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Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)
by Adrienne Chung&“Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Chung leaves a charred wake.&” —Solmaz Sharif, author of Customs and LookFrom National Poetry Series winner Adrienne Chung, a debut poetry collection about psychology, love, and memoryTaking its title from Darwin&’s On the Origin of Species, Adrienne Chung&’s debut collection asks why we cling so dearly to the vestigial parts of our psychologies—residues of first impressions, thought spirals to nowhere, memories that persist despite outliving their usefulness. The speaker in these poems tries to wear more color, indulges in Y2K nostalgia and falls in and out of love; a Jungian psychoanalyst has a field day with her dreams. While Darwin was perplexed and ultimately dismissive of these seemingly useless body parts, Organs of Little Importance reframes and repositions the apparent uselessness of our compulsions, superstitions, errant thoughts, and other selves. In diptychs and ghazals, sonnets and lullabies, Chung collects and preserves pieces of psychological debris as one would care for precious heirlooms, revealing their surprising potential to become sites of meaning and connection.
Orient Point: Poems
by Julie Sheehan"Tender, sassy, quietly observant, deeply cutting ... a collection bursting with verbal and existential exuberance."--Billy Collins Julie Sheehan draws from nature guides and self-help books, weaves legal argot and street slang, and fills her work with "muscle, size, shadows, and nuance" (Linda Gregg).
Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams
by Zhaoming QianChinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism.Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound's and Williams's remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets--Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi--between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans' work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen-Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound's pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams's Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.
Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire
by Diane AckermanIn a prefatory note to this collection of poems, Diane Ackerman tells us that her goal in this book was "to corral the unruly emotions that arose during intense psychotherapy."
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
by Louise ErdrichIn this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.
Origins of the Syma Species (African Poetry Book)
by Tares OburumuWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu&’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria. After growing up with a single mother in the creek- and brook-marked region, and himself now a single parent, Oburumu examines single parenthood and how love defines family circles. Mixing music, religion, and political critique, Origins of the Syma Species evokes pasts and futures. Inspired by the relative chaos found in the origin of things, Oburumu&’s poems explore how the beauty of chaos binds us to our ancestral roots. In his poems Oburumu identifies with anyone who is a single parent or is dealing with the lonely trauma of a broken home. His poems instill hopefulness in a world that has the means to throw many into poverty and agony.
Origins: The Cosmos in Verse
by Joseph ConlonA poetic odyssey through the origins of the universe from one of Britain&’s leading physicists.There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance – a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus… For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations. Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe through two long-form poems – &‘Elements&’ and &‘Galaxies&’. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.
Orion Sweeping
by Anne Marie TodkillAnne Marie Todkill's debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and grace in unexpected places. The poems assembled in Orion Sweeping take nothing at face value. What are we to make of a radioactive souvenir, a shape-shifting dog, landscapes made strange by time? The speakers gathered here seek to set the record straight: a mink gives advice; a wolf disputes a rumour; a photographer zooms in on a kill; a military strategist gives lessons in peace. But the sum of the evidence is not bleak. A baby arrives as robustly as a whale; the solidarity of marriage is enacted in surprising ways; father and daughter share a gift for reprieve. Under the penetrating gaze of these poems, beauty and tenderness come quietly into view.
Orlando Furioso: Part One (Orlando Furioso #1)
by Ludovico AriostoOne of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty soon inspires his cousin Rinaldo to challenge him to a duel - but during their battle, Angelica escapes from both knights on horseback and begins a desperate quest for freedom. This dazzling kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, sorcery and romance has inspired generations of writers - including Spenser and Shakespeare - with its depiction of a fantastical world of magic rings, flying horses, sinister wizardry and barbaric splendour.
Orlando Furioso: Part Two (Orlando Furioso #2)
by Ludovico AriostoA dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.
Oroonoko (Penguin Little Black Classics)
by Aphra Behn'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .'Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels
Oroonoko and Other Writings
by Aphra Behn Paul SalzmanA collection of Aphra Behn''s work contains Oroonoko and other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy and in addition a selection of her poetry from public political verse to lyrics and witty conversation poems.
Orphan Hours: Poems
by Stanley PlumlyA luminous new volume from a National Book Award finalist and recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and enrich mortality. from "Lapsed Meadow" I remember, in Ohio, fields of wastes of nature, lost pasture, fallow clearings, buckwheat and fireweed and broken sparrow nests, especially in the summer, in the fading hilltop sun, when you could lose yourself by simply lying down. Who will find you, who will call you home now, at dusk, with the dry tips of the goldenrod confused with a little wind, filling in what's left of the light.
