Poetry
SONNETS AND SELECTED POEMS
Written by De Quental, Antero
Grappling with metaphysical questions of suffering, death, and infinity, Antero de Quental's sonnets have been widely celebrated by writers and intellectuals around the world, with Fernando Pessoa calling him "one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century." Irreverent and nonconformist, Antero became the ideologue and moving spirit behind the group of progressive intellectuals known as th
HAPPY POEM TO END EVERY DAY
These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the end of the day. A Happy Poem to End Every Day provides just that: one sublimely happy poem for every day of the year, from cosy fireside idylls in winter to outdoor adventures in summer, encounters with the beauty of nature in spring and moments of quiet reflection in autumn.
HOW TO MAINTAIN EYE CONTACT
Written by Lynn, Robert Wood
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it.
SWEET, YOUNG, & WORRIED
Written by Baird, Blythe
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird
GREETING OF THE SPIRIT: SELECTED POETRY OF JOHN KEATS WITH COMMENTARIES
Written by Wolfson, Susan J
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary. John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age twenty-five.
NOMENCLATURE: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS
Written by Brand, Dionne
Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labors of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.
UNSHUTTERED: POEMS
Written by Smith, Patricia
An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.
HEY YO! YO SOY!: 50 YEARS OF NUYORICAN STREET POETRY, A BILINGUAL EDITION, TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK, SECOND EDITION
Written by Meléndez, Jesús Papoleto
A bilingual collection of three significant works by a founder of the Nuyorican Movement. This second edition of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez's Hey Yo! Yo Soy! celebrates the tenth anniversary of the collection's original publication in 2012.
COLLECTED POEMS
Written by Bernhard, Thomas
Bernhard's Collected Poem is a key to understanding Bernhard's irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writings--even down to his last will and testament. Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet.
POEMS
Written by Walser, Robert
The first complete publication of Robert Walser's poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains one of the most influential authors of modern literature.
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