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The Smoke of Horses (American Poets Continuum)
By Charles Rafferty. 2017
In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise…
mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer.Charles Rafferty is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of stories, and two poetry chapbooks. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop.Walking the Dog's Shadow (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)
By Deborah Brown. 2011
Walking the Dog's Shadow rose to the top of nearly eight hundred submissions to win the ninth annual A. Poulin,…
Jr. Poetry Prize. Tony Hoagland, who served as final judge for the contest, writes, "Deborah Brown's poems remind me a little of the great Polish poet, Wistawa Szymborska. They both make thinking look easy. . . . Brown's poems aren't just about a eureka moment; they taste of the whole journey. Walking the Dog's Shadow is a beautiful book, wise and sure of itself, fresh with wit and gravity, serious and true."Deborah Brown teaches literature and writing at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester.An Orchard in the Street (American Readers Series)
By Reginald Gibbons. 2017
This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings-city apartments, rural roads, soap…
operas, and juvenile court-as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience-the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible.Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words (American Readers Series)
By Interviews by Tony Leuzzi. 2008
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter.…
Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without losing any of their mystery. Whether you're looking for deeper understanding of your favorite poets or simply interested in the lives of contemporary artists, Passwords Primeval reveals the interconnectedness of these masters whose voices echo each other from opposite ends of the same canyon.Book of the Edge (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
By Ece Temelkuran. 2010
Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey&’s most accomplished young writer. In Book of the Edge, she describes an allegorical journey wherein…
the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the undeniable connection between all living beings.Born 1973 in Turkey, Ece Temelkuran (www.ecetemelkuran.com) has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. An award-winning daily columnist for Milliyet, she was a 2008 visiting fellow at the University of Oxford&’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.Translator Deniz Perin received the 2007 Anna Akhmatova Fellowship for Younger Translators.Light and Heavy Things provides readers in this country an opportunity to discover the work of the late Pakistani poet,…
Zeeshan Sahil. Although readers of Urdu poetry mourned his passing in 2008, Sahil is a relatively unknown poet in the United States. Sahil's work conveys his post-modern sensibility with plain language, presenting political realities of Pakistan in personal terms.To Keep Love Blurry (American Poets Continuum #135.00)
By Craig Morgan Teicher. 2012
To Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and…
children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet's seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is…
a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and ideas attracted, then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject, though often alluded to, was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest, it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors, notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals, the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines, including some popular religious publications.The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is…
a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and ideas attracted, then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject, though often alluded to, was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest, it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors, notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals, the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines, including some popular religious publications.The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is…
a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and ideas attracted, then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject, though often alluded to, was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest, it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors, notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals, the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines, including some popular religious publications.23 Great Stories
By David Leavitt, Aaron Thier. 2013
Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume…
have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller's art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and vision and each is uniquely memorable.Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (Relational Perspectives Book Ser.)
By Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub. 1992
In this unique collection, Yale literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub examine the nature and function of memory…
and the act of witnessing, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and reading, and in their particular relation to the Holocaust. Moving from the literary to the visual, from the artistic to the autobiographical, and from the psychoanalytic to the historical, the book defines for the first time the trauma of the Holocaust as a radical crisis of witnessing "the unprecedented historical occurrence of...an event eliminating its own witness." Through the alternation of a literary and clinical perspective, the authors focus on the henceforth modified relation between knowledge and event, literature and evidence, speech and survival, witnessing and ethics.Diadem: Selected Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
By Marosa Di Giorgio. 2012
Marosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like…
prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio's voice, imagery, and themes—childhood, the Uruguayan countryside, a perception of the sacred—are her own. Previously written off as "the mad woman of Uruguayan letters," di Giorgio's reputation has blossomed in recent years. Translator Adam Giannelli's careful selection of poems spans the enormous output of di Giorgio's career to help further introduce English-language readers to this vibrant and original voice. Marosa di Giorgio was born in Salto, Uruguay, in 1932. Her first book Poemas was published in 1953. Also a theater actress, she moved to Montevideo in 1978, where she lived until her death in 2004.Kamasutra: Complete English Translation of Sanskrit Text
By Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar, Mallanaga Vatsyayana. 2002
The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is not, as most people think, a book…
about the positions in sexual intercourse. It is a book about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also about the positions in sexual intercourse.The Deadly Hours
By Susanna Kearsley, Christine Trent, Anna Lee Huber, C. S. Harris. 2020
"Charming... Four interconnected visits to a world of danger, wit, beauty and genuine romance. Treat yourself!"—ANNE PERRY, internationally bestselling authorA…
stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold watch as it passes through time wreaking havoc from one owner to another. The characters are irrevocably linked by fate, each playing a key role in breaking the curse and destroying the watch once and for all.From 1733 Italy to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in 1870 London, and a lethal game of revenge decades later, the watch touches lives with misfortune, until it comes into the reach of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good.This outstanding collaboration of authors includes:Susanna Kearsley – New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of compelling time slip fiction.C.S. Harris – USA Today bestselling author of the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series.Anna Lee Huber – award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries.Christine Trent – author of the Lady of Ashes Victorian mystery series.More praise for The Deadly Hours:"A fantastic read."—Tasha Alexander, New York Times bestselling author"What a treat!"—Victoria Thompson, USA Today bestselling authorThe Longman Anthology Of British Literature: The Restoration And The Eighteenth Century (Damrosch British Ser.)
