Poetry in the Making

DescriptionHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Ta...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

Reducere. The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updated Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happ...

Reducere. With bold musings about pleasure, pain, life, death, anger, spirituality, nature, compassion, fantasies and daydreams, this compilation is a provok...

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy, " he descri...

Reducere. From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience i...

Reducere. In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist ...

Reducere. Karmic Purgatory isn't just a book of war poetry. It's a collection of poems detailing one man's life, making sense of transitions and turmoil now ...

Researchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalo...

Reducere. A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use,...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough a...

Reducere. Where there is food, there will be laughter (and crumbs).In more than 40 exuberant poems and "vandalized" photographs, you'll meet a city kid who f...

Reducere. THREE GREAT ABBASID POETS Abu Nuwas, al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled...

Reducere. The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writi...

Reducere. STILLStill is the second poetry collection from Laura Ding-Edwards (The Mountain) and further explores navigating mental health, friendship, love, ...

Reducere. Donald Hall's remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed,...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trad...

Reducere. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single vo...

Reducere. Founded in 2010, the Montreal International Poetry Prize has established itself as a major event in contemporary poetry, both in Canada and around ...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negr...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Description"Observant, musical, coheres to nature; it's been a pleasure to read Joseph Massey for some years now. A poetry pared down to the essent...

Reducere. DescriptionA book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, S...

DescriptionMagic slips between the cracks in real life. One day you will step on it.A monster's lunch, a wolf boy, Monday mornings, monkeys, headli...

Reducere. "A quiver of eclogues, couplets, Zen epigrams, and you-name-it literary mischief. The fun is all ours." -Foreword Reviews "Mott's whiplash insights...

Reducere. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Equal part prayer and potion and survival guide, Oliver Baez Bendorf's remarkable ADVANTAGES OF BEING EVE...

Reducere. In Flourish, multiple meanings catch light--as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aime CesaireTranslator: N. Gregson DavisIntroduction by: Francis Abiola IreleOriginally published in 1939, AimC saire's Cah...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

Reducere. A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York CityWhen he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, c...

History in the making -the way history turns in the air like a coin -Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up...

DescriptionSpirited and observant, Layla's a child who's been given room to grow, making happiness both thoughtful and intimate. It's her dad talki...

Reducere. Poetry. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. Art. "In Hannah Regel's brilliant collection, OLIVER REED, the figure of the horse becomes an objec...

Brings to the forefront immigrant women making their way in the world as mothers, wives, as outliers, and as rebels.Publisher: The University Press...

Reducere. "This book should come with a warning label: 'Be ready, you are going to have to go deeper than you ever imagined.'" Dorothy Allison Author of Bast...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

Exhilarating, all-new, kid-friendly verses capture the range of emotions, from the thrill of winning to the agony of losing to the sheer joy of par...

Reducere. Description"This book of poetry is about stumbling through heartbreak and learning to change and grow from it in the end. It's about holding on and...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variet...

After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe's most innovative and o...

Reducere. In his second volume of poetry, Clyde Hurlston seeks to illuminate every corner of his own interiority; in an effort to escape both the restrictive...

Reducere. In his second volume of poetry, Clyde Hurlston seeks to illuminate every corner of his own interiority; in an effort to escape both the restrictive...

Reducere. The Walter Scott Prize-winning author of }The Gallows Pole{ returns with the story of a young man from a coal-mining background making his way to R...

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the mos...

DescriptionThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and ...

Reducere. Primary Source presents Jason Schneiderman's most exuberant volume of poetry, as he plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal arc...

Reducere. ``If you wanted a poem, `` wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, ``you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting ...

Reducere. In many ways making the selection of pieces to include in New Contexts: 2 was a much more difficult task than it had been for the inaugural edition...

Reducere. Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassi...

Reducere. An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and E...

Reducere. Carbon is a collection about life in all its smallest details and largest concerns. It spans from positive across negative to the more neutral mome...

Reducere. "Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." Robert Pinsky, Washington Post"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning ...

"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the...

Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve, draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces--the family home, the shared me...

Reducere. Practice Showing Up is a reckoning with white supremacy, a balm for the tensions of racial justice work, and a manual for white people to practice ...

Reducere. Poetry. From 1982 until 2002, Joe Weil worked as a tool grinder and union shop steward in a mold making plant in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Many of th...

Reducere. DescriptionOrganized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material, " "Finding...

Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately...

Reducere. Twenty-two poems capture the amazing power of writing and will inspire even the most reluctant writer to begin putting words to paper. Write Write ...

Description"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobi...

DescriptionMary J. Oliver's debut is an unusual and striking coalescing of prose, poetry, found documents and photographs. It ranges across the his...

DescriptionHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. St...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

Reducere. Connor has a problem. No, it's not the fact that his student army is pitiful compared to the competition. It's not even the spies infesting the sch...

Woody Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David LavenderIntroduction by: David G. LavenderAfterword by: David G. LavenderThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was...

Reducere. Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and ...

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it.Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, i...

The Prophet is a book of 26 fables written in English prose poetry by the Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It was first publis...