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Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson Cover Art

Autobiography of Red

Autobiography of Red A Novel in Verse (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) by Anne Carson

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “A profound love story” ( The New York Times Book Review ) that is both a novel and a poem, an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a tremendously moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Emily Wilson

Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation. "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean. . . . It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes the epic’s music, sailing along at Homer’s swift, smooth pace. A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem’s major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Cover Art

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois A Novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

A Kirkus "Best Book of the 21st Century" An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS" • BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times • Time • Washington Post • Oprah Daily • People • Boston Globe • BookPage • Booklist • Kirkus • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Chicago Public Library Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Nominee for the NAACP Image Award "Epic. . . . I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. . . . I’ve never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me." —Oprah Winfrey The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic of African American historical fiction—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of  Homegoing ;  Sing, Unburied, Sing ; and  The Water Dancer —that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.  The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders. Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. In this powerful coming-of-age story, Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of slavery and oppression, resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.

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Wrong Norma - Anne Carson Cover Art

Wrong Norma

Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE  Anne Carson’s first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016) A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them ‘wrong.’" 

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The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson Cover Art

The Beauty of the Husband

The Beauty of the Husband A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) by Anne Carson

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE This “exquisite meditation on love and loss” ( Elle ) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end. “[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”— The New York Times This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice—twenty-nine “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through tender, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only Nobel Prize–winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects—love—and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.

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Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The #1 New York Times bestseller that ignited a worldwide poetry movement, milk and honey is a boundary-breaking collection of poetry, prose and illustrations about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. Written and illustrated while Rupi Kaur was a university student, milk and honey soon became a word-of-mouth phenomenon, topping bestseller lists worldwide.  It remains a bestselling sensation, the poetry book for the modern world.  • Organized into four sections:  the hurting, the loving, the breaking, the healing • Original, minimalist illustrations accompany • Meant to be read start to finish, compelling readers to return to favorite pages long after their first read • Kaur is also the author of the sun and her flowers and home body ; the three combined have sold more than 11 million copies in over 43 languages • “Rupi Kaur Live,” the first-of-its-kind poetry special, appears on Prime Video. • Ideal gift or self-purchase for fans of modern poetry A noble companion, milk and honey heals as it takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life, showing readers the sweetness in those moments, because it is everywhere, if you are willing to look. Immerse yourself in the lyrical feast by the author lauded by The New Republic as “the Writer of the Decade.”

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Plainwater - Anne Carson Cover Art

Plainwater

Plainwater Essays and Poetry (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) by Anne Carson

FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Astonishingly beautiful poems and essays that stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions “Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed.”— The New York Review of Books The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today.” Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Daniel Mendelsohn

The most accurate and poetic translation of the world’s greatest epic, which is now a film by Academy Award winner Christopher Nolan! “This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet.”—Edith Hall,  The Telegraph A magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a “momentous achievement”: “thrilling,” “rich and rhythmical,” “superb,” “mesmerizing,” “searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.”   With this edition of Homer’s Odyssey , the celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in The New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of The Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, he artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. The result is the richest, most ample, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, conveying the beauty of its poetry, the excitement of its hero’s adventures, and the profundity of its insights. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Daniel Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative version of this magnificent and enduringly influential masterpiece.

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Hardly Creatures

Hardly Creatures Poems by Rob Macaisa Colgate

“Dazzling. . . . An extraordinary document in care, mutual aid, and access.”—Claudia Rankine An imaginative and unforgettable debut poetry collection about the joys and complexities of the disability community from 2024 Ruth Lilly fellow Rob Macaisa Colgate. Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures , takes the form—visually and metaphorically—of an accessible art museum. Through nine sections that act as gallery rooms, the book shepherds the reader through the radiance and mess of the disability community. At the heart of the collection is an exploration and recognition of access intimacy. Marked with universal access symbols to guide the way, poems mimic sensory rooms, tactile replicas, benches for resting, and more; “the body of a poem” itself is reimagined through formal experimentation, as abecedarians are scrambled out of order and sestinas are pressurized into new sequences. These poems also play with pop culture allusions, social media posts, and the infinite possibilities within queer love and deep friendships. With lyrical clarity and attention to language, Hardly Creatures reaches out and offers inventive, heartfelt insights for all readers, and celebrates the disability community through the lens of a visionary new voice in poetry.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English” (Garry Wills, The New Yorker ) Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” So begins Robert Fagles’s magnificent translation of The Odyssey , literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus’s reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival against divine and natural forces on his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. Robert Fagles’s translation of The Odyssey , enhanced with maps, genealogy tables, and pronunciation guides, has been the touchstone translation of Homer’s epic for millions of readers. In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. With an introduction and textual commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox, the Fagles translation of The Odyssey will continue to captivate the general reader and scholar alike. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo

From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Clarity & Connection , Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. To be read on its own or as a complement to Inward , Yung Pueblo's second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation, building self-awareness, and deepening their connection with others.   • Perfect for fans of poetry, meditation, and personal development  • Powerful reflective writing for readers who want to better understand their inner world and build healthier relationships • Rooted in meditation and self-inquiry, this is a gentle guide toward greater clarity, peace, and balance. Whether you’re navigating personal growth or looking for a meaningful self-care or mindfulness gift, gain wisdom, reflection, and inspiration for the journey inward from Clarity & Connection .

