Poetry History category: 2770 books
Poetry & Geography
Space & Place in Post-war Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space,...
Vise and Shadow
Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination," he writes in the preface to this collection, which brings together...
Antebellum American Women's Poetry
A Rhetoric of Sentiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging...
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Magma poetry magazine's summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks. Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but...
by Willard Bohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity....
Thinking Its Presence
Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own...
The News from Poems
Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This “engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,...
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by Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey H. Gray, James H. McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal…stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high...
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
World War I is widely considered “the Great War” and World War II, “the Good War.” Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin for 2017 features writing from Winter Choice poet Sasha Dugdale regarding Joy, as well as pieces from Recommended poets Paul Deaton, Tim Dooley, Anne Michaels and Ahren Warner. These are accompanied by comments from the selectors and numerous extracts from their...
Noise That Stays Noise
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Praise for Cole Swensen:
"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."
---Library Journal
"Engaging and delightful."
---Publishers Weekly
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The Poetry Book Society Spring Bulletin for 2018 features writing from Spring Choice poet Sophie Collins regarding Who Is Mary Sue?, as well as pieces from Recommended poets Hannah Sullivan, Kaveh Akbar, Robin Robertson and Phoebe Power. These are accompanied by comments from the selectors and numerous...