Catálogo de libros Estudios Literarios: Poesía Y Poetas

John Zheng

Conversations with Sterling Plumpp is the first collection of interviews with the renowned poet of Home/Bass and other much-admired works. Spanning thirty years and drawn from literary and scholarly journals and other media, these interviews offer insights into his poetic innovation of blues and jazz and his mastery of black vernacular in poetry. This collection seems fundament...

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43,02 €

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editio...

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29,38 €

Everyday Words & Creative Practice

Australia needs to appreciate its poets - what they think, how they work, how they conceive of creativity, and the extent to which their work offers important insights into the human condition. This volume offers a pathway to such an understanding. It presents a collection of fascinating, candid and diverse interviews with ten of Australia's most distinguished poets, each i...

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17,23 €

Anne Finch and Her Poetry

Barbara McGovern

Anne Finch and Her Poetry is the first major critical examination of the life and works of the foremost English woman poet of the eighteenth century. This biography places Anne Finch (1661-1720) in her social and literary milieu and includes discussion of such topics as love and marriage, female friendships, melancholy, and nature as they relate both to Finch's life and to ...

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44,51 €

West of Wherevermore and Other Essays

Donald Sidney-Fryer

In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, Donald Sidney-Fryer has distinguished himself by being the biographer, critic, and bibliographer of Clark Ashton Smith; the chronicler of the “California Romantics,” a school of 20th-century poets including Smith, George Sterling, and himself; and an unfailingly acute analyst of poetry and prose fiction in several languages. I...

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21,89 €

Mystery of It All

Paul Mariani

Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the lives of some of our greatest modern poets. This is a life-spanning collection of his prose explorations of what it means to be a person of wonder and imagination. ...

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21,35 €

205 Thoughts from the Heart of a Man

Alan Alston Sr.

205 Thoughts from the Heart of a Man, is a collection of poetry for encouragement and guidance from a Mans prospective. The content of this book is from the brokenness of a man who has accepted his mistakes and successes. In our quest for peace, a person wants to be sure that there is hope. Suffering will come to us all but we must endure till the end. Since I'm open about ...

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12,24 €

Días ejemplares

Walt Whitman

Whitman escribió 'Días ejemplares' en la vejez con el propósito de dejar constancia de lo que había sido su vida en unos momentos muy convulsos de la historia de los Estados Unidos. Con motivo de un viaje a la tierra de sus antepasados, concibió el proyecto autobiográfico del que ya había escrito la parte de la Guerra Civil. Además, utilizó fragmentos de sus colaboraciones peri...

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19,50 €

A Together We Are Great

David Deynes

In my experience thus far in life, I have learned that if doubt leads to questions and questions lead to answers and if answers are accepted, then doubt has been beneficial.Knowledge can guide you . . . but experience is our best teacher.Parents/guardians are the ones that teach us life from birth. No one really wants their child to be a failure in life; they only hope to love ...

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14,48 €

Vestiges

Eric Pankey

“If only words were salt—soluble, savory, vital, electric,” Eric Pankey writes in “Variations on Hadrian’s Animula,” one of many virtuosic works in Vestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988 – 2018. In this diverse collection of lyrical prose, Pankey assays his personal-poetic history with passion, brilliance, and grace. He considers the works of many great poets—Dickinson, St...

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19,15 €

Elizabethan Narrative Poems

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London’s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complex...

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153,84 €

The Metamorphoses Of Ovid (Complete)

Publius Ovidius Naso / Henry Thomas Riley

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the sa...

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14,96 €

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

David Stephen Calonne

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.Ginsberg's mother, Naomi,...

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158,35 €

Conversations with Gary Snyder

David Stephen Calonne

Gary Snyder (b. 1930) is one of the most distinguished American poets, remarkable both for his long and productive career and for his equal contributions to literature and environmental thought. His childhood in the Pacific Northwest profoundly shaped his sensibility due to his contact with Native American culture and his early awareness of the destruction of the environment by...

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42,81 €

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

David Stephen Calonne

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.Ginsberg's mother, Naomi,...

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42,89 €

Dear Muses

Simon West

Does it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece. This book asks the reader to consider the Muse as something more - a vehicle for acknowledging cultural legacies that radiate out from the past and into contemporary Australia. In addressing the Muses we talk to that inheritan...

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17,31 €

Spectral Realms No. 11

Donald Sidney-Fryer / G. Sutton Breiding / GSutton Breiding

The latest issue of Hippocampus Press’s acclaimed journal of weird poetry begins with a moving elegy to the late W. H. Pugmire by Wade German, one of the leading weird poets of our time. Other luminaries of contemporary weird verse, including Christina Sng, Pat Calhoun, K. A. Opperman, Ashley Dioses, and Darrell Schweitzer, are also included. This issue is distinguished by work...

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10,90 €

Imagems 2

Richard Berengarten

Imagems 2 contains six statements by a poet who continues to challenge modernism and post-modernism alike. This chapbook complements and elaborates Richard Berengarten’s Imagems 1 (2013). In this sequel, the borders between poetic theory and practice blur, for some of these texts are prose-poems in themselves. While their themes are rooted in the here-now, their 12-point struct...

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11,18 €

Lyric In Its Times

John Wilkinson

In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visu...

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173,70 €

His-Story is My Story’s Mystery

Ralph B. Cooper / Ralph BCooper

The Power "2b" (to be) or become is most certainly a divine right. Those who are direct decendants of the slave ships, jim crow south and institutionalized racism that is still causing inequality...it is to these matters that inspired me to share my thoughts of outrage from a first hand viewpoint. ...

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9,62 €

Worlds of Common Prayer

Chene Heady

Worlds of Common Prayer exposes the surprisingly radical potential of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book-length liturgical poetry. Major authors as dissimilar as Christina Rossetti and T.S. Eliot used the Anglican liturgical calendar as a weapon to break the order of clock time and destabilize the secular world order. ...

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129,24 €

Vyāsa Redux

Kevin McGrath

Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and ’Vyāsa Redux’ examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization. ...

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180,68 €

Left of Poetry

Sarah Ehlers

In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings o...

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41,28 €

Left of Poetry

Sarah Ehlers

In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings o...

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126,80 €

Humor in Modern American Poetry

Rachel Trousdale

Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Will...

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57,65 €

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing

Emiro Martínez-Osorio

This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Castellanos’s poems and Alonso de Ercilla’s the Araucana and elucidates the complex poetic discourse Castellanos created to defend the interest of the first generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors that settled in the New World in the sixteenth century. ...

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50,42 €

Poetic Salvage

Tara Prescott

This book provides new explications of Loy’s most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy’s composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedekertravel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. ...

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53,98 €

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation

Miguel Arnedo-Gómez

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation highlights the black qualities of the prose and poetry written by the Cuban mulatto writer Nicolás Guillén, and the ways in which they reflect the conflictive racial and sociocultural heterogeneity of Cuban society. ...

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54,26 €

Literature of Crisis

Olga Bezhanova

This book analyzes the literary production of Spanish writers who place the global economic crisis at the center of their writing. This is the first comprehensive study of crisis literature, which is a genre that arose in response to the transformation of the European welfare state by the forces of liquid capital. ...

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54,49 €

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