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Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on Stampa has been surprisingly scarce and unsystematic. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines employ contrasting methodologies to explore different aspects of Stampa's work. The volume p

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's verse.

This book presents the life and works of Yehuda Amichai, born Ludwig Pfeuffer in Würzburg, Germany. Amichai, an engaged political poet, was an enlightened, humanitarian European while remaining an authentic Israeli who loved his country and was deeply involved finding solutions to its problems.

A new collection of classic stories and poems celebrating Halloween's unique legacy of weird and spooky storytelling. Featuring a new introduction by Johnny Mains charting the history of Halloween fiction and the traditions of Samhain through to All Souls' Night and beyond, includes the works of rare authors from the archives.

Poems that in their content and form simultaneously expand the boundaries of language and delight.Oh Eun’s poetry is characterized by genius wordplay, and in From Being to Being, he plays with homophones, homonyms, and various other devices while keeping the wit, criticalness, and beauty of the Korean language. Oh Eun is one of the most esteemed poets in Korea, yet his work has never been translated into English before now. This landmark publication will allow English-language readers to discover new endeavors and innovations in Korean literature.

Crane is at once a hybrid-form elegy and a poetic meditation on liminality and flux, envisioning the threshold as a site saturated both with violence and with possibilities for living otherwise.   Interweaving distilled prose and shardlike verse, Crane reexamines of two figures from Greco-Roman myth: Cardea, the little-known goddess of hinges, and Echo, the nymph whose body is transformed into reflective sound. Constellating personal narrative, etymological fragments, critical theory, and meditations on language, the book’s first section unearths a poetics of the hinge. The second section, “Delay Figure,” investigates the relationality of sound, the affective capacities of the nonlinguistic voice, and the dissolution of the desiring body, taking as its guiding figure the aural phenomena of echoes as well as their mythological personification. The book’s final section, “Inlet,” is a striking sequence of lyric poems that revolve around questions of time, detritus, and transformation, tracing ellipses of intimacy and illness, duration and ecological precarity.

Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene — and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats’ “Bright Star” sonnet, Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.

Volume One of a poetry collective following the path of confusion, emotional bottoms, and recovery. Children often hold onto more things than we realize, and these traumatic experiences tend to shape more than just the child's responses to triggers. It is a complete brain alteration, often bringing one's own sanity into question. How can the world be kind when we know it to be so cruel? Why is it that we were the ones subjected to cruelty?

Inher second collection, JUMP THE GUN, Jennie Malboeuf digs deep into the hiddenrecesses of a life, exploring the stages and struggles of womanhood, the waysin which memory shapes us, and the continual fight against the darkundercurrents of grief and gun violence that shadow our daily lives in America.The speaker in thesepoems wrestles with the everyday fears and realities we often try to ignore:the complex expectationsplaced on young girls and mothers alike, the illusion of childhood innocence,and the very realconsequences of our environmental destruction.Split into twosections—with poems that layer blood-soaked images alongside close-ups of thebody and domestic life thatbloom with intimacy—this collection deftly illustrates the beauty that can befound in tragedy, thefragility of the natural world, and the resilience of the human relationshipsthat fill it.To read JUMP THE GUNis to witness yourself through the crosshairs. In Malboeuf’s words, “What hit you has become you. /Pieces of the bullet embedded / in your skin. Even / that which you come from / will never be thesame. / But from violence comes / the tides, the seasons.”

This is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else, you would scream / if you weren't caught up in the chorus.Leaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen, Unmet is a poetry collection that explores themes of frustration, justice, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx, Canadian, immigrant, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics, from Wallace Stevens to Tony Hoagland and Diane Seuss, roberts's musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality, respectability politics, intimate partner, and ecological crisis, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what could be, negotiating the past without losing hope for the future.

Karlene Logan's debut collection of romantic poetry reflects the deep feelings and emotions of hearts in love at every age.Strong, beautiful, and heartfelt, her poems will leave a hopeful mark on your mind and heart long after the last page is turned.

A play of words and ideas united by the theme of longing and the articulation of that longing, this is an emotionally charged and deeply sensual collection of love poems.

Can some truths ever be captured, either in images or words?

The debut collection by Cat Woodward is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck

An eclectic collection of intimate insights into twenty-first century society with all its foibles, faults and frustrations.

Moonlight glints and winks with a soft hum as girls in soft satin dresses dance around the fire. I can taste notes of empty forests and flowers smeared with blood on my tongue. Different reasons of their betrayal plague my mind. I opt to scream inward and swallow the lump in my throat. I see the candles lighting the wooden staircases of the haunted castle as I step in. The sight reminds me of when I was a child and held bears made of cotton tightly out of fear when I was left alone. I look down at my feet to see pictures of old loved ones crushed under them like worthless blossoms. Do I feel happy? Sad? Gloomy? Maybe all of them at once. I guess that's the life of a dandelion girl.The poems and pictures in this book represent the struggles I felt as an outcast and how I learned to find an exit for myself in the wonders of the world. I tried to capture the feeling of being rejected and later accepted into a new world in the poems and pictures I gathered. I hope people with similar experiences can read my book and feel a little less alone than they did before. I hope they realize things will get better. Your wings of fire will emerge.