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Breviario de nostalgia
by Nicolás MuñozUn poemario de madurez que se demora con acierto en la melancolía de una vida revisada. Breviario de nostalgia es el primer libro de Nicolás Muñoz, un poemario de madurez que se demora con acierto en la melancolía de una vida revisada. <P><P> Siendo esa su idea vertebradora, no deja de surgir, al tiempo, una variedad temática producto de una mirada vuelta hacia el pasado. En sus páginas, el lector se encontrará invadido por una atmósfera que le hará partícipe y cómplice del universo del protagonista-poeta. <P>Cada texto va desvelando parte de su identidad: los recuerdos de la infancia, los éxitos y los fracasos, la búsqueda del interlocutor, la vida, quizá un poco más canalla, la escritura misma... <P>Hay intensidad y también calma, un juego de contrapesos entre la cara amarga y el amor en su faceta más amable, salvífica. Muñoz apresa la nostalgia y se ocupa de los motores emocionales de su vida en un canto de reconciliación. Comoreza uno de los versos, «¡Qué placer haber nacido!».
Misión circular: Antología
by Rosabetty MuñozAmplia muestra de la obra de la gran poeta chilota Rosabetty Muñoz, Premio Pablo Neruda 2000. Desde Chiloé, durante casi cuatro décadas y a través de ya diez libros, Rosabetty Muñoz ha construido una muy personal obra poética donde la naturaleza es el ámbito principal en el que otra naturaleza, la humana, se despliega con todos sus matices. Especial elocuencia tiene aquí la expresión del carácter femenino y la indagación en las realidades rurales, así como en el origen y sentido de la vida, su plenitud y desgaste, su podredumbre y fin. Misión Circular recoge lo mejor de esa obra, incluidos un libro inédito –Veteranos– y un bellísimo poema que la autora escribió a los dieciocho años y que abre esta antología a modo de arte poética. La totalidad, expuesta no cronológicamente sino en un doble movimiento del pasado al presente, permite apreciar la constancia de una voz que se caracteriza desde el principio por una llaneza intensa, un arte sugerente y perspicaz, de formas breves y desprovisto de todo ornamento.
Retorno a Moulinsart
by Tito MuñozTito Muñoz, un poeta excelente que además ha escrito canciones para artistas tan relevantes como Serrat o Ruibal, publica ahora en Verso&Cuento. Estas páginas son una invitación a pasear en pantalón corto o con el uniforme de las teresianas y una tirita en la rodilla por el paisaje de la infancia, los primeros besos y las fotografías de veranos antiguos, rumbo al sótano de Moulinsart, donde se conserva el tesoro de la memoria trazado en línea clara. Con una mirada cínica, callejera y sin concesiones, Tito Muñoz se recrea en la belleza de la invención con el firme propósito de, como recomendaba Ángel González, mantener sucia la estrofa y escupir dentro. Así que, ¡mil rayos, marinero de agua dulce, bachi-bazuk de los Cárpatos!, abre el libro por donde caiga y deja que la poesía de sus páginas te posea y haga cosquillitas en tus vísceras. Reseña:«En este libro, Tito nos va dando una de cal y otra de arena sin hacer apenas aspavientos, sin despeinarse, sin esfuerzo aparente; saca del sombrero el imaginario de la niñez y, cuando te descuidas, esboza la decadencia del pesar de los días o le da la vuelta a la sonrisa huyendo de los sueños».Fragmento del prólogo de El Kanka
Blue Sonoma
by Jane MunroIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of insight, Munro's wisdom here is deeply embedded, shot through with moments of wit and candour. In the tradition of Taoist poets like Wang Wei and Po-Chu-i, her sixth and best book opens a wide poetic space, and renders difficult conditions with the lightest of touches.
Glass Float
by Jane MunroLines that attend to shore, air, water, sand, birds, other women; in their gathered particulars they bring us close to the concavities, the complex familiarity and mystery of conscious experience.
Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
by Jane MunroJane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know? In Grief Notes & Animal Dreams, Munro's third collection, we enter the condition Gaston Bachelard has called reverie, strange and miraculous beauty glowing in the suspended underwater light of the heart.
