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Cielo bajo
By Federico García Lorca. 2017
Un volumen inédito que presenta el proyecto inacabado del más grande poeta del siglo XX español: Federico García Lorca. En…
lenguaje musical se entiende por «suite» una composición integrada por movimientos variados que, no obstante, encuentran su apoyo en la misma tonalidad. Las suites de Federico García Lorca parten de la misma idea, aplicada esta vez a la lírica: establecer series de poemas formalmente heterogéneos que giren alrededor de un tema común. Sin embargo, su temprana muerte truncó el que había de ser un ambicioso proyecto en el que se recogían obras inéditas o ya publicadas, escritas todas ellas entre 1920 y 1923, bajo el signo de una nueva armonía. El presente volumen supone la fiel y ajustada edición a cargo del hispanista Eutimio Martín de un poemario abocetado que ilumina los primeros versos del más brillante poeta de la literatura española del siglo XX. Una perla extraordinaria que muestra una vez más que el universo de Lorca no tiene fin ni parangón. Reseñas:«Hablaba Federico, requebrando a la muerte. Ella escuchaba.»Antonio Machado «Su mundo era un mundo prácticamente de palabras. Un mundo de metáforas chocantes.»Jorge Luis Borges500 Words or Less
By Juleah Del Rosario. 2018
A high school senior attempts to salvage her reputation among her Ivy League–obsessed classmates by writing their college admissions essays…
and in the process learns big truths about herself in this mesmerizing debut novel-in-verse, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Sonya Sones. Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lovable boyfriend. To redefine her reputation among her Ivy League–obsessed classmates, Nic begins writing their college admissions essays. But the more essays Nic writes for other people, the less sure she becomes of herself, the kind of person she is, and whether her moral compass even points north anymore. Provocative, brilliant, and achingly honest, 500 Words or Less explores the heartbreak and hope that marks the search for your truest self.Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania
By Bill Johnston, Adam Mickiewicz. 1992
The national epic of Poland and touchstone of modern European literature, now in a fresh translation by award-winning translator Bill…
Johnston.A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the Lithuanian countryside are captured in verse of astounding beauty, simplicity, and power. Bill Johnston's translation of this seminal text allows English-language readers to experience the richness, humor, and narrative energy of the original.Journey to Armenia
By Robert Hughes, Clarence Brown, Sidney Monas, Henry Gifford, Osip Mandelstam. 1979
The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled…
to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only.Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay, he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture.This edition also includes the companion piece, “Conversation About Dante,” which Seamus Heaney called “Osip Mandelstam’s astonishing fantasia on poetic creation.” An incomparable apologia for poetic freedom and a challenge to the Bolshevik establishment, the essay was dictated by the poet to his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam, in 1934 and 1935, during the last phase of his itinerant life. It has close ties to Journey to Armenia.The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings
By Mary Ann Caws. 2018
An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers Originating…
in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Café Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro and René Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador Dalí. As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says, “Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness, of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought, the already lived.” Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending aesthetic, political, and humane movement: writers as diverse as Aragon, Breton, Dalí, René Char, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Paul Magritte, Alice Paalen, Gisele Prassinos, Man Ray, Kay Sage, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven are included here, providing a grand picture of this revolutionary movement that shocked the world.Beowulf: An Anglo-saxon Epic Poem (Enriched Classics)
By Anonymous. 2005
The story of one man's triumph over a legendary monster, Beowulf marks the beginning of Anglo-Saxon literature as we know…
it today. This Enriched Classic includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley JohnsonEl corazón de aedo
By Jon caro. 2017
El corazón del aedo es una colección de poemas y relatos cortos de amor que abarca la historia de la…
humanidad hasta, aproximadamente, el siglo II a. C. Dos amantes egipcios separados por las diferencias entre el Alto y Bajo Egipto. Un guardián del harén de Ramsés II enamorado de una de las mujeres del faraón. Un viril guerrero espartano cuya fuerza no es suficiente para enamorar a una refinada aristócrata ateniense. Un fiero y bestial asirio que solo encuentra calma en la dulzura de su amada. Un gobernante de Zhou incapaz de controlar sus pasiones siguiendo los consejos de Confucio... El verso posee una belleza que se escapa a la prosa, pero a veces se queda escaso para la épica de un relato amoroso.The Night Chorus (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #44)
By Harold Hoefle. 2018
A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs. Harold…
Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the haunts of outsiders ranging from travellers and farmers to a soldier, a drug addict, a refugee, and the murdered. The past clings in these stark, evocative poems, "memory a closet of clothes / that hang from bent wire." In the tradition of songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie and poets such as Al Purdy, Karen Solie, and David O'Meara, The Night Chorus presents so-called "obscure" lives, where dark and playful humour collides with historic and mythic characters including Ovid and Dante, Odysseus and Desdemona. Using lyric poetry and the ghazal, the prose poem and the elegy, The Night Chorus brims with images as sharp as wild geese scrawling letters against an evening sky and as humble as "pots of plum dumplings and still-warm soup." Bookended by a sequence of lyrics inspired by cross-country road trips, Hoefle references iconic places like Black Dog Road and Seldom Seen and peoples the landscape with imagined characters. Their voices – damaged, rough, intimate – will echo in the reader's mind.On High (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #43)
By Neil Surkan. 2018
All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits…
in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs, and earnest meditations as they attempt to make meaning in a divided and distracting world. Careful and tense, On High balances on all kinds of tightrope-like lines: a trout fisher revels after riding a moose, a buzzed lover speculates about human connection, new condo owners toast from balcony to balcony, a young woman kicks a hornet's nest into her hometown library's erotica/poetry/religion section. Reaching for the sprigs of our shared humanity, Surkan's poems offer courage and compassion in violent times. As the speaker in "The Branch Breaker" muses, "sarcasm won't dissolve our enemies." On High is a book for the contemporary moment.A Shropshire Lad
By A. E. Housman. 2011
Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary connoisseurs and the general…
reader as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896. Scholars and critics have seen in these timeless poems an elegance of taste and perfection of form and feeling comparable to the greatest of the classic. Yet their simple language, strong musical cadences and direct emotional appeal have won these works a wide audience among general readers as well.This finely produced volume, reprinted from an authoritative edition of A Shropshire Lad, contains all 63 original poems along with a new Index of First Lines and a brief new section of Notes to the Text. Here are poems that deal poignantly with the changing climate of friendship, the fading of youth, the vanity of dreams — poems that are among the most read, shared, and quoted in our language.La vida nueva
By Ra l Zurita. 2018
La reaparición de La vida nueva supone un acontecimiento mayor en la poesía contemporánea de Occidente En 1983, tras haber…
publicado Purgatorio (1979) y Anteparaíso (1982), dos libros que cambiaron para siempre la poesía chilena y latinoamericana, Raúl Zurita se puso a escribir el libro con el que cerraría una trilogía poética de ambición inaudita y que también apelaría desde el título a la obra de Dante: La vida nueva. Lo escribió durante más de una década y recién en 1994 logró publicarlo, pero quedó disconforme pues debió cortar casi la mitad del libro, debido a que, por su extensión, nadie se lo publicaba. Han pasado 25 años desde esa primera y única edición que el poeta nunca autorizó reimprimir. En el intertanto, Zurita se vio obligado a vender los manuscritos. Hasta que hace un par de años los recuperó. Y lo que hoy presentamos será la edición definitiva de un libro clave en la trayectoria del poeta.The Ballad of the White Horse (Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton)
By G. K. Chesterton. 2013
More than a thousand years ago, the ruler of a beleaguered kingdom saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that…
moved him to rally his chiefs and make a last stand. Alfred the Great freed his realm from Danish invaders in the year 878 with an against-all-odds triumph at the Battle of Ethandune. In this ballad, G. K. Chesterton equates Alfred's struggles with Christianity's fight against nihilism and heathenism—a battle that continues to this day. One of the last great epic poems, this tale unfolds in the Vale of the White Horse, where Alfred fought the Danes in a valley beneath an ancient equine figure etched upon the Berkshire hills. Chesterton employs the mysterious image as a symbol of the traditions that preserve humanity. His allegory of the power of faith in the face of an invasive foe was much quoted in the dark days of 1940, when Britain was under attack by Nazis. This new edition offers an authoritative, inexpensive version of Chesterton's inspiring work.pas assez d'amour
By Maki Starfield, Daniel March n. 2018
"Pas assez d'amour" est la première collection de Maki Starfield, qui est une poétesse émergente importante. L'une des plus grandes…
vertus de sa poésie est sa capacité à écouter et à identifier les problèmes les plus profonds de notre temps, dans l'art et la critique sociale. La vigueur, la générosité et la sagesse de sa poésie lui confèrent la catégorie de poète universel. Aussi, l'attrait des poèmes de Maki Starfield est dans la poursuite de la réalité de la condition humaine dans le monde de l'illumination à travers l'auto-réflexion dans le style du poème à trois lignes, basé sur le haïku. Son monde peut être considéré comme un produit de la résonance des âmes humaines dans une mélodie comme un endroit où l'Est et l'Ouest fusionnent.Roots to the Earth: Poems And A Story
By Wendell Berry, Wesley Bates. 2014
In 1995, Wendell Berry's Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings…
