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Shelley: The Man and the Poet (Routledge Revivals)
by A. Clutton-BrockFirst published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley’s life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light. A.Clutton-Brock notes his forthright and imperious attitude to life – a life in which Shelley found himself increasingly unhappy – and critically examines many facets of his artistic career which are often overlooked or misrepresented.
Shelley: The Pursuit
by Richard HolmesShelley: The Pursuit is a most apt title as this is indeed a biography that goes on the chase to bring together all manner of opinions; both contemporary and historical to weave together the short chaotic life of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelter
by Carey SalernoDisturbing because of the cruelty intended as kindness to animals and the speaker's unflinching, relentless insistence on her culpability, these poems force us to consider whether we can be redeemed by our capacity for love, compassion, and personal responsibility.
Sherko Bekas: A Kurdish Voice under the Lens of Critical Stylistics
by Ulrike Tabbert Mahmood K. IbrahimThis book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems. The authors also include a section on the Kurdish language and translation of the poems into English. There are very few English translations of some of Bekas' poems and no book so far on the stylistic or even linguistic analysis of his work, with the result that Bekas is not widely known in the "Western" world. This book aims to fill this lacuna in the literary and linguistic canon, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation, Stylistics, Middle Eastern History and Literature.
Shibboleth
by Michael DonaghyThis is Michael Donaghy's first full-length collection of verse to be published. His work has a wit and grace reminiscent of the metaphysical poets,and his subjects range widely, responding in unexpected ways to his curiosity and inventiveness. Among the varied pieces collected here are a number of love poems remarkable for their blend of tenderness and irony; a terse 'news item'; playful 'translations' of a mythical Welsh poet; and an 'interview' with Marcel Duchamp. As the American poet and critic Alfred Corn says: 'Michael Donaghy's poems have the fine-tuned precision of a ten-speed bike, the wit of a streetwise don, a polyphonic inventiveness ... Poems so original, wry, and philosophical as these are hard to come by. Don't think of passing them up.' Michael Donaghy was born in 1954 in the USA. For several years he was poetry editor of the Chicago Review, before he moved to England. He now lives in north London, where he also plays with a group of traditional Irish musicians.
Shift Work: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
by Bobby C. RogersShift Work gathers a chorus from the storytelling working classes of the Upper South. In narrative poems made of sinewy, Whitmanesque lines, Bobby C. Rogers composes portraits of dwellers in the small towns, unincorporated communities, and hard-edged cities they have flown to, always packing their past with them, an inheritance as ephemeral as vapor, made mostly of memory even as it was being lived.
Shine, Darling
by Ella FrearsA Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for PoetryUpdated edition, with a new poem and a new essay by Ella, on poetry and process'Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors . . . Frears is excellent on sexual politics, the end of girlhood' Guardian Ella Frears's debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They are as insistent as they are circumspect, drawing close to the reader's ear and bringing them into confidence. The engine of Shine, Darling is one of strength, of fortitude in confronting and surviving the world, of a lifted-chin audacity - 'There was pain,' the speaker allows, 'but it was not new pain.' Frears's work is world-weathered rather than world-weary, delighted by service stations, fucking on bins in Cornwall, in constant communion with the moon. It lives for the power-play of people, of the pull of the sea, the smoky air - 'Stormy, sticky with flies' - and tangled underbrush where the land ends. Her characters test each other, experimenting with the boundaries of physical violence, of punishment, of traps, all the while drawing the reader into a complicity that gives these poems all their daring, electrifying muscularity. In Shine, Darling, the desire to expose and disclose wrestles with defence and defiance. The result is exhilarating, a 'glorious full-bodied' debut collection with the draw of an adamant tide.
Shine: Poems for the Awakened One
by Nadia IrisEver wondered about the mystery of creation? Do you often feel like there’s more to life than what you’ve been told? There is! Dive deep into the magical stories of love, adversity and adventure. Join the journey of a Sun named Shine as he asks the Very First Question and is presented with a peculiar answer. Follow along with the adventure of a Magician and a Fairy Queen who intend to save their town by reminding the King that love is stronger than fear. Transform with a Secret Keeper who must decide if keeping secrets is his True Purpose and learn, ponder and explore universal concepts such as the Law of Attraction, the Chakras, the Star Signs, Intuition and the Elements as you discover things you didn’t know you knew! Every single person on the planet has within themselves a unique gift, something valuable and priceless to share with the world. Let these poems remind you of what lies dormant within your heart. Be brave enough to accept your light and let…it…SHINE. Something magical happens when you let your heart lead the way.
Ship
by Chris DemarestShip sails, tug beside. Salt air. Early tide.Take a voyage on the high seas in this rhyming book from Chris Demarest. Perfect for little ones ready to set sail. Check out Demarest's other transportation books, Bus, Plane, and Train, for more on-the-go charm!
Shipwrecked Shores
by Kayla CureShipwrecked Shores by Kayla Cure is filled with poetry and short stories about pain, heartbreak, beauty, and letting go. It's about the shipwreck that takes you to prettier shores. Sometimes, you have to break to find out what you're made of, and if you're lucky, you might just find yourself amongst the wreckage.
Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC
by June SobelHaving decided that R is not enough for them, a bumbling band of pirates sets sail on a quest to capture the rest of the alphabet. R-r-r-run for your lives, all ye alphabet letters! Ages 2 to 5
Shivery Shades of Halloween: Read & Listen Edition
by Mary McKenna SiddalsA rollicking, rhyming Halloween romp—in every color! What color is Halloween? Why, it&’s as green as an &“eerie glow, evil grin, vile brew, clammy skin,&” as white as &“cobwebs clinging, a misty trail, a skull, a spook, a face gone pale . . .&” Children will learn their colors as they follow a cute little creature on his adventure through haunted halls, moonlit forests . . . perhaps even a Halloween party! Jimmy Pickering&’s stylized settings and adorable monsters add a blast of colorful creepy-crawliness that will make kids giggle. Who knew that learning colors could be such spooky fun?This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Shock by Shock
by Dean Young"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape."--Chicago Tribune"In Young's work, the big essential questions--mortality, identity, the meaning of life--aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."--The Sunday Star (Toronto)Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into invigorating poetic territory that combines the joy of being alive with his signature mixture of surrealism, humor, and fast-cut imagery. A Pulitzer finalist known for his hard-won insights, NPR said it best when they observed that Young sees "even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be."From "Harvest":Bring me the high heart of a trapezist.If not, bring me the heart of a drunk monkso I may illuminate an ancient textin a language I can't understand.The brain too is blood, blood racing100 miles an hour on training wheelsso let me splash through a red puddle,let me kiss the face of a red puddle,let me write my crazed, extreme demandson the frost-cracked window of god's splitchest... Dean Young is the author of twelve books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin.
Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies
by James Lough Alex SteinFollowing up on the success of their first anthology of aphorisms, Short Flights, editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume that expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short form writing and concrete poetry and prose from several of the world's leading, award-winning, and bestsellling writers in the genre, including Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, Jane Hirschfield, Joy Harjo, Yahia Labadidi, Claudia Rankine, and Stephen Dobyns.
Short Cuts: Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver Robert AltmanA collection of nine fiction short stories and nine poems, which form an indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. This new movie tie-in edition is filled with deadpan humor and enormous tenderness as only an author of Altman's caliber could.
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco: Poems (Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry)
by K. Iver<p><p>In small-town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child “assigned ‘woman’” and a boy “forced to call / himself a girl” love one another—from afar, behind closed doors, in motels. The child survives an injurious mother and the beast-shaped men she brings home; the boy becomes a soldier. Years later, the boy—the eponymous beloved, Missy—dies by suicide, kicking up a riptide of memory. This is where K. Iver writes, at the confluence of love poem and elegy. <p><p> “I say to the water if you were here, / you’d be here.” With cinematic precision, they conjure dorm-room landlines, the lingering sweetness of shared candy, a ballet strap and “soft / fingers tracing it, afraid to touch / the skin.” They punctuate depictions of familial abuse and the cruel politics of the Deep South with fairy tales: a girl who endures abuse refusing to grow into a mother who inflicts it herself, queer youth kissing fearlessly, bodies transcending the violence of a reductive gender binary. In these fantasies, “there’s no / reason to leave town no hidden / torches waiting for us to fall asleep.” <p><p>Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco sees us through a particular kind of grief—one so relentless, it’s precious. It presses us, also, to continue advocating for a world in which queer love fantasies become reality and queer love poems “swaddle the impossible / contours of joy.”
Short Haul Engine
by Karen SolieWinner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes), shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards. Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it’s hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after another. The writing is clear, striking and open to all sorts of possibilities. Even at their most playful, these poems dive much deeper than initially expected. There’s a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, but tempered with a haunting vulnerability that makes even the sharpest lines tremble.
Short Histories of Light (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #42)
by Aidan ChafeShiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household dealing with the common but too often taboo subject of mental illness. In unflinching fashion, Chafe reveals the unintended disasters that follow those who struggle with depression and the frustration of loved ones left to pick up the pieces. Other sections of the book shine a light on the wounds inflicted by systems of patriarchy, particularly organized religion, and the caustic nature of humanity. Imagery and metaphor illuminate Chafe’s writing in a range of poetic forms, both modern and traditional. A boy stares helplessly through the walls of the family home, watches “filaments in glass skulls buzzing.” A father’s birthmark is described as a “scarlet letter.” Grandma is portrayed as a “forgotten girl on a Ferris wheel of feelings.” Vivid and haunting, at once tender and terse, Short Histories of Light captures what it feels like to be a short circuit in a world of darkness.
Short Takes on the Apocalypse
by Patricia YoungThe poems in this collection originated as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" and metamorphosed into poetic responses to quotations and epigraphs on a variety of subjects.
Short Talks
by Anne CarsonDeluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works.
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
by Patricia SmithWinner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award"Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful-and like the America she embodies and represents-dangerously beautiful. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah is a stunning and transcendent work of art, despite, and perhaps because of, its pain. This book shines." -Sapphire"One of the best poets around and has been for a long time." -Terrance Hayes"Smith's work is direct, colloquial, inclusive, adventuresome." -Gwendolyn BrooksIn her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. Shifting from spoken word to free verse to traditional forms, she reveals "that soul beneath the vinyl."Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. She lives in New Jersey.
Shout!: Little Poems That Roar
by Brod Bagert Sachiko YoshikawaThis vibrant collection of twenty-one poems celebrates the joys (snack time!) and pitfalls (2 + 2 = 23?) of childhood. Brod Bagert's often silly, always winsome poems cover everything from the seasons and the stars to finger paint and kids who quack. With humor and warmth, Shout! shows us there's fun in work and play, poetry in everything, and a million different uses for ketchup. Kids are sure to shout for a reread.
Show Me Your Environment: Essays On Poetry, Poets, And Poems
by David BakerShow Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the “environment of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, he looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, Baker takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.
Shy Charles
by Rosemary WellsBeing painfully timid and shy does not keep a young mouse from rescuing his baby-sitter in an emergency situation.
Si me hubiera conocido antes
by Jonathan HelenioHe aprendido de lo difícil para que, cada vez, lo difícil sea más fácil. Acompáñame en esta experiencia de palabras y sentimientos encontrados. Ayúdame a ser dueño de mi mente y déjate llevar cuando estoy pensando en alto.