The Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Wild Iris' in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane

The Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realmsBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Gl

Seven Ages (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest

Averno (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection shows Averno as the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Both epic and intimate in scope, it

Village Life (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with

Averno: Poems (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gl ck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the

Zimní recepty, kolektiv autorů - Louise Glücková

Louise Glücková získala v roce 2020 Nobelovu cenu za literaturu mj. za 'nezaměnitelný básnický hlas, který s prostou krásou zobecňuje individuální existenci' - a tohle zdůvodnění poroty výtečně vystihuje i její novou básnickou sbírku: mluví se v ní o něčem, co právě

Meadowlands (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Includes 'Penelope's Song' in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's 'Odyssey'. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the 'nostos', the

Faithful and Virtuous Night (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise

Proofs and Theories (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl ck, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Gl ck brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same

Proofs and Theories (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John

12 knih poezie z nakladatelství Opus - Jiří Červenka, Durs Grünbein, Wallace Stevens, Petr Halmay, Louise Glücková, Josef Hrdlička, Justin Quinn, Štěp

Soubor dvanácti knih poezie vydaných v letech 2007-2012: Louise Glücková, Jiří Červenka, Petr Halmay, Wallace Stevens, Durs Grünbein, Zsuzsa Takácsová, Justin Quinn, Jean Follain, Josef Hrdlička, Štěpán Nosek, Vona Groarke, Petr Halmay

Home of the Wild (Greig Louise)(Pevná vazba)

Lesy atď. - Alice Oswaldová

Britská poetka Alice Oswaldová patrí spolu s Američankou Louise Glückovou a Kanaďankou Anne Carsonovou do trojice najuznávanejších básnikov a poetiek v anglicky hovoriacich krajinách. Po 300 rokoch je prvou ženou-profesorkou poézie na Univerzite v Oxforde. Zameriava sa na prírodu,

Wilde Women (Pentland Louise)(Paperback / softback)

For once everybody is depending on Robin, but the pressure is mounting and she's starting to feel overwhelmed. So, when Robin's asked to go to the States for work, it seems like the getaway they all

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

Wilde Women (Pentland Louise)(Paperback / softback)

You never know what surprises life has in store . It might just be the tonic Robin, Lacey, Auntie Kath, Edward and even Piper need . but when a huge family secret is exposed, Robin's life looks even closer to falling apart

Faux Taxidermy Knits: 15 Wild Animal Knitting Patterns (Walker Louise)(Paperback)

This fun and contemporary debut book from knitting fanatic, Louise Walker, teaches you how to make your very own wild knits with an ironic twist. The 15 quirky knitting patterns for wild and woolly animals are split into two sections - wearables and habitat - and vary from mounted animal heads and

Gluck: Art and Identity (de la Haye Amy)(Pevná vazba)

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's numerous personal relationships and

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored

The Night Watchman (Erdrich Louise)(Paperback)

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

LaRose (Erdrich Louise)(Paperback / softback)

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement