wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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This Art: Poems about Poetry
ISBN: 9781556591846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The centuries have changed little in this art, Why poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"? Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement. As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." This... The centuries have changed little in this art, Why poetry? What is poetry and why do p... |
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45,49 |
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Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
ISBN: 9781556591594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 675 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico--few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes... Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughl... |
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113,72 |
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The Essential W.S. Merwin
ISBN: 9781556595134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Merwin is one of the great poets of our age. Los Angeles Times Book Review Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of all creations, an accomplished style. Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books It is gratifying to read poetry that is this ambitious, that cares about vision and the possibilities of poetry, by a poet who is capable of so much change. The Nation Essential means just that: A deeply considered selection from W.S. Merwin s vast oeuvre that represents the poemsand a few... Merwin is one of the great poets of our age. Los Angeles Times Book Review Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he ... |
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68,23 |
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Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives
ISBN: 9780991336135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. ""The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978... Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist."--NPR.org "His love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam's line about Roy Orbison's voice. . . . Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool." --New York... ""The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose ... |
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68,04 |