 | Postwar Polish Poetry: Third Expanded Edition
Publication Date: July 8, 1983This expanded edition of Postwar Polish Poetry (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland.The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion of new schools and talents.The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have o...
 |  | The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Edition: Literacy Program
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0194345734 | ISBN-13: 978-0194345736| Edition: 2nd A new edition of this popular topic-based dictionary which focuses on everyday, key vocabulary. ...
|  | The Poetry of Arab Women
Publication Date: October 2000Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. Uniting Arab women poets from the all over the Arab World anti abroad, Nathalie Handal has put together an outstanding collection that introduces poets who write in Arabic, French, English, and Swedish, among them some of the twentieth century's most accomplished poets and today's most exciting new voices.Translated by distinguished translators and poets from around the world, The Poetry of Arab Women showcases the work of 82 poets, among ...
|  | Angel Pawprints: Reflections On Loving and Losing a Canine Companion
Publication Date: February 9, 2000This poignant and elegantly designed collection of stories and verse provides comfort and healing for anyone experiencing the grief of losing a dog. An essential resource for veterinarians, bereavement counselors, pet loss support groups, and, of course, pet owners themselves, Angel Pawprints is a heartwarming book for anyone who has ever loved and lost a dog. ...
|  | On Our Own - Widowhood for Smarties
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Widowhood...a status with some deference but a role few seek. A new beginning usually greeted with dread rather than anticipation. The writers of this collection express the range of emotions at the loss of a spouse but the overwhelming message is affirmation of the strength they find to create new lives after deep loss. Widows and widowers will read these stories and poems with knowing nods, sighs and smiles. Other readers will find insight into a common human condition and perhaps courage to face their own unsought new beginnings. As the subtitle suggests, ...
|  | Emotion and the Arts
Publication Date: September 4, 1997| ISBN-10: 0195111052 | ISBN-13: 978-0195111057| Edition: First Edition The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all of whom seek to provide fine-grained accounts of critical problems having to do with emotion and art.How best to explain emotions produced by works of art? What goes on when we feel emotion for an abstract art such as music? How is it that we can intelligibly feel emotion for persons and situations that we know are fictional? What is ...
|  | Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: April 21, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook “Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. —Ch’ien Ch’iThis exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, m...
|  | Art and Artists: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Art and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse—the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy. Included here are poems that celebrate Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Here are such well-known poems as John Keats’s &ldqu...
|  | Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku
Publication Date: July 15, 1993This extraordinary collection is the most comprehensive volume of contemporary North American haiku written in English, containing over 800 haiku by 170 poets. ...
|  | Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity
Publication Date: January 17, 2012| ISBN-10: 0983148023 | ISBN-13: 978-0983148029Poetry. BURNING CITY acts as a "multisensory Baedecker" to the many incarnations of international modernism from 1910-1939. Inspired by the abandoned plans of the early avant-garde poet Yvan Goll to write a history of modernity through the poetry of that era, scholars Jed Rasula and Tim Conley have carried out Goll's project, scouring the small journals and magazines of the period for both lost and seminal texts. BURNING CITY is organized not just according to the cities which inspired the texts—Paris,...
|  | Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
Publication Date: November 11, 2008| ISBN-10: 1568813414 | ISBN-13: 978-1568813417What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? So wrote the American mathematician and educator David Eugene Smith. In a similar vein, the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass declared, A mathematician who is not at the same time something of a poet will never be a full mathematician. Most mathematicians will know what they meant. But what do professional poets think of mathematics? In this delightful collection, the editors present the view...
|  | Masterplots: 1,801 Plot Stories and Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature (12 Volume Set)
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|  | The New Anthology of American Poetry: Vol. III: Postmodernisms 1950-Present
Publication Date: April 15, 2012Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano continue the standard of excellence set in Volumes I and II of this extraordinary anthology. Volume III provides the most compelling and wide-ranging selection available of American poetry from 1950 to the present. Its contents are just as diverse and multifaceted as America itself and invite readers to explore the world of poetry in the larger historical context of American culture.Nearly three hundred poems allow readers to explore canonical works by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and ...
|  | The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science
Publication Date: April 16, 2001| ISBN-10: 0820322873 | ISBN-13: 978-0820322872Though the interests of science and art frequently seem to inhabit opposite poles, The Measured Word assembles a brilliant anthology of twelve essays that illumine the historic--and newly emerging--relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of leading contemporary poets, essayists, and thinkers, Kurt Brown highlights ways in which poets use scientific discoveries and mathematical ideas to their artistic advantage--and offers insight on the recently apparent integratio...
|  | Selected Translations
Publication Date: October 30, 2012"Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master."—The New York Times"Merwin writes that the act of translation is 'plainly impossible and nevertheless indispensable.' We can be grateful that he feels compelled to master the impossible. . . . And that gift alone is priceless."—The Wichita EagleSelected Translations is the lifework from one of America's greatest poets and translators. Dedicated to the art of translation since his undergraduate years at Princeton, Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin achieved an unmatched oeuvre of translated poems from every corner of the ...
|  | 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women
Publication Date: April 4, 2008Presents the masterpieces of fifty great women poets in the English language over the past 150 years. Like the widely praised 100 Essential Modern Poems, this accessible volume is filled with wisdom and insights to delight. Includes ideas about courage and endurance, life and death, faith and hope, and the continuing search for meaning, as well as the favorite subjects of love, marriage, family dynamics, and nature. Selected by Joseph Parisi, former longtime editor of Poetry magazine, with Kathleen Welton, the collection features such acclaimed poets as Emily D...
|  | The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: April 15, 1986| ISBN-10: 0231061498 | ISBN-13: 978-0231061490 0 Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured are poems from the Yuan dynasty, which range from quiet landscape depictions to expansive, freely expressive works; from the Ming era, notable for its stylistic quality and its diversity; and from tte Ch'ing dynasty, known for poets who, by refusing to fit into any category, helped continue the fascinating richness of late Ming cultural life. Annotated with biogr...
|  | The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
Publication Date: October 15, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Sitting by the barbecuewaiting for sausages and hot dogs..........I see a tiny spider..........a silver speckglisteningat its mouth,climbing the invisible ladder--from "Dinner Together" by Diana RiveraThis anthology of poems by America's best poets glistens too, and offers its own silvery ladder for readers to climb.Liz Rosenberg, herself an accomplished poet, wanted to make contemporary poems for adults accessible to a broader readership. She searched for works which, in both feeling and expression, could reach ...
|  | Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
Publication Date: February 8, 2001| ISBN-10: 019512734X | ISBN-13: 978-0195127348| Edition: First Edition Like red earth and streaming rain, our loving hearts merged all by themselves. Captured in these centuries-old verses are the intoxication of new love, the romance of courtship, and the longing of separated lovers. Here are the voices of older women advising their younger friends, the words of messengers conveying secrets between lovers, and the musings of lovers to themselves. Culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century CE to as late as the eighth, Mar...
|  | Seven Ages: An Anthology of Poetry With Music
Publication Date: February 2000| Series: Poetry This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tender and telling story of life's seven ages - from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech, "The Seven Ages of Man", performed by Sir Ian McKellan, are 150 great poems from all ages - from Chaucer to Ted Hughes. They are presented by the finest cast ever assembled on one recording. ...
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