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Achilleid
by Statius Stanley Lombardo Peter Heslin"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an overprotective mother, temporary gender bending, sexual violence, and a final coming to manhood with the promise of future military prowess, may be unparalleled in a single narrative of such brevity. The text has survived in hundreds of manuscripts, sometimes copied with Statius’ much longer and lugubrious Thebaid, but just as often with other racy short narratives and dramas taught in the medieval schools. The poem’s literary playfulness, visual imagery, and lighthearted treatment of mythological and historical data made it—and can still make it—a goldmine in the classroom. Until now, however, it has been virtually impossible to get a sense of the work if one did not know Latin—recent translations notwithstanding. Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Achilleid is a dream: it’s sound, enthralling, and will fully engage readers with this enticing, perplexing, at times distressing, but ultimately rewarding work." —Marjorie Curry Woods, Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Achilles And Hector: The Homeric Hero
by Seth Benardete Michael Davis Ronna BurgerSeth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years later, included in this volume, he looks back on what he sees as the limits of his original reading of the Iliad. Yet he seems to have been aware of the fundamental problems from early on that he wrestled with explicitly when he returned to Homer some forty years later: the question of the relations among gods, fate, and human choice, which lies at the core of his late "Platonic reading" of the Odyssey, is already guiding his understanding of the Iliad. And he saw, in working out that understanding, how those relations take on a very distinct form for the tragic hero in contrast with the comic hero - Achilles in contrast with Odysseus.
Acid Virga
by Gabriel Kruis&“Gabriel Kruis is a really formidable poet. Acid Virga is rather terrifying, also a tour de force and a formal breakthrough. . . a blend of narrative and lyric the way the mind is. . . &” —ALICE NOTLEY &“As wildly visionary as it is linguistically alive, Gabriel Kruis&’s Acid Virga drills down into the bedrock of American life to produce a book unparalleled in its exploration of how visionary experience and social upheaval collide in ways that are both transformative and annihilating.&” —TOM SLEIGH &“If you&’ve ever been conscious, and felt a little disturbed about it, of life as ancient and ephemeral or that falling apart is an integral force, this is a book to read over and over.&” —STACY SZYMASZEK &“. . .a great affliction and affection inform Acid Virga, fast-moving with strophes like brisk moving cloud banks over the mind in your heart.&” —MAJOR JACKSON &“Meanwhile, in el mal pais, leaned out on mucinex, mixing dexy cocktails in the haloed pharmacy of the car...&” An unusually assured debut, Acid Virga is a memoir in verse cutting between a vivid Southwest upbringing and modern O&’Hara hustle in New York City, deeply and seriously reckoning with the psychedelic heritage of religion and the psychological clarity of chemical consciousness. It is both thrillingly propulsive and dense enough to read again and again, always offering up something new. Language is boundlessly specific, evocative of states internal and external, reading at times like a melancholy memoir stuck between stations, an epic poem or even a philosophical tract, always a true and important record of our American lives as lived now—an endless and reliable ticker tape of the soul.
Acolytes: Poems
by Nikki GiovanniA collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.
The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play
by Jack LondonJack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school. London drew heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.
Acqua
by Jesús María Flores LunaAcqua di Jesús María Flores Luna Agua presenta 10 poesie dalla trasparenza dell'acqua alla sua corsa sotto le città. È una raccolta di poesie sull'acqua. Dal suo aspetto e dal primo contatto dell'uomo con esso, seguendo il suo uso quotidiano di sopravvivenza per il mondo, per il flusso e la corsa sotto le città e il loro inquinamento oggi.
Acrobat
by Nabaneeta Dev SenA deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literatureA radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.
Across the Land and the Water
by W. G. SebaldA publishing landmark--the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century's literary masters German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that The Guardian called "a new literary form, part hybrid novel, part memoir, part travelogue." Its publication put Sebald in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Yet Sebald's brilliance as a poet has been largely unacknowledged--until now. Skillfully translated by Iain Galbraith, the nearly one hundred poems in Across the Land and the Water range from those Sebald wrote as a student in the sixties to those completed right before his untimely death in 2001. Featuring eighty-eight poems published in English for the first time and thirty-three from unpublished manuscripts, this collection also brings together all the verse he placed in books and journals during his lifetime. Here are Sebald's trademark themes--from nature and history ("Events of war within/a life cracks/across the Order of the World/spreading from Cassiopeia/a diffuse pain reaching into/the upturned leaves on the trees"), to wandering and wondering ("I have even begun/to speak in foreign tongues/roaming like a nomad in my own/town . . ."), to oblivion and memory ("If you knew every cranny/of my heart/you would yet be ignorant/of the pain my happy/memories bring"). Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this unique collection is bound to become a classic in its own right.From the Hardcover edition.