Orpheus & Eurydice
by Gregory OrrHow can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades.Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which resists explanation. Through poems of passionate and obsessive erotic love, Orr has dramatized the anguished intersection of infinite longings and finite lives and, in the process, explores the very sources of poetry.When Eurydice saw himhuddled in a thick cloak,she should have knownhe was alive,the way he shiveredbeneath its useless folds.But what she sawwas the usual: a strangerconfused in a new world.And when she touched himon the shoulder,it was nothingpersonal, a kindnesshe misunderstood.To guide someonethrough the halls of hellis not the same as love."A reader unfamiliar with Orr's work may be surprised, at first, by the richness of both action and visual detail that his succinct, spare poems convey. Lyricism can erupt in the midst of desolation."--Boston GlobeWhen Gregory Orr's Burning the Empty Nest appear, Publisher's Weekly praised it as an "auspicious debut for a gifted newcomer...he already demonstrates a superior control of his medium." Kirkus Review celebrated it as "an almost unbearably powerful first book of poetry" and enthusiastically reviewed his second book Gathering the Bones Together, noting that "Orr's power is the eloquence of understatement." Most recently, his City of Salt was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Gregory Orr teaches at the University of Virginia.
Orphic Paris
by Henri ColeA poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic, oracular, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.
Orphic Politics
by Tim LilburnA new collection by the winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Tim Lilburn's award-winning work has observed the natural world with an intensity of seeing and a reverence that shifts the way we understand our lives. Now, in his brilliant new collection of poems, Lilburn has turned his meticulous, unerring eye to an intimate, utterly compelling exploration of the body's fall into illness. These haunting poems take the reader below the surface of things into a peculiar world of personal and social alteration. Its incantatory insistence and its shocking imagistic leaps make the poetry a sustained act of therapy, a ritual instrument for change.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ortiga
by Elena Barrio FabregatOrtiga es una selección de poemas de Elena Barrio, un canto a la añoranza, a la tierra, a la familia, a la mujer, a la infancia. «En este álbum familiar: las mujeres que pisaron estos bosques y los domesticaron sin herirlos. las que cuidaron de los suyos por encima de la resistencia de sus carnes. las que abortaron en silencio y se levantaron para continuar labrando, dejando la pena a un lado. las que salieron de noche, a la caza del lobo. las que cultivaron la compasión y la resistencia. las que emigraron. las que permanecieron.»
Ortiga
by Elena Barrio FabregatOrtiga es una selección de poemas de Elena Barrio, un canto a la añoranza, a la tierra, a la familia, a la mujer, a la infancia. «En este álbum familiar: las mujeres que pisaron estos bosques y los domesticaron sin herirlos. las que cuidaron de los suyos por encima de la resistencia de sus carnes. las que abortaron en silencio y se levantaron para continuar labrando, dejando la pena a un lado. las que salieron de noche, a la caza del lobo. las que cultivaron la compasión y la resistencia. las que emigraron. las que permanecieron.»
Os Ensinamentos do Baraka
by Mois Benarroch Jean Pierre BarakatO famoso longo poema "Os ensinamentos de Baraka" do poeta israelense Mois Benarroch é uma jornada espiritual na vivência da vida.
Os cem melhores poemas portugueses dos últimos cem anos
by José Mario SilvaEntre grandes nomes canónicos já desaparecidos e jovens e promissórias vozes, o mundo da poesia portuguesa contemporânea é-nos apresentado com uma frescura e originalidade inesperadas e os poemas vão guiando o leitor numa viagem íntima por esse mundo à parte e imorredouro, apesar de actualíssimo, que é a poesia. Reúne poemas de autores como Fernando Pessoa, Camilo Pessanha, Jorge de Sena, Vitorino Nemésio, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Herberto Helder, Alexandre O'Neill, Mário Cesariny entre outros.
Os cem melhores poemas portugueses dos últimos cem anos
by José Mário SilvaEis a desafiante antologia de um século de poesia singular e liberta, mensageira do moderno e do ancestral, de uma individualidade complexa mas também do clamor colectivo - uma poesia diversa e plural na sua forma, sempre intensa nos seus temas. Selecção e organização de José Mário Silva Entre nomes canónicos já desaparecidos e novas e auspiciosas vozes, a poesia portuguesa é-nos apresentada com um arrojo alheio a espartilhos académicos ou de notoriedade. Este livro constitui uma leitura incontida e luminosa do panorama poético português, marcada sobretudo pelo entusiasmo de dar a conhecer o que de melhor fizeram, ao longo de cem anos, cem dos nossos poetas. Esta é, assim, uma viagem íntima por esse universo paralelo que, nas palavras de Sophia de Mello Breyner, é «uma luta contra a treva e a imperfeição»: a poesia.
Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten not Made (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by James CampbellThis book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.
Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten, Not Made (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by James CampbellThis book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.
Oscar Wilde: Everyman Poetry
by Oscar WildeRenowned for his wicked wit and bons mots, Wilde also had a deep understanding of the human condition - as revealed with moving simplicity in THE BALLARD OF READING GOAL.