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Goest
by Cole SwensenTreating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury--things transparent, evanescent, impossible to grasp. Likewise Swensen's lyrics, which, with elliptical phrasing and play between visual and aural, change the act of seeing--and reading--offering glimpses of the spirit (or ghost) that enters a poem where the rational process breaks down.From "The Invention of Streetlights"Certain cells, it's said, can generate light on their own.There are organisms that could fit on the head of a pin.and light entire rooms. .Throughout the Middle Ages, you could hire a man.on any corner with a torch to light you home. were lamps made of horn.and from above a loom of moving flares, we watched.Notre Dame seem small. .Now the streets stand still. .By 1890, it took a pound of powdered magnesium.to photograph a midnight ball."Goest, sonorous with a hovering 'ghost' which shimmers at the root of all things, is a stunning meditation--even initiation--on the act of seeing, proprioception, and the alchemical properties of light as it exists naturally and inside the human realm of history, lore, invention and the 'whites' of painting. Light becomes the true mistress and possibly the underlying language of all invention. Swensen's poetry documents a penetrating 'intellectus'--light of the mind--by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent."--Anne Waldman
Goethe: Con Una Scelta Delle Liriche Nuovamente Tradotte (classic Reprint) (Collected Works)
by Benedetto CroceCroce admired Goethe partly because the latter possessed a knowledge of human nature in all its aspects but nonetheless kept his mind above and beyond political sympathies and the quarrels of nations. In this volume originally published in English in 1923, Croce distils his critical ideas about Goethe with the aim of helping readers to better understand the German poet’s work.
Goethes späte Lyrik: Band I: Krise und Selbstvergewisserung (1805–1813) (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft)
by Reiner WildBand I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära. Der Autor zeigt, dass sich Goethes Dichtungsverständnis nach 1805 grundlegend ändert, von der Lyrik des subjektiven Ausdrucks hin zum Gedicht als Medium der Kommunikation. Die Mehrzahl der ca. 150 Gedichte dieser Zeit sind Gelegenheitsgedichte, vor allem Gedichte an Personen, und Lieder zu geselligen Anlässen. Hinzu kommt eine Reihe von Balladen, in denen sich Goethe mit den Zeittendenzen auseinandersetzt. Zu den Neuerungen dieser Jahre gehört Goethes Interesse an Spruchdichtung, deren Produktion vor allem nach 1810 stetig zunimmt. Mit der Analyse der Gedichte und ihrer Entstehungs- und Verwendungszusammenhänge entsteht ein neues, differenzierteres Bild von Goethes lyrischem Alterswerk.
Goethes späte Lyrik: Band II: Divan-Jahre (1814–1819) (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft)
by Reiner WildBand II von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes gilt den Jahren 1814 bis 1819. Lyrisches Hauptgeschäft ist der West-östliche Divan (1819). Goethes bedeutendste Gedichtsammlung ist ein Werk der interkulturellen Begegnung mit dem Orient und zugleich einer der großen Liebeslyrikzyklen der europäischen Dichtung. Darüber hinaus werden Religion, Politik, Geschichte und nicht zuletzt die Dichtung selbst verhandelt. Neben den Divan treten Geselligkeitslyrik und Sprüche sowie vor allem Lehrdichtung zu naturwissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Themen. Auffällig ist die Gruppierung in Ensembles und die Inszenierung von Kommunikation mit den Lesern. Teile dieses späten Schaffens, das Goethe oftmals zuerst in seinen Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, gehören nicht in den klassischen Kanon und wurden bisher nur marginal behandelt. Band II erschließt diese Werke nun umfassend als Gegenstand literaturwissenschaftlicher Analysen
Going Around with Bachelors
by Agnes WalshShortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards The spirit of the departed -- source, origin, heritage, history -- is the essence of this book, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Agnes Walsh's first book, In the Old Country of My Heart, is one of the most read and best loved books of poetry to come out of Newfoundland. Going Around with Bachelors continues and extends Walsh’s distinctive subject matter: the past in the present, Ireland and Portugal in Newfoundland, weather internal and external, the Cape Shore. Here are poems of place and of people in place, of family both immediate and extended. They are also absolutely contemporary poems by a poet, gifted with a remarkably flexible and distinctive voice, who is planted, in her own words, "straight up and down into what’s new."
Going for the Rain: Poems
by Simon J. OrtizA member of the Acoma Pueblo in Arizona, Ortiz's poems evoke love and family and ceremony, the strains of disenfranchisement and the beautiful dry land.
Going on a Hametz Hunt
by Jacqueline JulesThis unique Passover board book shows a brother and sister on a "hametz hunt," looking for breadcrumbs before the start of the Passover holiday.
Going To Sleep On The Farm
by Wendy Cheyette LewisonA little boy asks, How does a cow go to sleep--tell me how? And his father replies, A cow lies down in the soft sweet hay, In a cozy barn at the end of the day. In this tender bedtime story each of the animals in the barnyard prepares for the night: The duck tucks his head right under his wing, the pig curls up with family and friends, the horse stands up while he's fast asleep, and the hen fluffs her feathers and sits on her nest. Enchanting illustrations by Juan Wijngaard capture the warm and loving answers a father gives to his young son as they too prepare for the night.
Gold
by RumiA vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent. Rumi&’s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as wellas aesthetic delight. This new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori preserves the intelligence and the drama of the poems, which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom. Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori&’s new translations of Rumi as &“the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English.&”
Gold Cell
by Sharon OldsA new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Gold Fever
by Verla KayWhat's a farmer to do when he sees hundreds of miners heading west to get rich? Join them! Jasper is off to California with dreams of the gold that will fill his pans to overflowing. This year is the 150th anniversary of the Gold Rush, and the punchy, rhythmic verse and fun, detailed illustrations of this book combine to bring this vibrant period in American history to life.
