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By Lise Downe. 2020
Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe's first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: "Propositions" is…
a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of images and voices to convey an urgency through degrees of incoherence; "Prayers" explores living and language as acts of devotion.These poems blur the boundaries between inner and outer experiences of the self, often subverting expectations and habit in their deconstruction of structure and style. It beautifully portrays humanity's myriad complexities: our various moods and observations, the unpredictable trajectories of our lives—uncertainty, wonder, and surprise, all.By Hilda Doolittle. 2020
Un poema maravillosamente fluido. Un camino sin baches hacia lo sublime. «H.D. es sinónimo de deseo, de imaginación y de…
clarividencia. Tal vez una de las poetas más increíbles -aunque incomprendida y secreta- de la primera mitad del siglo xx. [...] En Trilogía podemos ver parte de toda su magia en expansión.»Luna Miguel Los tres largos poemas que conforman Trilogía constituyen una de las obras maestras de la poesía del siglo XX, comparable a los Cuatro cuartetos de T.S. Eliot, a Brigflatts de Basil Bunting o a Notas hacia una ficción suprema de Wallace Stevens. Escrita bajo el impacto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, H.D. indaga a lo largo de esta obra en el amor, la muerte o la posibilidad de redención, llevando su propia poesía -despojada ahora de las tiranías del imaginismo que había ayudado a fundar- a terrenos nunca antes explorados, configurando así uno de los experimentos literarios más arriesgados y fructíferos de nuestro tiempo. Reseñas:«Madura de edad y genio, H. D. ha crecido, años hace que el imaginismo se le quedó pequeño, pero sus versos son aún rápidos como saetas. De su oracular Trilogía se desprende el enésimo sentido, el exclusivo de nuestra especie y, probablemente, el único fiable: el sentido poético. Señores físicos, teóricos ustedes, la búsqueda ha terminado: he aquí la ley que gobierna todos los universos. Poesía del fiat lux para nuestras almas oscuras.»Ainhoa Sáenz de Zaitegui, El Cultural «En Trilogía, H.D. se enfrentó a los temas de la guerra, la locura nacionalista, la destrucción de las grandes ciudades; no como un lamento por el desmoronamiento de la civilización occidental, sino volviendo la mirada atrás para buscar inspiración en la prehistoria, en una tradición ginocéntrica. H.D. insistió en que la poeta-como-mujer tenía que dejar de derramar sus energías sobre un terreno que los tiranos y los adoradores de la muerte habían dejado estéril. [...] A partir de su visión, H.D. procedió a crear sus grandes y largos poemas tardíos en los que celebra el mundo matriarcal y la búsqueda de heroínas.»Adrienne Rich «La obra cumbre de la ecléctica poeta estadounidense.»Zenda «En la tradición de los poemas de Yeats, Eliot y Pound, las secuencias de versos de H. D. son ficciones supremas de lo más visionarias.»Sandra M. Gilbert, The New York Times Book Review «Este éxtasis, éxtasis en el lenguaje, en un lenguaje bello, es lo que me lleva a través de toda la Trilogía, no solo satisfecho con su trampa, no solo satisfecho con estas ficciones arbitrarias, sino hechizado con la totalidad de su poema, por no decir embelesado.»Hayden Carruth, The Hudson Review «Recordad: H. D. era más sacerdotisa que otra cosa: más sacerdotisa que amante, más sacerdotisa que pensadora, más sacerdotisa que mujer, que estadounidense o (a decir verdad) artista. La Trilogía es tan buena en parte porque directamente convirtió su vocación de sacerdotisa en el tema principal.»Anthony Madrid, The Paris ReviewBy Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. 1868
Rimas y leyendas de Bécquer para primeros lectores en una preciosa antología ilustrada. Una antología ilustrada que recopila las mejores…
rimas y leyendas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. La obra de este poeta romántico sevillano ha dejado una huella imborrable en nuestra literatura. En este libro, los niños descubrirán una selección de las mejores rimas y leyendas del autor, perfecta para adentrarse por primera vez en su obra. Amor, poesía y magia se combinan magistralmente entre sus páginas. Ilustrado deliciosamente, este libro convierte la pluma de Bécquer en el regalo perfecto para los más pequeños.By Sergio Luzzatto. 2013
Partisanos se llamaba en dialecto piamont s a los combatientes de la Resistencia h biles en…
el uso de las armas decididos y resueltos y as titul Primo Levi un poema en 1981 Levi formidable escritor combati como partisano en el valle de Aosta en oto o de 1943 pero corri un tupido velo sobre esas semanas antes de su captura y deportaci n a Auschwitz apenas mencion un secreto desagradable Tras investigar este secreto y ampliar la mirada desde el valle de Aosta hasta el noroeste de Italia Sergio Luzzatto cuenta -a trav s de una historia de la Resistencia- la historia de la Resistencia y los dilemas morales que acuciaron a los j venes de una naci n a la desbandada tras la rendici n de Italia a los aliados y la creaci n de la Rep blica de Sal En este libro que provoc un encendido debate Luzzatto restituye figuras vivas y no santos de la Resistencia ni monstruos de Sal Y entre estas figuras est la de Primo Levi dolido y antes que testigo de la Soluci n final delproblema jud o testigo de los aspectos m s escabrosos de una guerra civil Partisanos es un extraordinario ensayo hist rico que ilumina magistralmente el problema fundamental de la legitimidad y la moralidad de la violenciaWilliam Blake s innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the…
beginning of his famous Illuminated Books of which the Songs of Innocence was the first and most popular Unfortunately Blake s vision is generally known to the world in amputated form because of the difficulty and expense of reproducing his original conception most editions of Blake s work offer only the printed text with no trace of the visual counterpart so essential to his System This new facsimile edition of the Songs of Innocence reproduces Blake s color plates in a fashion which the artist himself would have approved The 31 plates -- printed on facing pages which are the same size of Blake s own first edition -- offer one of the more brightly colored versions of this significant volume no two copies of which are the same As a special aid to readers a typographical reprint of the text of poems follows the plates Such classic songs as The Lamb and The Chimney Sweeper are now accessible to all in the symbiotic union of poem and picture that is crucial to a total understating of Blake s mind and artBy Walt Whitman. 2001
It was with this first version of "Song of Myself," from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, that Whitman…
first made himself known to the world. Readers familiar with the later, revised editions will find this first version new, surprising, and often superior to the revisions, and exhilarating in the freshness of its vision. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.By Clarence C. Strowbridge. 2006
This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English--from the complex rhyme schemes of…
Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and 43 other great English, Irish, and Scottish writers. In addition to a concise introduction, this volume provides brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be studied and treasured by students and poetry lovers alike. Includes 5 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Loveliest of Trees," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "Ozymandias," "Sonnet 73," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."By Philip Smith. 1995
Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not…
proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Fog," "Chicago," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!" "The Road Not Taken," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "Ozymandias," "Sonnet 73," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."By Martin Gardner. 1992
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence"…
of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley's homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."By Joan R. Sherman. 1997
In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics…
as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance."The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to the 20th-century sensibilities of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Also here are works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more.Attractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.Includes 4 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "I, Too, Sing America," "Lift Every Voice and Sing," "Yet Do I Marvel," and "On Being Brought from Africa to America."By William Shakespeare. 1991
Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to…
the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the "W.H." of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written -- in any language.Overt 150 poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence in power, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in power, precision, and beauty. Now this inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this exquisite verse in his or her personal library. A brief glossary illuminates a number of archaic terms.Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.By Paul Negri. 2000
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400…
years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes," "On His Blindness" by John Milton, William Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others.Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved, most anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias."By Paul Negri. 1999
This outstanding, modestly priced anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred, Lord…
Tennyson; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Arthur Hugh Clough; Edward FitzGerald; Matthew Arnold; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Rossetti; Coventry Patmore; George Meredith; William Ernest Henley; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Rudyard Kipling; and many others. An introduction and brief biographical notes on the poets are included. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Jumblies" and "Jabberwocky."By Philip Smith. 1992
Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the…
Pussy-Cat," Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing," many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Who Has Seen the Wind?"By Lindsay Tunkl. 2018
This brief artistic collection of fears around dying--and their ultimate futility in the face of the unknown--is a keepsake …
a prayer book a prompt for contemplation and a gift to give to others to inspire conversations about the liberating power of death and what makes a good life This small book of 12 meditations on death is intentionally repetitive and hypnotic in effect and will inspire the reader to list what scares them most come to terms with their own mortality and realize what fears are holding them back from living a life fully with 100 percent commitment It will appeal to anyone who wishes to live with greater intention and purpose and experience more joy and appreciation of the present moment Buddhists and mindfulness practitioners people who are aging people who read the news and are worried artists people who are taking care of others who are dying people who are dying i e all of us Tarot card readers and modern-day shamans will all find inspiration in these terse lists Young people aghast at the adult world s seeming indifference to our mortality will especially relate to the uncompromising vision of this bookBy Joshua Mensch. 2018
