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Memoirs of an Almost Expedition

In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone. She also peels back the skin of relations, the intimate rub of self against self, to find both great longing and great loss. Schott marks how the heart bends to words, bends itself with words, in her poetic "novel" "Archipelago" her marvelous sequence "hymens" and in each discrete poem in this lovely book.

Memoria: Poems

Born to Cuban parents in Lima, Perú, raised in Miami among political exiles, and having spent two years in Francoist Spain, Orlando Ricardo Menes pays tribute to the resilience and tradition that shape Hispanic culture across the globe while critiquing the hypermasculine characteristics embedded within. Ripe with pride and shame, beauty and aversion, Memoria relays the personal path one takes while navigating the complexities of heritage. Throughout his life, the ever-present concept of machismo has created turmoil and grief for Menes, who aligns his sensibilities with a more compassionate expression of masculinity. In poems about the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War, Menes assails the fascists’ preoccupation with violence and domination as tokens of manliness. Meditations on the music of Menes’s youth also underscore a young man’s desire for alternative versions of manhood. Alice Cooper and Lou Reed offer examples of self-liberation from the repressive regime: “Cropped head, whitewashed face, O Lou, our goth-butch apostle / In skintight leather pants, eagle’s-head buckle on a rhinestone belt . . . Our mothers horrified to have borne sons so twisted, so perverse, / Their mop sticks primed to beat us into Marlboro Men.” Menes balances these unflinching criticisms with celebratory lines for España as a mother country: “We . . . sailed in silence on the asphalt currents / to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, our little car / gliding like a caravel to this Gate of the Sun, / Spain’s navel, point zero, her alpha and omega, / where the empire was born and died, / where every road and every life begins and ends.” Menes’s honest embrace of his heritage includes fond remembrance of his mother, “we talked about your house in / Havana, so close to the bay your young eyes winced / in salt air,” and sincere expressions of cultural reckoning, “Nations die but blood lives forever in la memoria, / So pray to your Abuelo as you would God Himself / Who made earth, sky, and water from the void.” At once rich with sensorial memories and rife with conflicts of identity, Memoria expands representations of Hispanic culture while drawing on universal themes of love, belonging, and rebellion.

Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

"The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year."--James Wood, The New Yorker In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad--the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen--in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance. The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.

Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. These encounters, Pielak suggests, coincide with anxieties over living alongside both animals and cemeteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. Pielak traces the linguistic, physical, and psychological interruptions occasioned by animal encounters from the heart of communal life, the table, to the countryside, and finally into and beyond the wild cemetery. He argues that Romantic period writers use language that ultimately betrays itself in beastly disruptions exposing anxiety over what it means to be human, what happens at death, the consequences of living together, and the significance of being remembered. Extending his discussion past an emphasis on animal rights to an examination of animals in their social context, Pielak shows that these animal representations are both inherently important and a foreshadowing of the ways we continue to need images of dead and deadly Romantic beasts.

Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World #34)

Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the issue, despite extensive discussion, putting forth the theory that the heterogeneity of the poems of this period, grouped under the general heading of ‘medieval romance’, makes generalizations about the history of transmissions unreliable. The book suggests that oral-formulaic theory has been applied over-literally to oral or oral derived works, through the assumption that all poems answer the same structural criteria. The book also looks at the aspects of orality and performance theory alongside the textuality and intertextuality of these medieval texts.

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post-World War II German-language poet.Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new, inhabitable world and a new language for it. In Memory Rose into Threshold Speech, Celan’s reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, "to measure the area of the given and the possible."Translated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction and extensive commentary. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century.This volume collects Celan’s first four books: Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory), Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold), Sprachgitter (Speechgrille), and Die Niemandsrose (NoOnesRose).

Memory for Forgetfulness

One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon's foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.

Memory in Vergil's Aeneid

Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.

