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Soul searching poetry for a new generation.Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2019-09-05
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Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson Mandela held fast...
Editeur :
Quercus
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2019-08-22
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Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980), a remarkable film lyricist, was also an iconic literary poet. Surinder Deol paints a sensitive portrait that reveals an artist who was aware of the depth of his poetic message as well as of his ability to present it in words that captured...
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OUP India
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2019-08-21
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When your partner spends too much time on their Xbox:Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? from ‘Why So Pale and Wan?’, John Suckling From dating and house-shares to digital detoxing and growing up, Poetry for Millennials is the answer to all your...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2019-08-08
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Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Colour is a problem for poetry, where – unlike in painting, sculpture or film – itis marked by its absence. This absence raises questions that have often beenoverlooked in the study of colour: how do writers navigate the invisibility ofcolour in text? What aesthetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The French poet Bernard Vargaftig (1934–2012), first known in 1960s literary circles as a writer mentored by Aragon, published regularly and served on the editorial boards of Action poétique and Europe. His poetry foregrounds identity and alterity, eros and notions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-06-11
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These are the stories that made Europe.Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2019-05-16
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Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancientGreek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finestGreek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancientGreek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finestGreek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-18
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Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of...
Editeur :
Sterling Ethos
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2019-03-29
ePub
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019Ada Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2019-02-07
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'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2019-02-07
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From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.'2019 justly belongs to Morgan Parker. Her poems shred me with their intelligence, dark humor and black-hearted...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated.This story...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-27
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Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. In Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart,Alice Walker examines our troubled times, while also...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-20
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Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Dating from 1919 to 1940, these letters and telegrams are being published for the first time in English in their entirety. They manage to capture the essence of Tagore and Rolland’s friendship in their struggle with the conflict between nationalism and human conscience....
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-09-10
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