A Gold Orchid
by Lenore Mayhew William McnaughtonThese beautiful and original poems are made available to Western readers in a translation that fuses the imagery of age-old China with a supple, lively modern idiom. This translation (with explanatory notes) enables Western readers to grasp the sensitivity, grace, and poetic skill that make the Tzu Yeh poems one of the most important artistic contributions of their time.
Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
by Rio Cortez&“Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture.&” —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger &“I&’ve never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience.&” —Jason Reynolds, author of Ain&’t Burned All the BrightA groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio CortezFrom a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors—some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction—Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
The Golden Fleece
by Padraic ColumThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the fundamental aspects of life in a highly original way: love, deceit, heroism, human ignorance of the divine, and the limits of science, and offers a gripping and sometimes disturbing tale in the process. This major new prose translation combines readability with accuracy and an attention to detail that will appeal to general readers and classicists alike.
The Golden Gate
by Vikram Seth"The great California novel been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."--Gore Vidal One of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth's story in verse made him a literary household name in both the United States and India. John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper. From this interaction, John meets a variety of characters, each with their own values and ideas of "self-actualization." However, Liz begins to fall in love with John's best friend, and John realizes his journey of self-discovery has only just begun. "A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness."--The New York Times "Seth pulls off his feat with spirit, grace and great energy."--The New Yorker "A marvelous work . . . bold and splendid . . . Locate this book and allow yourself to become caught up, like a kite, in the lifting effects of Seth's sonnets."--Washington Post Book World
Golden Hours: Heart-Hymns of the Christian Life
by Elizabeth PrentissA collection of poems and hymns written by the 19th century author of Stepping Heavenward.
The Golden Mother Goose
by Alice Provensen Martin ProvensenA Golden classic, proudly reissued in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Golden Books! Every home needs a book of Mother Goose rhymes! They&’re a child&’s introduction to poetry and a love of language. This Golden Books edition, originally published in 1948, features over a hundred lively rhymes and splendid illustrations by Caldecott Medalists Alice and Martin Provensen. The original artwork has been digitally restored for this edition—resulting in a stunning, best-ever reproduction! It makes a beautiful gift for a beloved child, sure to be read again and again.
The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, 1828-1965
by Vinayak Krishna GokakThis is the comprehensive anthology of English verse written by Indians, compiled and edited by poet and a critic of distinction. Such a volume is of considerable historical value and contemporary interest, for English has been for more than 150 years, and continues to be, a vehicle of creative expression for many of our poets and writers.
The Golden Underground: Golden Underground
by Anthony ButtsNew from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Goldenrod: Poems
by Maggie Smith&“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.&” —Time From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her &“meditations on kindness and hope&” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son&’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone &“doesn&’t observe / the high holidays, autocorrecting / shana tova to shaman tobacco, / Rosh Hashanah to rose has hands.&” Slate called Smith&’s &“superpower as a writer&” her &“ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty.&” The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.
Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox
by Erin DealeyGoldie Locks has chicken pox; from head to toe were polka dots. . . . When Goldie Locks spies her first spot, her mother knows it must be chicken pox. Soon after, a steady stream of storybook favorites-including the Three Bears and Little Bo Peep-stop by to wish Goldie Locks a speedy recovery. But how will Goldie get well when her little brother just won't stop teasing her?
Gondwana
by Nathaniel TarnA new collection by America’s internationalist poet—“a vision both original and universal” (Octavio Paz) Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the ethereal blue ice of Antarctica, Nathaniel Tarn writes: “They said back then / there was a frozen continent / in those high latitudes encircling the globe: /are you moving toward it?” The various parts of Gondwana cohere into a unified whole that celebrates bird flight, waves, and innervating light while warning against environmental calamity. Some poems celebrate the New Mexican desert as it becomes a place of protest against the invasion of Afghanistan; in another, the rising and falling stairs at Fez in Morocco meld into a meditation on marriage, empire, and the origins of climbing. Elsewhere the heroic fighter pilot Lydia Litvyak is personified as Eurydice speaking to her Captain as Orpheus; and in the final long section, “Exitus Generis Humani,” lines pour over the reader in slow, mournful, yet often humorous, song, revealing “the poets’ hearts are a world’s heart” as the human race ends and whole armies sink into the earth “yearning for mother love.” Celebrated as a poet where “inquiry and ethical action are imperative” (Joseph Donahue, Jacket2), Nathaniel Tarn has lifted up a mind-heart mirror of our contemporary existence in Gondwana and warns us of a definitive ending if we do not demand radical change.
Gone: Poems
by Fanny HoweA book of new poems from the award-winning poet. Howe writes on the bewilderment and contradiction inherent in creation.
The Gone and the Going Away
by Maurice ManningWelcome to "Fog Town Holler," Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning's glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories -- not unlike E. A. Robinson's Tilbury Town or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County -- Manning celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of his beloved hill people.In Fog Town Holler men have "funny names," like Tiny Too and Eula Loom. A fox is known as Redleg Johnny. A neighbor issues a complaint against an early-rising rooster; another lives in the chicken coop. "Lawse," a woman exclaims, "the sun can't hardly find this place!" But they feel the Lord watching, always, as the green water of Shoestring Branch winds its way through hillbilly haunts and memories.The real world no longer resembles the one brought so vividly to life in the poems in these pages, but through his meditations on his boyhood home, Manning is able to recapture what was lost and still, yet, move beyond it. He brings light to this place the sun can't find and brings a lost world beautifully, magically, once again into our present.