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Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft is winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Glück's fourth selection for the series. The book and the dream are the poet's primary objects of investigation here. Through deft, quietly authoritative lyrics, Fisher meditates on the problems and possibilities-the frail craft-of perception for the reader, the dreamer, maintaining that "if the eye can love-and it can, it does-then I held you and was held." In her foreword to the book, Louise Glück writes that Fisher's poetry is "haunting, elusive, luminous, its greatest mystery how plain-spoken it is. Sensory impressions, which usually serve as emblems of or connections to emotion, seem suddenly in this work a language of mind, their function neither metonymic nor dramatic. They are like the dye with which a scientist injects his specimen, to track some response or behavior. Fisher uses the sense this way, to observe how being is converted into thinking."
Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- American poetry --- POETRY / General. --- 21st century.
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From The Horse That, Trotting The horse that, trotting with open heart Against the wind, achieves bend and flow Will live forever. So far, so good, But they never do, until too late, Bend properly and time spreads from The momentary hesitations Of their spines, circles their tossing necks, Falls from their teeth like rejected oats, Litters the ground like penitence. This is where we come in, where the drop Of time congeals the air and someone Speaks to the discouraged grass . . . Tricks of the Light explores the often fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological figurations, vibrant thought, and late-modern lyrics that seem to test their own boundaries. Vicki Hearne (1946-2001), best known and celebrated today as a writer of strikingly original poetry and prose, was a capable dog and horse trainer, and sometimes controversial animal advocate. This definitive collection of Hearne's poetry spans the entirety of her illustrious career, from her first book, Nervous Horses (1980), to never-before-published poems composed on her deathbed. But no matter the source, each of her meditative, metaphysical lyrics possesses that rare combination of philosophical speculation, practical knowledge of animals, and an unusually elegant style unlike that of any other poet writing today. Before her untimely death, Hearne entrusted the manuscript to distinguished poet, scholar, and long-time friend John Hollander, whose introduction provides both critical and personal insight into the poet's magnum opus. Tricks of the Light-acute, vibrant, and deeply informed-is a sensuous reckoning of the connection between humans and the natural world. Praise for The Parts of Light "Hearne . . . strives to capture exactly what she knows she can't-the intense immediacy of animal consciousness, a consciousness free of the moral vagaries and intellectual preoccupations that pockmark human experience. Her style, smooth in some places, choppy in others, reflects both the wholeness of animal presence and the jarring, fragmentary nature of human reason and reflection. Hearne's poems demand participation, refuse passive enjoyment; she dares the reader to stay in the saddle."-Publishers Weekly
POETRY / General. --- Hearne, Vicki, --- animals, domestication, mythology, poetry, collection, anthology, literature, creative writing, contemporary, gender, rights, nature, freedom, liberty, dogs, reason, pleasure, joy, consciousness, parts of light, absence horses, relationships, environment, humanity, expression, community, women writers, female poet, wilderness, wild.
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From Second Draft:. What other people learn. From birth, . Betrayal, . I learned late. My soul perched. On an olive branch. Combing itself, . Waving its plumes. I said. Being mortal, . I aspire to. Mortal things. I need you, . Said my soul, . If you?re telling the truth. Draft of a Letter is a book about belief?not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems discover infinitude in the most familiar places. The revelation is disorienting and, as a result, these poems talk to themselves, revise themselves, fash.
Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- POETRY / General. --- belief, faith, objectivity, knowing, familiar, mundane, self, soul, ghosts, angels, division, loneliness, solitude, poetry, collection, contemporary, literature, creative writing, humanity, modern life, epistemology, poetics, aging, petrarch, sorrow, grief, joy, reason, rationality, satisfaction, purpose, fulfillment, meaning, children, family.
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Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-1596), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l'Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopt the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l'Aubespine's speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant; and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed sources, l'Aubespine's poems and literary works are presented here in Anna Klosowska's vibrant translation. This collection, which features one of the first French lesbian sonnets as well as reproductions of l'Aubespine's poetic translations of Ovid and Ariosto, will be heralded by students and scholars in literature, history, and women's studies as an important addition to the Renaissance canon.
