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A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems
by Don W. King Joy DavidmanDisplays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime. The first comprehensive collection of Davidman's poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery. Of special interest is Davidman's sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God's working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm's length emotionally and physically. Readers of these Davidman poems -- arranged chronologically by Don King -- will discover three recurring, overarching themes: God, death, and immortality; politics, including capitalism and communism; and (the most by far) romantic, erotic love. This volume marks Joy Davidman as a figure to be reckoned with in the landscape of twentieth-century American poetry.
A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems
by Joy DavidmanDisplays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime. The first comprehensive collection of Davidman's poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery. Of special interest is Davidman's sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God's working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm's length emotionally and physically. Readers of these Davidman poems -- arranged chronologically by Don King -- will discover three recurring, overarching themes: God, death, and immortality; politics, including capitalism and communism; and (the most by far) romantic, erotic love. This volume marks Joy Davidman as a figure to be reckoned with in the landscape of twentieth-century American poetry.
A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose
by Nancy WillardSelections from Nancy Willard&’s acclaimed volumes of poetry and proseThis diverse collection features some of Nancy Willard&’s most critically lauded poetry—including works from her Newbery Medal–winning volume, A Visit to William Blake&’s Inn—as well as her short fiction and four unconventional essays on writing.Hens, children, magic bottles, and the moon are just some of the characters running through the luminous musings gathered here. &“How to Stuff a Pepper&” becomes a heady discourse on the thoughts and sleeping habits of peppers. &“The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus&” and &“The Hucklebone of a Saint&” are tales about the power of superstition to shape our lives. Other stories showcase favorite Willard themes about God, religion, and the magic and mysticism in everyday life—and the ancestors, guardians, saints, and spirits who, in Willard&’s words, come back &“once in a while to keep an eye on us, the living.&”A paean to the power of storytelling, A Nancy Willard Reader is an essential volume for poetry and fiction lovers.
A Net of Fireflies
by Harold StewartA Net of Fireflies is a Collection of Japanese Haiku and Haiku paintings.
A Net of Fireflies
by Harold StewartA Net of Fireflies is a Collection of Japanese Haiku and Haiku paintings.
A New Companion to Milton (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
by Thomas N. CornsA New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time
A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes
by Madhur AnandA striking poetic debut that brilliantly illuminates and celebrates the intersection of poetry and science, and the ways they can mediate our discovery of the world and our place in it. Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in Madhur Anand's captivating debut collection compose a lyric science; they bring order and chaos together into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small. Anand's ecologist poetics are sophisticated and original; her voice is an "index," a way of cataloguing and measuring the world and human experience, and of illuminating the interconnectedness at the heart of all things. Narrating the beauty of her perceived world, the poems unabashedly embrace the scintillant language of scientific evidence as they interrogate crises of personal and global concern. The result is a poetry that is as complex as it is compassionate. Anand's modernist intervention into "nature" poetry is a sparkling addition to poetics in Canada and beyond.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A New Introduction to Chaucer (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library)
by D. S. BrewerThis new introduction to Chaucer has been radically rewritten since the previous edition which was published in 1984. The book is a controversial and modern restatement of some of the traditional views on Chaucer, and seeks to present a rounded introduction to his life, cultural setting and works. Professor Brewer takes into account recent literary criticism, both challenging new ideas and using them in his analysis of Chaucer's work. Above all, there is a strong emphasis on leading the reader to understand and enjoy the poetry and prose, and to try to understand Chaucer's values which are often seen to oppose modern principles. A New Introduction to Chaucer is the result of Derek Brewer's distinguished career spanning fifty years of research and study of Chaucer and contemporary scholarship and criticism. New interpretations of many of the poems are presented including a detailed account of the Book of the Duchess. Derek Brewer's fresh and narrative style of writing will appeal to all who are interested in Chaucer, from sixth-form and undergraduate students who are new to Chaucer's work through to more advanced students and lecturers.
A New Matrix for Modernism: A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew & Anna Wickham (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
by Nelljean RiceMany studies of poetic modernism focus on the avatars of High Modernism, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, who created a critical coterie based on culture and class. A New Matrix for Modernism introduces a matrilineage for modernism that traces a distinct women's poetic voice from the Bronte sisters through Alice Meynell to modernists Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham who combine feminist content with an innovative exploration of formalist prosody. Shifting emphasis from woman to child, mother to daughter, and urbs to suburb, relocating modernism's matrilingua to the boundaries of London society and culture, A NewMatrix for Modernism ranges widely among architecture, mental illness, Fabianism, Positivism, Theosophy, women's suffrage and education to a new house for modernism-a woman's place of secret joys and sorrows. Well researched yet passionate, this book will appeal to both the scholar and the generalist interested in modernism, poetry, feminism, culture and British literary history.
