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Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
by Michael RobbinsBrilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living.How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins’s mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.
Equivocal Prediction: George Herbert's Way to God
by Heather A. R. RossEquivocation replaced Thomistic analogy as a means of predicting God in the minds of many seventeenth-century divines. In this study, Professor Asals analyses George Herbert's use of language as a method of devotion in his major cycle poem, The Temple. Tracing the logical notion of equivocation (here the extensive us of puns and pun-like verbal devices) as prediction through other influences on his poetry, she argues that the very basis of Herbert's work lies in its responsibility in predicting God as One and Love. Asals explains that, for Herbert, the act of writing a poem--the actual handwriting--was a sacramental and ceremonial act of worship recreating Christ's death on the cross: ink becomes blood. The sign on the printed page points sacramentally to the blood it signifies. Thus, the domain of Herbert's poetry reaches from earth to heaven and from heaven to earth. Continuing with an examination of Herbert's language, including aspects of phonology, morphology, and syntax, Asals reveals its two-fold significance in expression and meaning. Through a detailed reading of the entire corpus, she investigates the profound influence of Augustinianism and Wisdom literature on the way poetry works and explores the meaning of gesture and its importance to Herbert's Anglicanism--his belief in the importance of ceremony. In the final chapter, on the topos of Magdalene, its relationship to Herbert's mother, and his mother's importance to his writing, Asals argues that Anglicanism as a way to God (and God as a way to himself) is at the very core of Herbert's poetics. This book establishes a new critical milieu in which Herbert may be interpreted and sheds new light on the poetry of other writers of the period.
Era inevitable
by Mario de las SagrasEra inevitablees el nuevo libro de Mario de las Sagras, más conocido como @soloeme,el poeta que ha conquistado a cientos de miles de personas con sus mensajes y su lenguaje fresco y directo en TikTok.Resulta que el mundoeras tú,lo demás solo decorado.Ir contracorriente es un modo de vida; sentirte distinto al resto, una parte necesaria de la juventud; y darte cuenta de que eres ese tipo al que en otros momentos tanto criticaste, un capítulo obligatorio para hacerse adulto.Era inevitable es una lección de humildad, un golpe en la mesa que nos derrota y a la vez nos atrapa, es una rendición, una bandera blanca a las canciones de amor y la historia del caos que deja la tormenta del deseo al pasar por uno. Aunque no queramos. Es el proceso de desangrado, lento pero constante, del que ve venir y no logra parar el desastre del amor.Mario de las Sagras hace un ejercicio de valentía en este libro poniendo en negro sobre blanco los alegatos y poemas que lo han hecho tan popular en las redes, especialmente en TikTok. En sus páginas están presentes algunos de sus textos más virales y otros muchos que son totalmente inéditos, que se mueven entre lo emocional y lo social y que son verdaderos dardos directos al pecho del lector.Apunten... Fuego.
Erasures (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Donald Revell"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical," Donald Revell has written, "the poet's necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over mimesis." For Revell, The disruptions of this century have destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: "The consolations of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten." Invoking such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, he seeks to integrate the political with the personal in a search for new paradigms of value and honor.
Erec and Enide
by Chrétien De Troyes Dorothy Gilbert"Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing Chretien's range of tone--from wit to elevation of sentiment--very sensitively."--Charles Muscatine, author of "Chaucer and the French Tradition. "A wonderfully accurate and witty translation of Chretien's Erec and Enide which brilliantly renders the rhymed octosyllabics of the original text in compelling, colloquial English. ... A treat not just for students and scholars of Old French literature but, more important, for what we now call general readers--that is, all those who relish a rollicking, well-told tale."--Sandra M. Gilbert, editor of "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. "Older translations, generally in stupefying Maloryan prose, convey little of the sense of the poetry so obvious in the original, and admirably reproduced in this translation."--Robert Harrison, translator of "Gallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux. "One of the best English verse renderings of any poem by Chretien."--William J. Kibler, author of "An Introduction to Old French. "A union of scholarship and consummate art that affected me like the great stories I read in my formative years; a permanent vicarious experience."--Ruth Stone, poet, author of "Second-Hand Coat. "This will be a standard English translation of "Erec and Enide and a definitive one."--Roger J. Steiner, editor of "The New College French and English Dictionary.
Ernst Jandl 1925–2000: Eine konkrete Biographie
by Hans HaiderErnst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Lettern- und Lautgedichten machte er sich in den 1950er Jahren in seiner Heimat Wien zum Außenseiter, fand jedoch rasch Anerkennung in den Zentren der Konkreten Poesie in Stuttgart, Prag, London. Wie ein Popstar entführte er bei lautstarken Auftritten die Jugend der Revolte-Generation mit Sprachwitz und -spiel in die Schmerzbezirke von Krieg, absurdem Alltag, Liebesdefizit. Er setzte dem hohen Ton eine „heruntergekommene“ Sprache und unterkühlten Dialekt entgegen. Mit der Lebenspartnerin Friederike Mayröcker schuf er Pionierwerke des ‚Neuen Hörspiels‘. Hans Haider legt nach Archivrecherchen in halb Europa und jahrzehntelanger Tätigkeit in der Wiener Kulturszene als Kritiker und Herausgeber die erste umfassende Jandl-Biographie vor.
Ernst Jandl 1925–2000: Eine konkrete Biographie
by Hans HaiderErnst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Lettern- und Lautgedichten machte er sich in den 1950er Jahren in seiner Heimat Wien zum Außenseiter, fand jedoch rasch Anerkennung in den Zentren der Konkreten Poesie in Stuttgart, Prag, London. Wie ein Popstar entführte er bei lautstarken Auftritten die Jugend der Revolte-Generation mit Sprachwitz und -spiel in die Schmerzbezirke von Krieg, absurdem Alltag, Liebesdefizit. Er setzte dem hohen Ton eine „heruntergekommene“ Sprache und unterkühlten Dialekt entgegen. Mit der Lebenspartnerin Friederike Mayröcker schuf er Pionierwerke des ‚Neuen Hörspiels‘. Hans Haider legt nach Archivrecherchen in halb Europa und jahrzehntelanger Tätigkeit in der Wiener Kulturszene als Kritiker und Herausgeber die erste umfassende Jandl-Biographie vor.
Erosion (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #24)
by Jorie GrahamFrom Erosion:SAN SEPOLCROJorie Graham. . . . How cleanthe mind is,holy grave. It is this girlby Pierodella Francesca, unbuttoningher blue dress,her mantle of weather,to go intolabor. Come, we can go in.It is beforethe birth of god. No-onehas risen yetto the museums, to the assemblyline bodiesand wings to the open airmarket. This iswhat the living do: go in.It's a long way.And the dress keeps openingfrom eternityto privacy, quickening.Inside, at the heart,is tragedy, the present momentforever stillborn,but going in, each breathis a buttoncoming undone, something terriblynimble-fingeredfinding all of the stops.Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
Erotic Poems
by E. E. Cummings George James FirmageE. E. Cummings's erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings's original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from "16" may i feel said he (i'll squeal said she just once said he) it's fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she
Erratic Facts
by Kay RyanKay Ryan a classic American poet (John Freeman) is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects existence, consciousness, love, loss in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Sly rhymes and strong cadences lend remarkable musicality to her incisive wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that has characterized her singular voice over the course of more than 20 years, her mind is sharper than ever, her imagination more eccentric and daring. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan’s place at the pinnacle of American poetry, and proves that she will remain among the leading innovators in literary history.
