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André Maurois wrote in French this fictional biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley, the illustrated new translation by Alix Daniel invites readers of classics to appreciate the man who, according to Harold Bloom had one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem.

Begin Afresh: The Evolution of Philip Larkin's Poetry offers incisive, insightful, and yet lucid analyses of all the individual poems contained in the four major collections of Larkin (1922-1985).This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Poetry, Language and Literature.

A collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.   In Dissonance, translator Kristin Dykstra's first book of original poetry, the author leads us to inner worlds shaped partly by the New England countryside, tracking shifts in the region's nature, infrastructure, and people, while sharing observations on borders and climate catastrophe that reverberate globally. Dykstra condenses signs of urban expansion, economic division, and battles over democracy into an innovative meditation. With a dynamic approach to form, musicality, and scope, Dissonance explores ways of experiencing regional landscapes and imagined communities in the twenty-first century.   Through her extended sequence of prose poems, photographs, and lyric fragments, Dykstra merges clips from documents and dialogues with observations drawn from two local libraries and her daily walks down a dirt road through Vermont's foothills. As she moves down this public road, which lies within the nation's federally designated hundred-mile border zone, she finds a daily convergence of tensions. Dissonance asks how poetry can unsettle impressions of a place, and how that process, in turn, disturbs impressions of self, of others, and of time itself.  Dissonance is the recipient of the third annual Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize.

Multilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.   A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, and a survivor of childhood sexual assault, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of verse not as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuk's meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric "I" and others, including poets, the speaker's partner, ancestors, and the reader, creating spaces for strange intimacy. Each of the book's four sections of poems builds on one another to ask how we might form a collective-a people-not founded in orthodoxies of originality but in the mutual work of mirroring one another.

John's latest collection of poems captures the pleasure,poignancy and pain of love and romance. The poems cover different people,occasions, and places. They range from thoughtful and serious to very witty. There is a poem for everyone.

Word-pictures crafted by a master artist from everyday moments offer deep reflections on contemporary existence in this poem collection. I lie and lay my head upon the grass And unwind the body hardened stiff like glass. But the tiny blades tickle the lower ear Making me ask myself, why do I bear This crass impertinence and sink my head Still further down its bed of prickly green? So asks the poet, his ears pressed against the earth as he maps the world around him in a new geography of sound. Places, photographs, books, neighbors, afternoons, love, loss, and longing are sketched into word-pictures by Subramanyan as he reflects, reacts, and reminisces in this collection of poems. These memoir-poems will help throw into relief some of Subramanyan's symbols and motifs, better contextualizing his oeuvre.

This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. It fills a gap in the theoretical/critical discourse on Italian American culture, whose concerns about environmental justice have been mostly overlooked. From mid-twentieth-century poets such as John Ciardi and Diane di Prima to late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction writers such as Carole Maso and Salvatore Scibona, the author combines Italian American literary criticism with the "spatial turn" that, over the last decades, has asserted the interpretive significance of place and the environment in literary texts. Contesting the prejudice that sees Italian American culture as distant from ecological concerns, the works examined show that such diasporic heritage has helped forge different modes of relationship and new forms of expression in contact with the 'American' land. Their relevance lies not so much in defining or redefining Italian American ethnicity but in forging ideas and futures beyond their immediate framework and subject matter. By focusing on the intersection of gender and ethnicity with local and transnational spaces and aesthetic practices, Italian American Poetics of Place contributes to the growing field of inquiry that explores the resources of the literary in laying the basis for more dialogic and inclusive forms of awareness and community with both the human and other-than-human.

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. Our Winter 2024 Selections are:Choice Arbitary Lightbulb - Ian Duhig - PicadorRecommendations Songbook - Joshua Idehen - Bad betty PressTattoo Collector - Tim Tim Cheng - Nine Arches Press Rock Fight - Hasib Hourani - PrototypeConstructing a Witch - Helen Ivory - BloodaxeSpecial Commendation Girl - Ruth Padel - ChattoTranslation Choice TBCPamphlet Choice TBCYou can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Revisited: The Wine, the Vine, and the Rose examines an overlooked masterpiece which was a phenomenon in its day. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), sold millions of copies between its first publication in 1859 and World War II, becoming one of the best-selling books of all time, only to disappear from the public eye until the age of the Internet revived interest in the work. Russell Brickey synthesizes scholarship and close reading in the first monograph dedicated to the Rubáiyát, taking into account the original poetry of Omar Khayyám (1038-1141), a polyglot who lived in medieval Persia, and the western poetic tradition that informed FitzGerald's creative palimpsest. These include the Song of Solomon, 17th century Cavalier Poetry, the Sonnet Sequence, and the poems of Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and others. This book looks at the offshoots of Omar Khayyám and Edward FitzGerald's poetic brotherhood, the pulp-novels, movies, and poems their poem inspired.

Autumn is the inspiration behind this anthology, but not necessarily the destination. The destination is the discovery of the human condition, the discovery of the ways in which we respond to the natural world. In this extraordinary anthology, forty-seven contemporary poets and one photographer respond to the myriad ways in which what we think and feel about the "autumnal" resonates through our lives and senses: spiritually, physically, and philosophically. Contributing poets were asked "to let their language rub up against any part or parts of the autumnal world that calls to them, whether from the outside in or the inside out." In other words, these autumn poems and photographs need not so much as mention fallen leaves, milkweed, or even "autumn." Autumn is the inspiration, but not necessarily the destination. The destination is as ever, the discovery of the human condition, the discovery of the ways in which we respond to the natural world. The poems included in this anthology have all been written fresh in response to the autumnal prompt, with new work from luminaries such as Elise Paschen, Martha Ronk, G.C. Waldrep, Michael Chitwood, Gillian Cummings, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Rick Hilles, Eva Hooker, Luisa A. Igloria, and William Orem. The photographs are by Jeffrey Levine, who, in addition to being executive director of Tupelo Press, is widely recognized for his work behind the camera. These images boast exceptional composition and color, but beyond technique, each photo offers up a penetrating resonance on the theme of autumn and the autumnal.

A collection of poems concerned with how the living and the dead coexist, how to survive trauma, and the power of persistence. The Haunting is a book of feminist-horror visitations, incantations, and possessions embodied in unruly forms that subvert genre and generic definitions of poetry and prose. This is a collection that is concerned with how the living and the dead coexist, how to survive trauma, and the power of persistence. Drawing from a variety of texts including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, twentieth-century horror films, the Velvet Underground, and Ovid, The Haunting explores the anxieties of ancestral and artistic inheritance, rage, transformation, motherhood, maternal ambivalence, and the drive to create.

'Rhaff' is a gentle volume of Mari George's poems, the main subject being partners growing old together, and one of them suffering from dementia. These poems go right to the heart of things, portraying love in a very real, poignant light. This love shines through, but the volume doesn't hide from the ugly, either. This is a volume about love,... -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Here we have a collection of moving poems about a special part of the country, namely the post-industrial valleys of south-east Wales. A place of warmth and support, it seems that, regardless of where Karadog goes in the world, he will always be the little boy from Ponty. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru