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Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
by Walt WhitmanThis edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman and includes all of Whitman's poetry and what he considered his complete prose.
Complete Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Oxford Shakespeare Ser.)
by William ShakespeareWithout a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the "W.H." of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written -- in any language.Overt 150 poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence in power, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in power, precision, and beauty. Now this inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this exquisite verse in his or her personal library. A brief glossary illuminates a number of archaic terms.Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text From The Latest Edition Of William Aldis Wright... (Leather-bound Classics)
by William Shakespeare Michael A. CramerRomeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth-the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and themes of the Bard's plays fascinate us with their joys, struggles, and triumphs, and now they are available in a special volume for Shakespeare fans everywhere.This Canterbury Classics edition of William Shakespeare's works includes all of his poems and plays in an elegant, keepsake edition. Whether for a Shakespeare devotee or someone just discovering him, this is the perfect place to experience the drama of Shakespeare's words. A scholarly introduction provides additional context and insight into the poems and plays.Lexile score: NP
Complete Writings
by Phillis WheatleyIn 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams. .
Complicity
by Adam SolA dazzling and exhilarating new collection of poetry from an award-winning Canadian poet. For fans of Ken Babstock, A.F. Moritz, and Karen Solie. Award-winning poet Adam Sol's fourth collection is a meditation on complicity. By turns intimate and lyrical, experimental and outlandish, the collection focuses us on how we cannot escape the troubling structures that determine our lives. How do we identify ourselves with communities - national, cultural, or local - while aware of the violence which underlies their arrangements? How do we pursue love when we know how fraught and imbalanced gender politics is? How do we continue to value art despite the prevailing rhetoric that considers it a marginal discourse? The poems are funny, allusive, off-kilter, and sonically rich, while crucially interrogating, lit with, the contemporary ethos.
Con i miei cinque sensi mi sono innamorato
by Antonio JofreUn libro che parla dell'amore che questo autore prova verso i suoi attatti più cari. Lo esprime atraído le sue romantiche parole in questo poema profondo, spiegando come si è innamorato con tutti e 5 i sensi.
Con tal de verte volar
by Miguel GaneCon tal de verte volar es un homenaje a las alas que dirigen tu vuelo hasta donde solo se escucha el grito de la libertad, de la mujer libre. «Escribo este libroporque no sé fabricar bombas nuclearesy, después de todo,algo tendré que lanzarte.» Desde Madrid al cielo, únicamente pasando por el quinto piso de la calle en la que dijimos nuestro primer «Siempre» en formato poema. Nunca supe cómo despedirme y ahora he encontrado la manera: mirando al cielo, sabiendo que nunca más volveré a verte volar, pero sonriendo porque sé que estás por ahí, pareciéndote al sol, siendo mi luz. En los blogs:«Este libro trata los amores, rupturas, encuentros y despedidas de manera muy personal, mostrando experiencias personales del autor. Amores intensos y relaciones que no llegaron a buen puerto y una manera de desahogarse por ello a través de la poesía de Miguel Gane.»Blog Compasesrotos
Con una estrella en la mano (With a Star in My Hand): Rubén Darío
by Rubén Darío Margarita EngleDe niño, a Rubén Darío le gustaba escuchar a su tío abuelo, un hombre que contaba cuentos exagerados con una poderosa voz de trueno. Rubén aprendió bien pronto la magia de contar cuentos y descubrió el embeleso y la belleza del verso. <p> Con su incansable alma romántica, Rubén viajó a través de América Central y América del Sur en busca de aventura y conexión. Mientras descubría nuevos lugares y amores, escribía poemas para expresar la tormenta salvaje de sentimientos. Pero las formas tradicionales eran muy restrictivas. Comenzó a improvisar sus propias formas poéticas para plasmar el mundo entero en sus palabras. A la edad de veintiún años, publicó su primer libro, Azul, que anunció un nuevo y vibrante movimiento literario llamado Modernismo que combinaba poesía y prosa y convertía esa mezcla en algo mágico. <p> En sus hermosos poemas, Margarita Engle cuenta la historia de este apasionado joven que revolucionó la literatura mundial.
Con y sin nostalgia
by Mario BenedettiCon y sin nostalgia reúne varios relatos, unidos por una temática ya familiar para los lectores asiduos a la obra de este gran autor uruguayo. La soledad, la comunicación, el amor, el desamor y el tiempo se unen a la preocupación por el exilio, la tortura, la solidaridad y la frustración. Con una clara actitud ética, pero sin dejar de lado el humor y la ironía, Benedetti saca a escena unos personajes que trascienden su origen geográfico para convertirse, gracias a una hábil alquimia literaria, en elementos universales de un mundo en conflicto.
Con-sumo placer
by María Dorado Marina CamachoNo hay paraíso más grande que un café contigo. No hay droga más fuerte que un domingo en tu cama. Has dejado un silencio en este espacio en el que a veces me escucho a mí misma. Un hueco frío en esta cama gigante y el baño un poco más yo. Te suelo llenar los domingos de Latina, de cervezas, de noches en vela, de Cuarto Milenio. Has dejado un silencio en esta casa que me gusta disfrutar con otros... en tu lado del sofá.
Concentrate: Poems
by Courtney Faye TaylorWinner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins—a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins’s murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor’s poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against—and between—women of color.Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood’s relentless refusal to be unseen, even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor’s inventive, intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory, forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. “Concentrate,” she writes. “We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make.”
Concerning the Atlas of Scotland: And Other Poems
by Tom PowThe acclaimed Scottish author&’s poetry collection explores life&’s disorienting journeys, illustrated with maps from the National Library of Scotland. Tom Pow spent six months as writer in residence at the National Library of Scotland Map Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. The library&’s historic maps and cartographic artifacts became touchstones for a series of poems exploring memory, place, and the distances we experience between each other. Published by Polygon in collaboration with the National Library, this unique volume is illustrated with details from the library&’s collection. It is a beautiful and haunting book that invites readers to get lost in its pages.
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
by Gregory Orr"The heart of Orr's poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry."--San Francisco ReviewThis book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty.Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics--both poems and songs--ever written. Each poem highlights a distinct aspect of the human condition, and together the poems explore love, loss, restoration, the beauty of the world, the beauty of the beloved, and the mystery of poetry. The purpose and power of the Book is to help us live by reconnecting us to the world and to our emotional lives.I put the beloved In a wooden coffin. The fire ate his body; The flames devoured her. I put the beloved In a poem or song. Tucked it between Two pages of the Book. How bright the flames. All of me burning, All of me on fire And still whole.There is nothing quite like this book--an "active anthology" in the best sense--where individuals find the poems and songs that will sustain them. Or the poems find them.Gregory Orr is the author of eight books of poetry, four volumes of criticism, and a memoir. He has received numerous awards for his work, most recently the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr has taught at the University of Virginia since 1975 and was, for many years, the poetry editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective)
by Amyra LeónPocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. "I will close my eyes and disappear into the pages of this book for many years to come."--Hanif Abdurraqib (New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest)"Amyra's wondrous awe for life in all its terror and splendor is inspiring to witness."--Rosario Dawson (award-winning actor, singer, and activist)"A moving, inspiring love letter to and about 'the concrete kids. The kids with a melanin kiss.'"-- Kirkus Reviews "Leon's powerful book will embolden readers find their own ways of speaking out against injustice." -- Booklist, Starred ReviewIn Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra León uses free verse to challenge us to dream beyond our circumstances -- and sometimes even despite them.Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon--and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.
Concrete and Wild Carrot
by Margaret AvisonWinner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003 In Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her slightest subjects -- beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape -- all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking "always unthinkable" beyond.
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
by Yusef Komunyakaa Radiclani ClytusCondition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that “we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs.” Also included are essays and interviews on: coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight. The book features an extended introduction by editor Radiclani Clytus, who concludes that “Condition Red issues readers much more than a critical warning; it reminds us that our innate cultural capacity for language is, and always has been, the sum total of that which defines us.”
Condition of Secrecy
by Inger ChristensenFor the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen’s most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, “Despite the rigorous structure that undergirds her work—or more likely, because of it—Ms. Christensen’s style is lyrical, even playful.” The same could be said of Christensen’s essays. Here, she formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with memories of Christensen’s school years during the Nazi occupation of Denmark), and others are political, touching on the Cold War and Chernobyl. The Condition of Secrecy also covers the Ars Poetica of Lu Chi (261-303 CE); William Blake and Isaac Newton; and such topics as randomness as a universal force and the role of the writer as an agent of social change. The Condition of Secrecy confirms that Inger Christensen is “a true singer of the syllables” (C. D. Wright), and “a formalist who makes her own rules, then turns the game around with another rule” (Eliot Weinberger).
Confesiones de una joven con corazón de hielo: Cuando no hay nada para decir se puede escribir
by Jacira FélixLas personas nada saben sobre las jóvenes con corazón de hielo, creen que ellas no aman, pero es todo lo contrario, parece que ellas sienten todo con más intensidad. También lloran y no siempre son las jóvenes impenetrables vistas en la calle. Por eso decidí escribir las confesiones de esta joven, ella es amorosa e increíble y ya amó demasiado, por eso su corazón en hielo quedó.
Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature: Penitential Remains (Early Modern Literature in History)
by Paul D. Stegner TeichmannThis is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.
Confessional Poetry in the Cold War: The Poetics of Doublespeak (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
by Adam BeardsworthThis book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb’s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.
Confessioni di una Ragazza dal Cuore di Ghiaccio
by Jacira FélixSe vi siete mai chiesti quali siano le giovani donne dal cuore di ghiaccio, che sembrano non provare nulla, questo libro fa per voi. In "Confessioni di una ragazza dal cuore di ghiaccio", scoprirete la verità su queste giovani donne apparentemente impenetrabili e sarete sorpresi dall'intensità delle loro emozioni. La voce poetica di questo libro di poesie è quella di una giovane donna che un tempo ha amato molto, ma che ha finito per chiudersi e nascondere le proprie emozioni per paura di essere ferita di nuovo. Tuttavia, dietro la sua apparenza fredda, c'è un cuore amorevole e incredibile che pulsa ancora. Con poesie forti e commoventi, "Confessioni di una ragazza dal cuore di ghiaccio" vi accompagnerà in un viaggio alla scoperta della natura dell'amore e delle intense emozioni che può suscitare. Ogni poesia è una confessione sincera e profonda della voce poetica, che rivela i suoi dolori, le sue gioie e le sue paure in un modo che risuonerà con il vostro stesso cuore. Con un linguaggio poetico che trabocca di sentimenti, questo libro vi coinvolgerà e vi commuoverà, facendovi riflettere sulla bellezza e sulla complessità dell'amore. Non perdete l'occasione di leggere "Confessioni di una ragazza dal cuore di ghiaccio" e di scoprire la vera essenza di queste giovani donne apparentemente impenetrabili. Acquistatelo subito e scoprite come l'amore può sciogliere anche i cuori più gelidi.
Confessions of a Poet Laureate
by Charles SimicAs former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where two old men sit discussing the women they've known, to a business convention in Topeka where he reads a poem, to the vanished subterranean jazz clubs of old New York, and beyond. Part autobiographical fragment, part waking dream, these pieces are marked by Simic's characteristic wit, audacity, and awe before life's strangeness.