Es sólo vivir
by Daniel Ramírez«Los poemas de Dani Ramírez son como pequeños hallazgos entre el tráfago incesante de los días laborables, pasan rápido -como los edificios vistos por la ventanilla de los transportes urbanos-, pero mañana seguirán estando ahí, esperándote. Si piensas que la poesía es algo ajeno a tu vida, lee estos poemas y te la encontrarás al salir del portal».Karmelo C. Iribarren «¿Cómo es posible que el cometa de la vida tenga tanta fuerza como para iluminar el agujero negro de la muerte?» Para enfrentarse a esta pregunta, estos poemas afilan la mirada y posan sus palabras sobre lo aparentemente fugaz: los bares, las aceras, el metro, los trenes, los desconocidos, los seres amados... Exploran los territorios de la nostalgia, pero también nos llevan, en contra de Sabina, a los lugares donde un día fuimos felices. El amor, los sueños, el miedo y el deseo encuentran en estos versos su rostro más cotidiano. Daniel Ramírez conmueve y sorprende con un libro que recuerda a los maestros de la experiencia y que reafirma el mejor de los hallazgos: la poesía está en la calle. Nos asalta al doblar la esquina. Críticas:«Los poemas de Dani Ramírez son como pequeños hallazgos entre el tráfago incesante de los días laborables, pasan rápido -como los edificios vistos por la ventanilla de los transportes urbanos-, pero mañana seguirán estando ahí, esperándote. Si piensas que la poesía es algo ajeno a tu vida, lee estos poemas y te la encontrarás al salir del portal».Karmelo C. Iribarren
Esas manitas fuera
by CatuloEsas manitas fuera trae a Poesía Portátil algunos de los versos de Catulo, el poeta más moderno y honesto de la Antigüedad. Explotó la subjetividad y la intimidad como ninguno de sus coetáneos y, a lo largo de la historia, ha influido a muchos otros por su estilo directo y personal. Su obra versa sobre temas de los más variados: pasión, amor y reflexiones sobre la soledad o la muerte. Esta selección recoge una muestra de todos ellos, pero se fija también en su producción más desvergonzada, en versos salidos del estómago, de la cama y del burdel en los que la modernidad de Catulo es innegable y su figura una reivindicación de la flexibilidad de la sexualidad y el amor libre. Reseñas:«No tiene ningún sentido intentar interpretar a Catulo sin considerar sus trabajos más irreverentes y explícitos. No podemos ignorar su lado más sórdido, ni deberíamos.»Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian «[Juan Antonio González ] un poeta que también es latinista, y que le ha hallado a Catulo su punto desenfadado y cultísimo, sabroso, letrado y sin rancio pudor, pues escribía desde una moral distinta.»Luis Antonio de Villena, Babelia «Catulo siempre nos ofrece repentinamente al leerlo ese don de la espontaneidad y de la modernidad de su poesía.»Antonio Colinas, El Cultural
Escape Velocity: Poems (Mountain West Poetry Series)
by Bonnie ArningFrom the moment of a marriage’s heated inception to its period of luminous crowding and onward into distance and darkness, Bonnie Arning’s Escape Velocity asks if it’s possible to exist outside the only universe we’ve ever known. In modes both lyric and narrative, we are given a peephole into the height and decline of a marriage that begins beneath the moving lights of Las Vegas, Nevada, and traverses the devastating terrain of gambling, miscarriage, infidelity, and violence. Arning gives voice to divergent aspects of love and violence through her use of math problems, erasures, dictionary entries, structured stanzas, and sprawling free verse. This multiplicity of forms comes together to explore everything from pop culture references of domestic violence to cultural notions of victims and victimhood. However dark, collectively these poems tell a love story—an acceptance of our capability to love those who hurt us, but also the love-of-self required to slowly and steadily reach "the velocity to be everleaving." In the tradition of Eavan Boland and Louise Glück, Arning wrestles down and examines the terrible without flinching. We journey with her, engrossed by each difficult truth: a precipice near which we are both terrified to stand and transfixed by its unnerving insistence on beauty.
