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Unaccompanied
by Javier ZamoraNew York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." –Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, doesn't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again--like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime
by Robert ZallerRobinson Jeffers and the American Sublimeis the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy. This discussion leads to a broad consideration of Jeffers' focus on the figure of Christ as emblematic of the human aspiration toward God-a God whom Jeffers defines not in Christian terms but in those of an older materialist pantheism and of modern science. The later sections of the book develop a conspectus of the democratic sublime that addresses American exceptionalism through the prism of Jeffers' Jeffersonian ethos. A final chapter places Jeffers' poetic thought in the larger cosmological perspective he sought in his late works.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2011
by Philip Zaleski Billy Collins"A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition) With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in American publications during the past year. The collection offers an opportunity to read intimate and thought-provoking work, ranging from poetry to short fiction to memoir to essay, by some of the nation's most esteemed writers, including Rick Bass, Philip Yancey, Terry Teachout, Robert D. Kaplan, and many others. As Phyllis Tickle said of last year's edition, "there is enough here to feed the hungry heart for years to come."
Makhdoom Muhiuddin
by Nishat ZaidiWorks on Ghazals and poems by Mumbai based poet Makhdoom Mohiuddin.
Leer poesía
by Gabriel ZaidLeer por gusto es el método que propone este libro que habla de poesía como los amigos que salen platicando de ver una película. Puede servir como una introducción al arte de leer poesía, especialmente mexicana, pero no es un tratado, sino una conversación de lector a lector. Octavio Paz, Ramón Xirau, Carlos Fuentes y Salvador Elizondo dieron el Premio Villaurrutia a Leer poesía en 1972. Esta nueva versión incluye artículos publicados de 1966 a 2009. A la curiosidad con que se acerca a los temas junta la franqueza en las opiniones. Alí Chumacero Todas las páginas de Leer poesía muestran ingenio, perspicacia, lucidez. Jaime García Terrés Juicios rápidos y casi siempre certeros: Zaid duda de Reyes poeta pero no lo niega; se entusiasma con razón por la poesía de los judíos españoles; nos llega a convencer de que El brindis del bohemio es mejor (menos malo) que el Nocturno a Rosario; escribe la nota más inteligente que se haya escrito sobre la poesía de Isabel Fraire. Tomás Segovia
Poesía en la práctica
by Gabriel ZaidHay que ver la poesía en la práctica: en el mundo del trabajo y los negocios, del prestigio social y el poder político, de la ingeniería y las computadoras, de la vida amorosa y cotidiana. La inspiración creadora no sólo hace versos: sopla y lo mueve todo. En ese movimiento, la práctica no es algo estrecho, mecánico y sin misterio, sino creación; y la poesía es práctica: hace más habitable el mundo. La argumentación rigurosa y elegante de Zaid hace ver la naturaleza del acto creador. Éste es un ensayo estimulante cuya lectura nos vuelve conscientes, de una manera curiosamente personal, de los procesos a los cuales se refiere. Zaid tiene una mente original y una profunda convicción en la normalidad de la experiencia artística. Deja con ganas de ver más de su obra. The Times Literary Supplement,14 de noviembre de 1968.
