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Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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Philosophy and Poetry: Continental PerspectivesEver 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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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the TangHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618-907). It aims to break down barriers--between language and culture, poetry and history--that have stood in the way of...
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Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to BashoWhile the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry WorkbookDesigned to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original...
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Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's GitagovindaThis is one of the most important works in Indian literature and a source of religious inspiration in both medieval and contemporary Vaishnavism.Author: Barbara Stoler MillerPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 11/26/1997Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.84w x 0.42dISBN: 9780231110976About the AuthorBarbara Stoller Miller...
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Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and DesireWith poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and expressions of love. The collection is...
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Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: The Wakan Roei ShuThis first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays.Author: J. Thomas RimerPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 10/27/1997Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.23w x 1.03dISBN: 9780231107020
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The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to WalcottIncluding the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry paints the background of the conflict and its literature in Richard Marius's...
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Poems of a Mountain HomeGathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetry.Author: SaigyoPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 06/10/1991Pages: 252Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.57h x 5.97w x 0.92dISBN: 9780231074926
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William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains...
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If You Look Like MeIf You Look Like Me: is the bigger picture sorta like the outlook we sometimes fail to admit to ourselves, whether we are wrong or right.From a humanitarian standpoint, we're the same but different in our own unique way.Facing your fears, your faults, your...
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Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to HeaneyCalled the mother of beauty by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets. From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death,...
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Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's BirdsThe poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and...
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The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of SoundSound--one of the central elements of poetry--finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkinbreak that critical silence to readdress some of thefundamental connections between poetry and sound--connections that go far...
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Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New CenturyWhat is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information-- a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, originality begins to take a back seat...
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The BowerHow can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with her young daughter. The speaker...
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Against TranslationWe often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation--not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss,...
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Losers Dream onWe are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces--time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion--win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained--in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship. What...
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The Art of Chinese PoetryThis concise introduction to Chinese poetry serves as a primer for English-speakers eager to expand their understanding and enjoyment of Chinese culture. James J. Y. Liu first examines the Chinese language as a medium of poetic expression and, contrary to the usual focus on...
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Greek LyricsProfessor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from...
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