Cave Vitae
ISBN: 9781891386800 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative meets surrealism and feeling fires intellect in Cave Vitae a place where each poem gives off the fresh scent of the new. Adams understands the just-born image, can flush it out of hiding with one deft turn of a line, one twist of syntax, one startling phrase, and she delights in provoking intellect and emotion simultaneously. Here is where pure lyricism has gone, where it still lives, "in a city of intricate bricks beneath/centuries of water." Cave Vitae is cause for rejoicing.
Joan Houlihan, author of Hand-Held Executions and The Mending Worm. "This is no penance, / to... Narrative meets surrealism and feeling fires intellect in Cave Vitae a place where each poem gives off the fresh scent of the new. Adams understands t...
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64,21 zł |
Still About A Girl
ISBN: 9781897217214 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometimes all you have left is a memory, a time when you found yourself, lost yourself, found yourself again...in someone else. And sometimes they leave you anyway, but in the end what they've given to you is more than what you could have ever asked for. And though they're gone you have lived because of them and become so much more. You have experienced what most go through their whole lives without, that four-letter word that impacts the world greater than anything else. Love.
Sometimes all you have left is a memory, a time when you found yourself, lost yourself, found yourself again...in someone else. And sometimes they lea...
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48,05 zł |
Rembrandt's Smock
ISBN: 9781891386824 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strongin's creativity takes the world inside herself, turning it into her own private art-world then bringing us inside with her.--Hugh Fox, poet and critic.
Strongin's creativity takes the world inside herself, turning it into her own private art-world then bringing us inside with her.--Hugh Fox, poet and ...
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64,21 zł |
Learning a First Language: Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: 9780595473861 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Learning a First Language" is a complex and beautifully crafted collection of skillfully interwoven poetry and prose that explores the themes of memory, regret, hope and the relationship between art and passion.
It begins with "love," a reactionary "stream of consciousness" poem written in response to an unexpected and unsolicited marriage proposal, and ends with the final chapter of the author's meandering narrative account of a character known only as "The Artist." His story twists and turns its way through the text, shedding light on both the inspirations and contrary emotions that... "Learning a First Language" is a complex and beautifully crafted collection of skillfully interwoven poetry and prose that explores the themes of memo...
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42,74 zł |
Confusion Matrix and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780595455775 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread of our most unavoidable emotion-confusion. Language and content combine beautifully as Murray seamlessly blends concrete detail into abstraction. This mellifluous marriage of the tangible and the universal shows that confusion is an emotion as valuable to the human experience as fear or grief or even love. We move smoothly from one aspect of life to another, from one poem to the next, carried along by the familiar and inevitable undercurrent of...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread...
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68,50 zł |
Confusion Matrix and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780595695867 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread of our most unavoidable emotion-confusion. Language and content combine beautifully as Murray seamlessly blends concrete detail into abstraction. This mellifluous marriage of the tangible and the universal shows that confusion is an emotion as valuable to the human experience as fear or grief or even love. We move smoothly from one aspect of life to another, from one poem to the next, carried along by the familiar and inevitable undercurrent of...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread...
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111,45 zł |
Great Blue Heron and Other Poems, Play and Prose
ISBN: 9781553954019 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,57 zł |
Love on the Marsh
ISBN: 9780973950533 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love on the Marsh, a long poem in 100 stanzas, is described by Lochhead as "an extension of High Marsh Road" and "brother and sister to it." The diary-like entries, a form to which Lochhead has frequently returned over the years, can also be compared to his work in The Panic Field. By turns earthy and etherial, a pilgrimage through a landscape of grass and sky and tumultuous emotions, Love on the Marsh revisits the High Marsh Road with a new eye and finds in it the self-examining, self-discovering heart. Douglas Lochhead, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a life-member of the League...
Love on the Marsh, a long poem in 100 stanzas, is described by Lochhead as "an extension of High Marsh Road" and "brother and sister to it." The diary...
