The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.A man sits at a window...Lasīt vairāk
This book sheds new light on Virgils Aeneid via a detailed study of Ascanius, Aeneas young son and ancestor of the emperor Augustus. In a work that will appeal to students of literature, history and childhood studies, Rogerson shows how the charact...Lasīt vairāk
The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowells life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters...Lasīt vairāk
With poignancy and skill, Heiner Müller’s Waiting on the Opposite Stage comprises a personal retelling not only of post-war German history but also of the communist spirit and pathos that gave rise to the Berlin Wall and its fa...Lasīt vairāk
Ritual and Capital is an expansive volume that collects an interdisciplinary range of voices and genres that reflect on ritual as a form of resistance against capitalism. The poems, essays, and artworks included in this anthology explore habit...Lasīt vairāk
An exploration of race and heritage, For My People is the first book by poet and novelist Margaret Walker (1915–1998) and the 41st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Considered among the most imp...Lasīt vairāk
A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Po...Lasīt vairāk
Comprised of ironic, unsentimental poems on subjects of everyday life, Poems is the 57th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan’s lifetime, ...Lasīt vairāk
This collection about obsession and love is the 99th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Richard Sikens Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and lo...Lasīt vairāk
Imaginative and uninhibited, Beginning with O is the 72nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in th...Lasīt vairāk
A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is “the last figure whom half...Lasīt vairāk
The first collection of poems by Robert Hass, one of contemporary American poetrys most celebrated and widely read voices, and the 68th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets...Lasīt vairāk
An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes...Lasīt vairāk
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence...Lasīt vairāk
A collection that illuminates everyday experience, Views of Jeopardy is the 58th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets In an essay on his own work in 19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate, Jack Gilbert writes that I am by nature dr...Lasīt vairāk