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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.
Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Edited translated by R. ParthasarathyClassical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English.Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable poetic tradition.
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.
The Essential Poet's Glossary
by Edward HirschA Poet’s Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet’s Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume. "An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."—Washington PostChancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and continents, including forms, devices, movements, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore. Knowing how a poem works is crucial to unlocking its meaning—entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made A Poet’s Glossary and How to Read a Poem so beloved, this Essential edition is the book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to again and again.
Estados de un exanónimo
by PortaPorta, uno de los músicos más influyentes en castellano, debuta en la escritura con Estados de un exanónimo , un libro en el que hace gala de una prosa poética que revisa las pulsiones que nos salvan y nos hieren cada día. «Cuando vuelo el mundo me parece un regalo apasionante y la vida un puzle por completar.»Cuando me dejo llevar me olvido de lo que quiero y dejo que suceda lo que, sin esfuerzo ni angustia, llega a mí.» Lo bueno y lo malo y todos sus grises; y cómo lo afrontamos; y cómo nos refugiamos en ello; y cómo nos condiciona en cada momento. Eso es lo que Porta examina y disecciona con una voz cercana en este libro que consta de cuatro partes, como los estados de ánimo en torno a los cuales nos movemos todos.
El estilo de mis matemáticas
by Mauricio RedolesLa poesía única y las mejores canciones de Mauricio Redolés, legendario ícono de la cultura chilena Con sus canciones, poemas y apariciones públicas, Mauricio Redolés se ha convertido en una figura incomparable de la cultura chilena. Atrevido, perspicaz, lírico, delicado y humorístico son términos con los que su trabajo podría ser descrito. Pero quedan cortos. Redolés es imprevisible, va por la libre. Pasa como si nada del poema coloquial al tango audaz, de la elegía amorosa al canto paródico, del chiste político al verso filosófico. El año 2000, bajo el título Estar de la poesía o el estilo de mis matemáticas, el propio autor editó un volumen con sus mejores poemas que se convirtió en un verdadero best seller alternativo. La presente edición es una remasterización de ese libro mítico prologada por el poeta y filósofo Yanko González.
Estradas Infinitas
by Sondra Hicks Johnny Wesley Moreira FerreiraUm livro cheio de poemas de coração, alma, crianças, dor, espiritual e muito mais. Este livro mostra o coração do autor e as muitas coisas que ela sentiu em sua vida. Realmente é uma boa leitura.
Everyday Haiku: An Anthology
by Gillian Barlow Jennifer Cool Teri Crane Jenny Douglas Pete Follansbee Nicole Galland Erika Hansen Pam Helberg Rebecca Lovering Johnson Lisa Lutwyche Dori McCraw Kristen Ringman Eve Moore Carrie Nassif Mil Norman-Risch Mary Pecaut Jennfier Newsome Marsha Pincus Tania Pryputniewicz Jocelyn Rasmussen Lisa Rizzo Jennifer Steil Frances Benson Lisa Sukenic Ruth Thompson Sean Tribe Ellen Tumavicus Liz Boquet Nance Broderzen Mandy Brown Esther Cohen Jill Martindale Farrar Deb CookAn anthology of modern "everyday" haiku by thirty-three brave writers who spent all of 2014 writing one haiku a day and sharing them in an online group called The Haiku Room.
Fallen Angels
by Toni AriasFallen Angels is the fifth poem book written by Toni García Arias, published in paper in due moment by the prestigious Editorial Renacimiento. Fallen Angels is a group of poems about ordinary life themes, like little postcards of everyday life. Among the subjects we can find memoirs of childhood, lack of love, the lost of dear people o the sensation of defeat. The title Fallen Angels refers to all these little sufferings along our lives that finally convey into our real life moments already converted in memories.
Falling Ill: Last Poems
by C. K. WilliamsA capstone to an unforgettable careerOver the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet’s task: to record with candor and ardor “the burden of being alive.” In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind’s encounter with the brute fact of the body’s decay, the spirit’s erasure.Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly “the dreadful edge of a precipice” where a futureless future stares back. Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns of consciousness. All is coming apart, taken away, except the brilliant art to describe it as the end is coming. All along is the reassurance of love’s close presence.Here are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogation—a dialogue between the agonized “I” in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive “you” of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach.Williams’s Falling Ill takes its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.
False Friends
by Stephen CainFalse Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"--two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore errors, misapprehensions, and mistranslations and offer insights into the "secret operations" hiding within everyday language. These poems spin punk with pastoral, comic book with lyric, the misunderstood with the obvious. And at its core, False Friends is a thought-provoking investigation of the power of poetry as political dicourse.