Acrostic Poetry: The First-Ever Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
by Heidi GagnonIn this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll’s acrostic about the namesake of his Alice character, Edward Lear’s humorous alphabet poem, Edgar Allan Poe’s sonnet with a name arranged diagonally, and a forty-stanza poem spelling out the Lord’s Prayer. Informative chapter introductions explore acrostic legends, including Sir John Davies, who began the tradition of using the form to praise someone’s name with acrostics about Queen Elizabeth I, and George Moses Horton, an African American slave who peddled produce and poems before he learned to write. "Beginning with ancient acrostic poetry, the information in this remarkable book shares the fascinating history of this poetic form. Michael Croland’s well chronicled details reveal how acrostics have woven through society’s history. This rewarding collection of poems is a welcome gift for spreading interest and delight in acrostics." —Avis Harley, author of African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways “There’s a first time for everything,” 'they say, and that is apparently true for Michael Croland’s gathering of poems written in the venerable verse form called “acrostics.” . . . Croland has treated the subject exhaustively in this interesting volume.'" —Lewis Turco, author of The Book of Forms "Far from basic poetry, acrostics, the introduction notes, 'have an ancient history in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew' and transcend the constrained form. From Blackwell’s three-line acrostic about the sun to Chilton’s lengthy poem about The Lord’s Prayer, readers will savor poems on assorted subjects from both famous authors and unknown writers." —Lisa M. Bolt Simons, author of Acrostic Poems "Aficionados of wordplay will delight in this long overdue compendium of an often undervalued art form, which also discusses its history and highlights, along with variations ancient and modern such as the hidden acrostics in Shakespeare, Joyce, and, not unexpectedly, Lewis Carroll." —Mark Burstein, president emeritus of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America "It’s a poetic party on paper for Word Nerds like me, and a must-read for devotees of the form." —Brian P. Cleary, author of Bow-Tie Pasta: Acrostic Poems
act normal (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #80)
by nancy viva davis halifaxi might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s dropThe poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference – particularly the lives of those who as children were considered to be other or less than human. Drawing upon conversations, archival materials, court cases, legislation, transcripts, and case histories, among other sources, nancy davis halifax’s poems destabilize categories of meaning – understanding disability and difference as “undecidability.”act normal is a movement of “feelingthought,” unsettling normative expectations and inviting readers to re-orient from the normative task of assuming the safety of consensual interpretation, while risking, cherishing, and performing non-indifference.
Act V Scene I: Poems
by Stanley Moss&“Open Act V, Scene I or any of Stanley Moss&’s books anywhere, and you will come shockingly upon wisdom and beauty, a diversity of styles—a unity of voice, a voice that was there since the beginning. I love Stanley Moss&’s work. The pace, the strategy, the wit, the knowledge are astonishing. Of the generation that is gradually leaving us, those born in the mid- and late-1920s, he has a prominent place. He loves donkeys. He owns Ted Roethke&’s raccoon coat. He is an original.&”—Gerald Stern &“Magisterial. . . this book is magnificent. I&’ve read it several times with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information which it generates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight.&”—Marilyn Hacker &“. . . In our epoch of turmoil, crisis, and grief, I find that Moss&’s poetry still, always, brings me a little closer to happiness.&” —Forrest Gander &“I&’ve loved Stanley&’s poems since I first encountered a poem of his in Poetry magazine in John Berryman&’s office when I was nineteen.&” —W.S. Merwin &“. . . This is a book to hold onto for dear life.&” —Rosanna Warren I Choose to Write a Poem I choose to write a poemwhen my left ankle&’s broken, purple, and my right ankle&’s swollen blue,both knees banged, twice their usual size, both my long legs &“killing me,&”while a famous angel is really killing me.I separate physical pain from the real thing— the real thing, the soul usually diesbefore the body. My soul is dancing, welcoming spring in the gardenon a beautiful June morning, ready to live forever.
Actos de habla
by Jaime SilesUna reflexión sobre la melancolía del ego, entendido como «yo lírico». Un acto del lenguaje y, como tal, una expresión del tiempo y la experiencia intelectual a través de la palabra. XIII Premio de poesía Ciudad de Torrevieja Actos de habla se compone de 11 poemas que giran en torno a la identidad, el tiempo y la palabra. Algunos de los poemas se gestaron en la ciudad de Florencia, donde el autor pasó una temporada, y que es uno de los escenarios del libro. Allí entró en contacto con una máquina de cine de posguerra, que fue lo que le inspiró varios versos y la influencia del cine que puede apreciarse en la lectura. Esto entronca con el análisis que hace de la percepción del lenguaje, con poemas exclusivos que interpretan a una voz poemática que intenta dignificar el lenguaje coloquial. Lo más destacado de los poemas es su excelente sonoridad, su ritmo perfecto, las imágenes poderosas y el homenaje a Keats. La belleza, el dolor y la reflexión sobre la identidad y la nada se mezclan en un original punto de vista lleno de ironía. En estos actos de lenguaje, Jaime Siles expresa el mundo a través de la palabra, y lo hace dando una visión melancólica de la existencia.