POETRY / General. --- L'Aubespine, Madeleine de, --- Aubespine, Madeleine de l', --- De l'Aubespine, Madeleine, --- madeleine de laubespine, gender, female poet, women writers, poetry, love, lyricism, erotics, sexuality, feminism, dominance, defiance, humiliation, femme fatale, manipulation, power, authority, class, wealth, beauty, lesbian, queer, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, ovid, ariosto, renaissance, literature, history, heroides, orlando furioso, translation, anthology, collection, canon.
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Known as the "Spanish Homer," Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) is widely considered to be Spain's greatest poet. He was both praised and vilified during his lifetime, but his reputation waned in the years after his death; in the 1920's, he was championed by the Modernists, including Federico García Lorca, and influential critics of Spanish literature, including Dámaso Alonso. Famous for intricate metaphors in baroque style and syntax, Góngora has even been immortalized as a literary term: a "gongorism" connotes an involved Latinate style. Yet despite his influence and reputation
POETRY / General. --- Góngora y Argote, Luis de, --- Góngora, Luis de, --- Argote, Luis de Góngora, --- poetry, translation, world literature, spain, spanish, puns, innuendo, sexuality, romance, passion, erotics, sonnets, songs, ballads, fable of polyphemus and galatea, letrillas, pyramus thisbe, first solitude, soledad i, poetics, creative writing, mythology, intertextuality, adaptation, folklore, canon, love, mourning, religion, classicism, nativity, el greco. --- Gongora y Argote, Luis de,
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This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision-perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature-in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.
POETRY / General. --- Vallejo, César, --- Vallejo Mendoza, César Abraham, --- Mendoza, César Abraham Vallejo, --- Vallejo, César Abraham, --- Valʹekho, Sesar, --- Valliecho, Kaisar, --- Vallejo, Cholo, --- 20th century poetry. --- award winner. --- christian. --- christianity. --- collected works. --- creative writing. --- emotional. --- faith. --- life story. --- mfa. --- national book award. --- peruvian poetry. --- poetics. --- poetry collection. --- poetry studies. --- poetry translation. --- poetry. --- realistic. --- spanish language poetry. --- spanish language. --- theology. --- translation. --- true story. --- world poetry.
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This landmark collection brings Ted Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry together in a single authoritative volume for the first time. Edited by the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons, The Collected Poems demonstrates the remarkable range, power, and importance of Berrigan's work.
American poetry --- POETRY / General. --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 20th century. --- Berrigan, Ted. --- Berrigan, Edmund Joseph --- Leon, --- 20th century american literature. --- 20th century american poetry. --- american expressionism. --- american expressionist tradition. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- beat poetry. --- complex. --- connotation and sound. --- emotional. --- expressionist aesthetics. --- heartfelt. --- late beat. --- literary authority. --- literary. --- personal dedication. --- personality of the writer. --- poems. --- poetry collection. --- poetry. --- poets. --- projection of the self. --- realistic. --- self consciousness. --- unpublished works.
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The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa's work into English. Hiroaki Sato's own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa's poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet's significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O'Brien.
POETRY / General. --- Miyazawa, Kenji, --- Miyāsāwa, Khēnčhi, --- Kenji, Miyazawa, --- 宮澤賢治, --- 宮沢賢治, --- 宮泽贤治, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- avant garde. --- buddhism. --- buddhist poets. --- buddhists. --- contemporary poetry. --- early 20th century. --- ecologists. --- english translation. --- global context. --- global literature. --- japanese literature. --- japanese modernism. --- japanese poetry. --- japanese poets. --- lit students. --- lit studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary movements. --- miyazawa kenji. --- modern literature. --- modernism. --- modernist poetry. --- poems. --- poetry collection. --- translated poetry.
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Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940's and 1950's as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time-from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and counter memories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.
American poetry --- POETRY / General. --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 20th century. --- 1940s. --- 1950s. --- american poet. --- american poetry. --- berkeley renaissance. --- charles bernstein. --- charles olson. --- collected works. --- creative writer. --- creative writing. --- epic poem. --- inspiring. --- jack spicer. --- life story. --- literary history. --- literary. --- long poem. --- mfa. --- ouevre. --- philosophy. --- poetic verse. --- poetics. --- poetry studies. --- poetry. --- postwar poet. --- postwar poetry. --- postwar. --- robert duncan. --- serial poem. --- serial publication. --- steve mccafferey. --- the holy forest. --- verse.
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