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Byron: The Annual Byron Lecture, University Of Nottingham, 19 March 2001 (Routledge Guides to Literature)
by Caroline FranklinLord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to other writings of the Romantic period. This guide to Byron’s sometimes daunting, often extraordinary work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Byron’s texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Byron’s life and work, situated in a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Byron and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
Báilatelo sola
by Alejandra Martínez de MiguelBáilatelo sola es el primer y esperado libro de la poeta Alejandra Martínez de Miguel. «Bienvenidas y bienvenidos, este libro está para ser leído en voz alta, para ser grito compartido o, si os apetece, para hacer todo lo contrario. Sentíos libres. En este poemario están mis contradicciones, mis deseos, mis llantos y mis sueños. Está todo lo que sé y todo lo que me queda por aprender. Están mis ganas de ser alguien en la vida y no alguien de provecho. Está mi voz, nuestra voz, la de muchas. Están todas las veces que he tenido que decirme: "Báilatelo sola". Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a mi baile, contigo, con él, con ella o sin ti. Juntas.»
Bécquer para niños
by Gustavo Adolfo BécquerRimas y leyendas de Bécquer para primeros lectores en una preciosa antología ilustrada. Una antología ilustrada que recopila las mejores rimas y leyendas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. La obra de este poeta romántico sevillano ha dejado una huella imborrable en nuestra literatura. En este libro, los niños descubrirán una selección de las mejores rimas y leyendas del autor, perfecta para adentrarse por primera vez en su obra. Amor, poesía y magia se combinan magistralmente entre sus páginas. Ilustrado deliciosamente, este libro convierte la pluma de Bécquer en el regalo perfecto para los más pequeños.
C Jumped Over Three Pots and a Pan and Landed Smack in the Garbage Can
by Pamela JaneThe letter C falls into the garbage can, and it is up to the rest of the alphabet to save him from ending up in the dump! In this rollicking, action-filled story, the letters of the alphabet must work together to help their friend. But four letters of the alphabet are missing! Could they be the answer to saving C? This unique book conveys the transforming power of teamwork and brings language and storytelling to life for young readers as they try to guess the secret word the missing letters form?a word that may save the day for poor C. An adventure, a puzzle, and a word game, this suspenseful story is a delightful approach to letters and words.
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Poems
by Jimmy Santiago BacaThe award-winning poet and author of A Place to Stand crafts provocative portraits of addiction and the Mexican American experience. Jimmy Santiago Baca&’s brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped—and continues to inform—his raw, incisive voice. A heart-stopping series of episodes about addiction, C-Train features Dream Boy, a young man who finds himself seduced, and later enslaved, by the siren song of cocaine. Part paean to the delicious power of intoxication, part lament for those helplessly under its power, C-Train is a ride its hero, and the reader, struggle to get off. In Thirteen Mexicans, Baca writes of the Chicano community and the gulf between the American dream and American reality. In searing, elegiac vignettes he portrays the raw beauty of life in the barrio and the surreal, stomach-turning moment when people of color must confront how they are reflected in the distorted mirror of white society. Giving voice to the dispossessed and the disenfranchised, Baca confirms his place as one of the nation&’s leading poets, whose words &“heal, inspire, and elicit the earthly response of love&” (Garrett Hongo). &“[Baca] writes with . . . an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and archetypal significance of life-events.&” —Denise Levertov &“[Baca] travels outward and inward as a Chicano in America, with all the complications that the identity entails. . . . [He is] a poet in control of his craft . . . whose voice, brutal yet tender, is unique in America.&” —The Nation
C. H. Sisson Reconsidered (The New Antiquity)
by John Talbot Victoria MoulThis book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known classical translations) to explore others. It champions in particular the quality of his original poetry. The book brings together contributions from scholars and critics working in a wide range of fields, including classical reception, translation studies and early modern literature as well as modern English poetry, and concludes with a more personal essay on Sisson’s work by Michael Schmidt, his publisher.
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition
by C. P. CavafyC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best captures the poet's mixture of formal and idiomatic language and that preserves the immediacy of his increasingly frank treatment of homosexual eroticism, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. This new bilingual edition also features the notes of editor George Savidis and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky.
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #146)
by C. P. CavafyC. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The resetting of the entire edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savidis has revised the notes according to his latest edition of the Greek text.