Escupitajos del alma
by Rusty TimesPoesía urbana, poemas que arañan. <p><p>Poemas para ti, si sientes que la música es lo más importante de tu vida; si buscas nuevas formas de expresar la rabia que te consume; si te invade la nostalgia por lo que pudo ser y no fue; si te apetece darle una patada a lo entrepierna de lo establecido; site ríes con las contradicciones de la vida; si bebes para olvidar y olvidas que perdiste un amor; si viajas sin moverte del sitio... <p><p>Este libro es para ti. Para ti que sabes bien quién eres y lo que quieres. Atraviesa los versos mientras escuchas tu música favorita.
Ese de anoche
by Alejandro Simón PartalLa antología poética de Alejandro Simón Partal, uno de los autores más relevantes del momento. Esta primera antología de la poesía de Simón Partal es una gran fiesta, una esperada rave en la arena, junto a la orilla, muy cerca del mar y de sus profundidades. Ese de anoche recoge la aventura vital de un poeta que vive de cara a la vida: las sábanas tendidas en un prado abierto, un grupo de chicos que trabajan sus cuerpos en el paseo marítimo, el perro que persigue a las palomas sin intención de atraparlas, la nieve que cae sobre el campo y que exige un caminar de otra manera son algunas de las imágenes y escenarios de esta poesía orientada al milagro cercano de la existencia, versos que no explican el mundo, sino que se empapan de él. Con un fondo enigmático y sereno, la mirada de Partal es la mezcla perfecta de sabiduría y de avidez, de trascendencia y de instinto, de silencio y de hambre.«Delicada y cruda, antigua y novísima, lírica y prosaica, esta poesía nos habla del ardor del deseo, del amor que otorga sentido y «ofrece desapego», de lo innecesario del acontecimiento, de cómo lo divino accede a manifestarse en el rojo de los tomates, y de la impotencia que a veces se esconde en las palabras. Mientras leemos estos poemas descarnados, conmovedores, sabemos ya que se quedarán por siempre a vivir con nosotros».Piedad BonnettAlejandro Simón Partal (Estepona, 1983). Escritor y poeta. Es doctor en Filología Hispánica. Ha publicado teatro, novela, ensayo y poesía. Con Una buena hora (Visor, 2019), su quinto libro de poemas, obtuvo el Premio Internacional de PoesíaHermanos Argensola y con La fuerza viva (Pre-Textos, 2017) el Arcipreste de Hita. Su obra dramática Resistencia y sumisión (Antígona, 2021) fue seleccionada por la Factoría Echegaray. Con La parcela (Caballo de Troya, 2021) ganó el Premio Cálamo Otra mirada. Ha trabajado en universidades de Francia y República Checa. Ese de anocherecoge una selección de su obra poética desde el año 2008, incluyendo los últimos inéditos.@simonpartal La crítica ha dicho:«Dios es bello y ama la belleza, dicen los místicos. Simón Partal nos lo recuerda en sus poemas. Son auténticos frescos mitológicos, tiernos y delicados rezos, celebraciones de la vida que nos susurran con firmeza que no hay nada que temer».Oliver Laxe «Leo a Simón Partal para rascar la paz: con él salgo del after y llego al campo y respiro monte, árboles, tiempo, amor como fenómeno de la disponibilidad, amistad que me salva de la velocidad. Si pudiera, lo llevaría siempre en mi bolso: como esta antología, como un pintalabios con el que ponerme guapa solo para mí misma, cuando nadie me está mirando. Leo a Simón Partal para sentir en el cuerpo cómo crecen los rosales».Lorena G. Maldonado, El Español
Espejo: (No tiene subtítulo)
by Antonio AlmasEspejo mío, espejo mío, ¿cuál de estos textos soy yo? Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada. Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada.
