American Originality: Essays on Poetry, Paperback

The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poetsFive decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louis...

Reducere. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also ...

Reducere. "This is a book for anyone, " Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially ...

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Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdAuthor(s): Jean-Paul SartreTranslator: Chris TurnerNumber of pages: 148Collection: The French ListPublication da...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Adam CzerniawskiRed...

Reducere. The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to MeMeanness, the very thing that is ...

The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginat...

Reducere. 'Art of seeing', as Jeremy Hooker exercises it in these essays written over some thirty years, consists of acts of attention to a range of poets an...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Donald HallNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 19Cover type: Pa...

Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina ...

Reducere. Din cuprins: Dramatic Elements and Literary MeditationEmerson and KantInward versus Outward ExpansionDissenting Voices of ConsentThe Narrator as Au...

Reducere. "Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book. ...

Publisher: Nine Arches PressNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Ian Hump...

Analyzes questions of gender representation in Latin American cultural productions to establish the interrelationships, tensions, and irresolvable ...

Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic...

Brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collect...

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatj...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Gordo...

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): David (Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Ohio Wesleyan U...

Reducere. We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

A solid collection of prose poems written by some of the best American practitioners of the genre. It also provides a good way of looking at the pr...

American Indians have long played a central role in Mormon history and its narratives. Their roles, however, have often been cast in support of tra...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Reducere. ``Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new w...

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that has become more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitat...

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Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays g...

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale.

This counter-cultural collection of American verse fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Contributors include: O...

A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of l...

Reducere. A true essay is "something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author's personal experience and sub...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Hilton AlsEditor: Robert AtwanThe Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hun...

DescriptionA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, a...

Reducere. A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of ...

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "The world is abundant even...

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DescriptionModern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry sh...

John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sub...

Reducere. The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing...

Contributor(s): Editor: John Jeremiah SullivanEditor: Robert Atwan"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on t...

Like its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for ...