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'An astonishing New World epic...of human transfiguration and transformation, of nothing less than the great work of art that is "our life among ourselves."' Steven Meyer, Boston Review'The greatest living American poet' Dante MicheauxFor over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. Wright's inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an 'indelible music', transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Revelling in the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American and West African cultural forms, Wright detangles the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and the people who move within it.Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is a career-defining volume that includes all of Wright's 20th century major poetry works - The Homecoming Singer (1971), Soothsayers and Omens (1976), Explications/Interpretations (1984), Dimensions of History (1976), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), Elaine's Book (1988), Boleros (1991), Transformations (1997).Transfigurations is a singular opportunity for readers to fully immerse themselves in the sublime imagination of one of the most profound, generous and innovative American poets of all time.

In Memory Field, Benick recalls objects of consciousness as altered by the materials of space and time and examines the social and ontological imperatives of what it means to be a body at any given moment. A "travelogue of forgetting" in the Proustian sense, Benick's text embraces the impossibility of accurate remembering and concedes to the liminal overlap of fact and fiction. In distilled fractions of experience, Memory Field holds the place where life once was - in ruin, in metonym, in loss.

Man to God - Oh Lord, how can I experience paradise on Earth? It seems to me so hard! - My son, why are you confused? I gave you paradise almost from the very first moment of your creation. It's a part of you! - Do You mean Woman? - Exactly, the most beautiful creature I ever made! She has the purest heart and the most creative mind. The road to paradise goes through her. - But our relationship is so complex. Sometimes, I feel that Woman is the reason for my misery. - The only reason for your misery is you, because you've forgotten your mission - to serve and treat her with love and respect. - And what am I going to gain if I do so? - Blissfulness! You'll be rewarded with her graces, a true taste of heaven in this life. But remember, she is fragile until she breaks, then cuts like a blade!

In this autobiographical book of poems, the arcof a life is considered from childhood to last days, ¿each poem a stop along the way.¿From remembering how his mother wrote, "A bird /¿skipped across the surface of the page." To consideringhow he might choose to spend his last moments,¿¿"I would read out loud / the way you sometimeslike me to, every word / a star. Brilliant, then dimming."¿

The book is a literary project with extra-literary objectives and implications. The texts combine various original writing styles to provoke the reader's creative imagination and makeauratic social space attainable. For realizing its main goal, through its creative aesthetics, the book debases normalized forms of social violence, exclusionism, and tribalism. While the book is inspired by a philosophical theory that emphasizes the significance of negativity in the face of unspoken social rules of exclusionism, it is meant to be universally relatable by an average reader regardless of her perceived and proclaimed identities. The philosophy I am referring to is postnihilism, which is theorized in a book published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022 and listed above. "Auratic space" is a concept advanced in my other works, including a book published by the State University of New York Press in 2019 and one published by De Gruyter in 2024 (both are listed above). If more information is needed, I would be happy to submit a more detailed response in a separate document.

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Following Heidegger's definition of technology as preventing authentic poetic language, alongside his argument that poetry can successfully confront technology, Coventry considers the possibility of great poetry in the digital age. This approach takes us beyond conventional literary criticism, using different case studies from contemporary poetry including eco-poetry, digital poetry and post-internet poetry. Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age asks provocative questions to progress the philosophical study of poetry, tracing new lines of thought in Heidegger studies and critical studies of contemporary poetry. Does the digital thwart the aim of eco-poetry? Do poetic movements that use modern technology provide us with a way to overcome the negative effects of technology? What are the ontological consequences of employing new formats for poetry? This book examines these tensions to provide a phenomenological account of digital poetry that grounds poetic metaphor in Heidegger's metaphysics.

Sophie Dumont's debut collection of poems, Sculling, circles the curses that unravel from an Avon-based canoe club, where she trained to be a canoe coach aged 16. Dumont's own coach and partner of three years died suddenly in an aquaplaning road accident, which led to his heart and five other organs being donated.Sculling explores how this bereavement has caused Dumont to reflect on her relationship to bodies of water, from her own body to the state of pollution in UK rivers. She uses the kayak as a vessel to traverse life's accumulation of losses.Amongst great grief, poems soar with humour and a searing openness when talking of sexual health, dementia and being an aunt. With vulnerability and obsessive observation, Sculling speaks of the dull mirrors of a wet city and the narrator's need to 'understand the rain's inclination to its gutters'.

A father-to-be making deals with a god of his own design; the after-effects of a child's murder upon a suburban neighbourhood; a teenage boy negotiating the many perils of high-school while trying to hide his family's faith; a woman aiming a rifle at her rapist and his family and making split-second choices - these subjects and many more make up the debut collection from S.M. Field, a poet singular in fearlessness and execution. Through gritty language and stark imagery, S.M. Field navigates the messy complexities of relationships, politics, and personal struggles. From scathing critiques of societal norms to unapologetic reflections on identity and power dynamics, this collection will shock, provoke, and offer unique insights into our modern human condition.

The September-October 2024 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Gluck, Jesse Zuba illuminates the importance of the first book in twentieth-century American literary culture, which involved complex struggles for legitimacy on the part of poets, critics, and publishers alike. Zuba investigates poets' diverse responses to the question of how to launch a career in an increasingly professionalized literary scene that threatened the authenticity of the poetic calling. He shows how modernist debuts evoke markedly idiosyncratic paths, while postwar first books evoke trajectories that balance professional imperatives with traditional literary ideals. Debut titles ranging from Simpson's The Arrivistes to Ken Chen's Juvenilia stress the strikingly pervasive theme of beginning, accommodating a new demand for career development even as it distances the poets from that demand.Combining literary analysis with cultural history, The First Book will interest scholars and students of twentieth-century literature as well as readers and writers of poetry.

A new look at the life and works of William Blake, revealing the full complexity and enduring legacy of this deeply spiritual, politically radical figure.

A new collection from James Harpur, chronicling his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1970s. Compelling, humorous and poignant, The Magic Theatre is an enthralling rite of passage amid the 'full catastrophe' of university life.

From black holes and emu burgers to family dynamics, experiences of transformation, and many other points along the way, From the Ground to the Birdsong unites an array of poems that stand as a compelling collective vision of the mouthwatering possibilities of the contemporary poetry produced by the Barbican Young Poets programme.