Point No Point: Poems
by Jane MunroPoint No Point’s title comes from a landform — an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all — and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro’s poems are situated in a deep sense. They live in situ in the way they inhabit their native place, intimate with its mists, its mosses and lichens, with the salmonberry and false lily-of-the-valley of their ecosystem. They are also situated temporally, evoking sharply etched memories, visions, and dreams: a real-time visit to her father’s boatyard, a dream visit with her mother from a time before the poet was conceived, a flashback to the sixties rendered in extreme close-up. By their musical attunement and the acuity of the focus, they demonstrate how such deep situation may come about, how we might bring language to the task of living in a way which is fully present. In the long culminating poem, “Moving to a Colder Climate,” Munro brings all these elements into play, summoning her father’s bold obstreperous ghost to be present as a new house is built — situated — in this language. Her gifts as a poet — acuity, candour, musicality — make Point No Point a work of unforgettable witness.
Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic
by Niall MunroHart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism.
The Colors of Desire: Poems
by David MuraA collection of poems by the author of Turning Japanese, exploring race and sexuality, history and identity, through the lens of desire.
American Radiance (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
by Luisa MuradyanWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn’t try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince’s outstretched hand. Colliding with the grand figures of late ’80s and early ’90s pop culture, Muradyan’s imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings.
Collected Works
by Nikesh MuraliA collection of some witty and some mundane love poems from Pushcart Award winning author Nikesh Murali.
Zorba's Daughter: poems (Swenson Poetry Award #14)
by Elisabeth MurawskiIn Zorba's Daughter, the 14th volume in the Swenson Poetry Award series, Elisabeth Murawski speaks from a vital and unique sensibility, finding in ordinary images an opening to the passion of human courage in the face of deep existential pain and ambivalence. These poems awaken our joy as well as guilt, our hope as well as grief. They often evoke a sorrowful music, like the voice of mourning, but even in pointing to "the black holes of heaven," Murawski turns our gaze upward. Zorba's Daughter was selected for the Swenson Award by the distinguished poet Grace Schulman. An icon of the literary scene, Schulman is acclaimed for her searching, highly original, lyric poetry, as well as for her teaching and her influential tenure as the poetry editor at The Nation, (1971-2006). Harold Bloom calls her "one of the permanent poets of her generation." Richard Howard says, "she is a torch."
First Buddhist Women
by Susan MurcottFirst Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. Through the study of the Therigatha, the earliest-known collection of women's religious poetry, the book explores Buddhism's 2,600-year-long liberal attitude toward women. Utilizing commentary and storytelling, author Susan Murcott traces the journey of wives, mothers, teachers, courtesans, prostitutes, and wanderers who became leaders in the Buddhist community, acquiring roles that even today are rarely filled by women in other, patriarchal religions.
Sing Sing Sing: Poems
by Bruce MurphySing, Sing, Sing is unlike any recent first collection by an American poet. It goes against the grain of contemporary fashion by replacing prosaic narrative with a lyricism both symbolic and mysterious. This poet can appreciate experience as "the open/End of a bag fill/With ordinary things," yet also he has an ear for "a watch that goes on ticking/Underground," the shadow of history that lies across the present. Murphy manifests a sense of responsibility for protecting the spirit of lost people and lost things. But in their concern for posterity, his poems use language to forge a memory of the future. This ethical impulse, "the voice of the conscious heart," gives rise to a poetry which is, even when most admonitory, compassionate. Murphy explores our involvement in history as its doers, sufferers, and writers. Hence his poetry is at the intersection of the personal and that sense of our anonymity together in which "anyone can write my story," The title, Sing, Sing, Sing, hints at the imperative music that characterizes these poems.
The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel
by G. Ronald MurphyA spirited retelling of the Gospel story in a Germanic setting, the ninth-century A. D. Old Saxon epic poem The Heliand is at last available in English in Ronald Murphy's graceful new translation. Representing the first full integration and poetic reworking of the Gospel story into Northern European warrior imagery and culture, the poem finds a place for many Old Northern religious concepts and images while remaining faithful to the orthodox Christian teaching of the Gospel of St. Mark. Accessible to students of medieval and comparative literature, Murphy's introduction and notes provide valuable insight and a cultural context for this unique masterpiece.
The Wear of My Face
by Lizz MurphyThe sun is our closest star just average a middle-aged dwarf past its prime but still a few billion years to go and fierce is its heat It's domains: interior surface atmospheres inner corona outer corona Did someone say Corona? The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull's wing or wing through the aerosphere.
