wyszukanych pozycji: 10
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Late Empire
ISBN: 9780822955306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects drawn from news events.
This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public his...
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76,86 zł |
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Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
ISBN: 9781557287083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Strange Good Fortune is a collection of fifteen essays on the state of American verse, written by a well-known American poet whose criticism has also attracted considerable attention. Passionate in his engagement with both the practice of poetry and in the observation of verse as it exists within an increasingly professionalized and sometimes perplexing scene, David Wojahn follows in the tradition of poet-critics such as Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, offering provocative and insightful observations about such topics as the persistence of autobiographical poetry, poetry and politics,...
Strange Good Fortune is a collection of fifteen essays on the state of American verse, written by a well-known American poet whose criticism has also ...
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102,39 zł |
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Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004
ISBN: 9780822959175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn's six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn's searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of...
Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn's six previous c...
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99,92 zł |
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For the Scribe
ISBN: 9780822964544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in these pages, both in short lyrics and in several lengthy sequences. The poems also evidence the mastery of technique for which Wojahn is renowned, whether he is writing in fixed forms or in...
For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and t...
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76,86 zł |
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Falling Hour, The
ISBN: 9780822956426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "The Falling Hour" is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series of blistering elegies written after the sudden death of Wojahn s wife, the poet Linda Hull. In these poems, the process of mourning and lamentation is examined in all of its intricacy, rage, and sorrowful ambivalence."
"The Falling Hour" is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac...
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76,86 zł |
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From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry
ISBN: 9780472052509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the cultural, technological, and political transformations of our turbulent era. Each of these nine essays makes an impassioned and nuanced argument against the so-called marginalization of poetry in contemporary American culture. Among the work included is a penetrating essay on the role of politics in contemporary verse, a querulous examination of the rise of what Wojahn terms "the Google poem," and...
David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunitie...
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128,11 zł |
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Icehouse Lights
ISBN: 9780300028171 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "David Wojahn's poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone of our mortality. Yet as poems, they are far from usual. They help us welcome inside, again and again, the most personal of feelings." -Richard Hugo, Poet and Judge of the Competition
Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "David Wojahn's poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching thos...
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210,54 zł |
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The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition)
ISBN: 9780803278097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America s most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914 55)."
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America s most fascinating artistic and literar...
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72,83 zł |
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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
ISBN: 9780809313488 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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117,02 zł |
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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
ISBN: 9780809313495 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Seven chronologically arranged essays--each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988--plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline the critical, creative, aesthetic, and cultural forces at work in the American poetry of this century. Several contributors, including Michael Heller, Richard Jackson, and Jonathan Holden, have recently published important book-length critical studies in their essay area; all have published well-regarded collections of their own poetry. Seven chronologically arranged essays--each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988--plus two special-focus essays on black and female poe... |
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121,89 zł |