Memórias aparições arritmias

O primeiro livro de poesia de Yara Nakahanda Monteiro tem passado e futuro, memórias e sonhos. «Eis uma nova voz que importa descobrir - e que veio para ficar.» José Eduardo Agualusa «Trineta da escravatura, bisneta da mestiçagem, neta da independência e filha da diáspora», Yara Nakahanda Monteiro (Huambo, 1979) estreia-se na poesia com um registo íntimo, tateando nas palavras a essência da condição feminina, da natureza, da identidade e da pertença, das memórias e dos sonhos. Tranço o cabelo dizem quero parecer mais preta Faço brushing dizem quero parecer mais branca Na frente quente vinda do hemisfério sul os caracóis secam desordenados perguntam quero parecer de onde? "Eu sou de onde estou." Os seus poemas transportam-nos para outros tempos e espaços: o da infância e adolescência na periferia de Lisboa; o das histórias da vida em Angola, contadas pela avó. Neles brotam desassossegos rabiscados em cadernos, esboçam-se trilhos imaginados a partir das grandes questões que definem quem somos. A meio caminho, corre a vida de todos os dias e surge uma voz literária envolvente, encantatória, impossível de ignorar. Qualquer ressonância com a realidade é poesia. Sobre Memórias Aparições Arritmias: «Herdeira de uma tradição lírica (oral e erudita) que não renega, Yara Nakahanda Monteiro traz para a poesia angolana os grandes temas de um presente em convulsão. Eis uma nova voz que importa descobrir - e que veio para ficar.» José Eduardo Agualusa «A mão delicada tece as veias da vida como linhas de bordar e palavras na boca das mais velhas. Há meninas assim: ficam sentadas na esquina dos dias só para amansar os ventos, cuidar das chuvas e rodar as flores no sentido do sol. Esperam. A cidade cede a mil noites de calor e insetos sem o sono da fartura nem a quietude dos pássaros. As mulheres preparam o milho do dia seguinte e calam a água e as sementes do riso. Não dormem. Esperam. Entre grito e silêncio, a voz das mulheres gravada na memória da cidade e há tanto tempo esquecida surge assim nestas aparições. Yara Monteiro juntou, deu a volta e escreveu. Nada do que aqui está é simples. Tudo tem corpo e vida e está purificado pelo fogo.»Ana Paula Tavares

Men in the Off Hours

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection," Men in the Off Hours shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.From the Hardcover edition.

Men, Women and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts

New from Debora Greger??a special poet in every sense? (Poetry)In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li Po and Tu Fu, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, always seeking out the beast that is man and the beast that is woman. She explores both the remoteness of the past (those radioactive fifties that were her childhood), and the weight of it?or, better, the responsibility of it. These modern traveler?s tales?musing, insistent, marvelous?place one woman?s collection of pasts into a world inhabited by Horace, Chekhov, the bank vault of England, and the giant octopus of Puget Sound.

Mensaje urgente a mis momentos contigo

La exitosa Youtuber Abbey C., La chica del andén, nos descubre la historia de cada instante, de cada uno de los momentos que cuentan una historia de amor. Esto no es un libro, es una recopilación de sentimientos: la pereza de los domingos, la rabia de los lunes, la resurrección de los martes; cómo te vi por primera vez en invierno, cómo nos enamoramos en primavera, cómo te despedí en el último otoño... Esto no es un libro, son las páginas donde vas a encontrarte. Las páginas que cuentan mi historia y también la tuya, un mensaje urgente a los momentos que nos recuerdan que todos nosotros, alguna vez, nos hemos estrujado el corazón hasta vaciarlo. Los lectores dicen...«Mensaje urgente a mis momentos contigo es un libro optimista, un libro en el que Abbey C. se desnuda y nos muestra sin tapujos sus sentimientos. Lo que más me ha gustado es el mensaje positivo que siempre se puede extraer de sus textos y eso es algo que valoro mucho.»Blog Libros y literatura

Mental Fight: An Epic Poem

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize–winning author.There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far—art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine, and for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret—racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery. In this long, sustained consideration of the state we find ourselves in, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make.This epic poem, an anthem for the twenty-first century, first appeared in The Times in January 1999. Its message could hardly be more relevant to our present condition. Discover this revised edition of an inspiring and extraordinarily tender work.

Mentiras en los zapatos

«Cuántos temblores, frenesí y amores pensando convencidos que a alguien le importaban». A veces, es la vida misma quien compone versos para nosotros. Es la vida la que, en ocasiones, entre sus páginas negras escritas con la punta de un cuchillo, susurra poemas y nos deleita con los cabellos al viento, los labios escarchados por el deseo, los secretos de unos ojos que nos miran o los perfumes de otros poemas. De saber mirar y saber contar lo que se mira, de estar abierto al mundo, de ser tierra que extiende los brazos ante nuevos abonos... De las miserias y las bellezas, de las bofetadas y de los besos de los días. De la vida. De todo esto da cuenta Federico en su segundo poemario y nos recuerda que la poesía no solo se encuentra en las páginas de un libro.

Mentre perds el mon de vista

La cantant i actriu Dolo Beltran, s'aventura a narrar-nos una història personal i íntima, feta d'imatges a llapis, poesia i petits epissodis que formen una vida. Amb il·lustracions de Dolo Beltran «I si miréssim un àlbum de fotos i tots els moments que hi ha immortalitzats es convertissin en poesia? Una manera rítmica i romàntica d'explicar una història. Poesia feta d'imatges, de moments viscuts, flaixos d'una vida. He volgut aventurar-me a descobrir quina història pot explicar un simple àlbum. Un àlbum que podria pertànyer a qualsevol persona que, metòdicament, hi ha anat enganxant fotografies... Perquè hi ha alguna cosa estranya quan observes les fotos i veus tota aquella gent mirant a càmera, intentant immortalitzar el moment, com si perdessin el món de vista. I de cop, quan sona el clic de l'aparell, no hi ha passat ni futur... només la necessitat que aquell moment duri per sempre.»Dolo Beltran

Meowloween (Meowl-o-ween)

It's Halloween night, also known as Meowl-o-ween! Cats are on the prowl, ready to give trick-or-treaters a fright. But one lost kitten is scared--will she find her way and join the fun?On frightful, delightful Meowl-o-ween, cats slink by carved pumpkins and prepare to spook the trick-or-treaters parading the streets. But not all of the cats are enjoying the flashing lights and costumes. A lone kitten is overwhelmed by the crowds and doesn&’t know which way to turn! This fresh Halloween tale is a rhyming read-aloud that shows even the smallest scaredy-cat can find the courage to overcome their fears and anxieties.

