Corless martin (49 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Nota is part travelogue and part philosophical examination. Corless-Smith here makes a compendium: layers of reference, of history, of text over text over text. Invented and real figures watch over a Self who admits to a history beyond the moment of simple consumption. The setting is an England in its Golden Age, a homesick construction to be consumed, with pleasure, in the discomfiting knowledge of its artificiality.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Paperback.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Poetry. ODIOUS HORIZONS ransacks and revives Horace for our contemporary world. Part translations, part re-visionings, these radical (yet often formal) lyrics offer the stoical, joyful praise for a simple life away from the insidious and toxic world of political power and material obsession. What was Roman is now American and British, and the terrifying horizons that were clear to Horace, the end game of greed, the downfall of the Republic, is here even more alarming as we see rivers rise and hear the drums of civil war once more. ODIOUS HORIZONS fast-forwards Horace's Odes, written in 23 BC, into percussive poems of today. As Horace addressed the Tiber, Maecenas or the grass of Mars, Martin Corless-Smith addresses the president, the brown Potomac, the lake of time, and Worcestershire. In luscious crossfire, with brilliant wordplay, Corless-Smith smacks down ode, the address to a particular subject meant to be sung. with masterful, acute control and unexpected ludic shifts amidst motifs of friendship, love, chronos and kairos, war and peace, and an abiding ethical insight. Odious Horizons is consummate poetry for our time.--Norma Cole Here's Horace arriving in the 21st century, seeking solace where he can, even in England: not the Augustan but still the mindful Horace, keeping his hand in while keeping an eye out: a Horace who won't waste a word, a pithy world-wary Horace, friend well-met in such gobby times.--Alan Halsey Martin Corless-Smith's versions of Horace bankrupt the heart of its false commodities and plastic gods, robbing us of exactly what we need stolen--desire's guilty gilt that would turn ornate and hollow our simplest cares. As for Horace, so for us: a world of political opprobrium, the alarm of endless wars, needless luxuries. These poems serve as bracing tonic--in their wit, in their earthy care, in their frank kindness--to our age just as they have sung us back to health for thousands of years. What's bitter here is a swig of local beer, and the talk is public talk, our daily cares, our simple loves. What more could any reader ask of a book of poetry than to be invited into the poem itself, and once there, to learn to sing those songs that give us back our ordinary hearts--just as it has given me back mine, just as it will give you back your own.--Dan Beachy-Quick.…

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 75 pp.

