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The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001 (American Poets Continuum)
by Louis SimpsonFew poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual&’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover&’s quarrel with the world."Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."—Seamus HeaneyEducated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
by Hilary Herbold Arnold RampersadFor over two centuries, black poets have created verse that reflects the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people.
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
by Donald HallIn the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse comes this anthology by the award-winning poet and children's book author Donald Hall. Bringing together "poems written for children and also poems written for anybody which children have enjoyed," the book includes anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces, beginning with the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century. Hall has collected poems from Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and children's periodicals such as St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion. Many marvelous writers, some no longer remembered, wrote almost every month for these nineteenth and twentieth century publications. In addition to the expected names of Longfellow and Whittier, we find Sarah Josepha Hale ("Mary Had a Little Lamb"), Mary Mapes Dodge (creator of Hans Brinker), and Palmer Cox (with his marvelous Brownies). Twentieth century authors abound: Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot, John Updike, Theodore Roethke, to name just a few. The book concludes with the fabulous nonsense of present-day writers like Shel Silverstein and Nancy Willard.
The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems
by Michael Harrison Christopher Stuart-ClarkThis book contains well over 100 Christmas poems--old and new, traditional and modern--and features four sections, starting in winter, moving through Advent, and exploring the Nativity and the heart of the Christmas season and ending with the arrival of spring. It is the perfect anthology for Christmas, The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems contains a wide range of poems, old and new, well loved and less familiar. A whole host of poets are here including Ted Hughes, John Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Walter de la Mare, Charles Causley, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden and Roger McGough -- along with traditional verses and carols. The Index is included. Adaptations have been made to preserve the format for Braille, auditory and print readers. Page Numbers reflect the book content and hard page breaks. A few pages were presented on two pages because of their great length labeled, for example, 157 Part A and 157 Part B. Contains British spelling and many uniquely spelled words and punctuation devised by the authors to fit their poetry. Also contains antiquated language. The poems, contents Index have been proofread word by word and spell checked. Expect unusual words like: snowful, Haie-aie, Sem, wot, and smit, yeeres, boyes and tending. The Bookshare collection also contains The Oxford Book of Christmas Stories.
The Oxford Book of Poetry for Children
by Edward BlishenA compilation of many famous children's poems.
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
by Donald HallAn anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
Oxford Poetry by Richard Eedes and George Peele (Routledge Revivals)
by Richard EedesPublished in 1995: The present volume contains two comparatively lengthy Latin hexameter poems that emanated from this circle. One is by Richard Eedes; the other is anonymous, although for the purposes of this book the author provisionally accepted Tucker Brooke’s attribution to George Peele.
Ozone Journal
by Peter BalakianThe title poem of Peter Balakian's Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists in 2009. These memories spark others—the dissolution of his marriage, his life as a young single parent in Manhattan in the nineties, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of AIDS—creating a montage that has the feel of history as lived experience. Bookending this sequence are shorter lyrics that span times and locations, from Nairobi to the Native American villages of New Mexico. In the dynamic, sensual language of these poems, we are reminded that the history of atrocity, trauma, and forgetting is both global and ancient; but we are reminded, too, of the beauty and richness of culture and the resilience of love.<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Paavendar Bharathidasanin Ethipaaratha Muttham
by BharathidasanComprises 32 chapters in two parts: The first part picturises the deep love of Ponmodi, the hero and Poongothai, the heroine which was opposed by the parents resulting in the hero’s exile to the north.Unable to bear the separation, Poongothai proceeds in search of her lover while he was on his way back home following the rift he had with a saint in the north. While both meeting surprisingly at a jungle she exchanged a kiss with her lover but unfortunately the hero was killed by a villain. She also dies. In the second part the author regrets the unending tears of the parents of the lovers.
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People / Poeta del pueblo (Bilingual Edition)
by Monica BrownA new Spanish and English bilingual edition of the stunning picture book biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the world's most enduring and popular poets, from the acclaimed Monica Brown.Había una vez un niño llamado Neftalí, quien amaba las cosas salvajes locamente y las cosas tranquilas serenamente. Desde el momento en que aprendió a hablar, se rodeó de palabras. Neftalí descubrió la magia oculta entre las páginas de los libros.Cuando tenía dieciséis años, comenzó a publicar sus poemas bajo el nombre Pablo Neruda. Pablo escribió poemas sobre las cosas que amaba: obras creadas por sus amigos artistas, objetos hallados en los mercados y elementos de la naturaleza. Escribió sobre la gente de Chile y su lucha por salir adelante. Porque sobre todas las cosas y sobre todas las palabras, Pablo Neruda amaba a la gente.Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words, seeking comfort and inspiration from the magic he discovered between the pages of books.When he was sixteen, he began publishing his writing as Pablo Neruda. Pablo wrote poems about the things he loved—things made by his friends in the café, things found at the marketplace, and things he saw in nature. He wrote about the people of Chile and their stories of struggle. Because above all things and above all words, Pablo Neruda loved people.With a new translation of Monica Brown's lyrical text and Julia Paschkis' gorgeous art, which celebrates multiple languages, this new edition will introduce the youngest of readers—of English, Spanish, and both—to the legacy of one of history's most iconic talents.
Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry
by Charles PottsCharles Potts has assembled a number of very talented poets hailing (sort of) from the Pacific Northwest. Plenty of strastopherically high culture is here, experimentalism, pathos, insight too. An anthology of 50 poets.
Pacific Power & Light: Poems
by Michael DickmanThe award-winning poet returns to his homeplace in the Pacific Northwest, where the neighborhood simmers with the chemical presence of human trouble and sparks of beauty coexist with danger.This image-driven, sound-driven collection carries us to the working-class Portland neighborhood of Lents, where Dickman was raised by a single mother. Here, as a skateboarding boy practices his kickflip on the street, enlightenment simmers under the surface of both the natural world and the human constructions that threaten it. The rivers shrinking to a trickle, the unaddressed crisis of homelessness, the drug use in a local park: these run side by side with the efforts and structures of families, created mostly by working mothers, with their jumbled bottomless purses and full-time jobs; Dickman&’s own mother worked at the power company of the title, PP&L. His exquisite, ultrareal narratives take us down through these layers, illuminating the way we&’ve treated and should treat one another, seeking integrity and understanding in the midst of a broken world.
Pagan Heaven
by Ruth RouffWhere is Pagan Heaven? It's all around us. In our unceasing fascination with a movie star who died over half a century ago. In an inner-city youth who muses over the meaning of the word philosophy. In a statue of the Virgin Mary sitting atop a Coke machine. On a street where Walt Whitman once lived. On a lesbian-only cruise ship off the coast of Alaska. In an unusual melding of narrative poetry and spot-on prose, Pagan Heaven offers a wry take on the absurdities of modern American life, all the while celebrating human uniqueness whenever, wherever, and however it's found.
Pagan Virtues: Poems
by Stephen DunnPulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and emotive powers on full display. In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire, restraint, and the roles we play in an ever-evolving society. In Pagan Virtues, Dunn reminds us of his penetrating eye for the universal and the specific, and his ability to highlight our contradictions with tenderness and wit. Two poems dedicated to Dunn’s eulogist, in advance, bookend the collection. The first introduces us to the poet’s sardonic candor and unflinching gaze at his own mortality, while the latter, written nineteen years later, reflects on what it means to continue to live in the “despoiled and radiant now.” A stunning sequence on the relationship between the speaker and “Mrs. Cavendish” examines an intimacy sustained and repelled by politics, philosophy, and attraction. Wry, observational, and wide-reaching, Pagan Virtues offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry.
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
by Stephanie BolsterShortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature -- constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past -- through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time-Life one named in the title. Informed by the author’s grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet’s combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where "arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades," and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. This is Bolster's best work.
Pageant of Seasons: A Collection of American Haiku
by Helen Stiles ChenowethThis is a collection of Japanese haiku written by an American poet Helen Chenoweth. The author has used a language that is all American in association, but very much enriched by her love for things Japanese."Poetry in Japan is as universal as air.<P><P> It is read by everybody, composed by almost everybody, irrespective of class and condition." This statement by Lafcadio Hearn deeply impressed Helen Chenoweth. In course of her comprehensive studies in the art of writing and teaching poetry, she became enchanted by the Japanese haiku, in which the subtlest meanings and feelings can be expressed in three short lines.Pageant of Seasons offers many lyrical haiku, some of which are centered around the Pacific Ocean. Other haiku show nature in all its facets of growing. These poems create a kaleidoscope of charming images and experiences to which each of us will attach his own meanings.
