The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2000
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 155659139X

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Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

First Four Books Of Poems

First Four Books Of Poems
Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0063117606

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. The voice that has become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth. Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise Gluck shows herself happily "used by time."

The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather

The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather
Author: Sampson Starkweather
Publisher: Birds
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780982617793

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Poetry. As Jared White points out in his introduction to THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER, "We live in an era when a book of poems is often a 50-80 page manuscript bound with a thin mustache of a spine." THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER seeks to "upend this orthodoxy." Distinct but kindred, these books are like four ecologically diverse quadrants of one realm, in a Disneyworld of poetry's possibilities. The poems themselves are invested in the purity of experiences and the varieties of contemporary language news reports, video games, WWF wrestling, Mike Tyson. These poems are, as White puts it, "a phantasmagoria worthy of Arthur Rimbaud but a 'Rimbaud chugging Robotussin(r).'" THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER is no less than this: a book of books about the lonely yearning to be transformed by poetry, and through poetry, transform the world. THE FIRST 4 BOOKS OF SAMPSON STARKWEATHER are King of the Forest, La La La, The Waters, and Self Help Poems."

Poems and Translations; including the first four books of Ovid's Fasti: to which are added, The ancient Roman Calendar with solar and sidereal tables ... The whole illustrated with historical, astronomical and mythological notes

Poems and Translations; including the first four books of Ovid's Fasti: to which are added, The ancient Roman Calendar with solar and sidereal tables ... The whole illustrated with historical, astronomical and mythological notes
Author: John TAYLOR (of Liverpool.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1839
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Kabir Book

The Kabir Book
Author: Kabir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1977
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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"Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting of the sacred dogmas of his time--to readers accustomed to the solemnity and ideological fidelity of most Western religious poems. Kabir has been translated into English only once before, by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. Unfortunately, Tagore's Victorian English was simply not equal to Kabir's directness, spontaneity, and irreverent humor. Working from the Tagore-Underhill translation, Bly has done much more than retranslate into American diction. A noted poet himself, he has breathed new life into the work of a fascinating poet"--From back cover.

A Mask for Janus

A Mask for Janus
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780300246384

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A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."

Four Quartets

Four Quartets
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0547539703

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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2009
Genre: Poets, American
ISBN: 1438115938

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A comprehensive research and study guide to five of the poems of W.S. Merwin.

The Second Four Books of Poems

The Second Four Books of Poems
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1993
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii. W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy." Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium: East Window (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1 The First Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X Flower & Hand (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5