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Escupitajos del alma
by Rusty TimesPoesía urbana, poemas que arañan. <p><p>Poemas para ti, si sientes que la música es lo más importante de tu vida; si buscas nuevas formas de expresar la rabia que te consume; si te invade la nostalgia por lo que pudo ser y no fue; si te apetece darle una patada a lo entrepierna de lo establecido; site ríes con las contradicciones de la vida; si bebes para olvidar y olvidas que perdiste un amor; si viajas sin moverte del sitio... <p><p>Este libro es para ti. Para ti que sabes bien quién eres y lo que quieres. Atraviesa los versos mientras escuchas tu música favorita.
Ese de anoche
by Alejandro Simón PartalLa antología poética de Alejandro Simón Partal, uno de los autores más relevantes del momento. Esta primera antología de la poesía de Simón Partal es una gran fiesta, una esperada rave en la arena, junto a la orilla, muy cerca del mar y de sus profundidades. Ese de anoche recoge la aventura vital de un poeta que vive de cara a la vida: las sábanas tendidas en un prado abierto, un grupo de chicos que trabajan sus cuerpos en el paseo marítimo, el perro que persigue a las palomas sin intención de atraparlas, la nieve que cae sobre el campo y que exige un caminar de otra manera son algunas de las imágenes y escenarios de esta poesía orientada al milagro cercano de la existencia, versos que no explican el mundo, sino que se empapan de él. Con un fondo enigmático y sereno, la mirada de Partal es la mezcla perfecta de sabiduría y de avidez, de trascendencia y de instinto, de silencio y de hambre.«Delicada y cruda, antigua y novísima, lírica y prosaica, esta poesía nos habla del ardor del deseo, del amor que otorga sentido y «ofrece desapego», de lo innecesario del acontecimiento, de cómo lo divino accede a manifestarse en el rojo de los tomates, y de la impotencia que a veces se esconde en las palabras. Mientras leemos estos poemas descarnados, conmovedores, sabemos ya que se quedarán por siempre a vivir con nosotros».Piedad BonnettAlejandro Simón Partal (Estepona, 1983). Escritor y poeta. Es doctor en Filología Hispánica. Ha publicado teatro, novela, ensayo y poesía. Con Una buena hora (Visor, 2019), su quinto libro de poemas, obtuvo el Premio Internacional de PoesíaHermanos Argensola y con La fuerza viva (Pre-Textos, 2017) el Arcipreste de Hita. Su obra dramática Resistencia y sumisión (Antígona, 2021) fue seleccionada por la Factoría Echegaray. Con La parcela (Caballo de Troya, 2021) ganó el Premio Cálamo Otra mirada. Ha trabajado en universidades de Francia y República Checa. Ese de anocherecoge una selección de su obra poética desde el año 2008, incluyendo los últimos inéditos.@simonpartal La crítica ha dicho:«Dios es bello y ama la belleza, dicen los místicos. Simón Partal nos lo recuerda en sus poemas. Son auténticos frescos mitológicos, tiernos y delicados rezos, celebraciones de la vida que nos susurran con firmeza que no hay nada que temer».Oliver Laxe «Leo a Simón Partal para rascar la paz: con él salgo del after y llego al campo y respiro monte, árboles, tiempo, amor como fenómeno de la disponibilidad, amistad que me salva de la velocidad. Si pudiera, lo llevaría siempre en mi bolso: como esta antología, como un pintalabios con el que ponerme guapa solo para mí misma, cuando nadie me está mirando. Leo a Simón Partal para sentir en el cuerpo cómo crecen los rosales».Lorena G. Maldonado, El Español
Espejo: (No tiene subtítulo)
by Antonio AlmasEspejo mío, espejo mío, ¿cuál de estos textos soy yo? Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada. Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada.
El espejo destrozado: Una colección de poemas
by A L ButcherPoesía de guerra, política y los caprichos de la vida. Homenaje a los guerreros caídos, versos fantasiosos sobre la locura de la política humana, el aburrimiento y poemas más ligeros sobre la Naturaleza y el medio ambiente.
Espelho Despedaçado: Uma coleção de poesias de A.L. Butcher
by A. L. ButcherPoesia da guerra, política e os caprichos da vida. Monumentos a guerreiros caídos, versos fantasiosos da loucura da política humana, tédio e poemas mais leves sobre a natureza e o meio ambiente.
Esperance: New and Selected Poems
by Caroline CaddyThis collection of works is culled from the author's first seven books of poetry and contains 17 new poems.
Espumas Flutuantes
by Castro Alves"Espumas Flutuantes" from Castro Alves. Poeta brasileiro (1847-1871).
Esquina em Tetuão
by Mois Benarroch joao batista esteves alvesEsquina em Tetuão de Mois Benarroch Livro de poemas publicado pela editora Esquío, dirigida por Julia Uceda Outros livros do autor disponíveis em português: - 10 poemas (português) (Prêmio Yehuda Amijai 2012) (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch, translated by Pedro Paixao (Sep 27, 2013) - O Ladrão De Memórias (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Cátia A. G. Fernandes (Feb 18, 2015) - Às Portas de Tânger (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Catia A. G. Fernandes (Aug 24, 2015) Leva-me ao mar (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Maria Olinda Reis (Sep 14, 2015) - Lamentações do imigrante / (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and JEAN PIERRE BARAKAT (Sep 14, 2015) - Cachecol Blues / (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Getúlio Maia (Oct 5, 2015)
An Essay on Man
by Tom Jones Alexander PopeVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication.Echoing Milton's purpose in Paradise Lost, Pope says his aim in An Essay on Man is to "vindicate the ways of God to man"--to explain the existence of evil and explore man's place in the universe. In a comprehensive introduction, Tom Jones describes the poem as an investigation of the fundamental question of how people should behave in a world they experience as chaotic, but which they suspect to be orderly from some higher point of view. The introduction provides a thorough discussion of the poem's attitudes, themes, composition, context, and reception, and reassesses the work's place in history. Extensive annotations to the text explain references and allusions.The result is the most accessible, informative, and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought.
