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  • The Figure of the Singerby Daniel Karlin

    OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 64.99

    Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of... more...

  • Klartext zum Wasserglasby Erwin Messmer

    edition 8 2012; Not Available

    Erwin Messmers neue Gedichte überraschen immer wieder. Nicht nur Leserinnen und Leser. Auch seine Wörter werden von ihm laufend überrascht, indem er sie quasi auf dem Fuss ertappt in ihrer Mehrdeutigkeit, in ihren semantischen Möglichkeiten: Er fegt sie blank vom Staub des Alltagsgeplappers, nimmt sie beim Wort, stellt sie in ungeahnte Zusammenhänge... more...

  • Pagan Portals - Pathworking through Poetryby Fiona Tinker

    John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 2.99

    Discover the esoteric knowledge in the works of Yeats, O Sullivan and other poets. more...

  • The Darkness of the Presentby Steve McCaffery

    University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 34.95

    The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.   In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present , poet and critic Steve McCaffery argues that by approaching the past... more...

  • The Boy Who Slept Under the Starsby Roseann Lloyd

    Holy Cow! Press 2012; US$ 8.99

    The poet's brother disappears mysteriously in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. These deeply felt poems explore loss, grief, acceptance. more...

  • The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poeticsby Walter Watson

    University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00

    Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics—ancient, medieval, or modern—the most important is indisputably Aristotle’s Poetics , the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the Poetics , Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy—but there is no further mention of comedy. Aristotle writes... more...

  • Phenomenal Readingby Brian M. Reed

    University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 29.95

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  • Strange Fruitsby Maria C. McCarthy

    Andrews UK 2012; US$ 9.49

    strange fruits is a poetry collection by Kent writer, Maria C. McCarthy. Maria is a poet of remarkable skill, whose work offers surprising glimpses into our 21st-century lives - the `strange fruits' of our civilisation or lack of it. Shot through with meditations on the past and her heritage as `an Irish girl, an English woman', it includes... more...

  • Sleeping on the Wingby Kenneth Koch; Kate Farrell

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.95

    Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets. more...

  • Poeticsby Aristotle; Joe Sachs

    Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2011; US$ 6.95

    A complete translation of Aristotle?s classic work, supplemented with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. more...