of celebrated artist and wood engraver, Wesley Bates, were printed from the original wood blocks on handmade Japanese paper.In 2014, this work was reprinted along with additional poems. Together with Bates' original wood engravings, and designed by Gray Zeitz, Larkspur Press printed just one hundred copies of this book in a stunning limited edition.Now it is with great pleasure that Counterpoint is reproducing this collaborative work for trade publication, as well as expanding it with the inclusion of a short story, "The Branch Way of Doing," with additional engravings by Bates.In his introduction to the 2014 collection, Bates wrote: "As our society moves toward urbanization, the majority of the population views agriculture from an increasingly detached position... In his poetry [Berry] reveals tenderness and love as well as anger and uncertainty... The wood engravings in this collection are intended to be companion pieces to... the way he expresses what it is to be a farmer."Eclogues and Georgics
By Virgil. 2005
With the Eclogues, Virgil established his reputation as a major poet, and with the Georgics, he created a masterpiece of…
Latin poetry. Virgil drew upon the tradition of Greek pastoral poetry, importing it into an Italian setting and providing in these two works the model for subsequent European interpretations of the genre.The Eclogues unfolds in an idyllic landscape, under less-than-tranquil circumstances. Its shepherds tend their flocks amid not only the inner turmoil of unrequited love but also the external pressures of the civil war that followed Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. Forced from their homes, the dispossessed shepherds voice a heartfelt longing for peace.Dryden declared the Georgics "the best poem by the best poet," and through the ages, it has been much admired and imitated. A paean to Italy and the country's natural beauty, it rejoices in the values of rustic piety, the pleasures of family life, and the vitality of the Italian people.Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition Into English...
By Sappho, John Maxwell Edmonds. 2018
Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and…
honest. Sappho, a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, wrote verse that sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, her poems nevertheless evoke powerful and memorable images as well as a sense of unreserved eroticism. Her focus on emotion and individualism sets her work apart from that of her contemporaries, lending it an intimacy that foreshadows modern poetry. Details about Sappho's life are largely unknown; she is thought to have lived sometime between 612–570 B.C.E., and her poetry was read and admired throughout the ancient world. Today her poems survive in fragmentary form, and she is best known as a symbol of female homosexuality, having inspired the terms "sapphic" and "lesbian." This concise collection of her surviving works features an informative Introduction by translator J. M. Edmonds.The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe, W. Heath Robinson. 2017
Edgar Allan Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in W. Heath Robinson's powerful and…
haunting imagery. This magnificently decorated hardcover edition re-creates a 1900 publication from the famed Endymion series of illustrated poets, offering Poe's complete output of poetry in addition to his most important critical essays on the form.The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
By Phillis Wheatley. 1988
Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen,…
she became the first black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral, on which this volume is based. Wheatley's poetry created a sensation throughout the English-speaking world, and the young poet read her work in aristocratic drawing rooms on both sides of the Atlantic. The London Chronicle went so far as to declare her "perhaps one of the greatest instances of pure, unassisted genius that the world ever produced." Wheatley's elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses into the origins of African-American literary traditions. Most of the poems express the effects of her religious and classical New England education, consisting of elegies for the departed and odes to Christian salvation. This edition of Wheatley's historic works includes letters and a biographical note written by one of the poet's descendants. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "On Being Brought from Africa to America."The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe, W. Heath Robinson. 2017
The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms…
of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short stories, poetry was his first love, and this magnificently decorated edition presents Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays on poetry. Featuring such immortal works as "The Raven" "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells," this volume meticulously re-creates the famed 1900 Endymion edition, a series comprising the works of Robert Browning, Keats, and other luminaries. Poe's dark obsessions and fascination with the supernatural find a perfect match in the powerful and haunting imagery of artist W. Heath Robinson, whose headpieces, tailpieces, decorated titles, and other illustrations appear throughout the book.A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015
By Wendell Berry. 2016
More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbaths outdoors, walking and wandering around…
familiar territory, seeking a deep intimacy only time could provide. These walks arranged themselves into poems and each year since he has completed a sequence dated by the year of its composition. Last year we collected the lot into a collection, This Day, the Sabbath Poems 1979-2013. This new sequence for the following year is one of the richest yet. This group provides a virtual syllabus for all of Mr. Berry's cultural and agricultural work in concentrated form. Many of these poems are drawn from the view from a small porch in the woods, a place of stillness and reflection, a vantage point "of the one/life of the forest composed/of uncountable lives in countless/years each life coherent itself within/ the coherence, the great composure,/of all." A new collection of Wendell Berry poems is always an occasion of joyful celebration and this one is especially so.