Feel Happier in 9 Seconds
by Linda BesnerI learned the secret of serenity by waterboarding daffodils. My Buddha is landfill. My mantra choked from a bluebird’s neck. It’s ruthless, the pursuit of happiness. Eighteen seconds have elapsed. This collection is a universe where minimalism and maximalism work in harmony. Ethics, economics, glamour and alternative physics are just a few of the vehicles Besner uses in her jaundiced pursuit of knowledge and joy. At the collection’s core is a series of brilliantly illuminated poems patterned on a scientific study of synaesthesia and Fisher Price refrigerator magnets. Besner’s courageous comparisons and musicality provide the critical happiness we all need. ‘Besner’s imagination doesn’t appear to have an upper or outer limit … Reading her poems is a bad trip and a transformational experience.’ – Ken Babstock ‘Besner is one of the funniest poets writing in this country.’ – National Post
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing
by Marilyn SingerAn irresistible book of poems about dancing that mimic the rhythms of social dances from cha-cha to two-step, by the acclaimed author of Mirror Mirror Marilyn Singer has crafted a vibrant collection of poems celebrating all forms of social dance from samba and salsa to tango and hip-hop. The rhythm of each poem mimics the beat of the dances&’ steps. Together with Kristi Valiant&’s dynamic illustrations, the poems create a window to all the ways dance enters our lives and exists throughout many cultures. This ingenious collection will inspire readers to get up and move!Included with the e-book is an audio recording of the author reading each poem accompanied by original music.
Fern the Mighty
by Liz SiedtThis pirate ship crew is about to discover its most valuable resource: Fern the Mighty!
The Fire Horse: Children's Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam and Daniil Kharms
by Eugene OstashevskyWhimsical and revolutionary poems and art by some of Russia's foremost avant-garde writers and illustratorsA boy wants a toy horse big enough to ride, but where can his father find it? Not in the stores, which means it’s got to be built from scratch. How? With the help of expert workers, from the carpenter to the painter, working together as one. And now the bold boy is ready to ride off in defense of the future!Two trams, Click and Zam, are cousins. Click goes out for a day on the tracks and before long he’s so tired he doesn’t know where he is or how to get back. All he knows is he’s got to find Zam. Click is looking for Zam and Zam is looking for Click, and though for a while it seems like nobody knows where to find Click, good and faithful Zam is not to be deterred.Peter’s a car, Vasco’s a steamboat, and Mikey’s a plane. They’re all running like mad and going great guns until, whoops, there’s a big old cow, just a plain old cow, standing in the road. What then? The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for children’s literature. The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia’s most celebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich. Brilliantly translated by the poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetry that is as whimsical and wonderful as it is revolutionary.
First Nights: Poems
by Niall CampbellThe Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, the largest such prize in the United Kingdom, was named the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection. First Nights--which includes all the poems in Moontide and sixteen new ones--marks the North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry. First Nights offers vivid descriptions of the natural world, and the joy found in moments of quiet, alongside intimate depictions of new parenthood. Campbell grew up on the remote, sparsely populated islands of South Uist and Eriskay in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and First Nights is filled with images of the islands' seascapes, myths, wildlife, and long, dark winters. But the poems widen beyond their immediate locations to include thoughts on sculpture and mythology, Zola and Dostoevsky, and life in English cities and French villages. In the poems on early fatherhood, the geography shifts from coastal stretches to bare, dimly lit rooms. Stripped back, honest, and immediate, these poems capture moments of vulnerability, when the only answer is to love.Combining skilled storytelling, precise language, an allegiance to meter and form, and a quiet musicality, these poems resonate with silence and song, mystery and wonder, exploring ideas of companionship and withdrawal, love, and the stillness of solitude. The result is a collection that promises to be a classic.
First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Michael Schumacher“The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with one person and thinking about another.” —Ginsberg speaking to his writing class at Naropa Institute, 1985With “Howl” Allen Ginsberg became the voice of the Beat Generation. It was a voice heard in some of the best-known poetry of our time—but also in Ginsberg’s eloquent and extensive commentary on literature, consciousness, and politics, as well as his own work. Much of what he had to say, he said in interviews, and many of the best of these are collected for the first time in this book. Here we encounter Ginsberg elaborating on how speech, as much as writing and reading, and even poetry, is an act of art.Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on LSD in 1966; gently pressing an emotionally broken Ezra Pound in a Venice pensione in 1967; taking questions in a U.C. Davis dormitory lobby after a visit to Vacaville State Prison in 1974; speaking at length on poetics, and in detail about his “Blake Visions,” with his father Louis (also a poet); engaging William Burroughs and Norman Mailer during a writing class: Ginsberg speaks with remarkable candor, insight, and erudition about reading and writing, music and fame, literary friendships and influences, and, of course, the culture (or counterculture) and politics of his generation. Revealing, enlightening, and often just plain entertaining, Allen Ginsberg in conversation is the quintessential twentieth-century American poet as we have never before encountered him: fully present, in pitch-perfect detail.
