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by Meg Bateman&“A strong collection showing a highly skilled poet on top of her craft, using language and imagery in a sensitive but candid way.&” —Brian McCabe Vividly evoking the landscape of Scotland, particularly the brooding presences of the Scottish islands and Sutherland, these poems also touch on personal love and loss—combining nature with human themes in a collection that is both intimate and celebratory. Presented in English and Gaelic, the poems build on Meg Bateman&’s established flair for uniting intense emotion and feeling with a classic, restrained control and structure that harkens back to Gaelic song-poetry and the beauty in a poem&’s inevitability. &“The poems have the strength and simplicity of art made for a community rather than an elite, though they are far from artless.&” —The Guardian &“The end result of this beautifully constructed and paced collection is a universal evocation of commonalities fused by human consideration . . . The title Transparencies hints at ephemeral moments caught. The poet suggests she aspires to a &‘palimpsest&’ of emotions recalled and now renewed upon the page. She succeeds.&” —The Herald &“Meg Bateman&’s embrace of Gaelic has awakened her poetry to a noble passionate candor rare in today&’s over-ironical English.&” —Les Murray
Transplantings: Essays on Great German Poets with Translations
by Peter ViereckOn being told that translation is an impossible thing, Anatole France replied: precisely, my friend; the recognition of that truth is a necessary preliminary to success in art. The task of Transplantings is to add flesh and bones to that familiar quip. Indeed, Daniel Weissbort notes that Viereck's study represented a sixty-five year long project. Now, it is finally being brought to print in its full form, with the completion of the final manuscript shortly before Viereck's death.If translation is a special genre in its own right, the translation of poetry, especially from major foreign languages, is a special subset of that genre. What emerges in the imperfect act of translation is an aesthetic dimension that Viereck considers unique in its own right. Transplantings provides new insight into Viereck as a poet of substance, but more than that as a public intellectual. He is critical in probing the work of the major figures such as Stefan George and Georg Heym. To round out this monumental new look at German poetical history, Viereck reviews Goethe, Novalis, and Rilke among others.For Viereck, the difference between the poetical and the political is critical. The quality of poetry is not measured by politics, nor can the worth of political action be defined by commitment to the poetical. The experience of German thought, as well as French and Italian efforts, reveals a divide that can be narrowed but hardly bridged by rhetoric. Transplantings does not simplify the task of the reader. Rather it shows without doubt that the passion of great poetry is part of a national tradition. Efforts at translation indicate how such poetry becomes part of an international culture. This is a major work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. It merits reading, and then, re-reading.
Transpoetic Exchange: Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
by Jerome Rothenberg Marjorie Perloff Charles A. Perrone Charles Bernstein Tom Winterbottom Marília Librandi Jamille Pinheiro Dias Enrico Mario Santí João Adolfo Hansen Antonio Cicero Luiz Costa-Lima Odile Cisneros Kenneth David Jackson Benedito Nunes Keijiro Suga André ValliasTranspoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as well as Campos’ Galáxias, written from 1963 to 1976, are the main axes around which the book is organized. <P><P> The volume is divided into three parts. “Essays” unites seven texts by renowned scholars who focus on the relationship between the two authors, their impact and influence, and their cultural resonance by exploring explore the historical background and the different stylistic and cultural influences on the authors, ranging from Latin America and Europe to India and the U.S. The second section, “Remembrances,” collects four experiences of interaction with Haroldo de Campos in the process of transcreating Paz’s poem and working on Transblanco and Galáxias. In the last section, “Poems,” five poets of international standing--Jerome Rothenberg, Antonio Cicero, Keijiro Suga, André Vallias, and Charles Bernstein. <P><P> Paz and Campos, one from Mexico and the other from Brazil, were central figures in the literary history of the second half of the 20th century, in Latin America and beyond. Both poets signal the direction of poetry as that of translation, understood as the embodiment of otherness and of a poetic tradition that every new poem brings back as a Babel re-enacted. <P><P> This volume is a print corollary to and expansion of an international colloquium and poetic performance held at Stanford University in January 2010 and it offers a discussion of the role of poetry and translation from a global perspective. The collection holds great value for those interested in all aspects of literary translation and it enriches the ongoing debates on language, modernity, translation and the nature of the poetic object. <P><P> Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Trapeze
by Deborah DiggesThese lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring. ” As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon. Throughout these luminous poems–which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband–Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night: See how the first dark takes the city in its arms and carries it into what yesterday we called the future. O, the dying are such acrobats. Here you must take a boat from one day to the next, or clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand. But they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening, diving, recovering, balancing the air. From the Hardcover edition.
