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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (My First Reader)
by Bill Martin<p>What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? <p>Lots of noise! <p>Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page! <p>Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children's education and children's illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best.</p>
Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence
by Katherine SoniatWith Polishing the Glass Storm, Katherine Soniat constructs a riveting sequence of verse that explores how archetype can expand both personal vision and narrative perspective as we hone our experiences into an understanding of shared commonality. In poems that weave a linguistic web between the metaphysical and material realms, Soniat reminds us of the many ways in which language can reinforce otherwise frail connections between vision and experience.
The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres
by Tricia LootensThe Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of “separate spheres”—one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women’s political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century domestic or private sphere whose imaginary, apolitical heart is also the heart of nation and empire, and, as revisionist histories increasingly attest, is traumatized and haunted by histories of slavery. Setting aside late Victorian attempts to forget the unfulfilled, sentimental promises of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” to view—and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life. Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to “connect the dots” of Poetess performance, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and ways of reading position poetic texts by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence points for larger engagements ranging from Germaine de Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.
Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
by Ben BolligThis book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of "lyric" and "state" as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.
The Politics of Knives
by Jonathan BallIf David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.
The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)
by William FogartyThe Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four major poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tony Harrison, and Lucille Clifton all respond to societal crises by arranging, reproducing, and reconceiving their particular versions of local speech in poetic form. The book’s overarching claim is that “local tongues” in poetry have the capacity to bridge aesthetic and sociopolitical realms because nonstandard local speech declares its distinction from the status quo and binds people who have been subordinated by hierarchical social conditions, while harnessing those versions of speech into poetic structures can actively counter the very hierarchies that would degrade those languages. The diverse local tongues of these four poets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.
Pólvora en las alas
by Federico Moreno Fernández«Tanto invento del corazón, tanto descubrimiento en su herrumbre...»Federico Moreno Con Pólvora en las alas, Federico Moreno mantiene una honda mirada hacia el ser humano y a su quebradiza naturaleza, a sus equívocos, a las cloacas a las que conducen sus barros. Las biografías sin homenaje de la gente oculta, la fugacidad del amor y la orfandad ante el abismo que nos presenta la vida son las tres partes que estructuran este intenso libro, construyendo un personaly estilizado espacio lingüístico donde se alojan, con algo de luz, familiares desencuentros.
Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature (Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature)
by Nduka Otiono Josh TothPolyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's work—his tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. Polyvocal Bob Dylan places Dylan’s textual and performative art within and against a larger context of cultural and literary studies. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess how Dylan’s Nobel Prize–winning work fits into and challenges traditional conceptions of literature.
The Pomegranates of Kandahar
by Sarah MaguireSarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events. In this remarkable new collection, her poems travel greater distances than ever before. The title poem laments the devastation visited upon Afghanistan following decades of war. Other poems consider the casualties of political unrest: would-be migrants in Tangiers gazing northwards at the longed-for phantasmagoria of 'Europe'; and packs of wolves on the loose in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. But there are intimate poems too, often using scientific vocabularies to offset a personal moment, as in 'Landscape, with Dead Sea' where the erosion of the poet's skin is connected to geological transformations at the earth's core.
Pomes All Sizes
by Jack KerouacThe original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine poems, dharma poems and Buddhist meditations. Poems to Beat friends, goofball poems, quirky haiku, and a fine, long elegy in "Canuckian Child Patoi Probably Medieval... an English blues." But more than a quarter of a century after it was written, "Pomes All Sizes" today would seem to be more than a sum of it parts, revealing a questing Kerouac grown beyond the popular image of himself as a Beat on the Road.
A Pond Full of Ink
by Annie M. G. SchmidtTwelve amusing poems by the &“queen of Dutch children&’s literature,&” paired with charming illustrations of reindeer houseguests, mischievous little girls, ever-singing tea kettles, and more.This delightful poetry collection offers children and the young at heart a refreshing, inventive look at the world from the well-known Dutch author Annie Schmidt. The rollicking poems tell the stories of such intriguing characters as Aunt Sue and Uncle Steve who nest up in a tree, animated furniture that comes to life when no one is home, and three elderly otters who long to go boating but find themselves biking instead!Much like the work of Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky, Annie M.G. Schmidt&’s poetry can transform ordinary events and places into extraordinary adventures full of imagination. Accompanying the poems is bold and expressive artwork that makes this book too charming to resist.
Poo or False?: A completely crappy quiz book, perfect for secret santa!
by HeadlineFirst there was HOW TO POO AT WORK, then there was 52 Things to Do While You Poo, and now there's POO OR FALSE? A cavalcade of crappy curiosities and fascinating faecal facts... in quiz form!Think you know your sh*t...? Which of these are 'true poos' and which are simply fake poos?King George III had an illness that turned his poo purpleIn 1938 a man called Boon Wallace was arrested for hurling turds off the Empire State BuildingNeil Armstrong dumped four bags of poo on the moonSloths only poo once a week, something scientists call 'the poo dance'The phrase 'do bears shit in the woods?' was invented by Charles DarwinThere is a road in the Northumberland town of Berwick-upon-Tweed called Poobum Lane Want to know the answers? Well stop stooling for time! Read on and prepare for some close encounters of the turd kind...'I'd give it five minutes if I were you.'- Florence Nightingale
Pope (Longman Critical Readers)
by Brean S. HammondThis collection of essays represents some of the best critical thinking on Pope in recent years. Professor Hammond examines the main issues in the debate, in particular why Pope's writing has been so resistant to modern methodologies, such as deconstruction.The essays focus on particular poems or themes and exemplify different theoretical perspectives, both traditional and modern. The editor's notes clarify the differences that exist, and what those differences can teach the student about theory in practice.