Poetry of the New Woman: Public Concerns, Private Matters (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Patricia MurphyThe New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities. Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many of the same beliefs and objectives aimed at improving female conditions. While novels about the iconoclastic New Woman have garnered much interest in recent decades, poetry from the cultural and literary figure has received considerably less attention. Yet the very issues that propelled New Woman fiction are integral to the poetry of the fin de siècle. This book – the first in-depth account on the subject – enriches our knowledge of exceptionally gifted writers, including Mathilde Blind, M. E. Coleridge, Olive Custance, and Edith Nesbit. It focuses on their long-neglected British verse, analyzing its treatment of crucial matters on both the personal and public level to provide the attention the poetry so richly deserves.
Hemming Flames: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award)
by Patricia Colleen MurphyVolume 19 of the May Swenson Poetry Award Series, 2016 Throughout this haunting first collection, Patricia Colleen Murphy shows how familial mental illness, addiction, and grief can render even the most courageous person helpless. With depth of feeling, clarity of voice, and artful conflation of surrealist image and experience, she delivers vivid descriptions of soul-shaking events with objective narration, creating psychological portraits contained in sharp, bright language and image. With Plathian relentlessness, Hemming Flames explores the deepest reaches of family dysfunction through highly imaginative language and lines that carry even more emotional weight because they surprise and delight. In landscapes as varied as an Ohio back road, a Russian mental institution, a Korean national landmark, and the summit of Kilimanjaro, each poem sews a new stitch on the dark tapestry of a disturbed suburban family’s world. The May Swenson Poetry Award is an annual competition named for May Swenson, one of America’s most provocative and vital writers. During her long career, Swenson was loved and praised by writers from virtually every school of American poetry. She left a legacy of fifty years of writing when she died in 1989. She is buried in her hometown of Logan, Utah.
The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities)
by Peter MurphyThomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.
Right Way Down: A middle-reader poetry collection
by Sally MurphyStand on your head with Sally Murphy, explode some dynamite with Cristy Burne or shoot some hoops with Cheryl Kickett-Tucker. Grow a poettree with Meg McKinlay or curl up next to your cat with Amber Moffat and watch a bit of Stink-o-Vision with James Foley. These and loads more poems by Australian poets are there to discover in Right Way Down. With striking illustrations by Briony Stewart, these poems will have you laughing, thinking, and playing with words – whichever way you read them.
The Best Bug Parade (MathStart #Level 1)
by Stuart J. MurphyA variety of different bugs compare their relative sizes while going on parade
Set The Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir
by Timothy MurphyWhen Timothy Murphy graduated from college, Robert Penn Warren advised him to go home and grow some roots. This memoir in prose, verse and woodcuts, depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world.
Tragic Coleridge
by Chris MurrayTo Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Coleridge explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare, Milton and contemporary German thought. Coleridge viewed the hardships of the Romantic period, like the catastrophes of Greek tragedy, as stages in a process of humanity’s overall purification. Offering new readings of canonical poems, as well as neglected plays and critical works, Chris Murray elaborates Coleridge’s tragic vision in relation to a range of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to George Steiner and Raymond Williams. He draws comparisons with the works of Blake, the Shelleys, and Keats to explore the factors that shaped Coleridge’s conception of tragedy, including the origins of sacrifice, developments in Classical scholarship, theories of inspiration and the author’s quest for civic status. With cycles of catastrophe and catharsis everywhere in his works, Coleridge depicted the world as a site of tragic purgation, and wrote himself into it as an embattled sage qualified to mediate the vicissitudes of his age.
Buenas Noches, Vegetales/Goodnight, Veggies Bilingual
by Diana MurraySay buenas noches to adorable garden veggies in this Spanish-English bilingual book, illustrated by New York Times best-selling artist Zachariah OHora.
Firehouse Rainbow: A Story About Colors and Heroes (Little Golden Book)
by Diana MurrayA rhyming Little Golden Book that teaches colors in an exciting story about firefighters doing their job and having fun!This rhyming Little Golden Book follows a team of diverse firefighters who bravely save the day—and still manage to celebrate their captain's birthday. Young children will love pointing out the colors featured on each page of this fun, fast-paced story: Quickly! Stretch the yellow hose!Start the hydrant. There it goes! Aim the rushing stream of blue. Spray the roof and windows, too.