American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Glck Louise)(Paperback)

American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Glck Louise)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters

Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems (Glck Louise)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as a

Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations (Fuhrman Cmarie)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose, Native poems, stories, and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It presents a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves, their histories, and their

Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (Alcott Louisa May)(Paperback / softback)

Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective (Dumont Louis)(Paperback)

Louis Dumont's Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective. The result of twenty years of scholarship and inquiry, the interrelated essays gathered here not only trace the genesis and growth of individualism as

American Poetry as Transactional Art (Fredman Stephen)(Paperback)

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry--its forms and traditions. Indeed much of

Voicing American Poetry (Wheeler Lesley)(Paperback)

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term poetic voice emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and many species of performance and sound-directed

The Best American Poetry 2020 (Lehman David)(Paperback)

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is 'a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Carson Anne)(Paperback)

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as 'the most exciting poet writing in English today.' Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and

The Best American Poetry 2021 (Lehman David)(Paperback)

The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is 'a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has

Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy - Choosing Tough Words(Paperback / softback)

The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible--relation itself--in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to 'wake up' to the

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (Allen Donald)(Paperback)

With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (Rich Adrienne)(Paperback)

Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich's singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich's

Complete Poems (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest

American Primitive (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryMary Oliver's most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.'American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric

The Best American Essays 2021 (Atwan Robert)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz 'A warm, witty, and welcome presence who confides in her readers' (Daniel Gilbert), TheNew Yorker's Kathryn Schulz selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best

The Best American Essays 2020 (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your

Louise Bourgeois: Art to Read Series (Bourgeois Louise)(Paperback)

The recently deceased French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the last century. Her fleshy blobs, skeletal spiders and the aggressive fragility of her work offered a new solution to the antagonism between the figurative and the abstract that

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets (Richardson Mark)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro)

American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (Haberski Raymond)(Paperback)

American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the world. As a result, her work parallels her life -- misunderstood in its time, but full of depth and

Tradition (Brown Jericho)(Paperback / softback)

The powerful poetry collection from award-winning American poet Jericho

Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/Ing Latin American Writing (Foster David William)(Paperback)

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American