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The Back Chamber: Poems

The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United StatesIn The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations--baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship--what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life's end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly--full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America's most popular and enduring poets.

The Back Country

"A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."--Kirkus Reviews "A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."--Kirkus Reviews This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"--poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"--poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"--poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"--poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the "back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.

Back-to-school Rules

When it comes to surviving school, Percy's at the head of the class. If you can follow his ten simple rules, making the grade will be a piece of cake (and school will be a lot of fun).

Backwards Day

Everything in school is reversed on backwards day, from reading books back to front to saying "no" instead of "yes".

Backwards Days

Another set of antidotal lyrics and story-poems from Stuart Dischell <P> Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell's poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes startling poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of Backwards Days are most particularly about the movement of time, physical movement, and the movement of the heart. Through landscapes both real and of the psyche, they live on the edge of an elusive understanding never quite gotten right.

A Bad Case of the Giggles: Poems That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud (Giggle Poetry)

The Giggles Are Gonna Get You!Bolt the doors and get out of earshot when kids discover A Bad Case of the Giggles. One of the funniest collections of children's poetry, this book includes creations from some of the most entertaining children's poets, including Kenn Nesbitt, Bruce Lansky, Eric Ode, Bill Dodds, Joyce Armor, Linda Knaus, Eileen Spinelli, Robert Scotellaro, Rebecca Kai Dotlich and more.

Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Acclaimed for centuries as the “Father of English Literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise for his classic Canterbury Tales—and rightfully so. Still, even the greatest of authors cannot claim perfection, and so Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales analyzes his various missteps, missed opportunities, and other blunders in this peerless masterpiece. From a vexing catalog of trees in the Knight’s Tale to the flirtations with blasphemy in the Parson’s Tale, this volume progresses through the Canterbury Tales story by story, tale by tale, pondering the most egregious failing of each in turn. Viewed collectively, Chaucer’s troubles stem from clashing genres that disrupt interpretive clarity, themeless themes that undermine any message a tale might convey, mischaracterized characters who act without clear motivation, purposeful and otherwise pleasureful badness that show Chaucer’s appreciation for the humor of bad literature, and outmoded perspectives that threaten to alienate modern readers. Badness is not always to be lamented but often celebrated, even cherished, for badness infuses artistic creations with the vitality that springs from varied responses, spirited engagements, and the inherent volatility of enjoying literature. On the whole, Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales swerves literary criticism in a new direction by examining the provocative question, for too long overlooked, of what this great author got wrong.

Bad Dreams Burn

This is a collection of my blood spilled intentionally inside these pages. I think it has dried by now. I hope it has so you can use these pages to start a fire and make bad dreams burn.

Bad Man Blues: A Portable George Garrett

A new collection of stories, anecdotes, and personal essays, with a few poems added for good measure, by the writer whose first collection of short fiction was published to high praise some 40 years ago.

The Bad Secret: Poems

The Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also distinguished by brilliant images close to metaphysical. They reflect on childhood, nature, mental and physical illness, the loss of a mother, and the levity of being simply human. In a voice entirely her own, Harris confronts life's secrets with their hidden meanings inspired by guilt and redemption, offering a music of tenderness and hope. I watch it gutter down, over the pine's edge,over the pink and orange sunset,diving into the abyss,with its wings perpendicular to the ravine.By now, I have broken offfrom the rest, pretending I'm an orphan -- my eyes fixed on the unseeable destructionof my ghost in that suicidal machine. "Hush," I say, as if hatred was a sound,as if I could make the negative positive, but nature itself has given up on the picture of my happy family, and pretends not to look at the box with the rolled-up Kodak filmtumbling over the ledgegathering more weight and velocity. -- "My Father Throws His Camera Down the Grand Canyon, 1968"

The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Rachel Zucker's third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker's upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely moving, The Bad Wife Handbook is an important portrait of contemporary marriage and the writing life, of emotional connection and disconnection, of togetherness and aloneness.

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics (Pivotal Studies In The Global American Literary Imagination Ser.)

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou’s philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.

Badlat Geleli Sahi FYBA - SPPU: बदलत गेलेली सही एफ.वाय.बी.ए. - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी

सही म्हणजे स्वओळख. 'बदलत गेलेली सही' हा कवितासंग्रह म्हणजे माणसांच्या, हरवत चाललेल्या स्वओळखीच्या शोधाचा प्रवास. एका बाजूला माणसांच्या जगण्याभोवती गरगरणारा आधुनिक काळातला, जागतिकीकरण, संगणकीकरण, युद्धखोरी आणि बाजारीकरणाचा भोवरा, त्यात हरवून गेलेली माणसाची व्यक्तीविशिष्टता, ऐहिक लोलुपतेच्या एकाच साच्यातून जगणाऱ्या माणसांचे यांत्रिकीकरण, त्याचे ताणतणाव आणि दुसऱ्या बाजूला यासकट आणि याशिवाय पुरुषी सनातनत्वाचे चटके-फटके सोसणारी, तरीही स्वतःची ओळख शोधू-जपू मागणारी स्त्री. नात्यांचे ताणतणाव पेलणारी सारं जग एका थक्क करणाऱ्या ऐहिक विकासाच्या परमोच्च बिंदूवर गतीमानतेनं पोचत असताना, जुन्याच परिघावर अडखळून उभी असलेली. अद्याप चेहराच न मिळालेली. अंजली कुलकर्णी यांनी या आधुनिक काळात वावरणाऱ्या माणसांच्या आणि विशेषकरून स्त्रीच्या दुखःची दुखरी नस नेमकेपणानं पकडली आहे. एकाच वेळी एकतानता आणि आलीप्तता, खोल विचारशीलता आणि उत्कट भावनाशीलता यांनी या कवितेच्या पैठणीवस्त्राला झळझळीत फिरता रंग बहाल केला आहे.