Trapped Inside a Tragedy
by Adria KennedyA Victorian family becomes trapped by their image-obsessed lifestyle, adhering strictly to unhealthy societal expectations. Marjorie is the only one who recognizes the harm in the charade they perform for the rest of high society. Determined to free her relatives from this endless cycle of fallacy, she endeavours to instil in them a desire for authenticity and wholeness. Will Marjorie succeed in reversing her family’s fate? Or will they remain constrained by the rigid mores of Victorian culture that prize appearance over reality? Join Marjorie on her thought-provoking and poetic journey of revelation. She fights tirelessly to reveal the truth to loved ones blinded by deeply-rooted expectations, even when met by strong resistance.
Trapped: The emtombed miner of Bonnie Vale
by Julia LawrinsonIn 1907, the mining town of Bonnie Vale experiences a sudden deluge of rain that floods a gold mine while miners are still at work down the shaft. Joe's dad is one of them. And it soon becomes clear that he's the only one who hasn't made it back out. Where is he? Why didn't he escape with the others? And more importantly, how will they rescue him?
Tratado de Açoites: Tratado de Agressões
by Mois BenarrochNo seu melhor, Mois Benarroch sinaliza sobre o hebraico e que a língua não pertence a ninguém. Esta é sua virtude, que nela tudo pode ser feito, e Benarroch escreve maravilhosa poesia: “havia aqueles que agrediam e havia aqueles que ficavam em silêncio”. Essa é todo o poema. Não há três campos – como dos agredidos, dos agressores e dos silenciados - mas sim apenas dois, e a nova distribuição que promovem essas linhas não permite ao leitor nenhum momento de descanso. Com quem ele está? Em volta do silêncio está construído o poema: o silêncio dos agredidos e seus irmãos que observam de fora, conhecendo como "é justa" a dor do agredido. Esse poema é maravilhoso. Do livro eu sugiro começar a ler sobre o poeta, judeu de origem marroquina, não porque ele conte das agressões que recebeu em sua infância, e também não por causa de Amir Peretz, mas sim que seja notado o simples fato de que nada na sociedade israelense – que todos agora compreendem isso, mesmo que por um breve momento – não está neutralizado da profunda dor que permeia sob a pele, na terra, nas cinzas. Nada o sufoca, exceto o agrupamento dos agressores, é claro. Leiam este curto poema e visualizem quanta profundidade e quanta dor estão nele presentes, quantas bocas malditas, que de repente, serão vistas sob outro ponto de vista. Yitzhak Laor
Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust
by S. J. Thomas J. BrennanThomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.
Travel Pictures: Including The Tour In The Harz, Norderney, And Book Of Ideas, Together With The Romantic School (classic Reprint)
by Heinrich Heine Peter WortsmanHeinrich Heine (1797-1856), one of Germany's most revered poets, is equally well-known for his idiosyncratic prose, the vibrant voice of which feels astonishingly modern in its familiar tone and thematic acrobatics. Travel Pictures comprises the accounts of four journeys taken at different times in his life. The opening "Harz Journey," a quirky chronicle of his walking tour in the Harz Mountains, is the text that first made him famous. But in all four accounts, Heine, seasoned by the skepticism of a born outsider, does more than climb mountains, ford streams and cross borders. In this remarkable book, Heine propels German letters into the Modern mindset. Freud cites a few of Travel Pictures' most humorous passages in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Heine's incomparable lyric vision lifts the book into the transcendent realm of great journey literature.
Travel in My Borrowed Lives: New and Selected Poems
by Jay Parini Donald Everett AxinnFor almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, "the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page." A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world from above as he lovingly, though often wryly, surveys the scene around him here below. Whether in his charming love poems, his delight in the evolving seasons, or his search to understand people and places - and indeed himself - Axinn offers a fresh look at the world through the eyes of a constantly questing, and questioning, poet. "Here is a man," writes Parini, "who has looked at the world from many angles . . . with a sense of gathering wisdom."
