A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation, a creative force of energy, spirituality, and redemption. She writes about the patterns of the ocean, its moods day and night, and the sea as a constant companion.
A iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.The concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from different generations and places around the world on a range of themes from memory to politics, aging and mortality, the vagaries of desire and the imag...
In poems that echo those of his classic ancestors Luo Ying captures the natural world.Luo Ying is best-known for poems that give voice to his experiences during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) when he was one of the “sent-down youth.” The poems in Water Sprite show us that despite his experiences during those years, his individual voice was not crushed beneath the weight of ideology. In poems that harkens back to the observations in classi...
This book is a seminal volume of witness to the destruction and cruelty of war
The collection takes on an urgency in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine as it echoes the destruction on the front lines and in the news
Captures some of the last, brutally violent spasms of Europe¿s last continent-wide war
As a poet of war, and as a member of the resistance, ¿wirszczy¿skäs gender offers a novel perspective
Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize
This is the author¿s sixth poetry collection
¿ Winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize
¿ This is the author¿s sixth poetry collection
¿ Answers a pressing question: how do we persist in an era of climate collapse?
¿ Should find an audience with the growing number of readers turning to ecopoetics
Tao Yuan-ming stands first in the line of Chinäs great lyric poets. Later generations would look back to him as a beloved grandfather figure. Tao Yuan-ming, who lived around 400 A.D., stands first in the line of Chinäs great lyric poets. Just as the Impressionists taught us to see in a new way, Tao taught the Chinese a lyrical attitude toward life. Creator of an intimate, honest, plain-spoken style, Tao was a man whose life spoke as eloquently...
A major study of the Chicago literary scene between the wars
Explores the founding of Poetry Magazine and other important journals of that period
Chicago remains a vital, innovative hub of American literary life, and this offers contemporary readers historical context for that
Captures voices both very well known (WEB DuBois) and largely forgotten
A Luminous Uplift is a rich compendium of John Brandi¿s new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative travels through the American Southwest to the far reaches of the Himalaya. John Brandi¿s selection of writings over the last four decades opens with a memoir addressing his awakening to landscape and poetry during his upbringing in California, his counterculture years in the Sixties, his Peace Corps work with indigenous farmers...
The first single volume of contemporary Sami poetry to be published in English
We anticipate interest in indigenous literature
Sami Studies scholars have expressed interest in utilizing the book in their courses
The first novel in English by a major Chilean writer.
The novel was a finalist in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Mexican literary prize, one of the major prizes in Latin America.
We anticipate course adoptions for Latin American Studies courses
Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.