A New Path to the Waterfall
by Raymond CarverRaymond Carver finished A New Path To The Waterfall shortly before his death in August 1988. These fifty poems--as hard and clear and emotionally pure as his short stories--chart a human journey: false starts and redemptions, the discovery of happiness, memory, and leave-taking, and the full apprehension of mortality. An avowal of love, this collection is also a haunting record of Carver's approach to death.
A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices
by Sally DerbyIn a unique narrative, readers meet a diverse group of six children ranging in age from Kindergarten through fifth grade. With nerves and excitement each child gears up for a new school year by hustling in the morning, meeting new teachers and new classmates during the day, and heading home with homework and relief by day&’s end. Simple, bright illustrations focus on each child and his/her worries, hopes, and successes on the first day of school.
A New Selected Poems
by Galway KinnellContains selected poems from:What a Kingdom It Was (1960)Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964)Body Rags (1968)The Book of Nightmares (1971)Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980)The Past (1985)When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990)Imperfect Thirst (1994)
A New Shakespearean Poem?
by Sarah Smith Edward De Vere Earl Of OxfordMystery writer finds Shakespeare poem.<P> Oh, right.<P> In an obscure old volume in the British Library, bestselling mystery writer Sarah Smith found an ancient poem. Who wrote it? Ex-English professor Smith writes a snarky and accessible preface that introduces the reader to authorship studies and, with deduction worthy of Sherlock Holmes, she identifies the writer of the poem as the major alternate Shakespeare candidate, Edward de Vere. <P> To quote Smith, the poem shares “certain characteristics of Shakespeare’s work—not the most obvious, nor the easiest to imitate.” These characteristics include irregular rhythm, the use of new words and metaphors taken from sports, run-on lines, secularism, a drawing away from allegory and the morality-play tradition, and the use of dramatic voices.<P> And the poem is not influenced by Shakespeare. It was published in October 1580. If a poem written this early does have significant and otherwise inexplicable similarities to Shakespeare’s work, of course it is important indeed.<P> Want to read a new Shakespeare poem? Maybe it’s here. Take a look.
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination
by Angus FletcherAmid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century. Breaking with the tired habit of treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the fascinating English writer, John Clare; he then centers on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman. With Whitman this book insists that "the whole theory and nature of poetry" needs inspiration from science if it is to achieve a truly democratic vista. Drawing variously on Complexity Theory and on fundamentals of art and grammar, Fletcher argues that our finest poetry is nature-based, environmentally shaped, and descriptive in aim, enabling poets like John Ashbery and other contemporaries to discover a mysterious pragmatism. Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. While centering on American vision, the argument extends our horizon, striking a blow against all economically sanctioned attacks upon the finer, stronger human capacities. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
A New Way of Seeing: Distance and Traumatic Memory in the Poetry of World War II (American Wars and Popular Culture)
by Michael SarnowskiA New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers—Louis Simpson, Keith Douglas, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Randall Jarrell—whose work draws on their activities as soldiers in World War II. Basing his examination on extensive primary-source research, Michael Sarnowski identifies distance, both literal and figurative, and traumatic memory as two interconnected elements of how these poets internalized the war and made sense of the events they witnessed. The book is structured on a gradient related to each poet’s proximity to combat, as the chapters in turn focus on an infantryman (Simpson), a tank commander (Douglas), a bombardier (Hugo), a pilot (Nemerov), and a stateside flight instructor (Jarrell). Sarnowski relies on a wealth of archival material overlooked by previous scholarship, including poem drafts, correspondence, flight logs, and personal belongings. The conclusion revisits notions of legacy and representation by assessing factors that contributed to the early labeling of World War II soldiers as a “Silent Generation,” in contrast to the outpouring of poetry published during and following the First World War. By exploring how poets processed their wartime experiences, A New Way of Seeing offers a stark reminder of why it remains vital to recognize the physical, mental, and psychological consequences endured by veterans.
A Night Out with Robert Burns
by Robert Burns Andrew O'HaganJanuary 25, 2009, marks the 250th anniversary of Burns's birth. It will be a huge event around the world, not least across Canada. And we have the book! Robert Burns (1759-1796) is part of your life. If you've ever given or received a romantic red rose, or talked about a "do or die" situation, or if you've sung "Auld Lang Syne," you're included.Others celebrate this ploughman poet with an eye for "the lasses" more directly. Every year, literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians, from coast to coast, go to Burns Suppers in January to celebrate his life. This year --2009 -- will be the biggest ever, since it's a 250th celebration of his birth.CBC TV is joining with the BBC to produce three one-hour programmes on his life, all written and hosted by Andrew O'Hagan, who is now the authority on Burns. This is because this book, published by Canongate in 2008, has already become a classic, bringing Burns to ordinary readers. Because Burns was on the right side of history, against privilege and rank and for everyone getting a fair chance, he is beloved around the world -- in Andrew O'Hagan's words, he is "the world's greatest and most loveable poet."From the Hardcover edition.
