poet's necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over mimesis." For Revell, The disruptions of this century have destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: "The consolations of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten." Invoking such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, he seeks to integrate the political with the personal in a search for new paradigms of value and honor.
Erec and Enide
by Chrétien De Troyes Dorothy Gilbert"Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing Chretien's range of tone--from wit to elevation of sentiment--very sensitively."--Charles Muscatine, author of "Chaucer and the French Tradition. "A wonderfully accurate and witty translation of Chretien's Erec and Enide which brilliantly renders the rhymed octosyllabics of the original text in compelling, colloquial English. ... A treat not just for students and scholars of Old French literature but, more important, for what we now call general readers--that is, all those who relish a rollicking, well-told tale."--Sandra M. Gilbert, editor of "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. "Older translations, generally in stupefying Maloryan prose, convey little of the sense of the poetry so obvious in the original, and admirably reproduced in this translation."--Robert Harrison, translator of "Gallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux. "One of the best English verse renderings of any poem by Chretien."--William J. Kibler, author of "An Introduction to Old French. "A union of scholarship and consummate art that affected me like the great stories I read in my formative years; a permanent vicarious experience."--Ruth Stone, poet, author of "Second-Hand Coat. "This will be a standard English translation of "Erec and Enide and a definitive one."--Roger J. Steiner, editor of "The New College French and English Dictionary.
Ernst Jandl 1925–2000: Eine konkrete Biographie
by Hans HaiderErnst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Lettern- und Lautgedichten machte er sich in den 1950er Jahren in seiner Heimat Wien zum Außenseiter, fand jedoch rasch Anerkennung in den Zentren der Konkreten Poesie in Stuttgart, Prag, London. Wie ein Popstar entführte er bei lautstarken Auftritten die Jugend der Revolte-Generation mit Sprachwitz und -spiel in die Schmerzbezirke von Krieg, absurdem Alltag, Liebesdefizit. Er setzte dem hohen Ton eine „heruntergekommene“ Sprache und unterkühlten Dialekt entgegen. Mit der Lebenspartnerin Friederike Mayröcker schuf er Pionierwerke des ‚Neuen Hörspiels‘. Hans Haider legt nach Archivrecherchen in halb Europa und jahrzehntelanger Tätigkeit in der Wiener Kulturszene als Kritiker und Herausgeber die erste umfassende Jandl-Biographie vor.
Erosion (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #24)
by Jorie GrahamFrom Erosion:SAN SEPOLCROJorie Graham. . . . How cleanthe mind is,holy grave. It is this girlby Pierodella Francesca, unbuttoningher blue dress,her mantle of weather,to go intolabor. Come, we can go in.It is beforethe birth of god. No-onehas risen yetto the museums, to the assemblyline bodiesand wings to the open airmarket. This iswhat the living do: go in.It's a long way.And the dress keeps openingfrom eternityto privacy, quickening.Inside, at the heart,is tragedy, the present momentforever stillborn,but going in, each breathis a buttoncoming undone, something terriblynimble-fingeredfinding all of the stops.Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
Erotic Poems
by E. E. Cummings George James FirmageE. E. Cummings's erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings's original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from "16" may i feel said he (i'll squeal said she just once said he) it's fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she
The Erotic Poems
by OvidThis collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the Cures for Love, with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics.
The Erotic Spirit
by Sam HamillThis extraordinary collection of poems--covering thirty centuries of poetry from around the world--celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms, from the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union. Beginning with anonymous Egyptian love songs from the fifteenth century BCE and continuing up to today's finest poets, the book draws on a broad range of cultural and spiritual traditions, including ancient Greek and Roman erotic poems, ecstatic Sufi songs, Chinese elegies for lost lovers, and bawdy English satires. Many of the poems are presented here in new translations by the editor, Sam Hamill, one of America's premier poet translators.
Erratic Facts
by Kay RyanKay Ryan a classic American poet (John Freeman) is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects existence, consciousness, love, loss in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Sly rhymes and strong cadences lend remarkable musicality to her incisive wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that has characterized her singular voice over the course of more than 20 years, her mind is sharper than ever, her imagination more eccentric and daring. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan’s place at the pinnacle of American poetry, and proves that she will remain among the leading innovators in literary history.
Es sólo vivir
by Daniel Ramírez«Los poemas de Dani Ramírez son como pequeños hallazgos entre el tráfago incesante de los días laborables, pasan rápido -como los edificios vistos por la ventanilla de los transportes urbanos-, pero mañana seguirán estando ahí, esperándote. Si piensas que la poesía es algo ajeno a tu vida, lee estos poemas y te la encontrarás al salir del portal».Karmelo C. Iribarren «¿Cómo es posible que el cometa de la vida tenga tanta fuerza como para iluminar el agujero negro de la muerte?» Para enfrentarse a esta pregunta, estos poemas afilan la mirada y posan sus palabras sobre lo aparentemente fugaz: los bares, las aceras, el metro, los trenes, los desconocidos, los seres amados... Exploran los territorios de la nostalgia, pero también nos llevan, en contra de Sabina, a los lugares donde un día fuimos felices. El amor, los sueños, el miedo y el deseo encuentran en estos versos su rostro más cotidiano. Daniel Ramírez conmueve y sorprende con un libro que recuerda a los maestros de la experiencia y que reafirma el mejor de los hallazgos: la poesía está en la calle. Nos asalta al doblar la esquina. Críticas:«Los poemas de Dani Ramírez son como pequeños hallazgos entre el tráfago incesante de los días laborables, pasan rápido -como los edificios vistos por la ventanilla de los transportes urbanos-, pero mañana seguirán estando ahí, esperándote. Si piensas que la poesía es algo ajeno a tu vida, lee estos poemas y te la encontrarás al salir del portal».Karmelo C. Iribarren
Esas manitas fuera
by CatuloEsas manitas fuera trae a Poesía Portátil algunos de los versos de Catulo, el poeta más moderno y honesto de la Antigüedad. Explotó la subjetividad y la intimidad como ninguno de sus coetáneos y, a lo largo de la historia, ha influido a muchos otros por su estilo directo y personal. Su obra versa sobre temas de los más variados: pasión, amor y reflexiones sobre la soledad o la muerte. Esta selección recoge una muestra de todos ellos, pero se fija también en su producción más desvergonzada, en versos salidos del estómago, de la cama y del burdel en los que la modernidad de Catulo es innegable y su figura una reivindicación de la flexibilidad de la sexualidad y el amor libre. Reseñas:«No tiene ningún sentido intentar interpretar a Catulo sin considerar sus trabajos más irreverentes y explícitos. No podemos ignorar su lado más sórdido, ni deberíamos.»Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian «[Juan Antonio González ] un poeta que también es latinista, y que le ha hallado a Catulo su punto desenfadado y cultísimo, sabroso, letrado y sin rancio pudor, pues escribía desde una moral distinta.»Luis Antonio de Villena, Babelia «Catulo siempre nos ofrece repentinamente al leerlo ese don de la espontaneidad y de la modernidad de su poesía.»Antonio Colinas, El Cultural
La escala de Mohs
by Gata Cattana Don IwanaEl único poemario de una artista polifacética que es todo un referente para varias generaciones: feminista, música y poeta; comprometida y talentosa. Gata Cattana. La escala de Mohs es una tabla de diez minerales ordenados por su dureza que se usa para medir la maleabilidad de cualquier otro. Y eso son también estos poemas, una unidad de medida de nuestros principios, como personas y como sociedad, un libro que nos pregunta salvajemente por lo que creemos y nos creemos. "Todo el mundo se vende. Yo me vendí por tres milímetros de iris azul tanzanita en cada ojo" escribe Gata. "Todo el mundo tiene un precio". La identidad, la crítica a una sociedad grotesca, el feminismo, el amor, la torpe historia que se repite agónicamente... Todo eso es este libro. Pero ante todo, es el legado de un talento magnífico, el de la politóloga, rapera y poeta Gata Cattana, un mito y una voz imprescindible para nuestras generaciones. El libro contiene dos poemas inéditos de Gata, uno de ellos en su versión manuscrita. Críticas:«Bajo su cabeza llevaba el cartel de promesa. Muchos la veían como la sucesora de La Mala Rodríguez, otros como la que vendría a salvar el rap femenino y feminista en nuestro país.»Eldiario.es «Un año después de su muerte la gente no se ha olvidado de Gata Cattana. Su música sigue siendo referente para muchas jóvenes empoderadas y los designios musicales que transitó en su corta pero intensa carrera artística a buen seguro serán objeto de estudio en un futuro.»AS «Una de las voces más potentes y lúcidas del rap español: capaz de invocar, en una misma canción, a la pensadora Silvia Federici, la Teoría King Kong de Virgine Despentes, o a la republicana Clara Campoamor.»Playground Magazine «Gata comparte todo lo que le pasa por dentro con sinceridad y determinación. Porque, en ella, las ideas se hacen arte; se haceninmortales.»Vice «Inteligente y sensible, su trabajo estaba cambiando muchas cosas.»Mala Rodríguez
Escape Velocity: Poems (Mountain West Poetry Series)
by Bonnie ArningFrom the moment of a marriage’s heated inception to its period of luminous crowding and onward into distance and darkness, Bonnie Arning’s Escape Velocity asks if it’s possible to exist outside the only universe we’ve ever known. In modes both lyric and narrative, we are given a peephole into the height and decline of a marriage that begins beneath the moving lights of Las Vegas, Nevada, and traverses the devastating terrain of gambling, miscarriage, infidelity, and violence. Arning gives voice to divergent aspects of love and violence through her use of math problems, erasures, dictionary entries, structured stanzas, and sprawling free verse. This multiplicity of forms comes together to explore everything from pop culture references of domestic violence to cultural notions of victims and victimhood. However dark, collectively these poems tell a love story—an acceptance of our capability to love those who hurt us, but also the love-of-self required to slowly and steadily reach "the velocity to be everleaving." In the tradition of Eavan Boland and Louise Glück, Arning wrestles down and examines the terrible without flinching. We journey with her, engrossed by each difficult truth: a precipice near which we are both terrified to stand and transfixed by its unnerving insistence on beauty.