softcover. Zustand: Nearly fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 82 pp., Slight abrasion at the foot of the spine, else fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 82 pp.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless-Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father. Shifting between formal verse and prose, from the metaphysical to the whimsical, from surreal to anecdotal, the book moves between poetic articulations as a mind might through memories, sifting to find anything to hold on to as everything flows and falls away. At times melancholic at times nihilistic at times luminous and dark, this collection asks questions about poetry, memory and what it is to have loved and lived. Praise for The Fool and The Bee: "Corless-Smith has an extraordinary eye for detail and this meticulously crafted collection is a pleasure to build a relationship with. It is the kind of book that demands attention, to spend pondering, to be read more than once.Wonderful stuff." -Andrew Taylor, Stride Magazine"There is something quite extraordinary in Martin Corless-Smith's handling of words, a lyrical hardness or punch that we're not used to and a kind of stagecraft.All glimpses of hope are spectacular fantasies cancelled by intrusions of reality, but there is also a delight in the writing itself, the extremely resourceful and virtuosic countering and elaborating that goes on, the singing and the dancing." -Peter Riley, The Fortnightly Review.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "A masque: it's all a mask, celebrating the "organic" . . . British nature (transplants to US), in layers of spring and subsequent decay, within a long cultural history and a (to middle age) lifespan, personal pain, modernization, human war, gods and goddesses speaking anywhere. The poem has an enormous and muscular musicality (including prose musicality); the Poet constantly wondering how to Bee, how a Fool can Bee (symbol of all good qualities, sunniness, industry, royalty and divinity, various Saints) . . . A stunning, pleasurable book." - Alice Notley "Martin Corless-Smith is a gifted and brilliant poet. His work is filled with poesy and all that can mean for the depth of the art. The mind is vertical as it moves through the master box of diction and form. Here is a generous voice with wild lyric runs and gorgeous music throughout-we are only made richer by this tender work. The Fool & the Bee is a fabulous book of the poetic imagination." -Peter Gizzi.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. "Golden Satellite Debris is my 13th book. I don't feel particularly superstitious about that. I do still feel as if a book of mine coming into the world is still an unprecedented surprise. I feel a mix of hope and failure. The title points towards a sense of the wonder and glory of life on this planet, the Golden (with a hint of the sun setting no doubt), but also a sense of life as an aftermath, Debris, a sort of arbitrary and accidental outcome of equations and collisions only some of which we are aware of. I see the earth as a Satellite, a contingent object moving in space, but on a smaller scale also the human and the poem, spinning around some unknown centre, whether we call that truth, being, love or death. " (Martin Corless-Smith)"William Blake is the phosphorescent angel illuminating the leaves of Corless-Smith's Golden Satellite Debris. His cadences and questions rustle through these rhymes both melancholic and playful. Corless-Smith's Orphic muse mixes up the show with walk-ons by the pagan gods. They question their obsolescence as living metaphors of the natural world in images you won't soon forget. Meanwhile, back in civilization, the fires and rising flood waters impassively erase our human past: 'All that we hurt and bear / makes nothing that will last more than an hour.' As for genius, see how Corless-Smith turns apocalyptic topics into poetic pleasures. A beautiful book." -Jennifer Moxley"Martin Corless-Smith asks the reader, 'What is a book of poems doing in this day and age?' Golden Satellite Debris sets out to offer some possible answers, whilst also perhaps inverting the question - What is this day and age doing to a book of poems? Golden Satellite Debris is what poetry can do with 'joy and excess and possibility'. By such means the scenes of youth are recalled; dances with disputatious deities undertaken in epigrammatic fragments; the 'foreign' country America explored and the familiar regions of melancholy, its pastoral, lyrical landscapes, evoked.Here is the debris of our normal lives, 'unveiling new realities' where 'the oasis is a desert now' and there is 'pure gold from the commingling of thighs'. Essential to this is the poet's gentle dissembling with its characteristic, almost courtly timbre and measure. We begin to appreciate that there is nothing that poetry can't say here, and that a book of poems can breathe and walk around in the world and face what is, after all, not the first 'low dishonest decade.' 'We must head backTo try and put this all togetherInto one sustaining thoughtA world continuing beyondThe limit of our lonely view.'" -Kelvin Corcoran.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. "A masque: it's all a mask, celebrating the "organic" . . . British nature (transplants to US), in layers of spring and subsequent decay, within a long cultural history and a (to middle age) lifespan, personal pain, modernization, human war, gods and goddesses speaking anywhere. The poem has an enormous and muscular musicality (including prose musicality); the Poet constantly wondering how to Bee, how a Fool can Bee (symbol of all good qualities, sunniness, industry, royalty and divinity, various Saints) . . . A stunning, pleasurable book." - Alice Notley"Martin Corless-Smith is a gifted and brilliant poet. His work is filled with poesy and all that can mean for the depth of the art. The mind is vertical as it moves through the master box of diction and form. Here is a generous voice with wild lyric runs and gorgeous music throughout-we are only made richer by this tender work. The Fool and the Bee is a fabulous book of the poetic imagination." -Peter Gizzi.…

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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 152pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Light multicolored wraps with an illustration on the front cover. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, Swallows, Nota, Complete Travels, and Of Piscator. A limited edition chapbook, Roman and Moscow Poems, was published in 2011. He was Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and holds an MFA in Fine Arts and Printmaking from SMU and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University at Utah. He is currently the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University. From the publisher, on English Fragments: Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Corless-Smith proposes and confers with entities in "the janus-faced doorway" of antiquity and contemporaneity; inference and exposition; soul and bodythe "experience and the coming-into-history of that experience.".…

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First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers.

Paperback. Zustand: As new. 95pp. Octavo [21cm]. Light blue wraps with dark blue printing on the front cover. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, Swallows, Nota, Complete Travels, and Of Piscator. A limited edition chapbook, Roman and Moscow Poems, was published in 2011. He was Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and holds an MFA in Fine Arts and Printmaking from SMU and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University at Utah. He is currently the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University. From the publisher, on Complete Travels..…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 122 pages. 6.00x0.29x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Halsey on the title page.

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