Actos de habla
by Jaime SilesActos de habla se compone de 11 poemas que giran en torno a la identidad, el tiempo y la palabra.Algunos de los poemas se gestaron en la ciudad de Florencia, donde el autor pasó una temporada, y que es uno de los escenarios del libro. Allí entró en contacto con una máquina de cine de posguerra, que fue lo que le inspiró varios versos y la influencia del cine que puede apreciarse en la lectura.Esto entronca con el análisis que hace de la percepción del lenguaje, con poemas exclusivos que interpretan a una voz poemática que intenta dignificar el lenguaje coloquial.Lo más destacado de los poemas es su excelente sonoridad, su ritmo perfecto, las imágenes poderosas y el homenaje a Keats. La belleza, el dolor y la reflexión sobre la identidad y la nada se mezclan en un original punto de vista lleno de ironía.En estos actos de lenguaje, Jaime Siles expresa el mundo a través de la palabra, y lo hace dando una visión melancólica de la existencia.
Acts of Poetry: American Poets' Theater and the Politics of Performance
by Heidi R BeanAmerican poets’ theater emerged in the postwar period alongside the rich, performance-oriented poetry and theater scenes that proliferated on the makeshift stages of urban coffee houses, shared apartments, and underground theaters, yet its significance has been largely overlooked by critics. Acts of Poetry shines a spotlight on poets’ theater’s key groups, practitioners, influencers, and inheritors, such as the Poets’ Theatre, the Living Theatre, Gertrude Stein, Bunny Lang, Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Carla Harryman, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Heidi R. Bean demonstrates the importance of poets’ theater in the development of twentieth-century theater and performance poetry, and especially evolving notions of the audience’s role in performance, and in narratives of the relationship between performance and everyday life. Drawing on an extensive archive of scripts, production materials, personal correspondence, theater records, interviews, manifestoes, editorials, and reviews, the book captures critical assessments and behind-the-scenes discussions that enrich our understanding of the intertwined histories of American theater and American poetry in the twentieth century.
Ad Sanctos: The Martyrology Book 9
by Bp Nichol'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet's instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant "image" of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet's quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.' - Frank Davey
The Ada Poems
by Cynthia ZarinA dazzling story of obsessive love emerges in Cynthia Zarin's luminous new book inspired and inhabited by the title character of Nabokov's novel Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, who was the lifelong love of her half brother, Van.These electric poems are set in a Nabokovian landscape of memory in which real places, people, and things--the exploration of the Hudson River, Edwardian London, sunflowers, Chekhov, Harlem, decks of cards, the death of Solzhenitsyn, morpho butterflies--collide with the speaker's own protean tale of desire and loss. With a string of brilliant contemporary sonnets as its spine, the book is a headlong display of mastery and sorrow: in the opening poem, "Birch," the poet writes "Abide with me, arrive / at its skinned branches, its arms pulled / from the sapling . . . the birch all elbows, taking us in." But Zarin does not "Destroy and forget" as Nabokov's witty, tender Ada would have her do; rather, as she writes in "Fugue: Pilgrim Valley," "The past's / clear colors make the future dim, Lethe's / swale lined with willow twigs." Like all enduring love poetry, these poems are a gorgeous refusal to forget.A riveting, high-stakes performance by one of our major poets, The Ada Poemsextends the reach of American poetry.From the Hardcover edition.
Address (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Elizabeth WillisAddress draws us into visible and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public address. These poems are concentrated, polyvocal, and sharply attentive to acts of representation; they take personally their politics and in the process reveal something about the way civic structures inhabit the imagination. Poisonous plants, witches, anthems, bees--beneath their surface, we glimpse the fragility of our founding, republican aspirations and witness a disintegrating landscape artfully transformed. If a poem can serve as a kind of astrolabe, measuring distances both cosmic and immediate, temporal and physical, it does so by imaginative, nonlinear means. Here, past and present engage in acts of mutual interrogation and critique, and within this dynamic Willis's poetry is at once complexly authoritative and searching: "so begins our legislation."