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Three Centuries of American Poetry

Three Centuries of American Poetry by Allen Mandelbaum & Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets. From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen. These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World.

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Landlock X

Landlock X Poems by Sarah Audsley

-Finalist in the 2023  Big Other  Book Award for Poetry Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X , joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experience—her own—Audsley’s collection finds more questions than solid answers. Employing a variety of poetic forms, co-opting the pastoral tradition to argue for belonging to the rural landscape—despite the inheritance of displacement and removal from a country of origin— Landlock X tries to solve for all of the (adoptee’s) variables and knows it is an impossible task that the “I”, “you”, and “we” of the poems only approximate. ... From “The Black Cows in the Foreground” it is unknown where the bones of your mother turned to fragments none in the painting of the black cows so where to grieve her body no parcel of land to plant sorrow in furrowed rows the black cows graze

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SAVE ME AN ORANGE - Diana Wilfred Cover Art

SAVE ME AN ORANGE

SAVE ME AN ORANGE Poems About Growing Through Pain, Finding Connection, and Choosing to Stay by Diana Wilfred

SAVE ME AN ORANGE Poems About Growing Through Pain, Finding Connection, and Choosing to Stay What if the things that save us are smaller than we ever imagined? A friend who stays up late. A song you forgot you loved. Sunlight on the bedroom floor. A quiet morning when nothing goes wrong. Half an orange saved for you by someone who knows you'll be back. Save Me an Orange is a deeply intimate collection of 100 poems about growing up, carrying invisible pain, navigating loneliness, and slowly discovering that life can still hold tenderness after difficult seasons. Across ten emotional chapters, these poems move through childhood memories, the complicated years of adolescence, things left unsaid, friendships that become lifelines, learning to accept your own reflection, and the ordinary moments that make healing feel possible. This is a collection for anyone who has ever felt too much, said too little, or wondered whether they would ever feel at home in their own life. For anyone who remembers being sixteen and thinking the world might end. For anyone who needed someone to ask, "Are you okay?" and stay long enough to hear the real answer. For anyone learning that survival does not always look heroic. Sometimes it looks like breakfast. Sometimes it looks like answering a message. Sometimes it looks like laughing again. And sometimes, it looks like someone saying: Save me an orange. Tender without being sentimental, honest without losing hope, Save Me an Orange is a reminder that healing is rarely one dramatic moment. More often, it is a collection of tiny reasons to keep moving forward. There are still mornings you haven't seen. There are still songs you haven't heard. There are still people you haven't met. There are still ordinary miracles waiting for you. And there may still be an orange with your name on it.

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The Iliad - Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox Cover Art

The Iliad

The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the  Iliad  is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.   Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the  Iliad ’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Poems & Prayers - Matthew McConaughey Cover Art

Poems & Prayers

Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Academy Award–winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are my prayers. I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world. A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential. I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

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La belleza del marido - Anne Carson Cover Art