A Night Without Armor
by Jewel KilcherA Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are inspiring, and to be enjoyed. Writing poems since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, discover, and to reflect.
A Night in Brooklyn: Poems
by D. NurkseD. Nurkse's deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places. Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to the world of Brooklyn--a job at the Arnold Grill, "topping off drafts with a paddle" for the truckers who came in; the deaf white alley cat that mysteriously survived the winter on a stoop in Bensonhurst; the narrow bed where young love took place; the wild gardens behind the tenements. His exploration of this almost mythic city past is combined with a sense of the future speeding toward us--the ongoing riddle of time and being in a larger universe. . . . And she who was driving said, We know the coming disaster intimately but the present is unknowable. Which disaster, I wondered, sexual or geological? But I was shy: her beauty was like a language she didn't speak and had never heard. From "The Present" Hardcover edition.
A Normal Skin
by John BurnsideFrom memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover's navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquarium fish, the poems in A NORMAL SKIN cover a wide range: lyrical in tone, and highly visual, they express once again the poet's sense of wonder at the world, while exploring some new preoccupations, including love and identity the tension between masking and self-revelation, and the writer's pleasure at returning to Scotland after a long absense. Most significant, however, is the continuing exploration of the relationship between self and other, and of the constant shifting of territory and boundaries, seen through the prism of love and home.
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
by Stephanie BolsterShortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature -- constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past -- through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time-Life one named in the title. Informed by the author’s grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet’s combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where "arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades," and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. This is Bolster's best work.
A Painting of Sand: Poems from Ghost Ranch
by L. Luis LopezThese are lyric and narrative poems inspired by a number of visits and stays at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico. The beauty and the atmosphere of this high desert area during any season of the year has a special quality that inspires writers, artists, and anyone with spiritual interests (in the broad sense of that term). The book is dedicated to Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiu area, the land of Georgia O'Keefe, Thomas Merton, and countless other artists and writers.
A Palace of Pearls
by Jane Miller"Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own. If she were a painter, one might describe it as a descendant of cubism, a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet is disturbingly recognizable, continuously suggestive, intimate and beautiful. Her subject is love and illusion and their revelation about each other."--W. S. Merwin"Reading Jane Miller's poetry is like channel-surfing on acid."--L.A. WeeklyJane Miller is a traveler stimulated by ideas beyond our immediate sphere. In this book-length sequence animated and propelled by a confrontation with her dead father, she meditates on home, love, war and the responsibility of the poet.A Palace of Pearls is inspired by one of the most spectacular civilizations in history, the Arab kingdom of Al-Andalus--a Middle Age civilization where architecture, science and art flourished and Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in relative harmony. The reader roams through "rooms," encountering Greek, Judaic and Roman mythology, and through the streets of fifteenth-century Spain and contemporary Rome in Miller's most personal and associative volume.From A Palace of PearlsWe bow our heads for the ancient draping of the gardenia lei in the hotel lobby and are relieved of our possessions as per a reminder that one must enter Paradise a little nakedJane Miller is the author of eight previous books of poetry and essays. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. She lives in Tucson and teaches in the creative writing program at The University of Arizona, having served as the program's director from 1999-2003.
A Pariah's Heartbreak
by Shaakira AllyA Pariah’s Heartbreak is a series of beautifully written poems which gives a compelling look inside the chaotic mind of a trauma survivor. The poems give an alluring and devastatingly painful account of issues such as solitude, heartbreak, gender based violence, society’s disapproval, anxiety, trauma, mental health issues, among many others.
A Pet for Me: Poems (I Can Read! #Level 3)
by Lee Bennett Hopkins Jane ManningFrom a devoted mutt giving "sloppy doggy kisses" to a tarantula munching happily on a cricket lunch, this lively collection of twenty poems celebrates the relationship between children and their pets. Popular poet and noted anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together many of today's best children's poets -- including X. J. Kennedy, Alice Schertle, and Karla Kuskin -- in this delightful festival of friendship. Jane Manning's bright and richly textured art cheerfully complements these playful poems.
A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems
by Mary Jo SalterThis "wholly attractive volume" that brings together twenty-five years of "elegantly shaped and voiced creations" (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter's five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation.From the Trade Paperback edition.