Las flores del mal | El Spleen de París | Los paraísos artificiales
by Charles BaudelaireLos mejores libros jamás escritos. «El Poeta es igual a este rey de las nubesque se ríe de las flechas y vence el temporal;desterrado en la tierra y en medio de las gentes,sus alas de gigante le impiden caminar.» Padre de la modernidad y poeta maldito por excelencia, Baudelaire abrió las puertas a un mundo hasta entonces vetado a la literatura con Las flores del mal, una «ofensa a la moral» por la que fue procesado. A través de sus versos, la lírica dejaba atrás los paisajes bucólicos y las pasiones elevadas para hundirse en la bohemia parisina. Lejos de amedrentarse ante la incomprensión de sus contemporáneos, Baudelaire ahondó aún más si cabe en esos parajes oscuros con el florilegio de prosa poética de El spleen de París y el ensayo Los paraísos artificiales, en el que narra sus experiencias con el opio y el hachís. Tras ellos se revela la decadencia de unos ideales duramente criticados, la melancolía, el deseo de la inasible eternidad y el terrible miedo al paso del tiempo, jamás clemente. La presente edición presenta la soberbia versión que ofreció el gran poeta valenciano Lluís Guarner, así como algunos poemas traducidos por el propio editor de este volumen, Andreu Jaume.
For Want of Water: and other poems
by Sasha Pimentel Gregory PardloSearing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award–winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Juárez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina’s life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a city—but the breadth of a country—away. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much “a body will hold,” reaching from the border to the poet’s own Philippines. These poems thirst in the desert, want for water, searching the brutal and tender territories between bodies, families, and nations.
Forget Me Not
by Ellie TerryAstronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is--an interesting person and a good friend. But is he brave enough to take their friendship public? As Calliope navigates school, she must also face her mother's new relationship and the fact that they might be moving--again--just as she starts to make friends and finally accept her differences. Ellie Terry's affecting debut will speak to a wide audience about being true to oneself.
The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory
by Rae ParisRae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for California in the late 1950s. After the death of her father in 2011, the fiction Paris had been writing gave way to poetry and short prose, which were heavily influenced by the questions she’d long been considering about narrative, power, memory, and freedom. The need to write this story became even more personal and pressing. While Paris sometimes uses the genre of “memoir” or “hybrid memoir” when referring to her work, in this case the term “rememory,” born from Toni Morrison’s Beloved, feels most accurate. Paris is driven by the familial and historical spaces and by what happens when we remember seemingly disparate images and moments. The book’s three sections are motivated by the ongoing movement for black lives—with the headings “Bones,” “Bodies,” and “Souls.” Paris’s writing is raw and unapologetic as it delves into a history shaped by stories of terror and resistance. The collection is not fully prose or poetry, but more of an extended funeral program or a prayer for those who have passed through us. A perfect blending of prose, poetry, and images, The Forgetting Tree is a unique and thought-provoking collection that argues for a deeper understanding of past and present so that we might imagine a more hopeful, sustainable, and loving future.
Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
by Thomas DekkerA timeless, little-known literary classic to engage a new generation of readers As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, in the midst of societal chaos and tragedy, playwright Thomas Dekker wrote Four Birds of Noah&’s Ark, a book containing fifty-six prayers for the people of London and all of England. The prayers in this book bear witness to Dekker&’s deep faith with a power and poignancy that few written prayers in English literature achieve. Bringing Dekker&’s devotional classic back into print for the first time since 1924, editor Robert Hudson has annotated the prayers and modernized their language without sacrificing their enchanting beauty and simplicity. Hudson&’s substantive and illuminating introduction is a gem in itself.
Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
by Thomas DekkerA timeless, little-known literary classic to engage a new generation of readers As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, in the midst of societal chaos and tragedy, playwright Thomas Dekker wrote Four Birds of Noah&’s Ark, a book containing fifty-six prayers for the people of London and all of England. The prayers in this book bear witness to Dekker&’s deep faith with a power and poignancy that few written prayers in English literature achieve. Bringing Dekker&’s devotional classic back into print for the first time since 1924, editor Robert Hudson has annotated the prayers and modernized their language without sacrificing their enchanting beauty and simplicity. Hudson&’s substantive and illuminating introduction is a gem in itself.
Freeman's: The Future of New Writing (Freeman's)
by John FreemanA diverse anthology of poetry, fiction and essays from the most exciting writers around the world in this “fresh, provocative, engrossing” literary journal (BBC.com).The literary anthology Freeman’s, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called “bold [and] searching” by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and “impressively diverse” by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and will continue to impact it in years to come.Drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators, and authors from across the globe, Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from writers aged twenty-five to seventy, from almost twenty countries and writing in almost as many languages. This will be a new kind of list, and an aesthetic manifesto for our times. Against a climate of nationalism and siloed thinking, this special issue celebrates a global view of where writing is going next.“The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen.”—Marlon James
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market
by Michelle SchaubThis collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers&’ market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown—it&’s all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors&’ wares with poems like &“Farmer Greg&’s Free-Range Eggs,&” &“Summer Checklist,&” and &“Necessary Mess.&”Bright and vibrant, this is the perfect guide for little ones to take with them on marketing day to inspire literacy and healthy eating.A pleasing window into the world of the farmers&’ market — School Library Journal, starred reviewSprightly illustrations and engaging rhymes will leave readers eager to sample market bounty — Kirkus ReviewsThis cheerful collection of verse offers an enticing introduction to farmers&’ markets — Booklist