Exile editions apr 2014 (4 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From Toronto's poet laureate (2012-15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of 'skeletal sonnets' composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening. Traverse is a web of intersecting, crisscrossing impulses, a great burst of imaginative energy and aesthetic reflection that celebrates a 30-year period of Clarke's writing poetry.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bruce Meyer's forté is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channeling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that sustains and endangers humankind. His poems are daring and artistically defying, composed with gravitas, powerful mindfulness, and reverence. His voice is mutable, each stanza like a window onto a multidimensionality that opens itself to both complexity and clarity. Testing the Elements touches on themes such as bullying, growing up, maturity, age, love, and nature; it is poetry that is memorable and speaks to the human spirit about what it means to live and endure in the world.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Vladimir Azarov grew up and came to maturity during a time in the Soviet Union when penal camps and the secret police were ubiquitous, but the one great truth that he and the world learned from all the great Russian writers, and that he learned in his own life in political exile, is that almost everything can be taken from an individual but his or her story, his or her undying and unyielding sense of self. No matter what, the self perseveres, even in the most perverse and punishing circumstances. Azarov, in his own plainspoken voice, has composed seven stories about seven lives that are marvelously moving in their seeming simplicity, their actual depth. Seven Lives is Vladimir Azarov's childhood experiences of Soviet life transformed into a poetic witnessing.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics. He also wrote bold and sensual sonnets. Now, more than fifty years after his death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of the lesser-known genre. The sonnets are followed with Reflections on Reading Neruda by Toronto's Poet Laureate emeritus A.F. Moritz / poet and translator Beatriz Hausner / Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate emeritus George Elliott Clarke, and ends with eight Questions for Discussion. Translated and with an Afterword by Gustavo Escobedo Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan 'This handsome, bilingual edition . is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet's expansive, idiosyncratic style.' --Globe and Mail.…