Mercies in the American Desert: Poems

Reflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his flock against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an “American desert.” Today, more than three hundred years later, we understand that our troubles have their origins not in some ambiguous beyond; rather, they are of our own making. Benjamin Landry’s Mercies in the American Desert attempts a clear-eyed reckoning with the people and the nation we have become: a land assailed by gun violence, police brutality, and state-sanctioned racism. This vivid collection considers a range of bodies encompassing the geographic, the personal, and the political. It locates solace in movement, sound, and observation, as when Pina Bausch heron-dances down a traffic median or when the expansive form of a surfacing manta ray teaches us how to breathe again. Incorporating short bursts of prose poem alongside longer meditations, and working in both alliterative and narrative modes, Mercies in the American Desert conjures a redemptive wilderness for our time.

Mercy

This is a series of poems

Mercy (American Poets Continuum Ser. #Vol. 86)

Mercy by Lucille Clifton

Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving

[from inside flaps] "A noted poetry anthologist and a leading children's book illustrator have collaborated to create a Thanksgiving confection that evokes the crisp autumn air, the joy of the traditional family dinner, and the warm festive atmosphere that this special holiday brings to everyone. In Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving, selections by such prominent poets as Robert Graves, Myra Cohn Livingston, Margaret Hillert, Aileen Fisher, Marchette Chute, and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins himself combine to generate the sights, the tastes, the aromas, and the feelings that this rich and joyous holiday elicit in the memories of young and old alike. Ben Shecter's warm, humorous holiday scenes give us a visual feast, starting with the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, continuing all the way through the actual preparation and the hearty eating, and ending with cleaning-up time. This is the fifth book in Hopkins's holiday series." Pictures are described.

Merry Christmas, Dear Mars: An Out-of-This-World Story About the Night Before Christmas

An out-of-this-world remix of the classic poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”!It’s Christmas Eve. The Martians have hung their stockings and decorated their trees in hopes that Santa will finally visit the red planet. But what are the excited Martians to do when Santa’s sleigh shudders and shimmies and stops? Then teeters and totters and drops? It’ll take a dose of Christmas magic and some help from the Outer Space Rescue Division to get this holiday back on track. Humorous, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations combine to make a perfect winter read-a-loud, destined to become a classic.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Mouse

From the creators of the New York Times bestseller Snowmen at Night comes a lively story about discovering the joy and meaning of ChristmasWhen Mr. Mouse and his family move into the warm spot beneath the kitchen stove in a big house, they discover something new and wonderful: an evergreen tree decorated with lights, ginger and peppermint smells in the air, and cookies baking in the oven. They hear about a child born long ago, and a jolly man named Santa who brings gifts to celebrate Jesus’s birth on a day called Christmas. And so Mr. and Mrs. Mouse decide that their family should celebrate Christmas too.With delightful rhyming verse, detailed illustrations (with hidden pictures to search for!), and a childlike sense of wonder, the story of the Mouse family’s first Christmas is sure to become a holiday tradition.

Merry Christmas, Santa Claus!

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's team has been busy--but even the folks at the North Pole need to celebrate!While Santa is away, everyone around the workshop pitches in to bring together a holiday celebration just in time for Santa's return. This cute, fun board book features tabs so readers can flip right to their favorite character. With bright, fun illustrations and bouncy, rhyming text, Merry Christmas, Santa Claus! is the perfect way to introduce the younger readers to the holiday spirit of the season!

Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play

In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad 'unmaking,' so similar in nature to his own haunting experience, became the inspiration for Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, a collection of experimental poetry that explores the dynamic, if often unsettling, relationship between making and unmaking, bliss and pain, utterance and silence. As diverse in form as they are in artistic/cultural references, the poems of Merz Structure No. 2 invoke an endless bounty of characters: the poet remembers Harold Ramis; Kafka summons the courage to tell his dad where to go; another tornado razes another small town; Yorick returns to run balls-out into the sea; Louise Bourgeois smashes a tea cup against one of her sculptures.Readers who connect with Phil Hall’s artistic investigations in Killdeer and Lisa Robertson's clear-eyed take on humanity in Magenta Soul Whip will enjoy Kennedy's feeling examination of loss in Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play.