Civil Elegies and Other Poems
Title | Civil Elegies and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Lee |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0887845576 |
"A beautiful new edition of Civil Elegies, this is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies “one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country.”"
Elegies and Other Poems
Title | Elegies and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Gustafsson |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780811214414 |
A companion volume to Gustfasson's popular collection, The Stillness of the World before Bach (New Directions, 1988).
Roman Elegies and the Diary
Title | Roman Elegies and the Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Translation of two of Goethe's erotic works, which are rarely included in German editions. The introduction examines Goethe's erotic poetry in his overall development and in relation to other European poetry of the genre.
Little Elegies for Sister Satan
Title | Little Elegies for Sister Satan PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Palmer |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0811230902 |
Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds,’ I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” In the light of day perhaps all of this will make sense. But have we come this far, come this close to death, just to make sense?
Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-1913 and Other Poems about Emma
Title | Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-1913 and Other Poems about Emma PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | Persea Books |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780892554096 |
After the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy began to write a series of poems about her. Although the couple had long been estranged, Hardy was suddenly enthralled all over again and became obsessed with memories of their love, as well as with remorse over what had gone wrong between them. This sequence, "Poems of 1912-13," has grown in stature in the century since it was written and is now considered to be one of his mos accomplished works. Hardy continued to write about Emma for the rest of his life, and Unexpected Elegies includes a selection of the best of these other poems about Emma. The insightful introduction by the noted Hardy critic Claire Tomalin places the poems in a biographical context.
Elegy
Title | Elegy PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jo Bang |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
A collection of poems written by Mary Jo Bang in the year following the death of her son.
Elegy for Desire
Title | Elegy for Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Luis Omar Salinas |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780816524624 |
The most difficult poems to write Are those of love and those of death. IÕm half in love and half dead. It stands to reason that IÕve come upon a difficult task. Despite his disclaimer, it seems no difficult task at all. One of the pioneers of Chicano poetry and a highly esteemed artist in the Mexican American community, Luis Omar Salinas is a poet with Tex-Mex bordertown roots whose work is studied at the Sorbonne. Beginning with his legendary first book, Crazy Gypsy, he has been a major figure not only in Chicano literature but in all of American poetryÑboth a poet of the people and a voice for other poets. In Elegy for Desire, Salinas has crafted visionary poems about growing older and looking back on a rich life of poetry. In this quiet yet hallucinatory volume, Salinas offers us a prismatic collection of odes, elegies, and cantos of desireÑcomplex poems about our place in the world. Poems to be savored in solitude, or better still with an intimate companion. Few poets, Latino or otherwise, are as daring with love poetry that is so honestly fierce. Salinas gives us a meditation on gently aging while continuing to celebrate personal experience that draws upon the world. One need only sample these rich, elegant stanzas to recognize the wealth of wisdom found in their words. Elegy for Desire is a testament to a singular talent that has survived for decades . . . and will continue to inspire long beyond his lifetime. The dead canÕt complain, and lovers always do. Well, IÕm here, and that is important. And if life can be as exciting as this, I must be doing something right.