By David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Stuart Sherman. 2010
Harlequin Desire September 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2
By Karen Booth, Naima Simone, Jayci Lee. 2020
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings…
you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes:Trust Fund FiancéTexas Cattleman’s Club: Rags to RichesBy USA TODAY bestselling author Naima SimoneWhen family friend Reagan Sinclair needs a fake fiancé to access her trust fund, businessman Ezekiel Holloway is all in—even when they end up saying ‘I do’! But this rebellious socialite may tempt him to turn their schemes into something all too real…Once Forbidden, Twice TemptedThe Sterling WivesBy Karen BoothHer ex’s best friend, Grant Singleton, has always been off limits, but now Tara Sterling has inherited a stake in his business and must work by his side. Soon, tension becomes attraction…and things escalate fast. But can she forgive the secrets he’s been keeping?Secret Crush SeductionThe Heirs of HansolBy Jayci LeeTired of her spoiled heiress reputation, designer Adelaide Song organizes a charity fashion show with the help of her brother’s best friend, PR whiz Michael Reynolds. When her long-simmering crush ignites into a secret relationship, will family pressure—and Michael’s secret—threaten everything?For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s September 2020 Box set 2 of 2.Harlequin Desire September 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2
By Sara Orwig, Kira Sinclair, Joss Wood. 2020
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings…
you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes:Reckless EnvyDynasties: Seven SinsBy Joss WoodSuccessful CEO Matt Velez never makes the first move…until the woman who got away, Emily Arnott, announces her engagement to his nemesis. Jealousy pushes him closer to her than he’s ever been to anyone. Now, is it more than envy that fuels his desire?One Wild Texas NightReturn of the Texas HeirsBy USA TODAY bestselling author Sara OrwigWhen a wildfire rages across her property, Claire Blake takes refuge with rancher Jake Reed—despite their families’ decades-long feud. Now, one hot night follows another. But will the truth behind the feud threaten their star-crossed romance?The Rebel’s RedemptionBad BillionairesBy Kira SinclairBillionaire Anderson Stone doesn’t deserve Piper Blackburn, especially after serving time in prison for protecting her. But now he’s back, still wanting the woman he can’t have. Could her faith in him lead to redemption and a chance at love?For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s September 2020 Box set 1 of 2.White Girls
By Hilton Als. 2013
White Girls Hilton Als s first book since The Women fourteen years ago finds one of The New…
Yorker s boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature art and music with fearless insights on race gender and history The result is an extraordinary complex portrait of white girls as Als dubs them-an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks Malcolm X and Flannery O Connor In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation fiction and nonfiction high culture and low the theoretical and the deeply personal Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects and an invaluable guide to the culture of our timeThis book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the…
court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern scholars. Through the lenses of the Hawthornden fragments, this book engages in the exploration of one of the "cultural places of the European Renaissance", represented by the extensive use of emblems and other literary devices, and by the use of manuscript copies to circulate them. The discourse mainly focuses on the Jacobean courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century, from the point of view of a Scottish insider. By focusing on the intellectual makeup of the court in the newly united Great Britain, this work aims at bridging manuscript scholarship and literary studies with a wider perspective on contemporary society, politics and culture.