Travellers
by George Mackay BrownThese unknown and sometimes unexpected poems by the Orcadian master have all his characteristic simplicity and power.In these poems readers will find new ideas previously unexplored, but they will also find those qualities that made George Mackay Brown different from anyone else.
Travellers
by George Mackay BrownThese unknown and sometimes unexpected poems by the Orcadian master have all his characteristic simplicity and power.In these poems readers will find new ideas previously unexplored, but they will also find those qualities that made George Mackay Brown different from anyone else.
Treason
by Hedi KaddourHédi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic--of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. WithTreason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hédi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker's, a watcher's, and a listener's poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theater piece. Favoring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour's full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum, and tone, Marilyn Hacker's translations brilliantly bring these poems alive.
Treasure Hunt
by Mark RoughsedgeTide pools are filled with such amazing creatures! Young children will love looking at beautiful art as they learn about all the different animals that live in these treasure troves.
Treemagination: tree poems by Kuzhur Wilson
by Kuzhur WilsonEen collectie van poezie geschreven door Kuzhur Wilson, over de schoonheid van bomen. Innerlijke gedachten van een prijs winnaar in poezie, van een blogger, podcaster en media persoon. Zijn gedichten zijn vertaald in het Tamil, Engels, Arabisch, Duits, Portugees en Spaans. Zijn gedichten maken deel uit van de syllabus in vele Malayalam universiteiten.
Tres (Bilingual Edition)
by Roberto Bolaño Laura Healy"Poetry is braver than anyone," Roberto Bolan~o believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection. Roberto Bolan~o's Tres is a showcase of the author's willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. "Prose from Autumn in Gerona," a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, "The Neochileans," is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on "A Stroll Through Literature" and remind us of Bolan~o's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.
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.
Trespass
by Thomas DooleyThe 2014 National Poetry Series selection chosen by poet and novelist Charlie Smith
Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes: Poems
by Imane BoukailaThe newest entry in the Multiverse series, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes is a debut collection activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing. This is a book of what its teenage nonspeaking autistic author Imane Boukaila, calls &“tacit treasures.&” Where manifestos encounter poems and raps encounter essays, the lyric constellations that mark this debut sing in opposition to those &“troubled-abled&” who would coerce and control disabled lives. Boukaila offers another way: her &“LOL tressed philosophy,&” her truth. This liberatory philosophy exists at the periphery, thresholding, in all the places where life opens toward neurodivergent revolution. &“Treasures thrive in open spreading spaces,&” she writes. From the muddy streams shimmering with trout, to the space storms in the starry skies, to the tressing that exists between minds, Boukaila offers us a chance to make mistakes, to be messy, to learn and unlearn the languages we use to survive. Readers seeking &“treasures yet to be uncovered&” will find this and more in this expansive collection.
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma: And Other Prose Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Sy HoahwahTrials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.
Triceratops (Step into Reading)
by StorybotsThe curious crew from the award-winning StoryBots apps, videos, and Netflix show present a new early reader about one of the coolest dinosaurs!Its distinctive horns and gigantic neck frill make Triceratops one of the most recognizable and popular dinosaurs. This Step 1 rhyming Science Reader will entertain while sharing some basic facts about this heavy-weight herbivore. Children will recognize the signature catchy--and hilarious--rhymes and colorful art from the StoryBots popular YouTube video "Triceratops." Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyming text is paired with picture clues to help children decode the story.
Trick Arrr Treat: A Pirate Halloween
by Leslie Kimmelman Jorge MonlongoCharlotte Blue-Tongue, Peg-Leg Pete, Glass-Eyed Gabby, and their friends swashbuckle through the streets demanding loot and treasure from their neighbors in this Halloween pirate tale. As their world transforms from neighborhood to pirate's lagoon, they shout, "We be pirates. TRICK ARRR TREAT!" But what's lurking in the shadows? Are the pirates brave enough to defend their treasure?
Trick or Treat on My Street
by J. L. CoppageCome with me and trick-or-treat from house to house along my street!Head down the block with a group of kids as they get ready to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night! With bright, fun illustrations and bouncy, rhyming text, Trick or Treat on My Street is perfect for little monsters everywhere!