Painfully British Haikus
by Dale Shaw'Will make everybody laugh' DOLLY ALDERTON ON THE HIGH LOWEnjoy this hilarious collection of over 200 haikus that sum up the complex, confusing and often compounding character of the British people.The Sellotape endUnlocatable it seemsChristmas is cancelledHow many gin tinsIs decreed appropriate For this train journey? The sound of a splashMy Hobnob falls to piecesMy tea is sulliedEvery houseplantSuffers a slow painful deathI am a monsterYou're at the seasideA seagull eyes your MagnumYou won't win that fight
The Painted Bed: Poems
by Donald HallThe former US poet laureate delivers a book “filled with raw sexual disclosures, rowdy anger and a self-blasting mockery” (The New York Times).Donald Hall’s fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: “The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.” In that poetic tradition, as in The Painted Bed, the beloved might be a person or something else—life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall’s new poems further the themes of love, death, and mourning so powerfully introduced in his Without (1998), but from the distance of passed time. A long poem, “Daylilies on the Hill 1975-1989,” moves back to the happy repossession of the poet’s old family house and its history—a structure that “persisted against assaults” as its generations of residents could not. These poems are by turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing—”mania is melancholy reversed,” as Hall writes in another long poem, “Kill the Day.” In this book’s fourth and final section, “Ardor,” the poet moves toward acceptance of new life in old age; eros reemerges.“More controlled, more varied and more powerful, this taut follow-up volume [to Without] reexamines Hall’s grief while exploring the life he has made since. The book’s first poem, ‘Kill the Day,’ stands among the best Hall has ever written.” —Publishers Weekly“A compelling, sometimes shocking, and certainly deeply moving depiction of bereavement.” —Poetry“Hall has continued growing as a poet, and his steady readers may consider this his finest collection . . . Bleakness and beauty characterize the reminiscent lyrics that follow, too, joined by a breathtaking bluntness.” —Booklist
Painting from the Palette of Love: The Mystical Poetry of Kabir
by Thomas Rain CroweWrap yourself in the boundless love of the Divine with the mystical poetry of renowned Sufi saint Kabir, here brought to life for modern readers by acclaimed poet Thomas Rain Crowe.&“When you&’ve come all this way to the ocean of happiness, Do not return home thirsty with an empty cup. Wake up! Here is some pure water, Drink as much as you can!&”The enigmatic Indian mystical poet Kabir stands among the greatest spiritual thinkers of human history. At once a Sufi, Hindu, and unbounded disciple of the universal Divine, Kabir and his songs of union and ecstasy lead us beyond our preconceived biases about truth and reality—and invite us to see our life, through his eyes, as an ego-shattering and incomparably joyful dance with the Beloved. This 65-poem collection of Kabir&’s most rapturous spiritual songs, rendered into modern language by acclaimed poet and Sufi performing artist Thomas Rain Crowe, is brought to life in fresh, evocative language bursting with mystical power. Striking and profound, Crowe&’s inspired and poetic adaptations offer a sumptuous taste of true reality—beyond boundaries and in joyful embrace of life and our world.
A Painting of Sand: Poems from Ghost Ranch
by L. Luis LopezThese are lyric and narrative poems inspired by a number of visits and stays at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico. The beauty and the atmosphere of this high desert area during any season of the year has a special quality that inspires writers, artists, and anyone with spiritual interests (in the broad sense of that term). The book is dedicated to Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiu area, the land of Georgia O'Keefe, Thomas Merton, and countless other artists and writers.
The Paintings of Our Lives
by Grace SchulmanGrace Schulman's fourth collection of poetry, THE PAINTINGS OF OUR LIVES, celebrates earthly things while discovering inner lives. Here are poems of love and marriage -- including a psalm for the poet's anniversary and a portrayal of her parents dancing during the Depression -- and poems identifying with the hungers, sorrows, and joys of Chaim Soutine, Margaret Fuller, Paul Celan, and Henry James. In the final sonnet sequence, Schulman confronts her mother's death, calling on the art of many cultures to illuminate the universality of grief.
Un país mundano
by John AshberyEl mejor libro del poeta norteamericano más importante de nuestros días. Con más de ochenta años, John Ashbery es el mejor poeta norteamericano vivo, como demuestra Un país mundano, su libro más reciente, una secuencia de poemas donde, lejos de repetirse, sigue indagando en el lenguaje, abriendo nuevos caminos, creando nuevas figuraciones. Romántico y escéptico, surrealista y preciso, Ashbery nos da en esta nueva y destellante obra un nuevo testimonio de su sabiduría, de su valentía y de su insobornable exigencia.
Paisaje con grano de arena
by Wislawa SzymborskaPremio Nobel de Literatura La escritora polaca más reconocida junto a Ryszard Kapuscinski y a Stanislaw Lem. Amplia selección de la obra de Wislawa Szymborska, poeta polaca galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura, Paisaje con grano de arena es el primer volumen poético de la autora que se publicó en lengua castellana. Los cien poemas recogidos en esta antología, autorizada por la autora, constituyen una excelente muestra del recorrido literario y temático de la poesía de Szymborska, una poesía que, según la Academia sueca, «mezcla la elegancia de Mozart con la pasión de Beethoven», y, en palabras de Czeslaw Milosz, premio Nobel de 1980, «es una lección de austeridad, ironía y simplicidad». Críticas:«Su poesía, con irónica precisión, permite que el contexto histórico y biológico surja a la luz en fragmentos de la realidad humana.»Acta del jurado del Premio Nobel «Algo único que había en ella era la mezcla de sentido de la tragedia y sentido del humor: sabía mirar la brutalidad del poder y también su ridículo, que tantas veces lo hace todavía más peligroso.»Antonio Muñoz Molina «Lo que tenían en común su obra y vida era un pertinaz y obstinado apego a la independencia.»Adam Zagajewski «Destacó por una poesía llena de humor y por su hábil juego de palabras. De ella se desprende una consideración antropológica basada en la finitud humana, en la debilidad del hombre frente a la naturaleza, con el hombre en el centro de sus interrogantes.»La Vanguardia