Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it bec
Poetry. The poems in Lily Brown's RUST OR GO MISSING exist in the liminal space between the literal and the imagined, the rational and the irrational, the abstract and the representational. They think
"Here are poems expressing two different voices--one that of Aunt Amelia as channeled by her niece Esther Stenson, the other that of Stenson herself." "[summary]"--Provided by publisher.
Introduces the poetic form of limericks, describes their historical context, presents examples, and explains the various conventions used, including rhyming, word play, and humor.
Introduces the poetic form of nursery rhymes, describes the historical context, presents examples, and explains the various conventions used, including rhyming, nonsense, and song.
Introduces the poetic form of concrete poetry, describes the historical context, presents examples, and explains the various conventions used, including imagery, shape, and word play.
In her third book Jena Osman follows poet Cecilia Vicuna's procedural instruction to "enter words in order to see." The Network emerges at the intersection of conceptual and documentary poetics, as O
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his
"Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious."?Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series judgePeering through a macro lens at the shapes
These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea
A?rare and unexplored world?where mythology and family converge?is brought to life in this poetry collection.?Sensuous and deeply original, this work evokes tradition and fantasy while underscoring th
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized,
Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and
Winner of the National Poetry Series.The poems in Kristin Hatch's debut collection ooze with the viscus of shattered reality. Bodily, almost animalistic, they flirt with apocalypse, accumulate like di
Often compared with Apollinaire as the first and liveliest avant-garde poet in his language, Vicente Huidobro was a one-man movement ("Creationism") in the modernist swirl of Paris and Barcelona betwe
"A polished poet of extraordinary skill.... Levine is caught between wholehearted love of the world's beauty and sorrow at its unavoidable misery and suffering." -- Library JournalWith an astonishing
