Poets On The Edge

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477142
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets on the Edge written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel's most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twenty-seven established and emerging poets, bringing many to readers of English for the first time. Thematically and stylistically innovative, the poems chart the evolution of new currents in Hebrew poetry that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and, in breaking from traditional structures of line, rhyme, and meter, have become as liberated as any contemporary American verse. Writing on politics, sexual identity, skepticism, intellectualism, community, country, love, fear, and death, these poets are daring, original, and direct, and their poems are matched by the freshness and precision of Keller's translations.

Author : Jesús Sepúlveda
Publisher : BrownWalker Press
ISBN 13 : 1627345760
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets on the Edge written by Jesús Sepúlveda and published by BrownWalker Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets on the Edge critically explores the relationship between poetry and its context through the work of four Latin American poets: Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1898-1948), Peruvian César Vallejo (1893-1938), Chilean Juan Luis Martínez (1943-1993), and Argentine Néstor Perlongher (1949-1992). While Huidobro and Vallejo establish their poetics on the edge in the context of worldwide conflagrations and the emergence of the historical avant-garde during the first half of the twentieth century, Martínez and Perlongher produce their work in the context of the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships respectively, developing different strategies to overcome the panoptic societies of control installed throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Martínez recreates the avant-garde tradition in a playful manner to avoid censorship and also proposes a philosophical poetics to stage a utopian project oriented toward redesigning the house of civilization that has fallen apart. Perlongher unfolds his peculiar Neobaroque sensitivity in order to reshape the complex Latin American identities, culminating his poetic project with two collections written under the influence of ayahuasca-based ceremonies. Poets on the Edge offers the reader a new understanding of the hybrid and edgy nature of Latin American poetics and subjectivity as well as of the evolution of poetry written in Spanish during the twentieth century.

Author : Chris McCabe
Publisher : Chambers
ISBN 13 : 9781473693005
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems from the Edge of Extinction written by Chris McCabe and published by Chambers. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold winner in Poetry and Special Honors Award winner for Best Anthology Nautilus Book Awards The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library Featuring award-winning poets from cultures as diverse as the Ainu people of Japan to the Zoque of Mexico, with languages that range from the indigenous Ahtna of Alaska to the Shetlandic dialect of Scots, this evocative collection gathers together 50 of the finest poems in endangered, or vulnerable, languages from across the continents. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this collection offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the cultures of these beautiful languages, celebrating our linguistic diversity and highlighting our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life. Each poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary about the language, the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring power of poetry. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers. This timely anthology is passionately edited by widely published poet and UK National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, who is also the founder of the Endangered Poetry Project, a major project launched by London's Southbank Centre to collect poetry written in the world's disappearing languages, and introduced by Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London, and Dr Martin Orwin, Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic, SOAS University of London. Languages included in the book: Assyrian; Belarusian; Chimiini; Irish Gaelic; Maori; Navajo; Patua; Rotuman; Saami; Scottish Gaelic; Welsh; Yiddish; Zoque Poets included in the book: Joy Harjo; Hawad; Jackie Kay; Aurélia Lassaque; Nineb Lamassu; Gearóid Mac Lochlainn; Valzhyna Mort; Laura Tohe; Taniel Varoujan; Avrom Sutzkever

Author : Alastair Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584563549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming on the Edge written by Alastair Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz Rosenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805062236
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light-Gathering Poems written by Liz Rosenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... poems, gathered from all peoples and traditions, that blaze, inspire, and bring forth light.

Author : Neil Astley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry with an Edge written by Neil Astley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodaxe's "house" anthology was first published to mark the press's tenth anniversary in 1988. This was a 320-page anthology. A revised, second edition appeared in 1993, with the same ISBN, expanded to 384 pages.With its bold, uncompromising "stable" of new and established British, Irish, American and European writers, Bloodaxe has revolutionised poetry publishing in Britain. Bloodaxe poets can't be labelled. They are all different, and they include some of the major writers of our time: Irina Ratushinskaya, Miroslav Holub, Tony Harrison, Denise Levertov, R.S. Thomas, Kamau Brathwaite, Marin Sorescu and Tomas Tranströmer. But if you want a definition of 'poetry with an edge', the poems in this book will supply it. Poetry with an Edge is a startling anthology of vital, vigorous poetry celebrating fifteen years of Bloodaxe Books.Sunday Times: 'Bloodaxe Books has established a ferocious reputation as a publisher of ground-breaking modern poetry.It has cornered a market in the publishing industry with flair, imagination and conspicuous success.'The Listener: 'Bloodaxe has been the liveliest and most innovative poetry house in the last couple of years...The moment a name starts buzzing on the poetry grapevine you can be sure that Bloodaxe will be on the trail.'Ambit: 'They are bold and prepared to take risks and put books on the market simply because they think they should be read.'Tribune: 'The poets are both new and downright expert.''This is a vital and catholic anthology, one of the best, in terms of value for money, since The Rattle Bag.' - David Profumo, Sunday Times'As an introduction to the best contemporary poetry, this anthology is invaluable.' - Peter Sirr, Irish Times

Author : Julie Swarstad Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816539192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Earth's Edge written by Julie Swarstad Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures through poetry the violence of blastoff, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across decades and into the present.

Author : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801882311
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Modernism written by Walter Kalaidjian and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war, as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. Combining Psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, this account of modern poetics analyzes the ways in which literary form gives testimony to the trauma of twentieth-century history.

Author : J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741151
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-06-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacramental Acts written by Kenneth Rexroth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: