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Christopher Marlowe at 450
by Sara Munson Deats Robert A. LoganThere has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each chapter has been written by an eminent, international Marlovian scholar to determine what has been covered, what has not, and what scholarship and criticism will or might focus on next. The volume considers all of Marlowe’s dramas and his poetry, including his translations, as well as the following special topics: Critical Approaches to Marlowe; Marlowe’s Works in Performance; Marlowe and Theatre History; Electronic Resources for Marlovian Research; and Marlowe’s Biography. Included in the discussions are the native, continental, and classical influences on Marlowe and the ways in which Marlowe has interacted with other contemporary writers, including his influence on those who came after him. The volume has appeal not only to students and scholars of Marlowe but to anyone interested in Renaissance drama and poetry. Moreover, the significance for readers lies in the contributors’ approaches as well as in their content. Interest in the biography of Christopher Marlowe and in his works has bourgeoned since the turn of the century. It therefore seems especially appropriate at this time to present a comprehensive assessment of past and present traditional and innovative lines of inquiry and to look forward to future developments.
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics: Translation in the Eighteenth Century (British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century)
by Rosalind PowellIn the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern period to the present day, this book addresses Smart's translations of Horace, Phaedrus and the Psalms alongside the better-known religious works such as Jubilate Agno and A Song to David. Five recurrent threads run throughout Powell’s study: the effect of translation on the identity of a narrative voice in a rewritten text; the techniques that are used to present translated texts to a new literary, cultural and linguistic readership; performance and reading contexts; the translation of great works as an attempt to achieve literary permanence; and, finally, the authorial influence of Smart himself in terms of the overt religiosity and nationalism that he champions in his writing. In exploring Smart’s major translation projects and revisiting his original poems, Powell offers insights into classical reception and translation theory; attitudes towards censorship; expressions of nationalism in the period; developments in liturgy and hymnody; and the composition of children’s books and school texts in the early modern era. Her detailed analysis of Smart’s translating poetics places them within a new, contemporary context and locality to uncover the poet's works as a coherent project of Englishing.
Churches
by Kevin PruferChurches explores the way our experience of the world is shaped through the stories we tell about ourselves. These poems braid multiple narratives that often take place in different times, or are seen through the eyes of various speakers. Here Prufer explores the interior and subjective nature of time as he engages with mortality, both as a cultural construct and a deeply personal, unarticulatable anxiety: "In this filtered light, / my brain is a nimbler thing, and strange. It loves / the slow derangements distance brings."
Cicada
by Phoebe GiannisiThe celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world By one of Greece’s foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: “The ‘I’ in Giannisi’s poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient.” Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi’s poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.
Cicada! (Penguin Archive)
by Federico García Lorca90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNow you slip away in sleep.Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century. His creative imagination transcends his own experiences – be it from the perspective of an ant, a gypsy nun, or Socrates – to meditate on death, love and honour, and to interrogate the decay and pretence of his society. Lorca’s poetry excites, moves and disarms.
Cicatrices en fase lunar
by Clara ChacónClara Chacón, actriz y escritora, relata en su primer libro el ciclo vital del amor a través de una voz femenina en constante metamorfosis, como las fases lunares en el cielo nocturno. Una voz poética, dulce a la vez que ácida y liberadora, heredera del talento de las grandes mujeres de su familia. En estas páginas se hiere, pero también se cierran heridas. Hay advertencias, súplicas, susurros al oído y gritos al vacío. Un canto a la vida que nos demuestra que, aunque a veces volvamos a la línea de salida, nunca nos quedamos estancados, porque lo que sentimos y lo que somos está en continua construcción. "Chacón deja plasmada su voz, en continuo cambio igual que la luna en la noche y nos invita a disfrutar de los nuevos comienzos y el aprendizaje continuo que nos brinda la vida". Hola.com
Cidade de Memórias e Outros Poemas
by Vihang A. Naik Gabriela Jorge CavaVihang A. Naik traz à luz a vida de uma cidade em todas as suas sombras, glória e desgraça em seu livro Cidade de Memórias e Outros Poemas. É uma antologia de seus poemas intuitivos e filosóficos. Os poemas são divididos em seis segmentos: “Canção de amor de um andarilho” é mais ou menos um registro de viagens íntimo. “O homem espelhado” é sobre outras quimeras da cidade. As pessoas na cidade são imprevisíveis como o andar de um caranguejo ou as cores de um camaleão. Enquanto, “O caminho para a sabedoria” é sobre o embarque inicial à meditação e ao conhecimento. “À margem” registra o senso de futilidade, memoria, dor, exílio e alienação do poeta à margem da vida. O título desta coleção é também o título da última das seis sessões, na qual a cidade é revelada como um lugar de mercado, como um paraíso para oprimidos, e como uma semente de mudanças, e é observada ao anoitecer, à meia noite, pela luz da lua e pela névoa e bruma. O poema intitulado “Auto-retrato” começa com a diagramação de sete páginas em branco onde o leitor encontra apenas três palavras no final da última página. Aqui “o poeta se encontra em um momento de epifania, descobre a verdadeira natureza de si próprio quando acorda, ‘para ver/Eu” ‘descoberto além do pensamento’. Entre ‘Eu’ e ‘descoberto além do pensamento’ têm cinco páginas em branco. A epifania inefável e ambígua. Pode sugerir tanto a descoberta de um Eu transcendental além de todo pensamento e linguagem quanto pode sugerir a descoberta de uma Ausência além do pensamento e da fala humana.
Cielo bajo
by Federico García LorcaUn volumen inédito que presenta el proyecto inacabado del más grande poeta del siglo XX español: Federico García Lorca. En lenguaje musical se entiende por «suite» una composición integrada por movimientos variados que, no obstante, encuentran su apoyo en la misma tonalidad. Las suites de Federico García Lorca parten de la misma idea, aplicada esta vez a la lírica: establecer series de poemas formalmente heterogéneos que giren alrededor de un tema común. Sin embargo, su temprana muerte truncó el que había de ser un ambicioso proyecto en el que se recogían obras inéditas o ya publicadas, escritas todas ellas entre 1920 y 1923, bajo el signo de una nueva armonía. El presente volumen supone la fiel y ajustada edición a cargo del hispanista Eutimio Martín de un poemario abocetado que ilumina los primeros versos del más brillante poeta de la literatura española del siglo XX. Una perla extraordinaria que muestra una vez más que el universo de Lorca no tiene fin ni parangón. Reseñas:«Hablaba Federico, requebrando a la muerte. Ella escuchaba.»Antonio Machado «Su mundo era un mundo prácticamente de palabras. Un mundo de metáforas chocantes.»Jorge Luis Borges
Cinder: New and Selected Poems
by Susan Stewart“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Saltto the Nth, like the truth of an endingunskeined across the crust of the white field.Though it happened only once, Iam sending the thoughtof the thoughtcontinuing. To return tothe field before the mowing.When a goldfinch swayedon a blue stem stalk,and the wind and the sunstirred the hay. —from “After the Mowing”Cinder: New and Selected Poems gathers for the first time poetry from across Susan Stewart’s thirty-five-year career, including many extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision, Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, both acute and shared.“Stewart explores our insatiable desire to remember and make meaning out of this remembering,” Ange Mlinko writes in The Nation. “Stewart’s elegiac bent has broadened, over time, from the personal lyric . . . to what might be called the cultural lyric. Fewer and fewer of her poems reference what she alone remembers; they are about what you and I remember.”Reading across this retrospective collection is a singular experience of seeing the unfolding development of one of the most ingenious and moving lyric writers in contemporary poetry.
Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems
by Martin Shaw Tony HoaglandDramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry’s great lyrics and legendsCinderbiter collects tales and poems originally composed and performed centuries ago in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, when notions of history and authorship were indistinguishable from the oral traditions of myth and storytelling. In the spirit of recasting these legends and voices for new audiences, celebrated mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw and award-winning poet Tony Hoagland have created extraordinary new versions of these bardic lyrics, folkloric sagas, and heroes’ journeys, as they have never been rendered before.In long, shaggy tales of the unlikely ascensions of previously unknown heroes such as Cinderbiter, in the shrouded origin stories of figures such as Arthur and Merlin, and in anonymous flickering lyrics of elegy, praise, and heartbreak, these poems retain at once the rapturous, supernatural imagination of the deep past layered with an austere, devout allegiance to the Christian faith. Shaw and Hoagland’s collaboration summons the power within this storehouse of the Celtic mind to arrive at this rare book—distinctive, audacious, and tuned to our time and condition with a convincing resonance.
Cinema of the Present
by Lisa RobertsonWhat if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating colour? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun 'you'? Would the precise words of philosophy, fashion, books, architecture and history animate a new vision, gestural and oblique? Is the kinetic pronoun cinema? These and other questions are answered in the new long poem from acclaimed poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. The book is available with four different back covers, designed by artists Hadley + Maxwell.
Cinepoems and Others
by Benjamin Fondane Leonard SchwartzBenjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an overflowing plenitude. This bilingual selection is the first volume of Fondane's poetry to appear in English, and it includes a broad sample of his work, from the coruscating and comic cinepoems of his surrealist years, to philosophical meditations, to poems that in their secular and mystical Judaism confront the historical calamity--and imaginative triumph--of European Jewry.
Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics)
by Christophe Wall-RomanaCinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history of cross-media concepts and practices often thought to emerge with the digital.In showing the cinematic consciousness of Mallarmé and Breton and calling for a reappraisal of the influential poetry theory of the early filmmaker Jean Epstein, Cinepoetry reevaluates the bases of literary modernism. The book also explores the crucial link between trauma and trans-medium experiments in the wake of two world wars and highlights the marginal identity of cinepoets who were often Jewish, gay, foreign-born, or on the margins.What results is a broad rethinking of the relationship between film and literature. The episteme of cinema, the book demonstates, reached the very core of its supposedly highbrow rival, while at the same time modern poetry cultivated the technocultural savvy that is found today in slams, e-poetry, and poetic-digital hybrids.
Cinnamon Girl
by Juan Felipe HerreraFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera comes the story of one teen's emotional journey in the days after 9/11, and a personal look at the culture of Loisaida, the Lower East Side of Manhattan. <P><P>This emotional and stirring novel won the Américas Award and is written in a unique and arresting style. <P><P>When the Twin Towers fell, New York City was blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the cinnamon girl, makes her manda, her promise. She vows to gather as much of the dust as she can. <P><P>Maybe if she can return it to Ground Zero, she can comfort all the voices. Maybe that will help Uncle DJ open his eyes again. As tragedies from her past mix in the air of an unthinkable present, Yolanda searches for hope. Maybe it's buried somewhere in the silvery dust of Alphabet City.
Circadian
by Joanna KlinkA beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink's passionate new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and wintry prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.
Circadian
by Joanna KlinkA beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink's new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.
Circle Back: Poems
by Adam ClayAn aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.How does one make sense of loss—personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with “a year meant to end all / those to come,” acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is “wide enough to contain what’s left / of hope.” In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of Circle Back wander grief’s strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs: cows stare with otherworldly eyes, 78s play under cactus needles, a father becomes his own child, and the dead become something more complicated—a “sketch turned to painting / left in a room dusty from / lack of passing through.”But amidst these liminal landscapes, a “thread of promise” persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like “Keats, / sketching himself back into place.” Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healing—and in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in grief’s “strange circle.” Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. Circle Back is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.
Circles on the Water
by Marge PiercyMore than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Circus Days and Nights
by Robert Lax"Perhaps the greatest English language poem of this century" (The New York Times)-finally in paperback! Jack Kerouac called Robert Lax "one of the great original voices of our times. . . a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way. " Though many hold him to be one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, Lax maintained a low profile, living and writing in seclusion on the Greek island of Patmos. In Circus Days and Nights, Lax's three great long poems on the circus-"Circus of the Sun," "Mogador's Book," and "Sunset City"-are collected together for the first time, placing this early masterwork in the position within American literature that it so richly deserves.
Circus Days and Nights
by Robert LaxJack Kerouac called Robert Lax "one of the great original voices of our times...a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way." Though many hold him to be one of the greatest American poets of this century, Lax has maintained a low profile, living and writing in seclusion on the Greek island of Patmos. In Circus Days & Nights, Lax's three great long poems on the circus--"Circus of the Sun," "Mogador's Book," and "Sunset City"--are collected together for the first time, placing this early masterwork in the position within American literature that it so richly deserves. Each of the three poems in this collection expresses a reverence for the acts of daring, beauty, and grace that make the circus the singular event it is. What also emerges is the drawing of a link between this world of the circus--wherein a tent is erected, acts are performed, and then the tent is disassembled only to be re-erected the next day--and Lax's faith. As Denise Levertov has said, "the radiant security of Lax's faith appears in his work as a serenity of tone."
Circus Days and Nights
by Robert LaxJack Kerouac called Robert Lax “one of the great original voices of our times…a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way.” Though many hold him to be one of the greatest American poets of this century, Lax has maintained a low profile, living and writing in seclusion on the Greek island of Patmos. In Circus Days & Nights, Lax's three great long poems on the circus—“Circus of the Sun,” “Mogador's Book,” and “Sunset City”—are collected together for the first time, placing this early masterwork in the position within American literature that it so richly deserves. Each of the three poems in this collection expresses a reverence for the acts of daring, beauty, and grace that make the circus the singular event it is. What also emerges is the drawing of a link between this world of the circus—wherein a tent is erected, acts are performed, and then the tent is disassembled only to be re-erected the next day—and Lax's faith. As Denise Levertov has said, “the radiant security of Lax’s faith appears in his work as a serenity of tone.”
Circus Maximus
by David StarkeyWhat would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome? Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists? How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above the Spanish Steps? Are there ways to avoid Vespas on the sidewalks? Rules for carving a Pietà? And exactly which painter is responsible for the ugliest Jesus in the history of Western Art?A tour of Rome like no other, the poems of Circus Maximus ask these questions and more. Join David Starkey as he shines a torch on the sights, sounds, mysteries and metaphors of the Eternal City.David Starkey is the former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, a senior Fulbright scholar, and a six-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. His latest volume of poetry is A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel (Biblioasis, 2010).
Citizen
by Aaron Shurin"His writing folds the mundane and the mythic in with deep images of personal archetype. The passing moments in which the poems possessed Shurin are held fresh to the page in a dazzled string of trigger-touches. They hint of lingering spiral passages, personal journeys, which lie just below such occasions."-- Patrick Dunagan,The Critical FlameWidely acclaimed for his lyrical language and innovative verse, Aaron Shurin brings the prose poem into new richness and complexity in Citizen. Through shape-shifting sentences and sensuous imagery he explores the nuances of civic and domestic life, the twists and turns of desire, and the mysterious shimmer of objects. Traveling across the borders of cities and the boundaries of form, he crafts a dazzling vision of daily life as a citizen of the imagination.Aaron Shurin is the author of over ten books, most recently King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Citizen Illegal
by José Olivarez&“Olivarez steps into the &‘inbetween&’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity&” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this &“devastating debut&” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. &“The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.&” —USA Today
Citizen J
by Daniela OlszewskaCitizen J hides in underground forests, worries that her toasters are miked, finds bombs in unusual places, tries her hand at piloting and cowboy human resources. She marries twelve husbands, marries twelve wives. In this series of interconnected poems, reminiscent at once of Heather Christle and John Berryman, Olszewska's everywoman hero moves across a landscape that might be America re-imagined as a post-Soviet state: surreal, contradictory.