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Blake
Par Peter Ackroyd. 1996
Life of the eighteenth-century English poet, painter, and engraver who died in 1827. Ackroyd examines the influence of William Blake's…
dissenting parents on his philosophical and religious views. He also frames the complex and challenging body of Blake's work, which went largely unnoticed in his lifetime, within the great social and political changes of his eraThe collected poems
Par Reynolds Price. 1997
The South's well-known contemporary writer combines three of his older works of poetry with an additional collection. The latter poems…
were written after his near-fatal bout with spinal cancer. Throughout the work are themes of friendship, family, and deathSo forth: poems
Par Joseph Brodsky. 1996
Rural Massachusetts, Manhattan, and the great cities of Europe provide some of the settings in these sixty-four poems, which comprise…
the final volume of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Brodsky composed this body of work during the last eight years of his life by self-translating from his native Russian and also by writing directly in EnglishWalking the black cat: poems
Par Charles Simic. 1996
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents poems depicting both the ordinary and the surreal. For example, "Little Unwritten Book" laments the…
disappearance of Rocky, a bird-tolerating black cat, while "Dogs Hear It" has Hamlet walking through "a motel in Vegas."The Idylls
Par Theocritus. 1988
English translations of verse by Theocritus, a Greek born in Sicily around 300 B.C. His works range from bucolic idylls…
depicting the simple lives of country herdsmen, to mythological narratives, to accounts of urban affairs in the city of Alexandria. These poems helped inspire the development of later European literatureThe crack in everything
Par Alicia Ostriker. 1996
Can you hear, bird: poems
Par John Ashbery. 1995
Collection of poems by the winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize and other literary awards. The works are short, cynical,…
and abstract and often contain humor and wordplays. Some strong languageIsabella Gardner: the collected poems (American poets continuum series #v. 18)
Par Isabella Gardner. 1990
More than one hundred poems written from 1955-1980 including thirty unpublished or previously ungathered. Gardner's subjects include motherhood, literature, politics,…
and nature in such poems as "West of Childhood," "Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957," "To Thoreau on Rereading Walden," "Fall in Massachusetts," and "At the Zoo."In the crevice of time: new and collected poems
Par Josephine Jacobsen. 1995
Anthology from an award-winning American poet. This collection spans nearly sixty years, from 1935-1994, and is divided chronologically into five…
parts. Jacobsen's work is known for its lean, elegant language and wide range of subject matter. Jacobsen explores such themes as mortality in "Spring, Says the Child," exotic aspects of travel in "The Foreign Lands," and the nature of loss in "Tears."Pierced by a ray of sun: poems about the times we feel alone
Par Ruth Gordon. 1995
Seventy-three poems culled from a variety of sources but unified by one overlying theme: loneliness. Gordon's collection--which includes poems by…
Keats, Sandberg, and Yeats and translations from other languages--illustrates that alienation is a universal experience. For junior and senior high readersSun under wood: new poems
Par Robert Hass. 1996
In this collection of twenty poems by the 1995 U.S. poet laureate, Hass explores such themes as nature, in "Dragonflies…
Mating"; solitude, in "Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer"; language, in "English: An Ode"; and the fragility of human relationships, in "Faint Music". Some strong language and some descriptions of sexScrambled eggs & whiskey: poems, 1991-1995
Par Hayden Carruth. 1996
Poems, variously depicting passion, war, nature, political power, tragedy, and love in one's later years. One such work, "Auburn Poem,"…
voices a father's poignant lament to his wife over their daughter's fatal cancer. Strong languageWhite pine: poems and prose poems
Par Mary Oliver. 1994
Forty poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Subjects pertaining to nature feature prominently in such poems as "Hummingbirds," "Blue Heron,"…
"Deer in the Meadow," "I Found a Dead Fox," "In Blackwater Woods," "Williams Creek," "Beside the Waterfall," "At the Lake," "I Looked Up," and "White Pine."Reflections on a gift of watermelon pickle: and other modern verse
Par Stephen Dunning. 1966
More than one hundred poems on a variety of topics. Includes "How to Eat a Poem," by Eve Merriam; "Dreams,"…
by Langston Hughes; "Lost," by Carl Sandburg; "Sonic Boom," by John Updike; "A Patch of Old Snow," by Robert Frost; and "in Just-," by e.e. cummings. For junior and senior high readersThe terrible stories: poems (American poets continuum series #v. 38)
Par Lucille Clifton. 1996
Forty-six poems by noted African American poet. Clifton explores such topics as breast cancer in "Lumpectomy Eve," "Scar," and "1994";…
life in the American South in "Old Man River," "Memphis," and "Slaveships"; the biblical King David in "Bathsheba," "The Prophet," and "David, Musing"; and the symbolism of the fox in "A Dream of Foxes" and "The Coming of Fox."Minou
Par Maude-Éloïse. 2022
Roman poétique réaliste, Minou se déroule dans une urbanité d'asphalte, de piscines publiques, d'alcool et de petites violences perpétrées sous…
les lumières rouges d'une station-service. Il dévoile un personnage éponyme qui a soif de l'autre avec un grand A. Minou a des passions exponentielles, des envies fortes, des fantasmes sans pudeur et ses humeurs débordent jusqu'au bar du coin. Les autres ce sont Chaton, Kitty, Minette, Matoue et Mon Lapin avec qui Minou entretient des relations complexes, jamais binairesTrou noir: poésie
Par Roxane Desjardins. 2023
Ce livre commence au pied du mur. Je n'ai plus rien à dire, je n'ai plus de souffle. Mais on…
me questionne, on me harcèle : "Qu'as-tu? de quoi souffres-tu? quel mal t'ai-je donc fait?" Et je suis sans paroles, je suis un animal, je suis désolée je ne peux pas. Il faut néanmoins essayer, poursuivre la conversation, reprendre pied. Me saisissant de quelques mots trop gros, j'entreprends de construire des escaliers. Des poèmes qui descendent l'escalierJe ferai battre le coeur des pommes (Collection Omri)
Par Marc-André Foisy. 2022
Je m'arrête ici. Un regard se pose au plus près de vivre. L'instant capté est à la fois fragile et…
immense : ce n'est pas rien, un corps, dehors. Comment mesurer la distance entre ce que l'on perd et ce que l'on laisse, entre les limites de soi et celle du monde, entre le vaste et le petit ?Crever les eaux (Hamac-poésie)
Par Joanne Morency. 2023
À terre ouverte (Hamac-poésie)
Par Sebastián Ibarra-Gutiérrez. 2023
À terre ouverte invite à la découverte d'une Amérique latine méconnue, inégale et douloureuse. Cette poésie témoigne d'une grande puissance…
et d'une perpétuelle résistance. Il s'agit d'un véritable cri de justice dénonçant les irrégularités, les blessures et les préjudices d'un pouvoir écrasant - donc inhumain. Le recueil met en valeur une latinité profonde et variée qui se voudra lieu de rencontre pour la diversité et l'identité