La belleza del marido

La belleza del marido un ensayo narrativo en 29 tangos by Anne Carson

Premio Nobel de Literatura 2026 «Por una obra audaz e innovadora que, en un diálogo lúdico con la tradición clásica, ha creado nuevas formas para la literatura contemporánea.» Jurado del Premio Nobel de Literatura La belleza del marido, el primer libro que se publica en España de la canadiense Anne Carson, es una de las más originales y turbadoras manifestaciones de la poesía de nuestros días. Subtitulado «un ensayo narrativo en 29 tangos», este libro inclasificable cuenta la historia de un matrimonio en torno a la idea de Keats «beauty is truth», belleza es verdad. A lo largo de estos 29 tangos -un tango, como el matrimonio, es algo que uno tiene que bailar hasta el final-, Anne Carson, considerada ya un clásico vivo de las letras anglosajonas, nos introduce en la historia íntima de un matrimonio que se desmorona. Iluminador, a menudo brutal, conmovedor y oscuramente divertido, este libro nos deslumbra con escenas, diálogos y reflexiones que ahondan en la más vieja de las preocupaciones poéticas -el amor- como si fuera la primera vez que se expresa. La crítica ha dicho: «En los distintos ámbitos de su escritura, ha alcanzado unas cotas de intensidad y solvencia intelectual que la sitúan entre los escritores más destacados del presente. Su obra mantiene un compromiso con la emoción y el pensamiento, con el estudio de la tradición y la presencia renovada de las Humanidades como una manera de alcanzar mejor conciencia de nuestro tiempo.» Jurado del Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras «Hace tiempo que Anne Carson ganó el premio Nobel de Nuestros Cerebros y de Nuestros Corazones. [...] Muchos de sus libros son lecturas obligatorias que impulsan, entre tus neuronas, conexiones y hasta acrobacias inesperadas.» Jorge Carrión, La Vanguardia «Hay que prestarle atención, porque una poesía culta jamás pierde su emoción y vitalidad. Carson habla desde fuera del tiempo y el espacio, porque todos los tiempos y todos los espacios son el mismo.» César Antonio Molina, ABC «Un asombroso hojaldre de sentimientos encontrados, de reflexiones a menudo contradictorias sobre la belleza [...], sobre el amor, sobre la sinceridad, sobre el deseo.» Ignacio Echevarría, El Cultural «Un inmenso receptáculo que lo abarca todo. [...] Una obra que cambió la manera de entender la poesía en nuestro tiempo.» Eduardo Lago, El País «La voz más respetada hoy de las letras anglosajonas, una de las grandes: [...] una creadora difícil de encasillar. Una extraña combinación de opuestos. [...] Como poeta es una excelente artesana del patchwork .» Elena Hevia, El Periódico «Cuando Carson quiso escribir un ensayo narrativo se dibujó un libro de poemas en el que había que bailar 29 tangos y reconocer los fracasos que asedian las edades de la vida enamorada. [...] Nos enseña a vivir la poesía como si sumara un cúmulo de muchos instantes que se descifran con la mirada y dan forma a la existencia misma.» Ana Merino, El Mundo «Con un personalísimo estilo, [...] Carson, con el alma escindida entre el pasado y el presente/futuro, [...] posee una mirada contemporánea y particular lo que le da parte de su calado a sus poemarios y la lleva a reflexionar a escribir sobre las preocupaciones actuales.» Javier Ors, La Razón «La poeta que habla con los dioses.» Luis Alemany, El Mundo «La poesía más interesante que se escribe hoy en día en inglés.» Michael Ondaatje «Leería cualquier cosa que Anne Carson escribiera.» Susan Sontag

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HER - Pierre Alex Jeanty Cover Art

HER

HER by Pierre Alex Jeanty

"Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."

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Staying Alive

Staying Alive real poems for unreal times by Neil Astley

Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. The Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times, whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love, or when facing other extremes and anxieties. Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times, helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening, when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. A sequel, Being Alive (2004), and a companion anthology, Being Human (2011), completed this poetry trilogy. Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012) selects 100 poems from all three anthologies, a third from each. These anthologies have been welcomed not only by poets but by a wide range of well-known people respected for their work in fields other than poetry – all avid readers of poetry. They want to recommend these books above all other anthologies of contemporary poetry. ‘Truly startling and powerful poems.’ – Mia Farrow ‘These poems distil the human heart as nothing else… Staying Alive celebrates the point of poetry. It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human.’ – Jane Campion ‘ Staying Alive is a blessing of a book. The title says it all. I have long waited for just this kind of setting down of poems. Has there ever been such a passionate anthology? These are poems that hunt you down with the solace of their recognition.’ – Anne Michaels ‘ Staying Alive is a magnificent anthology. The last time I was so excited, engaged and enthralled by a collection of poems was when I first encountered The Rattle Bag . I can’t think of any other anthology that casts its net so widely, or one that has introduced me to so many vivid and memorable poems.’ – Philip Pullman ‘Usually if you say a book is “inspirational” that means it’s New Agey and soft at the center. This astonishingly rich anthology, by contrast, shows that what is edgy, authentic and provocative can also awaken the spirit and make its readers quick with consciousness. In these pages I discovered many new writers, and I’ve decided I’m now in love with our troublesome epoch if it can produce poems of such genius.’ – Edmund White ‘ Staying Alive is a wonderful testament to Neil Astley’s lifetime in poetry, and to the range and courage of his taste. It’s also, of course, a testament to poetry itself: to its powers to engross and move us, to its ability to challenge and brace us, and to its exultation. Everyone who cares about poetry should own this book.’ – Andrew Motion

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This Day

This Day Sabbath Poems, 1979 - 2012 by Wendell Berry

“Overwhelmingly, though, the poems in This Day reveal the life of a person who cares about his relationship to the earth and the human community . . . His poems, whether they soothe or jolt, inspire or move to responsible action, aim at keeping ‘kindness’ and ‘kinship’ alive in the world. That alone makes This Day a book well worth reading, on a Sabbath or any other day of the week.” — The Marginalia Review of Books Wendell Berry’s Sabbath poems are filled with spiritual longing and politicalextremity, memorials and celebrations, elegies and lyrics, alongside the occasional rants of the Mad Farmer, pushed to the edge yet again by his compatriots and elected officials. With the publication of this new complete edition, it has become increasingly clear that the Sabbath poems have become the very heart of Berry’s work. And taken as a whole for the first time in This Day , this collection has become one of the greatest contributions ever made to American poetry.

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The Essential Rumi - reissue

The Essential Rumi - reissue New Expanded Edition by Coleman Barks

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite Sufi poetry to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever. The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry. Inside the bestselling Rumi collection of all time, you’ll discover: The Essential Translator: Coleman Barks’s masterful, lyrical translations that have made Rumi the most popular poet in America. Over 80 New Poems: Discover dozens of never-before-published poems of longing, ecstasy, and union, newly translated for this expanded edition. Timeless Sufi Mysticism: Journey into the heart of the 13th-century spiritual tradition with poetry that speaks directly to the soul’s deepest questions. A Gateway to the Beloved: Explore themes of ecstatic love, divine emptiness, and profound surrender that have resonated with seekers and poetry lovers for centuries.

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Dog Songs

Dog Songs Deluxe Edition by Mary Oliver

“The popularity of [ Dog Songs ] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” — The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout this inspiring and accessible poetry collection, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.

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Homegirls & Handgrenades

Homegirls & Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez

Winner of the American Book Award A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”—Maya Angelou Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the “razor blades” in clenched in her teeth in these powerful pieces.

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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.

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Beowulf

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

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Home Body

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers ; home body debuted as a #1 New York Times bestseller as well.  #1 New York Times  | USA Today  | Publishers Weekly |  Indie  Bestseller  In her constant embrace of growth, Kaur walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. Presented as a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself, she reminds readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community and family, and to embrace change, which is inevitable and necessary to enrich one’s life and to grow.  • Illustrated in her signature, minimalist style, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. • More than 11 million of her poetry collections have been sold, and they have been translated in 43 languages.  • “Rupi Kaur Live,” the first-of-its-kind poetry special, appears on Prime Video. • Ideal gift or self-purchase for fans of modern poetry i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else Find solace through words that resonate, enlighten and celebrate the self as one continues to grow and experience life at its fullest, through painful as well as celebratory moments, the author lauded by The New Republic as “the Writer of the Decade.”

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Ariel: The Restored Edition

Ariel: The Restored Edition A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath

“Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry,  Ariel  is a masterpiece.”   —  New York Observer Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this poetry collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript—including handwritten notes—and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved American poet. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will alter her legacy forever. This restored edition reveals the masterpiece as Plath conceived it: The Original Manuscript: See the poems in Plath’s chosen order and structure for the first time, free from posthumous alterations. The Author’s Vision: Experience the raw, startlingly original voice that helped change the direction of contemporary poetry. Handwritten Notes: Explore Plath’s own notes and revisions, offering an intimate look at her craft and intentions. The Creative Process: Delve into the complete working drafts of the title poem, "Ariel," to witness the evolution of a masterpiece.

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HER II

HER II by Pierre Jeanty

A continuation of the wildly successful best seller "Her", Pierre Alex Jeanty brings explosive emotion to "Her 2". This celebration of femininity and self-love also explores the woes of love. He offers warnings of the wrong types of attraction while encouraging healthy, fun, and devout relationships of the purest form. "Her 2" tugs at the heart strings using short sentiments and vivid, poetic imagery that echo through the chambers of the heart and mind. "Her 2" is sure to be a classic poetic masterpiece for years to come.

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First Four Books Of Poems

First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Gluck

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. The voice that has become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth. Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise Gluck shows herself happily "used by time." This single volume gathers the four books that built her legacy: Four Complete Books: Follow Gluck’s conscious progression from the fierce fragments of Firstborn to the mythic authority of The Triumph of Achilles . Mythology Reimagined: Witness timeless figures from Greek myth and the Bible brought into the stark, intimate light of modern life. Unflinching Nature Poetry: Explore gardens, ponds, and seasons not as gentle backdrops, but as landscapes of psychological intensity and aching reality. Poems of Family and Love: Experience poems of blade-like accuracy that dissect the bonds between parents and children, husbands and wives, sisters and lovers. Award-Winning Poetry: Includes The Triumph of Achilles , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, from the poet who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Whereas

Whereas Poems by Layli Long Soldier

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

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Wild Embers

Wild Embers by Nikita Gill

Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that burns with magnificent beauty, this raw and powerful collection is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growth. In these words, readers will find the magnificent energy to spark resistance and revolution.

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Your Heart Is The Sea

Your Heart Is The Sea by Nikita Gill

Let poetry help you examine the depths of your wounds. Let it remind you that no matter how deep it goes, you will be able to heal it because you have been able to heal every single wound inflicted on your heart and soul before. Let these words show you that you will be able to find the light at the end of the wound because you have always found your way before.