Reloj de sol (Ya Leíssste? Ser. #Vol. 6)
by Gabriel ZaidGabriel Zaid ha escrito poemas en prosa y verso, ensayos acerca de los problemas sociales de la poesía y breves comentarios sobre poetas mexicanos. De su entusiasmo inicial por formas que fueron gratas al gongorismo de los años veinte, Zaid derivó hacia una lírica de la brevedad y la concentración en que la ironía, la nostalgia, el sentimiento del tiempo, se expresan con un tono cada vez más personal y con una economía de medios admirable. Zaid hizo una recopilación de sus mejores poemas en Reloj de sol (1995). En los primeros poemas de Zaid "están ya casi todas las cualidades que después distinguirían a su poesía: la economía, la justeza del tono, la sencillez, la chispa repentina del humor y las revelaciones instantáneas del erotismo, el tiempo y el otro tiempo que está dentro del tiempo. Maestría precoz, excepcional en la poesía contemporánea [...] La sátira cobra importancia a partir de Campo nudista [...] En la sátira se cruzan las tres direcciones cardinales de la poesía de Zaid: el amor, el pensamiento y la religión. Nuestra insensibilidad ante lo espiritual y lo numinoso ha alcanzado tales proporciones que nadie, o casi nadie, ha reparado en la tensión religiosa que recorre a los mejores poemas de Zaid. [...] Poeta religioso y metafísico, Zaid es también -y por eso mismo- poeta del amor. En sus poemas amorosos la poesía opera de nuevo como una potencia transfiguradora de la realidad. Esa transfiguración no es cambio ni transformación sino desvelamiento, desnudamiento: la realidad se presenta tal cual. El colmo de la extrañeza es que las cosas sean como son". Octavio Paz
El reloj del sol
by Gabriel ZaidEn la sátira se cruzan las tres direcciones cardinales de la poesía de Zaid: el amor, el pensamiento y la religión. En los primeros poemas de Zaid están ya casi todas las cualidades que después distinguirían a su poesía: la economía, la justeza del tono, la sencillez, la chispa repentina del humor y las revelaciones instantáneas del erotismo, el tiempo y el otro tiempo que está dentro del tiempo. Maestría precoz, excepcional en la poesía contemporánea. Poeta religioso y metafísico, Zaid es también, y por eso mismo, poeta del amor. En sus poemas amorosos la poesía opera de nuevo como una potencia transfiguradora de la realidad. Octavio Paz
Tres poetas católicos: Ramón López Velarde, Carlos Pellicer y Manuel Ponce
by Gabriel ZaidPara los juicios convencionales, López Velarde es el cantor de la provincia y de la “íntima tristeza reaccionaria”; Pellicer, el cantor del trópico y “las manos llenas de color”; Ponce, un sacerdote que hacía versos. Pero hay que verlos como miembros de una tribu cuyo contexto se perdió: los poetas y artistas que creyeron posible ser católicos y modernos. El sueño de crear una cultura católica moderna fracasó hasta el punto de que ni siquiera es historiado, de que la tradición crítica recibida no tiene una precaución que diga: hay cosas de la cultura mexicana que nunca entenderás, si ignoras que el catolicismo mexicano soñó con la modernidad. De Gabriel Zaid hemos publicado casi todos sus libros en esta colección.
Teoría de los cuerpos: Descripción explícita de la correspondencia
by ZaharaTeoría de los cuerpos es un análisis poético de las maneras de relacionarnos que tenemos los seres humanos: cuerpos que se mueven, se repelen y se imantan con sus iguales por razones a veces difíciles de comprender. «Intenté entender qué nos sucedía desde todos los ángulos posibles. Observé el ansia, la espera, el deseo, la tristeza, el vacío. La carne, áspera a veces, rugosa; el pulso caliente, la búsqueda a toda costa. »Reconozco que allí no había respuestas. Encontré otras vidas dentro de un solo cuerpo y cómo su relación con los otros condicionaba su propia existencia. Así a veces se sentía sustraído, partido o en expansión con ellos. »Busqué dentro lo que siempre había sentido fuera. Tuve que abrirme con mis propias manos, dejar que otras también lo hicieran. Y solo cuando atravesé el dolor y la nostalgia, el placer y la soberbia, descubrí que lo que había ahí enterrado era real, que absolutamente todo era cierto.»Zahara _____________ A través de poemas, textos más narrativos y semaforismos, la cantante y escritora Zahara demuestra una vez más que el talento no se compartimenta. Crea, a través de este poemario dividido en tres partes («Clausuras de un cuerpo», «Correspondencias de los cuerpos» y «Extensión de un cuerpo»), su propia interpretación de la teoría matemática de los cuerpos, que estudia sus propiedades. Un libro que sorprende por su originalidad y su calidad y que, al mismo tiempo, contiene todos los ingredientes a los que ella nos tiene acostumbrados y que tanto nos gustan: su humor, un toque de surrealismo, el exceso, el amor, el dolor, el deseo e incluso la náusea, mezclados y agitados en su justa medida. De Trabajo, piso, pareja se ha dicho...«Hay debuts literarios que logran sorprender a propios y extraños. Da igual que ya conocieras la faceta musical de Zahara: no estás preparado para Trabajo, piso, pareja, un fresco íntimo sobre la vida de una relación que actúa como un diagnóstico íntimo de algunas patologías generacionales.»Revista GQ «Un certero retrato generacional de los anhelos y las decepciones de los treintañeros.».El Confidencial «Un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional en una época en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Todo envuelto en el papel de una sociedad en la que sostener en pie una relación es más difícil que conseguir que un castillo de naipes sobreviva a una ligera brisa.»Vogue
Teoría de los cuerpos: Descripción explícita de la correspondencia