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60,08 zł |
Mercurial Journeys: On the Wings of Poetry
ISBN: 9780595472291 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,91 zł |
Mercurial Journeys: On the Wings of Poetry
ISBN: 9780595710515 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "After the tragic death of her daughter Hana and the onset of MS later, the author's art took on an ethereal quality, swirling with light and emotions. Her poems, too, are infused with the energy and movement that is lost to her. They dance and soar to great heights, plummet into the abyss of despair, then, like her indomitable spirit, rise again to meet the new day."
-Joan Matchett, editor "Stania Slahor like the novelist Joseph Conrad, enjoys writing in her acquired tongue. Perhaps, their foreign beginnings give such people fresh look at English, which we who have spoken it from... "After the tragic death of her daughter Hana and the onset of MS later, the author's art took on an ethereal quality, swirling with light and emotions...
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102,86 zł |
The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser
ISBN: 9780520258259 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time--from friends and...
Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central f...
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144,30 zł |
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane
ISBN: 9781554580255 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of "home" in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane's poems exhibit impressive range and variety--long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art--and are richly attentive to... The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduct... |
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108,47 zł |
Wordspeak
ISBN: 9780595450879 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,62 zł |
Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb
ISBN: 9780889202719 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark," she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned "dark" negative values. Seeing in the Dark includes perceptive discussions on a number of Webb's collections, specifically Naked Poems, Wilson's Bowl, Water and Light and Hanging Fire. Butling shows how Webb uses strategies of subversion, reversal and re-vision of prevailing traditions and tropes to... Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark," she r... |
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245,54 zł |
The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy
ISBN: 9780889204904 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures. Robert Budde introduces the collection with an overview of Purdy's tumultuous life of letters, his legendary personality, his outrageous antics, his peers, his influences, and the history of his publishing career.... Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught a... |
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108,47 zł |
Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay
ISBN: 9780889204942 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Meira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process--its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis. Don McKay has published eight books of poetry. He won the Governor General's Award in 1991 (for Night Field) and in 2000 (for Another... This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Meira Cook that probes wilder... |
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90,59 zł |
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt
ISBN: 9780889205062 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period. Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics of gender, religion, and the politics of language, Brandt examines the use and abuse of power as a cultural issue, emphasizing cross-cultural and domestic relationships. Particularly engaged with questions of motherhood, the land, violence and reparation, feminism, and spirituality,... Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, provi... |
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108,47 zł |
Forage
ISBN: 9780889712133 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award Rita Wong's new collection of poems explores how ecological crises relate to the injustices of our international political landscape. Querying the relations between writing and other forms of action, Wong seeks a shift in consciousness through poems that bespeak a range of responses to our world: anger, protest, anxiety, bewilderment, hope and love. In her words, -the next shift may be the biggest one yet, the union of the living, from mosquito to manatee to... Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award Rita Wong's new collect... |
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85,68 zł |
All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek
ISBN: 9781554580392 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A passionate believer in the power of art--and especially poetry--to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek's poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek's poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public... A passionate believer in the power of art--and especially poetry--to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his ... |
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108,47 zł |
Pluriel: An Anthology of Diverse Voices - Une Anthologie Des Voix
ISBN: 9780776606118 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce livre reunit en version originale ainsi qu'en traduction une selection de poemes qui mettent en jeu les notions d'identite et d'alterite au Canada. S'y cotoient des textes d'auteurs des deux principales communautes linguistiques du pays, mais aussi de poetes autochtones ou migrants. La pluralite des voix, la diversite des lectures possibles et la richesse du materiau montrent bien que l'identite et l'alterite constituent un horizon ouvert, signe d'une societe en evolution, donc bien vivante. -- Pluriel provides a composite snapshot, taken from a few particular angles, of the variety of...
Ce livre reunit en version originale ainsi qu'en traduction une selection de poemes qui mettent en jeu les notions d'identite et d'alterite au Canada....
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137,42 zł |