wesleyan university press sep 2025 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Las Orillas del Río Viejo is an anthology of poems exploring the realities of growing up with Latino parents, and particularly the experience of first-generation trauma. The anthology includes poems from established writers across several generations (for example, Eduardo C. Corral, Adélia Prado, Lorenzo Thomas) as well as poems from first-time authors. Taken together, their words provide rich insights into the emotional struggles of children of immigrants. These poems examine how changing identities clash with traditional Latino values or beliefs through the perspectives of people who are LGBT, female, American-born or raised, speak only English, are Black, or nonreligious. Editor Katherine Duarte writes, 'By sharing our stories, we find permission to feel deeply-and to let love, even grief-stricken love, be our guide toward something new.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Selections of Pierre Joris's best work from this past quarter-century of writingsPoasis II gathers Joris's major poetic works from 2000 to 2024. These nomadically shape-shifting poems range widely across times, places, and cultures, addressing, for example, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster (in a quasi-opera libretto), the meditations of tenth-century revolutionary poet, sufi teacher, and thinker Mansur al-Hallaj, an homage to his old friend and collaborator Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024), a list poem celebrating Herman Melville's 200 birthday, and extracts from his Book of Cormorant. These sequences are interspersed with shorter works, such as poems addressing Paul Celan upon completing translations of that poet's oeuvre, Dante's expulsion from Florence, and more. As he says in the poem 'The Poet's Job,' 'pick up everything that shines / discard the gold / keep the light.' Or, as Randall Horton suggests, these poems 'are inter-cont(in)ental as sound and symbol weaves in and out of cultures, traditions--they critique, inform--teach in a multiverse of languages--they love. The beauty, as with all of Joris's literary work, is when language is allowed to be nomadic and unbound.' Published with the support of Kultur lx - Arts Council Luxembourg. [sample poem]Outside: sun caught in bare tree branches, cradledInside: me caught in shelter in place, cradled toop.s. We shall both rise again-4/1These buds on the brancheshere this year tootheir steadfastness . my surprise.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A posthumous collection describing the poet's experience facing terminal ovarian cancer; a heartbreaking work of witness as Reid reckons through verse with the pain and beauty at the end of life'-- Provided by publisher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poeticsThe House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called 'the practice of outside,' is an authoritative edition of an underground classic.Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of the California landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writerThe more than 300 letters collected in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared are a crucial component of Jack Spicer's unique oeuvre, and they radiate with the brilliance, ferocity, and vulnerability that characterizes his poetry. Spicer writes tenderly to lovers and friends in self-reflective series that recall the poetic sequences in My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer. Letters to elders like Charles Olson and Ezra Pound and to poetic collaborators like Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan provide insight into the inner workings of an avant-garde, and are indispensable documents for students of 20th century American poetry. Writing to younger poets, Spicer offers inspiring words of mentorship--sometimes with a sting--about how to live in total devotion to art. Spicer's letters paint a unique portrait of the political and personal challenges faced by a gay man at mid-century, including documents from his involvement in the early gay rights movement. The fully annotated letters in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared contribute vital details to Spicer's biography, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian). They stand alongside the recently published Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer (edited by Daniel Katz) as key components of Spicer's inventive and influential writings. Readers of Spicer's poetry will delight to find his extraordinary letters--previously uncollected and mostly never-before-published--in one volume.Publication of this book is funded by theBeatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fundat the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.