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A poet speaks of the deaths and births that come within a life: alcoholism, womanhood, depression, marriage, motherhood, psychotherapy, sex, poetry.

Corrosive new poems from a poet whose work challenges expectations.

The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent 'Death Tractates, ' offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter.

Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet

Collection of poems of great emotional investment.

In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortresses" of the self, the city, or the natural world. All these poems have in common a lyrical approach to solitude ("the only protection / against death/ was to love solitude") and an ironical vision for which love of beauty and the longing for the world are the cure. Hillman combines the imagistic...

A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.

Radical, intimate poems about marriage and motherhood.

With its passion, humor, and rich detail, this exquisite volume marks Harvey Shapiro's finest work to date.

Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions--those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable. The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite the reader to follow careening words and insights through passag...

A beautiful and moving collection of poetry by a new author.

Keine Beschreibung.

An elaborate collection of poems that culminate in a meditation on the possibility of a native and feminine language,

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Poems using the Persephone myth to explore the life of a contemporary woman.

As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and p...

A direct and moving account of a young man's life in a time of plague.

An inquiry into improvisation as practiced by Richard Bull and his contemporaries.

Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s.

Lumen was first published by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) in 1872 as part of the Stories of Infinity collection. Flammarion was a well-known French astronomer, writer and highly successful popularizer of science during the late 19th century. This famous novel, written in the form of a philosophical dialogue, features a cosmic spirit named Lumen who reveals the scientific wonders of the celestial universe to Quaerens, a young seeker of knowle...