C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse
by Don W. KingThe Legacy of His Poetic Impulse Don W. King contends that Lewis's poetic aspirations enhanced his prose and helped make him the master stylist so revered by the literary world. With its careful examination of early diaries and letters, and the inclusion of four of Lewis's previously unpublished narrative poems and eleven of his previously unpublished short poems.
C. S. Lewis: Always a Poet
by Roland M. KawanoC.S. Lewis: Always a Poet delves into the life of C.S. Lewis, a struggling poet turned successful teacher, apologist and novelist, who saw his primary calling as a poet. According to author Roland M. Kawano, Lewis' vocation as a poet is pervasive throughout all his works.
C. Subramania Bharathiyar Padalkal - Part I
by C. Subramaniya BharathiyarIt contains 52 patriotic songs under five chapters of Poet Bharathiar.
C. Subramania Bharathiyar Padalkal - Part II
by C. Subramaniya BharathiyarBharathiar’s songs are eye openers and in the nature of awakening the spirit of the readers. This is a collection of Poems of Wisdom (25 Poems), Variety Poems (11 Poems) and Autobiography in poetic format.
C. Subramaniya Bharathiyar Songs - Part III
by C. Subramaniya BharathiyarKannan pattu comprises 23 chapters each in which the poet considers God Krishna in various roles as mother, father, servant, king, disciple, guru (teacher), child, lover, master, deity and so on. Kuyil pattu (Songs of Cuckoo) praises the glory of cuckoo in 9 chapters.
Caballos y otras dudas
by Mois Benarroch Ignacio A. Hernández-CarretoBenarroch nació en 1959 en Tetuan/Marruecos, entre Tangier y Gibraltar. Creció dentro de una mezcla de culturas e idiomas, siendo el español su lengua materna, asistiendo a una escuela francesa, escuchando el árabe en las calles y orando en hebreo. En 1972 emigró a Israel y vive desde entonces en Jerusalén. Ha publicado 5 libros de poesía y prosa en hebreo y uno en Español. Su poesía se ha publicado en cientos de revistas alrededor del mundo. En su primera colección de poemas en inglés, "Caballos y Otras Dudas", Benarroch toca temas como la inmigración, el enfrentamiento con un nuevo país, la discriminación de minorías, Bukowski, París, el Sionismo, Israel, el amor, la familia, la poesía, los poetas y la vida en general. Todos los poemas de este libro aparecen por primera vez en forma física, en su omnívora e incluyente poesía, logra un acercamiento honesto, poniendo la verdad y honestidad por encima de todo. Considerado uno de los poetas principales de Israel, la poesía de Benarroch se ha publicado en una docena de idiomas, incluyendo Urdú y Chino. Julia Uceda considera que en la poesía de Benarroch se encuentra la memoria del mundo, mientras José Luis García Martín cree que sus poemas son más que poesía, son un documento. Testigo de su propio tiempo, Benarroch comenzó a escribir poesía cuando tenía 15 en inglés, y siempre ha escrito en su lengua materna el español. A los 20 añadió también el Hebreo a las lenguas en las que escribe poesía y ha publicado seis libros de poesía en Israel. Esta colección incluye toda la poesía de Benarroch traducida al inglés o escrita en inglés así como sus libros El Lamento del Inmigrante, Llévame al Mar, Caballos y Otras Dudas, El Día Que El Jihad Destruyó Berlín y Las Enseñanzas De Baraka. "Si tuviera un voto de nominación para el premio nobel, él estaría en consideración" - Klaus Gerken, editor de Ygdrasil Su reputación ha crecido constantemente y sus
Cada noche te escribo
by Patricia BenitoEl nuevo libro de una de las poetas más talentosas y populares de la actualidad. Vuelve el abrazo convertido en poema. Vuelve Patricia Benito. «Odiaba todos mis lunares hasta que un día alguien decidió usarlos como mapa del tesoro. Desde entonces ya no los escondo por si en algún momento ese alguien decidiera volver». Cada noche te escribo son los silencios que ponen fin a una conversación, los gritos de auxilio jamás enviados, las cartas perdidas en un cajón. La despedida elástica del que no quiere irse, unos dedos cruzados para que se quieran quedar. Aquellos secretos que guardas para quien ya no está. Este libro es un acto de soledad, un golpe en la mesa, un monumento a lo que pudo ser y también una sombra en mitad del camino: la última noche de duelo, una recaída controlada, los segundos previos al número final. Despertarse cuando ya noestás. Reseña: «No sabemos nada del amor, pero cuando leo a Patricia Benito casi que le distingo las costuras. Sus poemas me parecen cuadritos de Nigel Van Wieck.»Lorena G. Maldonado
Cadaver, Speak
by Marianne BoruchHonored by Library Journal as an "Amazing Poetry Title""Extraordinary how in a single poem from 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Boruch slides 1800s London barber-surgeons and the dissection of murderers only (condemned to hell anyway) to the observation, 'Future or past, it's all we ever think about.' The first part of this sharp, surprising book captures our inescapable but slippery physicality in the world, the second the breakdown of the cadaver of a 99-year-old woman-told from her perspective, rather jauntily."-Library Journal"Boruch displays a quietly gymnastic intellect in the examinations of art, the body, and the human condition."-American Poets"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: she sees and considers with intensity."-The Washington Post"Some books begin as a dare to the self," notes poet Marianne Boruch. Inspired by life-study drawing classes and direct work in a cadaver lab, Boruch's latest book looks at what the body holds, and examines living through bodies deceased.Marianne Boruch is the author of seven collections of poetry including The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon Press), two volumes of essays, and a memoir. In 2013 she won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Café des Artistes
by John Hartley WilliamsWelcome to the Café des Artistes. Your host, the owner, bartender, master of ceremonies and only other guest: John Hartley Williams. Here you will be entertained and diverted - by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge; by a spooked version of Rimbaud's 'La Bateau Ivre'; by encounters with Malcolm Lowry, the floating dead, the 'old men behind the waterfall' and the knitted poet; by poems about donkey jackets and dancing with donkeys, and a one-sided conversation with a decidedly un-Romantic polar bear two doors down from Dove Cottage.Long celebrated for his ranging, restless imagination, his baroque, elliptical narratives, his manic humour and maverick stance, Williams returns with another invitation to join him for a jug or two of wine in his out-of-kilter universe: a world that is both strange, and strangely familiar. Welcome to the Café des Artistes!
Cahier de retour au pays natal
by Aimé CésaireLe poème « Cahier d’un retour au pays natal » est un texte d’une quarantaine de pages rédigé en vers libres. Le « Cahier d’un retour au pays natal » est celui du retour à la Martinique, qui s’accompagne de la prise de conscience de la condition inégalitaire des Noirs. Il représente une dénonciation forte du racisme et du colonialisme.
Cain Named The Animal
by Shane McCrae'In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through' Kate Kellaway, Guardian 'Confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I take I know I should feel wounded by your death I write to you to make a wound write back Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and recreate images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae writes into and through the wounds that we remember and 'strains toward a vision of joy' (Will Brewbaker, the Los Angeles Review of Books). Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of Hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on earth, from the mundanities and miracles of time passing and people growing up, growing old, and growing apart. As he writes, 'God first thought time itself/Was flawed but time was God's first mirror.'
Cain Named the Animal: Poems
by Shane McCraeA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)Writing you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, McCrae's work moves into and through the wounds that we remember and “strains toward a vision of joy” (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books).Cain Named the Animal expands upon the biblical, heavenly world that McCrae has been building throughout his previous collections; he writes of Eden, of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world, and of the cartoon torments of hell. Yet for McCrae, these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on Earth, from the mundanities and miracles of time passing and people growing up, growing old, and growing apart. As he writes, “God first thought time itself / Was flawed but time was God’s first mirror.”
Calendar of Dust
by Benjamin Alire SaenzRooted in the desert, these poems are a tribute to a people with a deep-rooted sense of place and a commitment to family and community.
California Sorrow
by Mary KinzieIn this exceptional new collection, acclaimed poet Mary Kinzie opens her attention to the landscapes of the earth. Her poems of richly varied line lengths develop phrases at the syncopated pace of the observing mind: "Slag and synthesis and traveling fire / so many ways the groundwaves of distortion / pulse / through bedrock traffic and the carbon chain" she writes in the opening poem, "The Water-brooks." Here, and throughout, her reflection on the natural world embraces the damages of time to which we can bear only partial witness but to which the human memory is bound. In the collection's title poem, Kinzie goes on to explore her own romantic griefs alongside the adventures of T. S. Eliot, "inadvertently working on a suntan" as he tours the desert in the roadster of his American girlfriend, whose heart he will break. Kinzie's conviction that sorrow, too, is a form of passion allows her to lift poems from shattered thoughts and long-ago losses, at times blending prose and verse in a combustible mixture. Determined not to prettify but still expressing fresh wonder at the beauty we stumble across in spite of our shortcomings, Kinzie delivers her bravest work yet in these new poems.O God invisible as airMy tears have been my meatsweetbecause no noxious thing runs with themonlyfragrant naïveté of the reflective midday when bank herb and wood flower and water from the poolcan best be gatheredalso the knowledgethat these gifts are tenuous and that the mouth and the harpmight soon be strange to playFrom the Hardcover edition.
Call It in the Air: Poems
by Ed PavlicSomewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlić’s Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song.Pavlić’s collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on her own terms to the very end. Kate’s shadow hovers like a penumbra over these pages that unfold a kaleidoscope of her world. A small-town apartment full of “paintings & burritos & pyramid-shaped empty bottles of Patron & an ad hoc anthology of vibrators.” A banged-up Jeep, loose syringes underfoot, rattles under Colorado skies. Near an ICU bed, Pavlić agonizes over the most difficult questions, while doctors “swish off to the tune of their thin-soled leather loafers.” And a diary, left behind, brims with revelations of vulnerability nearly as great as Pavlić’s own.But Call It in the Air records more than a relationship between brother and sister, more than a moment of personal loss. “I sit while eleven bodies of mine fall all over the countless mysteries of who you are,” he writes, while “Somewhere along the way, heat blasting past us & out the open jeep, the mountain sky turned to black steel & swung open its empty mouth.” In moments like these, Pavlić recognizes something of his big sister everywhere.Rived by loss and ravaged by grief, Call It in the Air mingles the voices of brother and sister, one falling and one forgiven, to offer an intimate elegy that meditates on love itself.
Call Me Adnan
by Reem Faruqi"An emotional tale of a family’s grief and healing, full of courage and hope" —Kirkus"Faruqi renders this tender story of loss with a deft hand, employing vivid details surrounding Adnan’s Pakistani Muslim identity . . . and nuanced characterizations to present a tear-jerking ode to family." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A realistic, moving exploration of family, loss, and healing." —Booklist"Faruqi takes on the difficult subject of family loss with beauty and grace in her gentle lyrical style. She allows Adnan, a young table-tennis enthusiast, to go through grief while holding not just sadness, but love and joy, in an honest and nuanced story that is ultimately filled with hope."—Veera Hiranandani, Newberry Honor author of The Night DiaryFor fans of Planet Omar and The Ethan I Was Before, award-winning Pakistani author Reem Faruqi of Unsettled delivers a middle grade novel in verse about table tennis player Adnan, who dreams of the championship and a fun-filled family trip to Florida. But when tragedy strikes, he and his family must cope with a terrible loss and come together as one again. This poignant story about a Muslim family learning to heal is hope-filled and moving.Adnan Zakir loves table tennis. He's also colorblind, left-handed, and has a fondness for the aviation alphabet. He's super close with his sister, Aaliyah, who is a great dancer and memorizer of Quran, and he loves his little toddler brother Rizwan, who only wants to grow up and play table tennis like his big brother. All Adnan dreams of is making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis Championship in Florida, and if he qualifies for the tournament, he knows he will get to spend the Eid holiday with his cousins! But when the family travels there, unthinkable tragedy strikes, and Adnan swears he'll never play table tennis ever again. Slowly, he and his family must learn to make peace and move forward, as a family.A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Call Me Al
by Eric Walters Wali ShahKey Selling Points Ali is an eighth-grade student trying to to do it all—get good grades, fit in with his friends, get the girl and satisfy his parents—all while struggling to deal with the anti-Muslim racism around him. Writing poetry helps. If only his father wasn't set against it. Call Me Al deals with what it's like to be an immigrant (Ali and his family immigrated from Pakistan when he was little), racism (from peers and the world at large), balancing family versus friends' expectations, first crushes, being from a lower-income household, being Muslim and finding forgiveness for those who hurt you. Features a relatable male protagonist who discovers spoken-word poetry as an outlet for his feelings. Also makes clear the relationship between poetry and hip-hop. Co-authored by the power duo of veteran writer Eric Walters and renowned poet and motivational speaker Wali Shah, who has based this character's struggles with choosing between studying science (for his parents) and writing poetry (for himself) on his own experiences.