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Shannon Ryan's Elephant is a piece of stream-of-consciousness poetry, which invites you to follow her on a journey from trauma to healing. Her spare yet powerful verse is adept at delivering a story steeped in nuance and emotion. The poem follows the speaker from childhood to adulthood, the format thinning and growing, mimicking the speaker's emotional maturing. These textual elements are centred upon the figure of the elephant synonymising protection, healing, and love.In Elephant, Ryan weaves a thoughtful and candid verse converging around the metaphor of the Elephant, and the healing it provides.

In this exquisite collection, the poet allows us into his realm where words dance and emotions soar, sometimes so raw they compel you to read them twice. "The Truest Thing I Know" is a captivating collection of poetry that invites readers on a transformative journey through the depths of human experience, tragic, romantic, full of loss and yearning and notions that all who are part of the human experience will relate to completely. Marshall T Smith is clearly a master at drawing from words the immutable, the unsayable, the words that live only as often untouchable, deep feelings in the soul of every human.

This book reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition has shaped some of the great surviving literature, most notably epic and lyric poetry. By recovering a lost genre, we can detect important voices from the ancient Greek world, and see the nuances with which different poets used it.

Reveals how Milton's poetry deploys the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' in order to access the experience of co-existent being

Explores the life of one of Scotland's most important poet-thinkers as told by himself.

Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact? In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the present, engaging with work by major poets and critics, but also contemporary philosophers. Rather than seeing impersonality exclusively as a literary historical phenomenon, Adams argues that we should understand it as an attempt to address skeptical problems arising from the limitations of first-person experience. Defending impersonality as a response to skeptical problems, including doubts about the publicity of our experiences, our knowledge of other minds, the capacity of our language to describe the world, the relationship between mind and body, and the fictionality and continuity of our sense of self, Adams analyzes what he calls "experiments in impersonality" as means of working through skeptical doubt. The writers discussed transform this doubt into art, whilst also ironizing it as corrosive and self-defeating. Ultimately this leads Adams to reinterpret literary impersonality as a therapeutic philosophical project. Skepticism and Impersonality promises a new theoretical justification for our practical interest in literary texts, to renovate our conception of how those texts might do philosophical work, and to expand our sense of what a philosophical poem can be.

Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire.

Toutoungi's third collection is a tragi-comic journal of grief that, out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of startling wit and hard-won joy.

This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly, yet playful. By tracing the historical foundations of concrete and iconographic poetry, as well as the development of research poetry and poetic inquiry, the book examines the intellectual roots that inform this unique methodological approach.  The book offers a detailed description of the methods that can be used to design iconographic research poetry. It includes step-by-step description of strategies that researchers can use to create iconographic research poetry from qualitative data. By explicating the processes by which data can be represented in the form of iconographic research poetry and offering exemplars, readers will find specific hands-on strategies for creating their own iconographic research poems. The book contains writing exercises designed to help aspiring iconographic research poets exercise their poetic imagination. It also providesqualitative research instructors with suggestions for integrating iconographic research poetry into the classroom.

By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Germany. Earlier that year the pressure of the situation produced a schism in the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia between Vítězslav Nezval, who wanted to continue to support the Soviet Union, and those who condemned Stalin's show trials, purges, and executions. Nezval chronicles this tumultuous period by embedding it in a paean to Prague, wondering if the city, and everything about the city he loves, will survive the horrors that are about to be visited upon her. With Apollinaire serving as his guide, he introduces us to the cafés and pubs he would frequent, many of which no longer exist, the various neighborhoods he lived in as a destitute student, the parks where he sought solace, and the people he would meet on the street, musing on some of the figures central to his poetics, such as André Breton and Lautréamont. While at times lamenting the changing face of Prague and that Hitler might reduce it to rubble, Nezval takes us into the places that spontaneously spur him to reflect on the issues facing artists of the day and the precarious sociopolitical situation. This translation is of the rare unexpurgated first edition and includes Nezval's photographs and illustrations as well as an appendix that maps out the significant revisions made later, providing additional translations of the longer passages that were inserted as replacement for what was expunged from the original edition.

First published in 1928, Federico García Lorca's collection of Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) marked his first major publication, and the beginning of his rise to fame. Depicting life in his native Andalucía, and the Romany peoples who lived there, it takes motifs of the countryside into its view, describing the night, the sky and the moon alongside more universal themes like life and death. Written in a stylised version of the countryside ballads that proliferated at the time, the Gypsy Ballads propelled Lorca to overnight fame, and he soon became counted amongst Spain's finest poets. Later in his career his name became synonymous with the theatre, but this new edition of the Gypsy Ballads returns the reader to where it all began. Presented here in a smart new translation, this edition is the perfect place to discover Lorca the Poet.

If you want to get back to the beginningyou must fast forward to the end. I press play, drop into the solarsystem à la Holst, somewherebeyond the asteroid belt,rocketing ever further out. The poems in There's No Pluto in this Suite take the reader to the edges of ordinary experiences, places and narratives and ask them to leap from that ordinariness into the unexpected. The collection is broken into three parts, and the reader is taken on a ride through verse concerned with the experiences of immigration, travel and transience; then on to a gathering around the hearth, telling stories about what drives humans to live: vocations, love and journeys of discovery; and finally into a mythic realm, encountering holy fools, witchy saints and places of overlap between silly and sacred. There's No Pluto in this Suite is a playful collection that blends formal and free verse, lyric and narrative, and in which the profound rubs shoulders with the messy and the patently mysterious.

In Let Every Little Thing Make You Happy, singer-songwriter and TikTok sensation, Peach Martine delivers her uplifting, refreshingly honest and magnetic poems and lyrics, which have caught the attention of millions of fans across the globe.

Harold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest

Christina Rossetti's classic poem has inspired Alice in The Wonderland. It tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, two sisters tempted by beautiful fruits sold by diabolical goblin merchants. This illustrated bilingual edition breath a new life to this Christian, yet sensual poem.

A collection of antilipogrammatic constrained poetry and plays - univocalics wherein each uses only a single vowel. Playful, thought-provoking, brain-engaging, and better than Wordle!

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The author presents the main works in a broadly chronological order and brings together the most interesting of Hughes' own critical remarks from interviews, recordings, letters and articles.

Nakiketas and other poems, May Sinclair's first volume of poetry, which was her first published book, came out under a partial pseudonym, Julian Sinclair, in 1886. It contains three longer works and six shorter. Nakiketas is an emotionally searing adaptation of the Katha Upanishad, where a proud and limited father, unused to criticism, wrathfully answers his son's challenge, and condemns him to death. Nakiketas learns, ultimately with forgiveness and sadness, as he approaches his end, that the current gods will fade (implicitly, his father's world and beliefs) and a simple greater truth be revealed.Helen, the longest poem, details the life of a young woman and her friend Arthur from childhood. Helen's family, like Sinclair's own, is blighted by financial misfortune at the hands of a fraudster when she is a very young child. She and Arthur are parted. Arthur returns when they are grown to find her engaged to Emile, the very man who destroyed her family. They tussle over whether or not Emile has turned over a new leaf, and realise their love for one another, but too late.Apollodorus, the last long work, is a richly metaphoric treatment of the progress of a bard's journey of artistic discovery, symbolised in his stormy relationship with the poetic muse.George Eliot celebrates the great writer with love and admiration, seeing her as a visionary; A Fable comically covers bias-validation; The Singer addresses the fecundity of the positive-negative dualism for the artist; Immortelle hopefully covers the tiny survival of the positive in a sea of negativity; Euthanasia gives perspective to what is really important; and Christapollo celebrates the bright flame of Shelley's genius and his rare breadth of spirit.May Sinclair's importance in literary history has grown undeniable in recent times, but her superb poetry is still not sufficiently celebrated. Marrying the sensibility of a wordsmith with the intellect of a philosopher, she created a powerfully resonant, full-voiced style, already evident here at the very beginning of her career.