by ZaharaTeoría de los cuerpos es un análisis poético de las maneras de relacionarnos que tenemos los seres humanos: cuerpos que se mueven, se repelen y se imantan con sus iguales por razones a veces difíciles de comprender. «Intenté entender qué nos sucedía desde todos los ángulos posibles. Observé el ansia, la espera, el deseo, la tristeza, el vacío. La carne, áspera a veces, rugosa; el pulso caliente, la búsqueda a toda costa. »Reconozco que allí no había respuestas. Encontré otras vidas dentro de un solo cuerpo y vi cómo su relación con los otros condicionaba su propia existencia. Así a veces se sentía sustraído, partido o en expansión con ellos. »Busqué dentro lo que siempre había sentido fuera. Tuve que abrirme con mis propias manos, dejar que otras también lo hicieran. Y solo cuando atravesé el dolor y la nostalgia, el placer y la soberbia, descubrí que lo que había ahí enterrado era real, que absolutamentetodo era cierto.»Zahara _____________ A través de poemas, textos más narrativos y semaforismos, la cantante y escritora Zahara demuestra una vez más que el talento no se compartimenta. Crea, a través de este poemario dividido en tres partes («Clausuras de un cuerpo», «Correspondencias de los cuerpos» y «Extensión de un cuerpo»), su propia interpretación de la teoría matemática de los cuerpos, que estudia sus propiedades. Un libro que sorprende por su originalidad y su calidad y que, al mismo tiempo, contiene todos los ingredientes a los que ella nos tiene acostumbrados y que tanto nos gustan: su humor, un toque de surrealismo, el exceso, el amor, el dolor, el deseo e incluso la náusea, mezclados y agitados en su justa medida. De Trabajo, piso, pareja se ha dicho...«Hay debuts literarios que logran sorprender a propios y extraños. Da igual que ya conocieras la faceta musical de Zahara: no estás preparado para Trabajo, piso, pareja, un fresco íntimo sobre la vida de una relación que actúa como un diagnóstico íntimo de algunas patologías generacionales.»Revista GQ «Un certero retrato generacional de los anhelos y las decepciones de los treintañeros.».El Confidencial «Un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional en una época en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Todo envuelto en el papel de una sociedad en la que sostener en pie una relación es más difícil que conseguir que un castillo de naipes sobreviva a una ligera brisa.»Vogue
True Life: Poems
by Adam ZagajewskiA stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment’s joyand melancholy’s dark contentment.In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world’s most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (“Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity”) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (“We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal”). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski “the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,” and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems “pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.” True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski’s insight and artistry
Without End: New and Selected Poems
by Adam ZagajewskiThis book draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners-- and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."
Preaching the Converted
by Samantha ZacherThe Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse. The study argues that the dazzling textual complexity of these homilies rivals the most accomplished examples of Old English poetry.Highlighting the use of word play, verbal and structural repetition, elaborate catalogues, and figurative language, Samantha Zacher's study of the Vercelli Book fills a gap in the history of English preaching by foregrounding the significance of these prose homilies as an intermediary form. Also analyzing the Latin and vernacular sources behind the Vercelli texts to reveal the theological and formal interests informing the collection as a whole, Preaching the Converted is a rigorous examination of Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.
Some Are Always Hungry (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
by Jihyun YunWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family&’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways diasporic communities comfort and name themselves in other nations, as well as the ways cuisine is inextricably linked to occupation, transmission, and survival. Dwelling on the personal as much as the historical, Some Are Always Hungry traces the lineage of the speaker&’s place in history and diaspora through mythmaking and cooking, which is to say, conjuring.
American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter
by Zhang Yuejun Stuart ChristieAmerican Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the contributors to the volume read the claims of specific poems alongside the actual and tumultuous changes China faced between 1911 and 1979. Even where specific poems are found to be erroneous, the contributors to the volume suggest that each of the poets attempted to engage their 'Chinese' subject with a degree of commitment that presaged imaginatively China's subsequent dominance. The poems stand as unique artifacts, via proxy and in the English language, for the rise of China in the American imagination. The audience of the volume is international, including the growing number of scholars and graduate students in Chinese universities working on American literature and comparative cultural studies, as well as already established commentators and students in the west.
The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems By Qu Yuan and Other Poets
by Qu Yuan David HawkesDating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides a fascinating discussion of the history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes.
Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West (Masters of Chinese Studies)
by Anthony YuThroughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative scholarship. In these essays, Yu explores the overlap between literature and religion in Chinese and Western literature. He opens with a principal method for relating texts to religion and follows with several essays that apply this approach to single texts in discrete traditions: the Greek religion in Prometheus; Christian theology in Milton; ancient Chinese philosophical thought in Laozi; and Chinese religious syncretism in The Journey to the West. Yu's essays juxtapose Chinese and Western texts-Cratylus next to Xunzi, for example-and discuss their relationship to language and subjects, such as liberal Greek education against general education in China. He compares a specific Western text and religion to a specific Chinese text and religion. He considers the Divina Commedia in the context of Catholic theology alongside The Journey to the West as it relates to Chinese syncretism, united by the theme of pilgrimage. Yet Yu's focus isn't entirely tied to the classics. He also considers the struggle for human rights in China and how this topic relates to ancient Chinese social thought and modern notions of rights in the West. "In virtually every high-cultural system," Yu writes, "be it the Indic, the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese, or the Judeo-Christian, the literary tradition has developed in intimate-indeed, often intertwining-relation to religious thought, practice, institution, and symbolism." Comparative Journeys is a major step toward unraveling this complexity, revealing through the skilled observation of texts the extraordinary intimacy between two supposedly disparate languages and cultures.
Sincerely
by F. S. Yousaf&“Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love.&”—Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost HomeFans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic poetry book", "breathtaking", "helped me appreciate my marriage". Searching for a profound way to propose to his love, F.S Yousaf reread the letters she had written him. In them he found his proposal, and inspiration to write his own prose and poetry. This is a compilation of letters and love poems that exemplifies the spirituality and the magnitude of how much one person can mean to another.It carries messages of positivity, hope, and most of all, true love.
Little Wet-Paint Girl (Mingling Voices)
by Ouanessa YounsiBorn to a French-Canadian mother and Algerian father, Ouanessa Younsi is a bold and unique voice in modern Francophone poetry. In this intensely personal recitation on identity and ethnicity, Younsi takes the reader on a surreal odyssey through a liminal world of belonging and unbelonging, absence and presence, mind and body. Her visionary work, first published in French and translated here by Rebecca Thompson, is unsettling, riveting and guaranteed to leave readers contemplating the existential mysteries of “self.”
Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters
by Stephen Young Joseph Parisi Billy CollinsPoignant, hilarious, and brutally frank, Dear Editor reveals the personalities and untold stories behind the creation of modern poetry. "The history of poetry and Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," A. R. Ammons wrote. Dear Editor, in gathering over 600 surprisingly candid letters to and from the editors of Poetry, traces the development of poetry in America: Ezra Pound's opinion of T. S. Eliot ("It is such a comfort to meet a man and not have to tell him to wash his face, wipe his feet") and of Robert Frost ("dull as ditch water...[but] set to be 'literchure' someday"); Edna St. Vincent Millay's pleas for an advance ("I am become very, very thin, and have taken to smoking Virginia tobacco"); Wallace Stevens on himself ("I have a pretty well-developed mean streak"). Here are the inside stories, the rivalries between aspiring authors, the inspirations behind classics, the practicalities (and politicking) of publishing. In fascinating anecdotes and literary gossip, scores of poets offer insights into the creative process and their reactions to historic events.
Here Come the Moonbathers
by Patricia YoungHere Come the Moonbathers, is more dark, difficult and tragic than Patricia Young's earlier work. The poems in this collection have wild freedom, exploring the themes of love, longing and loss with grace, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable.
Short Takes on the Apocalypse
by Patricia YoungThe poems in this collection originated as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" and metamorphosed into poetic responses to quotations and epigraphs on a variety of subjects.
Industry of Brief Distraction
by Laurie Saurborn YoungIn a voice at once direct, musical, and surreal, these poems document the journey of a woman as she examines her role in both the political landscape of modern American culture and within the scope of her familial history. Addressing modern environmental concerns and global destruction, the poems maintain a connection with a larger literary history as well as the author's personal history. Sometimes grounded in the concrete, physical world, sometimes floating in imaginative abstraction, this book unveils a version of the America we live in, this industry of brief distraction.
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
by Kevin Lowell YoungThe story of the African Americans who were abducted in the Amistad rebellion and jailed in New Haven,as a sequence of poems told in the voice of their interpreter that talks about captivity,hopes and fight for freedom.