"Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the mi ..."
"This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfooler ..."
"Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Other poets include: ..."
"Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling "Social Medicine Reader." The "Reader" provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, a ..."
"Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian, Hispanic, and white culture, their diverse voices unite in a dialogue of poems which acknowledge and celebrate our differences while exploring America's shameful history of racial intolerance. The poets in this anthology include Gwendolyn Brook ..."
"American poetry has so much diversity of form and content that a translator has to attempt, for each individual poet, to include representative works that express unique tastes, thoughts, images and humors, in acceptance of the fact that ..."
Balladz (Paperback) by SharonOlds Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2022 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-1161-0, ISBN: 1-5247-1161-6
""At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors ..."
Arias by SharonOlds Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-1-78733-215-7, ISBN: 1-78733-215-2
"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman’s intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother’s return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stan ..."
Arias by SharonOlds Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65693-7, ISBN: 0-525-65693-6
"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique harmonics and moral logic, a ..."
Arias by SharonOlds 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65694-4, ISBN: 0-525-65694-4
"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from ..."
Gold Cell Poems by SharonOlds Published by Alfred A Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-199-48599-1, ISBN: 1-199-48599-3
Arias by SharonOlds Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-1160-3, ISBN: 1-5247-1160-8
"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique harmonics and moral logic, a ..."
Unswept Room by SharonOlds Hardcover, Published by San Val ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-0937-3, ISBN: 1-4177-0937-5
"Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers. Born in 1938, he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and is now, arguably, Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In the much praised Tugs in the Fog: S ..."
"The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict Your Family, Your Body features the work ..."
Odes by SharonOlds 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4630-1, ISBN: 1-4735-4630-3
"Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way ..."
Odes by SharonOlds Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49362-0, ISBN: 0-451-49362-1
"Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender “Ode to the Hymen,” Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as a daughter, mother, wife, lover, friend, and ..."