Un adelanto del fin del mundo (Flash Poesía #Volumen)
by Arthur RimbaudUn adelanto del fin del mundo, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es una colección de embates apasionados de Arthur Rimbaud, un rebelde que supo hurgar en el infierno para revolucionar la poesía. Rimbaud rompió las costuras de la poesía moderna cuando todavía no había cumplido veinte años. A tan pronta edad deflagró también los límites de la bohemia. Rebelde ejemplar, entendía la figura del poeta como una suerte de vidente de una vida nueva, un icono romántico movido por una fiebre que estrellaba en decenas de hojas sueltas. Reunimos ahora algunos de sus principales poemas, resultado de sus años en París, de la truculenta pasión que le unió a Paul Verlaine, del malvivir, el emborracharse, del no ser feliz pero ser siempre salvaje.
Adhoora Aasman Gazal Sangrah: अधूरा आस्माँ (ग़ज़ल संग्रह)
by Vinod Asudani Rajesh Asudani 'Raqeeb'‘अधूरा आस्माँ’, इस पुस्तक की रचना उन दो संवेदनशील रचनाकारों ने की है जिनकी आँखों ने कभी रोशनी को महसूस तक नहीं किया है । गहन अंधेरे के अन्तहीन समन्दर की अनंत गहराइयों में जिनकी संवेदनाओं ने जिंदगी के हर उजले-काले पक्ष को देखा है, महसूस किया है और भोगा भी है, उन आसूदानी बंधुओं (श्री विनोद आसूदानी और श्री राजेश आसूदानी 'रकीब') ने जिंदगी के साथ गुफ्तगू करती हुई इस पुस्तक की रचना कर मानवीय क्षमता की एक और बुलंदी पर अपना नाम दर्ज कर दिया है। गज़ल संग्रह में विनोद और राजेश की पचास - पचास इस तरह कुल एक सौ गज़लें समाहित है। कवियों ने बहर और वज़न का पूरा-पूरा ध्यान रखने का प्रयास किया है और सभी गज़लें बहुत अच्छी हैं - पठनीय हैं । हाँ दो-तीन गजलें ज़रूर ऐसी है जिन्हें कुछ और तराशा जाता तो वे और अधिक निखर जातीं । गजलों की भाषा आम बोलचाल की भाषा वाली सरल सहज हिंदुस्तानी' है जिसे उर्दू के शब्दों ने और अधिक आकर्षक और प्रभावशाली बना दिया है ।
Adio
by Bitoriano Gandiaga ArtetxeBaserri familiako giroa lana zen. Bakardadea, mendia, isiltasuna, gaua, ipuinak. Oraindik ere umetako mendiak entzuten ditut Arantzazun. Gauez "tzi-tzi-tzi..." mendia beteta dago zurrumurruz, argiz, ipuinez, misterioz, beldurrez. Mendiko isiltasuna esaten da beti, eta egia da, baina mendiko isitasun berezi bat da, gauza harrigarriz bete-beterik.
Admission Requirements
by Phoebe WangA debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry.The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cityscape, where the reader is presented with the paradoxes of subsumed histories. With understated irony and unsettling imagery, the poems address the internal conflicts inherent in contemporary living.
Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Prose
by Adrienne Rich Albert Gelpi Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Brett C. MillierThis Norton Critical Edition includes: <p><p> • Generous selections of poetry and prose from the entire oeuvre of one of America’s most influential poets. • An introduction and explanatory annotations by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi, and Brett Millier. • Fifteen reviews and critical commentaries, nine of them new to the Second Edition, carefully chosen as a guide to Adrienne Rich’s poetics―and to her poetics as related to politics―ranging from W. H. Auden’s 1951 response to her first book to critics’ reviews of the magisterial Collected Poems in 2016. • A Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.
Adulescentia: The eclogues of Mantuan (Routledge Revivals)
by Lee PiephoFirst published in 1989, Piepho has translated the Latin works of Mantuan’s eclogues, which play such a crucial role in the culture of Western Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Adult Language Warning
by William RobertsonAt the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. His poems bring a new passion to the ancient domestic scene, and to everything else he looks at out of that often-turbulent centre. He ventures with care "into a swelling sea/ of silted meanings" equipped with his own elegant flexible vernacular, shaped precisely to the task of lighting up the trials and wonders of ostensibly ordinary days. These poems ring like crystal-hard edges of a tender heart.
Adultolescence
by Gabbie HannaGabbie Hanna disarms the sacred and elevates the mundane in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poems. Ranging from the sing-song rhythms of children’s verses and a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores the emotionally charged space between childhood and womanhood, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence heralds the arrival of an artist with a magical ability to connect through alienation, bury truth bombs within observations about pizza cravings and social media, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first page because she gets you.