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The Figure of the Singer
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 64.99Why 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 Wasserglas
edition 8 2012; Not AvailableErwin 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 Poetry
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 2.99Discover the esoteric knowledge in the works of Yeats, O Sullivan and other poets. more...
The Darkness of the Present
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 34.95The 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 Stars
Holy Cow! Press 2012; US$ 8.99The 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 Poetics
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00Of 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 Reading
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Strange Fruits
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 9.49strange 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 Wing
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.95Selections 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...









