Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, "Complete Poetry and Prose" also features the only translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting...
Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influentia...
At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. The essays represent a remarkably diverse range of literary styles and approaches, and show how the forms of contemporary English-language poetry derive from a wealth of different traditions. The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose...
At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to ...
Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer's gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry itself, of the enduring work that places Kizer in the pantheon of living American poets.
Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer's gifts are acknowledged in this book: her h...
A collection of more than 40 poems including brief critical statements by each poet and concise critical mini-essays on the poetry of each poet. Finch examines the course of 20th century poetry by American women, exploring the strain of male dominance that submerged more than two generations of women writers.
A collection of more than 40 poems including brief critical statements by each poet and concise critical mini-essays on the poetry of each poet. Finch...
A self-proclaimed postmodern poetess, Annie Finch lives up to the moniker, presenting a simultaneously thorough and mercurial array of musings on poetics focusing on form and meter, remaining three beats ahead of the rank-and-file herd of traditional prosodists. Art New England
For beginning or advanced students of poetry focused on the art of structuring a poem, A Poet s Ear serves as a handbook to writing in numerous fixed forms. Here, Annie Finch s remarkably in-depth introduction to poetic form in English opens a new and...
Praise for Annie Finch
A self-proclaimed postmodern poetess, Annie Finch lives up to the moniker, presenting a simultaneously thoroug...
In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman s harrowing mythological journey of discovery. Tutored by encounters with seven Goddesses, both frightening and nurturing, Marie/Lily is tested by loss, rape, and abortion as she finds her community and her spiritual strength. This magical book embodies the goddesses in every woman and gives voice to the power of the feminist spirituality movement."
In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman s harrowing mythological jo...