Espelho Despedaçado: Uma coleção de poesias de A.L. Butcher
by A. L. ButcherPoesia da guerra, política e os caprichos da vida. Monumentos a guerreiros caídos, versos fantasiosos da loucura da política humana, tédio e poemas mais leves sobre a natureza e o meio ambiente.
Esperance: New and Selected Poems
by Caroline CaddyThis collection of works is culled from the author's first seven books of poetry and contains 17 new poems.
Espumas Flutuantes
by Castro Alves"Espumas Flutuantes" from Castro Alves. Poeta brasileiro (1847-1871).
Esquina em Tetuão
by Mois Benarroch joao batista esteves alvesEsquina em Tetuão de Mois Benarroch Livro de poemas publicado pela editora Esquío, dirigida por Julia Uceda Outros livros do autor disponíveis em português: - 10 poemas (português) (Prêmio Yehuda Amijai 2012) (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch, translated by Pedro Paixao (Sep 27, 2013) - O Ladrão De Memórias (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Cátia A. G. Fernandes (Feb 18, 2015) - Às Portas de Tânger (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Catia A. G. Fernandes (Aug 24, 2015) Leva-me ao mar (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Maria Olinda Reis (Sep 14, 2015) - Lamentações do imigrante / (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and JEAN PIERRE BARAKAT (Sep 14, 2015) - Cachecol Blues / (Portuguese Edition) by Mois Benarroch and Getúlio Maia (Oct 5, 2015)
Essay on Man and Other Poems: And Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Alexander PopeConsidered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his poems. Models of clarity and control, they exemplified the classical poetics of the Augustan age.This volume contains a rich selection of Pope's work, including such well-known poems as the title selection — a philosophical meditation on the nature of the universe and man's place in it — and "The Rape of the Lock," a mock-epic of rare charm and skill. Also included are "Ode on Solitude," "The Dying Christian to His Soul," "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady," "An Essay on Criticism," "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog," "Epistle [IV] to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Of the Use of Riches," "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires" and more.Taken together, these poems offer an excellent sampling of Pope's imaginative genius and the felicitous blending of word, idea and image that earned him a place among the leading lights of 18th-century literature.
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
by Amélie Oksenberg RortyAimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Elizabeth Belfiore, Rdiger Bittner, Mary Whitlock Blundell, Wayne Booth, Dorothea Frede, Cynthia Freeland, Leon Golden, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, Aryeh Kosman, Jonathan Lear, Alexander Nehamas, Martha C. Nussbaum, Deborah Roberts, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Nancy Sherman, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Stephen A. White, and Paul Woodruff.
Essays on Hilda Hilst: Between Brazil And World Literature (Literatures of the Americas)
by Adam Morris Bruno CarvalhoThis book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major national literary awards and attracted legions of devoted readers. Her writing spanned styles and genres, encompassing poetry, theatre, and experimental fiction. She was also considered to be “a writer’s writer,” and her literary achievements eluded both mainstream acclaim and international recognition. In recent years, Hilst’s books have enjoyed increased visibility in Brazil and beyond. A host of translators (including three contributors to this volume) have finally made some of her masterpieces available in English. This pioneering collection of essays should excite longtime readers and introduce her to a new audience.
Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
by Robert PinskyThis lively, abundant book is distinguished by its focus on hearing poetry read aloud. Robert Pinsky, beloved for his ability to bring poetry to life as spoken language, has collected poems that sound marvelous in a reader's actual or imagined voice. Pinsky has organized the book into sections with brief introductions that emphasize the attentive, intuitive, and reflective process of listening to poetry. This structure provides an implicit, generous definition-by-example of poetry itself: beginning with "Short Lines, Frequent Rhymes" and "Long Lines" and proceeding through fundamental themes such as "Love Poems," "Odes, Complaints, and Celebrations," and "Jokes, Ripostes, Parodies, and Insults." Essential Pleasures gives a fresh setting to traditional favorites, including poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, placed among contemporary poems by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others. This is an inviting and distinguished collection and an essential book for every home.