Pope: Everyman's Poetry
by Alexander PopeChief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.
The Popol Vuh (Seedbank)
by Translated from the K’iche’ by Michael BazzettA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: &“Earth.&” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity.This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, &“the book of the woven mat,&” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas. Originally sung and chanted, before being translated into prose—and now, for the first time, translated back into verse by Michael Bazzett—this is a story of the generative power of language. A story that asks not only Where did you come from? but How might you live again? A story that, for the first time in English, lives fully as &“the phonetic rendering of a living pulse.&”By turns poetic and lucid, sinuous and accessible, this striking new translation of The Popol Vuh—the first in the Seedbank series of world literature—breathes new life into an essential tale.
Popularität – Lied und Lyrik vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Studien zu Musik und Gender)
by Hannah Berner Frédérique Renno Sarah RuppeWas bedeutet Popularität in Bezug auf Lied und Lyrik? Welche Rolle spielen dafür deren Produktion, Medialität und Rezeption? Der vorliegende Band legt den Schwerpunkt auf Musik, Poesie und ihr Zusammenspiel in dem epochenübergreifenden Zeitraum vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Illustriert werden die entsprechenden produktionsästhetischen Voraussetzungen, medialen Aspekte und rezeptionsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge, um der Frage nachzugehen, welche Komponenten ein Lied oder ein Gedicht haben muss, damit es als populär charakterisiert werden kann. Zwölf Beiträge untersuchen und definieren das Phänomen Popularität aus literatur-, sprach-, musikwissenschaftlicher und theologischer Perspektive und dienen als Diskussionsgrundlage für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Erforschung von Popularität.
Por jodidos caminos
by Rusty TimesPoesía urbana, poemas que arañan. Huyo por caminos retorcidos,bonitos pero jodidos.No quiero que me recuerdes.No quiero que me adores.Mi whisky y yo.
Por mi boka: Textos de las diaspora sefardi en ladino
by Myriam Moscona Jacob SefamiPrimera selección de textos originales en judeo-español a publicarse en América Latina, da a conocer al público no especializado una literatura, una cultura y una lengua con una riquísima tradición. "Y Dios recogió tierra de las cuatro partes del mundo de cuatro colores. Con la tierra negra se crearon las entrañas, con la tierra colorada se creó la sangre; con la tierra blanca se crearon los huesos y las palabras, con la tierra amarilla se creó la carne del cuerpo." Este libro traza la trayectoria del ladino o judeoespañol desde sus inicios a finales del siglo XV hasta la muestra más reciente del siglo XXI. El lector encontrará encantadores y apasionantes textos como la Biblia de Ferrara (1553), las interpretaciones rabínicas de los misterios de la creación en el Meam Loez (1730), la conciencia del desvanecimiento de la lengua en una fascinante carta de Marcel Cohen, además de las voces únicas de poetas contemporáneos -el Premio Cervantes Juan Gelman, Clarisse Nikoïdski y Denise León-. En todos los casos se incluyen versiones al español contemporáneo, puesto que el ladino, esa lengua que vive secretamente bajo la nuestra, puede confundir a los hablantes del castellano actual. El lector podrá disfrutar también de curiosas traducciones al judeoespañol de dos clásicos de nuestra lengua: el primer capítulo de El Quijote y el inicio de Martín Fierro. NO EXISTE LIBRO SIMILAR EN TODO EL CONTINENTE.
The Porcupinity of the Stars
by Gary BarwinPoet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work so compelling is 'Barwin's balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder and the shifting, often perplexing nature of consciousness. His Heisenbergian sensibility honed to a fine edge, the poems in this bright, bold and acutely visual book add a surreptitious intensity and wry maturity to Barwin's trademark gifts for subtle humour, solemn delight, compassion and invention.'Between the freaky, funny filmmaker Guy Maddin and author Gary Barwin, Canada is producing some of the most innovative creative works of our time.' - Utne Reader
Portable Altamont
by Brian Joseph DavisIt was the saddest thing I'd seen. How he kept thinking he was a cat and he wouldn't get out of that filthy litter box.And then, in the back of the cruiser, meowing for his cat brothers to save him.Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists. A word of warning: this book is a complete and utter fiction. Philip Roth is not David Lee Roth's brother. Reese Witherspoon is not a Communist cell leader, and Don Knotts has never been a New Age guru. The stuff about Nicole Richie, however, is absolutely true. Portable Altamont is that rare book that is both incendiary and compulsively readable. Get to it before the lawyers do! 'Innovative in form, striking in content, Portable Altamont loads a literary blender with pop-culture icons both high and low, tosses in a jigger of surrealism and a pint of sardonic wit, sets the controls for hypermashup and then decants a delirious, delicious smoothie with brain-expanding powers.' - Paul Di Filippo, author of Ribofunk and The Steampunk Trilogy.
The Portable Beat Reader
by Ann ChartersThrough poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force.
The Portable Dante
by Dante Alighieri Mark MusaDante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Portable Dante
by Dante Alighieri Mark Musa"Midway along the journey of life I woke to find myself in a dark wood." As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles.
The Portable Dante
by Dante Alighieri Mark MusaDante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe J. Gerald KennedyA fully revised collection of Poe's work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. .