Moving easily between high and low diction, evoking at once the language of the King James Bible and the sharp psalms of Bertolt Brecht, these lyrics offer a spirituality rooted in the daunting pressures of late-twentieth-century life-living in cities, disease, war, sexual love, friendship, and, always, wandering.
Moving easily between high and low diction, evoking at once the language of the King James Bible and the sharp psalms of Bertolt Brecht, these lyrics ...
April Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems--from a memoir sequence about the East Village in the 1980s, to "disheveled" sonnets of self-interrogation, to darkly comic hallucinations.
April Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems--from a ...
Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen," to his immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven," Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers...
Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete collection. Although best known for...
Life sucks, but you can still get a good deal if you're sharp. On this motto hangs the saga of a heroine who makes herself up as she goes along, never looking back. A closely observed and intricate comedy of class relations, here is a novel of suspense and adventure on the stormy seas of New York--a book as smart, dangerous, and winning as the femme fatale at its heart.
Life sucks, but you can still get a good deal if you're sharp. On this motto hangs the saga of a heroine who makes herself up as she goes along, never...
"Ungeliebt So I offered a bargain: All of it, the books, the papers and whatever is still brewing in my teapot head All of this, I said, I will surrende if only I may hav the home that I have seen in his face The answer came at once: No What lies you tell, and call them love
"Ungeliebt So I offered a bargain: All of it, the books, the papers and whatever is still brewing in my teapot head All of this, I said, I will s...
A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed
John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself when, in his thirties, he found he was suddenly compelled to write sonnets. It was an unusual choice--even an unpopular one--for a poet in a midcentury American literary scene that was less interested in forms. But it was the right choice, for Berryman found himself in a situation that called for the sonnet: after several years of a happy marriage, he had fallen helplessly, hopelessly in love with...
A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed