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Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (5MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Shelley's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Shelley's novels and essays - spend hours exploring the author’s prose works * Also includes Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, which some critics believe was a collaboration between husband and wife * Features a bonus biography - discover Shelley's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET NICHOLSON POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN. THE DEVIL’S WALK: A BALLAD QUEEN MAB INDIVIDUAL POEMS ALASTOR THE REVOLT OF ISLAM ROSALIND AND HELEN JULIAN AND MADDALO: A CONVERSATION PETER BELL THE THIRD THE MASK OF ANARCHY THE WITCH OF ATLAS EPIPSYCHIDION ADONAIS THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD PRINCE ATHANASE LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE TRANSLATIONS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poetic Dramas THE CENCI PROMETHEUS UNBOUND OEDIPUS TYRANNUS HELLAS FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA CHARLES THE FIRST The Novels ZASTROZZI ST IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley The Non-Fiction LIST OF ESSAYS The Biography PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY by John Addington Symonds

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project #19) by Gwendolyn Brooks & Elizabeth Alexander

Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—now in one collectible volume “If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing.” From the life of Chicago’s South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts. “Her formal range,” writes editor Elizabeth Alexander, “is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso.” That technical virtuosity was matched by a restless curiosity about the life around her in all its explosive variety. By turns compassionate, angry, satiric, and psychologically penetrating, Gwendolyn Brooks’ poetry retains its power to move and surprise. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

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The Seasons of the Soul

The Seasons of the Soul The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse & Ludwig Max Fischer, Ph.D.

68 spiritual poems from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha , Steppenwolf , and The Glass Bead Game —who inspired millions as he forged cultural bridges between the East and West.   Lyrical insights and wisdom for anyone seeking a more meaningful life, a reconnection with nature, and a deeper relationship with the divine. Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life and provide a spiritual solace that transcends specific denominational hymns, prayers, and rituals. The Seasons of the Soul offers valuable guidance in poetic form for those longing for a more meaningful life, seeking a sense of homecoming in nature, in each stage of life, and in a renewed relationship with the divine. Extensive quotations from his prose introduce each theme addressed in the book: love, imagination, nature, the divine, and the passage of time. A foreword by Andrew Harvey reintroduces us to a figure about whom some may have believed everything had already been said. Thoughtful commentary throughout from translator Ludwig Max Fischer helps readers understand the poems within the context of Hesse’s life.

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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry , editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka.  Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

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Requiem and Poem without a Hero

Requiem and Poem without a Hero by Anna Akhmatova & D M Thomas

With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.

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Dancing with the Dead

Dancing with the Dead The Essential Red Pine Translations by Red Pine

An essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humor, and musicality that continues to resonates across thousands of years. Red Pine is one of the world's finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. His new anthology, Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine , gathers over thirty voices from the ancient Chinese past—including Buddhist poets Cold Mountain (Hanshan) and Stonehouse (Shiwu), as well as Tang-dynasty luminaries Wei Yingwu and Liu Zongyuan. Dancing with the Dead also includes translations from such religious texts as Puming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses and Lao-Tzu’s Daodejing , as well as poems and woodblock illustrations from Su Po-Jen’s Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom , one of the world’s first printed books of art.   Throughout the book, poems are accompanied by footnotes providing historical context, and each section includes a new and illuminating introduction chronicling Red Pine’s relationship to the poet—discovery, travel, scholarship. Dancing With The Dead is more than a book, it is a journey: part travel essay, part road map, part guided meditation. It is a history translated in poem.  For Red Pine, “translating the words in a Chinese poem isn’t that hard, but finding the spirit that inspired those words, the music of the heart, and asking it to inspire [his heart], that is how, and why, [he] translates.”    “our luggage is full of river travel poems   may we ride forth together again.”  – Wei Yingwu

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez

Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work, including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969), through to 2019, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse, from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation, social equality, and women’s rights is evident throughout, as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. As Maya Angelou so aptly put it: “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”

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Delphi Medieval Poetry Collection (Illustrated)

Delphi Medieval Poetry Collection (Illustrated) by Geoffrey Chaucer & Delphi Classics

Featuring twenty major works of European poetry over a period of a thousand years, this collection charts the development of verse from the fall of the Roman Empire to the birth of the Renaissance. Contrary to popular belief, the poetry of the Dark Ages enjoyed a pioneering development, exploring new metres and complex imagery. Throughout the Middle Ages, poetry adopted numerous forms across the continent, from the epic greatness of the ‘chanson de geste’ to the sublime lyrical qualities of love poetry. This eBook provides a rich sample of medieval poetry; from the earliest dawn of English literature to the unparalleled brilliance of Dante; from the courtly adventures of Arthurian legend to the stirring lays of the Vikings; from the Eastern magic of Georgia to the ribald genius of Chaucer; this collection will immerse you in the perilous, amusing and tantalising world of the Middle Ages. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the poets’ lives and works * Concise introductions to the works * Most of the poems appear with their original medieval texts, as well as an English translation — ideal for students * Images of how the original manuscripts first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the medieval texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Easily locate the sections you want to read * Features three critical works on the development of medieval literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: Medieval Poetry Hymn by Cædmon (7th century) Christ II by Cynewulf (8th century) (Tr. Raymond Wilson Chambers) Beowulf (c.1000) (Tr. William Morris) The Song of Roland (c. 1050) (Tr. C. K. Moncreiff) The Poem of the Cid (c. 1140) (Tr. Robert Southey) Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from ‘Roman de Rou’ by Wace (c. 1170) (Tr. Edgar Taylor) Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1180) (Tr. William Wistar Comfort) Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1210) (Tr. Jessie Weston) The Troubadours (1100-1350) by H. J. Chaytor The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli (c. 1190) (Tr. Marjory Wardrop) The Song of the Nibelungs (c. 1200) (Tr. Daniel Bussier Shumway) Lays of Marie de France (c. 1210) (Tr. Eugene Mason) The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris [PARTIAL TRANSLATION] (c. 1230) (Tr. Geoffrey Chaucer) Poetic Edda (c. 13th century) (Tr. Benjamin Thorpe) Wine, Women and Song: Mediæval Latin Students’ Songs (c. 13th century) (Tr. John Addington Symonds) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) (Tr. H. F. Cary) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375) (Tr. Jessie Weston) Sonnets by Francesco Petrarca (c. 1374) (Tr. Thomas Campbell) Piers Plowman by William Langland (c. 1380) Edited by Thomas Wright The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1400) The Criticism The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory by George Saintsbury Medieval English Literature by W. P. Ker Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

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What I Should've Texted

What I Should've Texted by Pierre Alex Jeanty

This collection from poet Pierre Alex Jeanty is a beautiful expression of the unspoken things that needed to be said and must leave our lips as we attempt to close chapters that we were forced to abandon.    Whether you are looking for closure from past heartbreaks or trying to make sense of your feelings and emotions during a current one, What I Should've Texted will help you give life to the thoughts that never got a chance to escape.

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Весь Есенин

Весь Есенин by Sergey Esenin

Сборник «Весь Есенин» включает произведения одного из самых ярких и любимых читателями поэтов серебряного века Сергея Александровича Есенина (1895–1925). Поэтический мир автора лиричный и чрезвычайно глубокий, эмоциональный и временами трагический. Поэта заслуженно считают мастером психологизированного пейзажа и знатоком русской души. Произведения С. Есенина очень музыкальны, именно поэтому многие его стихи положены на музыку. Творчество поэта является обязательной частью школьной программы. Сергей Есенин – автор множества поэзий, поэм «Анна Снегина», «Пугачев», «Песнь о великом походе», «Поэма о тридцати шести», «Страна негодяев», «Баллада о двадцати шести», «Песнь о Евпатии Коловрате», «Черный человек», повести «Яр», рассказов и очерков.

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The Adoption Papers

The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay

Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple from three different viewpoints: the mother,the birth mother and the daughter. This unique and honest volumeof poems has been adapted for radio. Also included in thebook are new poems reflecting issues of sexuality, Scottishness and being working-class.

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I Ching

I Ching The Book of Change by David Hinton

The renowned poet and scholar of Chinese literature presents a beautiful and accessible new translation of this seminal text. In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching , David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting grew. Although commonly used for divination, the I Ching is also a book of poetic philosophy, and Hinton's translation restores it to its original lyrical form. Unlike previous translations that present arcane language paired with extensive commentary, Hinton renders the original strata of the text as a fully formed work of literature that speaks to modern readers. The result is full of wild imagery, fables, aphorisms, and stories. Acclaimed for the eloquence of his many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, Hinton has reinvented the I Ching as an exciting contemporary text at once primal and postmodern.

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The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse

The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse by Penguin Books Ltd

'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness '. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and second, from the mid-nineteenth century through the Spanish Civil War, to the present. This third edition has been revised to represent more fully the poetry of resistance that emerged during the Franco years, giving more space to older poets such as Jorge Guillén and the great survivor of the Lorca generation and Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre, as well as a number of more contemporary poets who have forged a new era in Spanish poetry. This edition also includes an introduction discussing the history and world significance of Spanish poetry. 'No body of lyrical poetry is so seriously under-estimated by British readers as the Spanish ' - J. M. Cohen. This book is translated and edited with an introduction by J. M. Cohen.

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Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations by Gary Snyder

Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years. Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons , Dear Mr. President , Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco , Smokey the Bear Sutra , A Curse on the Men in Washington , Pentagon . The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.

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唐宋詞十七講

唐宋詞十七講 by 葉嘉瑩

本系列《葉嘉瑩作品集典藏版》共計19冊,電子書版本特別收錄葉嘉瑩先生之講座、朗讀、吟誦、照片及文字延伸閱讀素材,希望帶給讀者豐富的數位閱讀體驗。 12 唐宋詞十七講  詞所表現的是比詩更為深遠幽微的境界,那種語盡而意不盡的餘韻,需要細細吟味方能有所體會。葉嘉瑩結合詞人的生平經歷、性格學養,闡述剖析作品中深微幽隱的情意。  葉嘉瑩是當代講授詩詞最富盛名、影響力最為深廣的國寶級學者。這位中國古典文學專家,以其生動優美的語彙和獨特細膩的興發感受,跨越時空的阻隔,去體味挖掘詩人詞人複雜敏感的內心世界。    葉嘉瑩將詩詞之美融會通達,信手拈來,深藏文采背後的人情義理剎時浮現。看她一一細述名家的背景、傳承,巧妙揉合個別際遇、情性、技巧,讓讀者體會作品中的意蘊興託。聽她娓娓道來詩詞深意,首首興味盎然,彷彿與歷代名家交遊,不僅瞭解文采之美,更可體會詩人們如何將才情與稟賦融入詩句,交織出中國文人獨特的生命情調。譬如:陶淵明不為五斗米折腰的高潔、李白如天仙降世的狂放、杜甫懷憂生靈的剴切、蘇東坡超脫官場的豪情……。然而詞是最富意象的,最易喚起比興之聯想。中國的詞幾經轉變,形成不同的美感,大都與不幸的環境有著密切關係。葉嘉瑩感性、象喻式的引導詞之欣賞,觸發讀者會心感受。例如:李後主國破家亡,他的詞有了進步;蘇東坡九死一生被貶到黃州、儋州,詩詞文章都有了進步;辛棄疾也因為南宋的衰敗挫折,才有了詞的成就 。這些深刻動人的好詞,都是歷經磨難淬練而成的,所謂「國家不幸詩家幸,賦到滄桑句變工」就是這個道理。  透過葉嘉瑩教授的提點,還原了天寬地闊的心靈的深度,幫助現代讀者從中汲取安身立命的活水養分。雖然葉先生半生艱苦,在生活重擔以及接踵而來的苦難中,是這些平日讀誦與熱愛的詩詞,給予她安慰、支持她走過憂患的。這些如煙往事,和顧隨先生的教誨、期許一直深植心中,對於葉嘉瑩的教學、研究和創作影響深遠,雖已高齡九十,仍然以此惕勵,希望在文化傳承的長流中,讓更多人了解、欣賞與體會中國詩詞的美好和深遠意境。這是她受用一生的智慧。  葉嘉瑩  1924年生。1945年畢業於北京輔仁大學國文系。自1945年開始,任教生涯長達六十五年以上。曾在台灣大學、淡江大學、輔仁大學任教十五年之久,1969年赴加拿大,被不列顛哥倫比亞大學聘為終身教授,並曾先後被美國、馬來西亞、日本、新加坡、香港等地多所大學以及大陸數十所大學聘為客座教授及訪問教授。1990年被授予「加拿大皇家學會院士」,是加拿大皇家學會有史以來唯一的中國古典文學院士。此外,還受聘為中國社科院文學所名譽研究員及中華詩詞學會顧問,並獲得香港嶺南大學榮譽博士、臺灣輔仁大學傑出校友獎與斐陶斐傑出成就獎。2012年被中國中央文史館聘為終身館員。 1993年葉嘉瑩教授在天津南開大學創辦了「中華古典文化研究所」,並捐獻出自己退休金的一半(10萬美金)設立了「駝庵獎學金」和「永言學術基金」,用以吸引和培養優秀人才,從事中國古典文學方面的普及和研究工作。 中英文著作有:Studies in Chinese Poetry、《王國維及其文學批評》、《中國詞學的現代觀》、《唐宋詞十七講》等多種著作。

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Sons of Salt - Yaccaira Salvatierra Cover Art

Sons of Salt

Sons of Salt by Yaccaira Salvatierra

Volcanic eruptions and waves collide in Yaccaira Salvatierra’s explosive debut collection Sons of Salt , which explores the duality of personal and political landscapes as well as legacies of violence within Mexican-American communities. Sons of Salt poignantly captures the experiences of mothers who battle for their sons’ wellbeing, particularly when fathers are absent due to systemic oppressions. Salvatierra’s verse breaks the bones of poetic form to bring attention to the failures of a conceptually western God who has categorically failed to protect His children, and gives birth instead to a god of nature. Weaving self-made mythology, mourning, and maternal fear into visual and narrative poems, Salvatierra creates a collection that probes the deepest hurt to ensure the holiest redemption.

