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Ten Poems to Set You Freeby Roger Housden
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Roger Housden’s reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life. This volume brings together the voices of Thomas Merton, David Whyte, the Basque poet Miguel de Unamuno, Anna Swir from Poland, Stanley Kunitz, the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, and Jane Hirshfield, as well as three of Housden’s favorites, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab... more...
The Odysseyby Homer; Robert Fagles
Penguin Group Inc. 1997; US$ 12.99Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. more...
Bartlett's Words for the Weddingby Brett Fletcher Lauer
Little, Brown 2007; US$ 9.99BARTLETT'S WORDS FOR THE WEDDING is an essential resource for anyone planning a wedding ceremony or renewing vows. Comprising passages from Plato, Sappho, Shakespeare, Shelley, Auden, Rilke, and many others, this gorgeous edition is a source for inspiration and an invaluable core text from which to select passages. Beautifully packaged, BARTLETT'S WORDS FOR THE WEDDING includes prose and poetry selections from ancient times to the modern day. A sample from St. Augustine: What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. more...
Poetic Memoryby Heather van Tress
BRILL 2004; US$ 129.00This study of Callimachus' and Ovid's allusive practice offers a unique view of the application of one theory of allusion (based upon that of Conte, but subsequently expanded upon) to a Greek and Latin poet. more...
Bartlett's Poems for Occasionsby Geoffrey O'Brien; Billy Collins
Little, Brown and Company 2007; US$ 11.99Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance-from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say? more...
Kiss Offby Elizabeth Ash Vélez Bestselling authors of The Hell With Love; Mary D. Esselman
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99The editors of "The Hell with Love" are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart. For anyone who's been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person one can fall in love with is oneself. more...
Traditional Australian Verseby Richard Walsh
Allen & Unwin 2009; US$ 27.26The quintessential collection of Australian bush ballads, and songs ranging from the first verse written on our shores through the works of CJ Dennis, Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson and many more. more...
In the Second Degreeby Philip S. Alexander; Armin Lange; Renate J. Pillinger
BRILL 2010; US$ 154.00To better understand the phenomenon of literature in the second degree - in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or rewritten Bible - the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from various cultures. more...
Musingby Jonathan Locke Hart
Athabasca University Press 2011; US$ 16.95Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extended meditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets, the poems are a mixture of tradition and innovation. Throughout, Hart deftly interweaves European culture with North American settings and experience. The collection opens with a foreword by noted literary scholar Gordon Teskey, who reflects on the themes that have marked the evolution of Hart's poetry. Of Musing, Teskey writes: "These deeply thoughtful poems bring layered historical consciousness into the sonnet. They also touch and stir the heart through all its levels." more...
Chamber Musicby James Joyce
The Floating Press 1907; US$ 2.99Irish author James Joyce is best remembered as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. His masterwork Ulysses is regarded by some critics as the best novel ever written. However, Joyce also dabbled in other genres, and poetry, according to some accounts, was his first literary love. Chamber Music was Joyce's first full-length collection of verse; the compilation includes a number of his best early poems. more...