A gripping verse memoir that offers a compassionate and wrenching account of the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse. …
Joshua Mensch’s devastating lyric memoir, Because, explores with extraordinary literary power and sophistication the toxic power of adults who prey on the children in their care. Its story begins when Mensch is ten years old and first meets Don, the charming director of a youth wilderness camp and a lifelong friend of his parents. What follows is a harrowing account of sexual and psychological abuse, told from the evolving perspective of a child entering adolescence. Because unfolds through a series of precise, jewel-like scenes that render the shifting and uncertain landscapes of childhood memory with vividness and precision. Its swift, convincing music, propelled by the powerful litany of the word "because," builds a heartbreaking tale of genuine power whose characters are as complex and fully realized as those in a novel. An unflinching take on the vulnerabilities and dangers of childhood, Because succumbs neither to self-pity nor platitudes, but instead finds consolation in the healing power of its own narrative act.By Stanley Appelbaum. 1969
Immerse yourself in great poetic tradition -- works by Villon Ronsard Voltaire Lamartine Hugo Mallarm…
Verlaine Rimbaud Apollinaire Saint-John Perse Eluard and many more Full texts in French with literal English translation on facing pages Critical biographical information on each poet Introduction 31 black-and-white illustrationsBy William Logan. 2009
The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and…
banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent, passionate prose never fails to provoke readers and poets, reminding us of the value and vitality of the critic's savage art.Like The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Our Savage Art features the corrosive wit and darkly discriminating critiques that have become the trademarks of Logan's style. Opening with a defense of the critical eye, this collection features essays on Robert Lowell's correspondence, Elizabeth Bishop's unfinished poems, the inflated reputation of Hart Crane, the loss of the New Critics, and a damning-and already highly controversial-indictment of an edition of Robert Frost's notebooks. Logan also includes essays on Derek Walcott and Geoffrey Hill, two crucial figures in the divided world of contemporary poetry, and an attempt to rescue the reputation of the nineteenth-century poet John Townsend Trowbridge. Short reviews consider John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Seamus Heaney, and dozens of others. Though he might be called a cobra with manners, Logan is a fervent advocate for poetry, and Our Savage Art continues to raise the standard of what the critic can do.By Maurice Maeterlinck. 2003
On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33…
poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to literary greatness had begun. Long overshadowed by the plays that later won him the Nobel Prize, Serres chaudes (Hothouses) nonetheless came to be widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of literary Modernism after Baudelaire. While Max Nordau soon seized upon Maeterlinck's--tumult of images--as symptomatic of a pervasive social malaise, decades later Antonin Artaud pronounced, "Maeterlinck was the first to introduce the multiple riches of the subconscious into literature." Richard Howard's translation of this quietly radical work is the first to be published in nearly a century, and the first to accurately convey Maeterlinck's elusive visionary force. The poems, some of them in free verse (new to Belgium at the time), combine the decadent symbolism and the language of dislocation that Maeterlinck later perfected in his dramas. Hothouses reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. As for the title, the author said it was "a natural choice, Ghent . . . abounding in greenhouses." The poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume, and by an early prose text by Maeterlinck imaginatively describing a painting by the sixteenth-century Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel. A feat of daring power extraordinarily immediate and inventive, Hothouses will appeal to all lovers of poetry, and in particular to those interested in Modernism. Maeterlinck's enormous fame may have faded, but twentieth-century writers such as Beckett are still our masters who testify to its undying influence.By Shengqing Wu. 2020
Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and…
poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography, a transformative technology and presumably realistic medium that reshaped seeing and representing the world?Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture. Drawing on extensive archival research into illustrated magazines, poetry collections, and vintage photographs, Photo Poetics analyzes a wide range of practices and genres, including self-representation in portrait photography; gifts of inscribed photographs; mass-media circulation of images of beautiful women; and photography of ghosts, immortals, and imagined landscapes. Wu argues that the Chinese lyrical tradition provided rich resources for artistic creativity, self-expression, and embodied experience in the face of an increasingly technological and image-oriented society. An interdisciplinary study spanning literary studies, visual culture, and media history, Photo Poetics is an original account of media culture in early twentieth-century China and the formation of Chinese literary and visual modernities.