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名篇詞例選說 - 葉嘉瑩 Cover Art

名篇詞例選說

名篇詞例選說 by 葉嘉瑩

本系列《葉嘉瑩作品集典藏版》共計19冊,電子書版本特別收錄葉嘉瑩先生之講座、朗讀、吟誦、照片及文字延伸閱讀素材,希望帶給讀者豐富的數位閱讀體驗。 11 名篇詞例選說  本書收錄葉嘉瑩對歷代著名詞人及其詞作的賞析,從詞人的性格背景、句法語法、意象風格等引入,細緻的解析引導,使讀者彷彿得見詞人身處的環境與當時的情緒;了解一首詞的組成元素,進而認識詞的細緻之美。 葉嘉瑩是當代講授詩詞最富盛名、影響力最為深廣的國寶級學者。這位中國古典文學專家,以其生動優美的語彙和獨特細膩的興發感受,跨越時空的阻隔,去體味挖掘詩人詞人複雜敏感的內心世界。    葉嘉瑩將詩詞之美融會通達,信手拈來,深藏文采背後的人情義理剎時浮現。看她一一細述名家的背景、傳承,巧妙揉合個別際遇、情性、技巧,讓讀者體會作品中的意蘊興託。聽她娓娓道來詩詞深意,首首興味盎然,彷彿與歷代名家交遊,不僅瞭解文采之美,更可體會詩人們如何將才情與稟賦融入詩句,交織出中國文人獨特的生命情調。譬如:陶淵明不為五斗米折腰的高潔、李白如天仙降世的狂放、杜甫懷憂生靈的剴切、蘇東坡超脫官場的豪情……。然而詞是最富意象的,最易喚起比興之聯想。中國的詞幾經轉變,形成不同的美感,大都與不幸的環境有著密切關係。葉嘉瑩感性、象喻式的引導詞之欣賞,觸發讀者會心感受。例如:李後主國破家亡,他的詞有了進步;蘇東坡九死一生被貶到黃州、儋州,詩詞文章都有了進步;辛棄疾也因為南宋的衰敗挫折,才有了詞的成就 。這些深刻動人的好詞,都是歷經磨難淬練而成的,所謂「國家不幸詩家幸,賦到滄桑句變工」就是這個道理。  透過葉嘉瑩教授的提點,還原了天寬地闊的心靈的深度,幫助現代讀者從中汲取安身立命的活水養分。雖然葉先生半生艱苦,在生活重擔以及接踵而來的苦難中,是這些平日讀誦與熱愛的詩詞,給予她安慰、支持她走過憂患的。這些如煙往事,和顧隨先生的教誨、期許一直深植心中,對於葉嘉瑩的教學、研究和創作影響深遠,雖已高齡九十,仍然以此惕勵,希望在文化傳承的長流中,讓更多人了解、欣賞與體會中國詩詞的美好和深遠意境。這是她受用一生的智慧。  葉嘉瑩  1924年生。1945年畢業於北京輔仁大學國文系。自1945年開始,任教生涯長達六十五年以上。曾在台灣大學、淡江大學、輔仁大學任教十五年之久,1969年赴加拿大,被不列顛哥倫比亞大學聘為終身教授,並曾先後被美國、馬來西亞、日本、新加坡、香港等地多所大學以及大陸數十所大學聘為客座教授及訪問教授。1990年被授予「加拿大皇家學會院士」,是加拿大皇家學會有史以來唯一的中國古典文學院士。此外,還受聘為中國社科院文學所名譽研究員及中華詩詞學會顧問,並獲得香港嶺南大學榮譽博士、臺灣輔仁大學傑出校友獎與斐陶斐傑出成就獎。2012年被中國中央文史館聘為終身館員。 1993年葉嘉瑩教授在天津南開大學創辦了「中華古典文化研究所」,並捐獻出自己退休金的一半(10萬美金)設立了「駝庵獎學金」和「永言學術基金」,用以吸引和培養優秀人才,從事中國古典文學方面的普及和研究工作。 中英文著作有:Studies in Chinese Poetry、《王國維及其文學批評》、《中國詞學的現代觀》、《唐宋詞十七講》等多種著作。

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Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont Cover Art

Les Chants de Maldoror

Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

Une édition de référence des Chants de Maldoror du Comte de Lautréamont, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Souvent, la main portée au front, debout sur les vaisseaux, tandis que la lune se balançait entre les mâts d'une façon irrégulière, je me suis surpris, faisant abstraction de tout ce qui n'était pas le but que je poursuivais, m'efforçant de résoudre ce difficile problème ! Oui, quel est le plus profond, le plus impénétrable des deux : l'océan ou le cœur humain. Si trente ans d'expérience de la vie peuvent jusqu'à un certain point pencher la balance vers l'une ou l'autre de ces solutions, il me sera permis de dire que, malgré la profondeur de l'océan, il ne peut pas se mettre en ligne, quant à la comparaison sur cette propriété, avec la profondeur du cœur humain. » (Extrait du Chant I.)

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