Essay on Man and Other Poems: And Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Alexander PopeConsidered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his poems. Models of clarity and control, they exemplified the classical poetics of the Augustan age.This volume contains a rich selection of Pope's work, including such well-known poems as the title selection — a philosophical meditation on the nature of the universe and man's place in it — and "The Rape of the Lock," a mock-epic of rare charm and skill. Also included are "Ode on Solitude," "The Dying Christian to His Soul," "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady," "An Essay on Criticism," "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog," "Epistle [IV] to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Of the Use of Riches," "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires" and more.Taken together, these poems offer an excellent sampling of Pope's imaginative genius and the felicitous blending of word, idea and image that earned him a place among the leading lights of 18th-century literature.
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
by Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733-1734. It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justify the ways of God to men" (1.26). <P> <P> It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man. Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the Great Chain of Being (ll.33-34) and must accept that "Whatever IS, is RIGHT" (l.292), a theme that was satirized by Voltaire in Candide (1759). More than any other work, it popularized optimistic philosophy throughout England and the rest of Europe.
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
by Amélie Oksenberg RortyAimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Elizabeth Belfiore, Rdiger Bittner, Mary Whitlock Blundell, Wayne Booth, Dorothea Frede, Cynthia Freeland, Leon Golden, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, Aryeh Kosman, Jonathan Lear, Alexander Nehamas, Martha C. Nussbaum, Deborah Roberts, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Nancy Sherman, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Stephen A. White, and Paul Woodruff.
Essays on Hilda Hilst: Between Brazil And World Literature (Literatures of the Americas)
by Adam Morris Bruno CarvalhoThis book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major national literary awards and attracted legions of devoted readers. Her writing spanned styles and genres, encompassing poetry, theatre, and experimental fiction. She was also considered to be “a writer’s writer,” and her literary achievements eluded both mainstream acclaim and international recognition. In recent years, Hilst’s books have enjoyed increased visibility in Brazil and beyond. A host of translators (including three contributors to this volume) have finally made some of her masterpieces available in English. This pioneering collection of essays should excite longtime readers and introduce her to a new audience.
The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics)
by VirgilStanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W. R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid, and by students of Roman history, classical mythology, and Western civilization.
The Essential Aeneid
by Virgil Stanley LombardoStanley Lombardo (classics, U. of Kansas) translated the famous Latin epic in 2005, and here offers an abridgments of that translation (which was also published by Hacket Publishing Co.) with summaries of the sections omitted. The blank-verse English is in readable vernacular, without archaisms. A glossary of names with pronunciation guides is provided and a list of further reading, but no notes or index. A trimmed down version of W. R. Johnson's (classics and comparative literature, U. of Chicago) is also included.
The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry
by Clarence MajorClarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. His work has been featured in many literary journals, newspapers, and magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Ploughshares.Whether you've known Major's work for decades or are new to his singular style, The Essential Clarence Major offers a thrilling overview of an exceptional career, from his early groundbreaking fiction to his most recent poems. Included here are excerpts from Major's best novels, a selection of his finest short stories and poetry, more than a dozen thought-provoking essays, a taste of his autobiography. Award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Kia Corthron introduces the collection, artfully illuminating Major's importance as one of the foremost and original voices in contemporary American literature.
The Essential Emily Dickinson
by Emily. DickinsonThe essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates "Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, and even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone." --from the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
The Essential Ginsberg
by Allen GinsbergFeaturing the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews, and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but also for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexual revolution, gay liberation, Buddhism and Eastern religion, and the confrontation of societal norms—all before it became fashionable to do so. He was also the dynamic leader of war protesters, artists, Flower Power hippies, musicians, punks, and political radicals.The Essential Ginsberg collects a mosaic of material that displays the full range of Ginsberg's mental landscape. His most important poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews are displayed in chronological order. His poetic masterpieces, "Howl" and "Kaddish," are presented here along with lesser-known and difficult-to-find songs and prose. Personal correspondence with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is included, as well as photographs—shot and captioned by Ginsberg himself—of his friends and fellow rogues William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and others.Through his essays, journals, interviews, and letters, this definitive volume will inspire readers to delve deeper into a body of work that remains one of the most impressive literary canons in American history.
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
by Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth AlexanderSince she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks took her place as one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century, distilling modernist style through the sounds and shapes of a variety of African-American forms and idioms. Now, Elizabeth Alexander, one of our leading experts on African-American literature and culture, presents a sweeping new selection of Brooks's poetry that moves from her earliest work-including many of her important World War II poems-through the social and aesthetic upheavals of the 1960s up to her death in 2000.
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
by Willie PerdomoNew work from a poet of "lyrical intelligence, ferocious wit, and searching humanity” (Junot Diaz) Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo’s third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the beginning of his infernal journey, Shorty Bon Bon recalls his live studio recording with a classic 1970s descarga band, sharing his recollection with an unidentified poet. This opening section is followed by a call-and-response with his greatest love, a singer named Rose, and a visit to Puerto Rico that inhabits a surreal nationalistic dreamscape, before a final jam session where Shorty recognizes his end and a trio of voices seek to converge on his elegy. .
The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)
by HomerSelections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey
by Stanley LombardoSelections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
The Essential Iliad
by Homer Stanley Lombardo Sheila MurnaghanWhile preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems
by Muriel RukeyserThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha TretheweyEngaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.”The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.