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Cat Poems
By Tamara Petrosino, Dave Crawley. 2005
Cats: They wake you up at dawn, nap on your lap, perch on the book you're reading, and sometimes act…
as though they don't know you. They are a constant source of puzzlement--and joy. In this collection of poems, Dave Crawley pays tribute to the fabulous, finicky felines he has known and loved since childhood, capturing classic cat antics with affection and humor. Tamara Petrosino's watercolor illustrations amplify the humor and depict cats' expressions, postures, and mischievous ways as only a devoted cat owner could.The Complete Poems and Translations
By Christopher Marlowe. 2007
The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright?newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays?and for courting…
danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist?Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works?from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,? to the impressive epic mythological poem ?Hero and Leander. ? .Twin Cities
By Carol, Muske-Dukes. 2011
A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets. Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and…
poet whose latest collection, Sparrow, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment and rescue-they are two, and they are one. .The Epic of The Cid: with Related Texts
By Michael Harney. 2011
The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A…
powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of medieval Spain, a formidable strategist, and a charismatic leader, the Cid deeply impressed his contemporaries, both Christian and Muslim. Already, in his lifetime, songs, stories, and chronicles were devoted to his exploits.In offering both a highly readable, colloquial prose translation of El Cantar de Mio Cid and selections from a wide variety of those contemporary accounts, this volume brings the historical figure back to life for modern readers.Harney's substantial Introduction and annotation provide the historical, military, and literary background necessary for an informed reading of the texts; also included are maps, a compendium of proper names, a bibliography, and an index.Shelter
By Carey Salerno. 2016
Disturbing because of the cruelty intended as kindness to animals and the speaker's unflinching, relentless insistence on her culpability, these…
poems force us to consider whether we can be redeemed by our capacity for love, compassion, and personal responsibility.By Herself
By Debora Greger. 2012
An artful, compelling new collection from “a special poet in every sense” (Poetry) The poems in Debora Greger’s new…
book journey from Florida to England to Venice, finding in the byways and accidents of travel the ghostly presences that mark the poet’s passage from youth half-forgotten to the edge of old age: the younger self that, like some heroine in Henry James, she catches glimpses of and barely recognizes; the long-dead poets unable to sleep, with things still on their mind. The elegies threaded through this mature, startling book recognize life moving toward the shadows—these are poems of old responsibilities and new virtues, looking back as a way of looking forward. .Pirates
By David L. Harrison, Dan Burr. 2008
Glamorous, swashbuckling, daring adventurers? Pirates have had good publicity for a long time. But they were really a bunch of…
misfits, thugs, and ne'er-do-wells who spent most of their time bored, waiting for a few moments of excitement and rich booty that could very well get them wounded or killed, or captured and executed. Still, a pirate's life was chosen by many, and this poetry collection describes the highs and lows and everything in between for those who swore the oath of the Brotherhood.Day into Night
By Gunther Klinge, Ann Atwood. 1980
In this exquisite volume of haiku, Gunther Klinge takes us on a journey through the days and nights of each…
of the seasons, beginning with a spring dawn and ending with a winter midnight.The Lifting Dress
By Lauren Berry. 2011
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes. Lauren Berry's bracing and emotionally charged first collection of poetry delivers…
visions of a gothic South that Flannery O'Connor would recognize. Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with the same violent affection once tendered to her. .Poems by the Way
By William Morris.
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
By Graeme Wilson, Hagiwara Sakutaro, York Wilson. 1969
The poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro is still little known in the in the English-speaking world, though this is not altogether…
surprising when the importance of his work remains inadequately recognized in Japan itself. Nearly all Japanese critiques of post-Meiji poetry acknowledge Hagiwara as one of the best (if not, indeed, the very best) of modern Japanese poets; but almost all critics, having briefly made some such admission, thereafter shy away from him, strangely to devote long paragraphs to other poets patently less talented, sadly more diffuse and far less influential. Why? Perhaps the reason is that Hagiwara, for all his brilliance, seems somehow to switch on darkness, to radiate black luminance. In the beaconry of modern Japanese literature he is an occulting, rather than a flashing, light: but he remains nevertheless a lighthouse of supreme importance.Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery
By Dick Ringler. 2007
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a…
fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide to the work, along with his translations of three shorter Old English poems elucidate a major English text almost as well-known for its subtlety and intricacy as it is for its monsters and heroes.A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
By Robert Herrick.
Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet. Herrick began as an apprentice to a jeweler before attending college. In…
1627 he took his orders and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham. He then became a vicar in Devon where he lived for 31 years writing some of his best poetry. When the English Civil War broke out he lost his position, since he refused to pledge to the Solemn League and Covenant. He returned to London living off the charity of his friends and spent his time preparing his lyric poems for publication. When Charles became king Herrick returned to his post. His poetry themes were English country life, village customs, complimentary poems to various ladies and his friends, themes taken from classical writings and Christian faith.The Circle
By David Lloyd. 1974
The Broken Word
By Adam Foulds. 2011
An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a…
meditation on the inheritance of conflict and its consequences. It is a thrillingly original, profound and lyrical work.Paradise Regained
By John Milton. 2012
Paradise Regained is often thought of as the companion to Milton's Epic Paradise Lost. Here Milton tells the full story…
of Christ's forty days' temptation in the desert with Satan. The detail and emotional impact are stunning. A book for the ages.Book of English Verse
By Arthur Quiller-Couch.
As Ever
By Joanne Kyger. 2002
This collection of Joanne Kyger's work reveals her as one of the major experimenters, hybridizers, and visionaries of poetry. Kyger…
is a poet of place, with a strong voice-delicate, graceful, and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American myth as well as Asian religion and philosophy. Kyger's love for poetry manifests itself in a grander scheme of consciousness-expansion and lesson, but always in the realm of the everyday. Edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg, and with an introduction by poet David Meltzer, this book is a marvelous overview of a wonderfully challenging and important poet. .The Secret of Hoa Sen
By Bruce Weigl, Nguyen Phan Que Mai. 2014
Poems by Nguyen Phan Que MaiTranslated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que MaiNguyen Phan Que Mai…
is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier during the war in Vietnam, has spent the past 20 years translating contemporary Vietnamese poetry. These penetrating poems, published in bilingual English and Vietnamese, build new bridges between two cultures bound together by war and destruction. The Secret of Hoa Sen, Que Mai's first full-length U.S. publication, shines with craft, art, and deeply felt humanity.I cross the Lam River to return to my homelandwhere my mother embraces my grandmother's tomb in the rain,the soil of Nghe An so dry the rice plants cling to rocks.My mother chews dry corn; hungry, she tries to forget.Life Is A Song
By Lola Ayton Rowe. 2015
Life is a Song is designed to inspire the reader through poetry that is the song of the heart. Read…
it to take a break from everyday cares and to refresh your mind and your thoughts. Read Life is a Song to enjoy, reflect, laugh or ponder the meaning of life and the scope of our existence. Let the rhythms linger in your mind and keep you singing everyday. Life is a Song is for sharing with others so that they too can experience laughter or quiet contemplation. Life is a Song reflects encouragement to live and win. LBP Life is a Song takes the reader through an uplifting journey that is spiritual, romantic, nostalgic and more. It calms the soul.