Baghdad: The City in Verse

Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's great enduring metropolises. In this unusual anthology, Reuven Snir offers original translations of more than 170 Arabic poems--most of them appearing for the first time in English--which represent a cross-section of genres and styles from the time of Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day. The diversity of the fabled city is reflected in the Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets featured here, including writers of great renown and others whose work has survived but whose names are lost to history. Through the prism of these poems, readers glimpse many different Baghdads: the city built on ancient Sumerian ruins, the epicenter of Arab culture and Islam's Golden Age under the enlightened rule of Harun al-Rashid, the bombed-out capital of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, the American occupation, and life in a new but unstable Iraq. With poets as our guides, we visit bazaars, gardens, wine parties, love scenes (worldly and mystical), brothels, prisons, and palaces. Startling contrasts emerge as the day-to-day cacophony of urban life is juxtaposed with eternal cycles of the Tigris, and hellish winds, mosquitoes, rain, floods, snow, and earthquakes are accompanied by somber reflections on invasions and other catastrophes. Documenting the city's 1,250-year history, Baghdad: The City in Verse shows why poetry has been aptly called the public register of the Arabs.

Báilatelo sola

Báilatelo sola es el primer y esperado libro de la poeta Alejandra Martínez de Miguel. «Bienvenidas y bienvenidos, este libro está para ser leído en voz alta, para ser grito compartido o, si os apetece, para hacer todo lo contrario. Sentíos libres. En este poemario están mis contradicciones, mis deseos, mis llantos y mis sueños. Está todo lo que sé y todo lo que me queda por aprender. Están mis ganas de ser alguien en la vida y no alguien de provecho. Está mi voz, nuestra voz, la de muchas. Están todas las veces que he tenido que decirme: "Báilatelo sola". Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a mi baile, contigo, con él, con ella o sin ti. Juntas.»

Baita hondakinak ere

Baita hondakinak ere, Iñigo Astiz: Ez dakit nor den, baina norbaitek denbora bat kalkulatu dit hemen. Eskaileretako argiari sakatu eta bertan gelditu naiz ikustera noiz suposatzen nauten kanpoan, noiz behar nukeen beste inon, agian beste inorekin, edo behintzat ez hemen: bakarrik, geldi, isilik. Ezertan ez. Bataz besteko presentzia bat dut munduaren leku zehatz honetan, eta nire ausazko existentziaren denbora agortzea erabaki dut gaur, beste inori eszedenterik utzi gabe. Norentzat dira nire segundoak ni ez nagoenean? Ordezkatzen al naute? Bigarrenez sakatu diot argiari, geldi, ezin asmatuz zer beste unerengatik sakrifikatu behar nukeen une hau, zer beste lekutan pentsatu nauten, eta zer beste bizitza amestu didaten.

Bakhadjantar

Gujarati Rhymes and Verses for Children

Bakkhai

A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London Anne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up.”

Balancing Bernie

Bernie is a dog with a very special talent - he can balance absolutely anything! One day he gets a very unusual request from a furry friend - can Bernie balance this little dog, too? Soon, dogs from all over the park are hurrying up with a woof and a bark to join in Bernie's brilliant balancing act! But don't worry, Bernie would NEVER let them all fall . . .A playful, bouncing read-aloud story, full of dogs of all shapes and sizes, from the creator of the Everybunny series!

The Ballad (The Critical Idiom Reissued #37)

First published in 1979, this work presents the history of the ballad, including its origin, style, content and preservation. It explores how ballads have adapted and changed over time, particularly with the rise of mass literacy and printing and the decline in the oral tradition, and in doing so, demonstrates the versatility of the genre. With separate indexes for names and ballad titles, this book will be a valuable resource to those studying English ballads and early modern and modern poetry.

The Ballad as Song

This 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.

The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan

This 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 1964.

Ballad of a Happy Immigrant

'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open' Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic'They are sailors from another century, stalwart / captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart.'In the middle of the last century, the SS General Pueyrredón from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new homeland: from taking his tea white - muy blanco - to plunging into unfamiliar sensual worlds.So begins the poet's own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. Ballad of a Happy Immigrant tells of the life he makes there: a dazzling collection of what it means to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss / and a life / that starts anew.'*A Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice*

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol