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Critical Terms for Literary Study
by Lentricchia, Frank and McLaughlin, ThomasSince its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits. Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
Croak
by Jenny SampirisiCroak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons, all set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J. with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Sampirisi's grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end. In conversation with Samuel Beckett's Words & Music, Croak presents a negotiation between the doom and gloom of a species in crisis and the many empirical markers we attach to them. Sampirisi reminds us that we are all porous in the mud of language.
Crooked Run: Poems
by Henry TaylorThe poems in Crooked Run arise from the landscape, people, and history of a small patch of rural northern Virginia that was once Henry Taylor's home. Taylor moves back and forth over several centuries telling the stories of Loudoun County, part of which is watered by Crooked Run. The stream becomes an emblem of passing time as the poet evokes with love, sometimes with regret, a period and place that modern development has almost obliterated. This is a deeply felt work that in the midst of suburban development summons earlier eras of a locale and its inhabitants with sadness, humor, and a profound sense of loss.
Cross Worlds
by Laura Wright Anne WaldmanCross Words refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documents--in essays, conversations, and socratic raps--the vital work poets perform when they write across borders.Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.Laura E. Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009).
Crosscut: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Sean PrentissSean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. It is a world where the sounds of trail tools—Pulaskis, McLeods, and hazel hoes—filter into dreams and set the rhythm of each day. In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backdropped by rain and snow and sun, as individuals transform into crew.
Crossing Over: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)
by Priscilla LongLong&’s work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for crossings to death (a sister&’s suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy, the book also explores living, remembering, and celebrating.
Crossing Stones
by Helen FrostIn their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing
by Deirdre MullaneThe history of African-American life and thought presented in this anthology represents a far-reaching written and oral tradition, which is thought-provoking, inspiring, and impressive in its breadth. It includes poetry and prose by today's best and most well-known writers.
Crossing the River
by Ray GonzalezAn anthology of 70 poets writing west of the Mississippi, including William Pitt Root, Alberto Rios, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jim Simmerman, and Sandra Alcosser.
Crow-Work: Poems
by Eric PankeyFrom the award-winning author of Augury, a poetry collection that examines the power of great works of art.“What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?” This central question drives Crow-Work, Eric Pankey’s ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art.Through subjects as diverse as Bruegel’s Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor’s Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio’s series of severed heads, and James Turrell’s experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out “the songbird in every thorn thicket” of the artist’s work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away “like coils of incense ash”; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it.Praise for Crow-Work“Eric Pankey’s sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow. The poems of Crow-Work, like good gleaners, seek out possibility and sustenance. They are skilled, deft, and dazzlingly alert. Just when I think they have brought me as close as possible to the dark and unknowable things that make awe possible, they bring me closer. The journey is unnerving, intimate, and thrilling.” —Mary Szybist“The delicacy and accuracy we have come to expect from Eric Pankey are here on display and as deftly deployed as ever. Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem.” —C. Dale Young“[A] wonderful exploration of the emotional power of art.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review, PW Picks)
Crown Anthology: One Hundred Voices, Two Hundred Poems (Lost Poets)
by Analog de Leon & Gabriel SageTwo hundred poems of hope and empowerment in a time of tumult and darkness, from Instagram’s Lost Poets community. Crown Anthology is a new collection of verse from an online subculture of poets, with a foreword by Tyler Knott Gregson, one of the movement’s foremost authors. By celebrating self-love, self-worth, and empowerment, these two hundred poems examine life in a dynamic and transformative poetry compilation that speaks soft words reminding us that every soul is royal. Featuring a beautifully diverse and inspirational set of voices from around the world, which includes some of today’s most influential modern poets with additional contest winners chosen from 4,500 submissions, Crown Anthology is curated to be a light in the wild dark, illuminating the crown that exists in everyone.
Crown Anthology: One Hundred Voices, Two Hundred Poems (Lost Poets)
by Analog de Leon & Gabriel SageTwo hundred poems of hope and empowerment in a time of tumult and darkness, from Instagram’s Lost Poets community. Crown Anthology is a new collection of verse from an online subculture of poets, with a foreword by Tyler Knott Gregson, one of the movement’s foremost authors. By celebrating self-love, self-worth, and empowerment, these two hundred poems examine life in a dynamic and transformative poetry compilation that speaks soft words reminding us that every soul is royal. Featuring a beautifully diverse and inspirational set of voices from around the world, which includes some of today’s most influential modern poets with additional contest winners chosen from 4,500 submissions, Crown Anthology is curated to be a light in the wild dark, illuminating the crown that exists in everyone.
Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World
by Candace SavageA treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that&’s rich in insight and humor. This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage&’s best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with crows. In one story, a pack of crows brilliantly thwarts an attack by a Golden Eagle; in another, a mischievous crow rescues the author from grief. And in a third piece, after nursing a battered baby crow back to health until it flies off with other crows, Louise Erdrich hauntingly describes her altered awareness as she listens for the &“dark laugh&” of crows while she works. Based on two decades of audacious research by scientists around the world, the book also provides an unprecedented, evidence-based glimpse into corvids&’ intellectual, social, and emotional lives. But whether viewed through the lens of science, myth, or everyday experience, the result is always the same. These birds are so smart—and so mysterious—they take your breath away.Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.Praise for Crows &“A beautifully crafted celebration of these birds.&” —Nature &“A deft juxtaposition of interesting anecdotes and firsthand accounts of scientific discoveries.&” —Canadian Literature &“Surprising avian revelations are contained within the pages of Savage&’s glorious festival of crow arcana.&” —Alberta Views
Crush
by Richard SikenRichard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form."
Cruz del Sur
by Cecilia VicuñaAntología general de la obra de la internacionalmente premiada Cecilia Vicuña «Todas las noches caen de la Cruz del sur puñados de hidras eléctricas que se transforman en hojas para que yo las escriba», dice un verso de Cecilia Vicuña que retrata bien el singular espíritu de su poesía, que renueva sus formas constantemente y está marcada por un pensamiento que hace eco del mundo andino y la ecología. Enriquecida con poemas inéditos y dispersos, esta antología recoge una amplia selección de la obra de Vicuña, desde su inaugural Sabor a mí —publicado en 1973 en Londres tras el golpe de Estado—, pasando por títulos claves como La Wik´uña e Instan, hasta sus performances orales o «quasars» de Spit Temple.
Crying Dress: Poems
by Cassidy McFadzeanThe poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.
Cuaderno de las islas
by Andrés Sánchez RobaynaLa fascinación y el misterio de las islas en la literatura. En este singular e inclasificable libro, Andrés Sánchez Robayna, uno de los mejores poetas españoles contemporáneos, reúne una secuencia de apuntes que gira en torno a los mitos, las leyendas, la poesía, el misterio o la turbación que han producido las islas a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad. Al final, el autor incluye una bellísima antología de los grandes poemas que sobre el mismo asunto se han escrito, desde Andrew Marvell hasta Yeats, Cernuda, Borges, Ungaretti o Paz. Verdadera indagación poética sobre el origen, Cuaderno de las islas es una obra de inagotable lectura, llena de sabiduría e iluminación.
Cuando acaba septiembre
by José Carlos LlopEl libro más maduro de uno de los poetas más representativos de la generación de los ochenta. La poesía elegante y meditativa de José Carlos Llop adquiere aquí, como ya anuncia su título, una luminosidad espectral y melancólica, una sobriedad helénica. Además de la literatura, las ciudades y la memoria, motivos recurrentes en su poesía, Llop indaga aquí en el mediterráneo como espacio esencial de su universo poético. El agua, la luz, Cavafis, Durrell, las islas y la figura de la madre son algunos de los protagonistas de estos poemas transidos de sabiduría, bellos como una mañana de septiembre.
Cuarteto de Rosa Pigmento Rojo: Cuarteto de Rosa Pigmento Rojo
by Maki StarfieldPoetas asiáticos en simpatía: Charla poética el "Cuarteto de Rosa de Pigmento Rojo" está coautorizado por cuatro poetisas. Yao Yuan, Yu Xiu, Chung Yun-Hui y Maki Starfield. Contribuyeron con poemas inspirados en la palabra "Rosa de Pigmento Rojo". La charla sobre Rosa de Pigmento Rojo significa una discusión interminable sobre el amor y la vida de la mujer a través de los poemas. Los poemas en japonés, inglés y chino (edición trilingüe) transmiten el sentimiento vivo de las poetisas asiáticas contemporáneas.
Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral
by T. S. EliotPoesía meditativa, lírica, dramática y espiritual, Cuatro cuartetos, ahora traducida, anotada y comentada por Andreu Jaume, es una de las grandes obras de la literatura del siglo XX y constituye el gran legado moral de T.S. Eliot para el siglo XXI. Cuando parecía que su obra poética había concluido, T. S. Eliot sorprendió a sus lectores con la publicación, en 1935, de Burnt Norton, el primero de los cuatro poemas que conformarían Cuatro cuartetos, una obra completada a lo largo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que supone la superación de la desolación, a la vez íntima y colectiva, que había descrito en La tierra baldía (1922). East Coker, The Dry Salvages y Little Gidding ahondan en la meditación sobre el tiempo, el amor, la realidad, la muerte y la búsqueda de Dios que Eliot había iniciado en Burnt Norton, convirtiendo la secuencia poética en una averiguación radical que, partiendo de sus raíces, logra desprenderse de lo biográfico para elevarse a un estadio superior. Con el fin de que el lector pueda hacerse una idea del camino que llevó a Eliot al alumbramiento de esta obra, Andreu Jaume ha traducido también los coros de La roca y Asesinato en la catedral, dos piezas para teatro con las que Eliot ensayó su nueva voz poética. Críticas:«Cuatro cuartetos es la mejor secuencia de poemas largos compuesta en nuestro siglo.»David Perkins, A History of Modern Poetry «Quizá su obra más bella y con partes de auténtica redondez musical.»José María Valverde
Cuatro estaciones y un poema de amor: Dudas, filosofía y experiencia
by Pedro Álvarez GutiérrezMírate y espera a que tu corazón hable. Supe que los altibajos son tan feos como un domingo echándote de menos. Era lunes. Prometí no volver a ser débil y dejé que nuestro amor volviera a nacer. Pensé en la primavera, perosolo era un sábado de enero. No aguanté esconderte. Fui y te besé, me besaste. Y lo demás fue una historia de amor.
Cuatro poetas en guerra (Españaescrita Ser. #Vol. 8)
by Ian GibsonAntonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca y Miguel Hernández son cuatro de las mejores voces poéticas de la España del siglo XX. Unidos no solo por su absoluta dedicación a las letras, sino por su lealtad a la Segunda República, enarbolaron una defensa acendrada de la libertad y la democracia. El hispanista Ian Gibson realiza un recorrido por las intensas vidas de estos grandes poetas, con su compromiso republicano -y las nefastas consecuencias que tuvo en sus vidas- como eje central. Cuatro pilares fundamentales de la sociedad española del siglo XX silenciados con la muerte y el exilio. Cuatro poetas que lo dieron todo y a quienes la España de charanga y pandereta se encargó de destruir.
Cuenta con Dr. Seuss 1 2 3 (Beginner Books(R))
by Dr. Seuss¡Un libro para aprender a contar, en español y rimado, creado por Dr. Seuss e ilustrado con dibujos de sus libros! ¡Cuenta con Dr. Seuss y aprende los números mientras te diviertes! Este sencillo y rítmico riff acerca de contar está ilustrado con los dibujos de algunos de sus libros más queridos, entre otros: Un pez, dos peces, pez rojo, pez azul; El Gato Ensombrerado y ¡Yo puedo leer con los ojos cerrados! Pensado para los lectores principiantes, y para los que están aprendiendo a contar, ¡este libro es ideal para fomentar el amor por los números y por las historias de Dr. Seuss! Creada por Dr. Seuss, la colección de libros para primeros lectores (Beginner Books) anima a los niños a leer solos con palabras sencillas y divertidos dibujos que dan sentido a la lectura.Las ediciones rimadas en español de los clásicos de Dr. Seuss, publicadas por Random House, brindan la maravillosa oportunidad de disfrutar de sus historias a más de treinta y ocho millones de personas hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos. Los lectores podrán divertirse con las ediciones en español de The Cat in the Hat (El Gato Ensombrerado); Green Eggs and Ham (Huevos verdes con jamón); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Un pez, dos peces, pez rojo, pez azul); The Lorax (El Lórax); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (¡Oh, cuán lejos llegarás!); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad!); The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (El Gato Ensombrerado ha regresado); I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! (¡Yo puedo leer con los ojos cerrados!); Horton Hears a Who! (¡Horton escucha a Quién!); The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (Los 500 sombreros de Bartolomé Cubbins); There's a Wocket in My Pocket! (¡Hay un Molillo en mi Bolsillo!); Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (¡El Sr. Brown hace Muuu! ¿Podrías hacerlo tú?); Ten Apples Up on Top! (¡Diez manzanas en la cabeza!); What Pet Should I Get? (¿Cómo podré decidir qué mascota elegir?); Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (Yoruga la Tortuga y otros cuentos); Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (¡Oh, piensa en todo lo que puedes pensar!); The Foot Book! (¡Cuántos, cuántos pies!); Happy Birthday to You! (¡Feliz cumpleaños!); Come Over to My House (Ven a mi casa); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (¡Dormilones!); Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? (¿Preferirías ser una rana?); Horton Hatches the Egg (Horton cuida un nido) y Dr. Seuss's 1 2 3 (Cuenta con Dr. Seuss 1 2 3). A rhymed Spanish concept book about counting, inspired by Dr. Seuss and illustrated with artwork from his books!Count on Dr. Seuss to make learning numbers fun! This simple, rhymed riff about counting is illustrated with art from some of his most beloved works, including One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; The Cat in the Hat, and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Great for the earliest reader—and beginning counter—it's perfect for nurturing a love of numbers and of Dr. Seuss!