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Book Description Rib Tunes is a collection of poetry highlighting the struggles of life, the anger that burns as silent brutality towards self and others, and the shadows concealing the ugly ways of dealing with growing up in a crooked world. Embedded with shifting metaphors and suspended imagery, Rib Tunes is a raw identification of pain, haunted by death, anger, and abuse. Plaud's originality in style drips with unique diction, redefining crimson-tainted words over and over again, leaving the reader with a fresh perspective on loss, desperation and all horrors within the shadows that remain bathed in blackness, refusing to be revealed. Plaud's words are a brutal examination of the world we call normal, plagued with different dimensions of lucidity and mania, experiences few of us come to realize.

Book DescriptionRandall Watson's first full-length collection reveals the tenderness in situations and perceptions so extreme, we would normally consider them hallucinatory. Tornadoes, floods, sudden transformations, inexplicable weeping, tragic waitresses, "A woman and a man and what lies between them, / a wall and a look, an eye, a house / in Paris, a rising, a trinity / of endurance, triumvirate / of possibility." All of this is brought with such crispness of timing, such fresh and intimate voicing, it is a great pleasure to read and recognize this world you never suspected you had known.

Book Description This edition greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continuously published reference works in the United States. Granger's performs a valuable service for librarians by helping people locate poems when they have limitedinformation about them, and by helping them locate poems by author or by the subjects they are interested in. Each edition of Granger's includes title, first line, author, and subject indexes for over 300 poetry collected and selected works on library shelves.

Book Description A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post ) Too many people have seen too much and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell with their silent, patterned bodies, their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . . -from "Notes From" In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the slave rebellion on the Amistad and to the artists' canvases of nineteenth-century America. In persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica, American Sublime is Alexander's most vivid and varied collection and affirms her place as one of America's most lively and gifted writers. "Alexander is an unusual thing, a sensualist of history, a...

Book DescriptionPamela Cranstons Coming To Treeline Adirondack Poems celebrates the High Peaks Region of the Adirondacks in upstate New York. These extraordinary poems capture the mountains, lakes, streams and people who have been part of Cranstons life for over fifty years. Richard Henry, editor of Blueline says, Coming To Treeline startles with the depth and clarity of an Adirondack lake.

Book DescriptionA poetry triptych featuring masterful demonstrations of the poem as lyric, narrative, and metonymic moment, this work choreographs a rich text before delivering it to the page. By constructing dynamic, multitiered images that carry on a crosscultural, interregional, multidimensional dialogue about animals, an overall theme of the ways in which music, performance, and poetry can be brought together begins to emerge. The boundaries of these different mediums reverberate against each other to create unpredictable and enlightening discoveries.

Book DescriptionWhereas Balwant BhagwandinA?s wild flowers was a gathering of thoughts and emotions, i hear guyana cry! , his second book of poetry, focuses on the destruction that is being visited upon his native land and its people. These poems speak of the agony from the mayhem and madness of yet another A?TurdA? World country on the brink of a A?failed stateA? the like of Somalia and Liberia with warlords and child-soldiers, drug lords and their phantom enforcers and outright criminals instituting a reign of terror on the populace. A?This is a tragedy of calamitous proportion!A? i hear guyana cry! gathers tears for the rapes, robberies and lives lost; anguish at the senseless murders, rampant brutality and bestiality unleashed upon the innocent and vulnerable; undiminishing anger and bitterness at the nation and its politicians for allowing this havoc to happen, for...

Book DescriptionThis study reveals the unity of Hesiod's vision of the Cosmos by reading both his poems as two complementary halves of a whole embracing the human and divine cosmos. In the Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod, roughly contemporary with Homer, does not describe the deeds of the heroes. He provides instead the earliest comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life that became the foundation for later Greek literature and philosophy.Download DescriptionHesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race, and the two...

Book Description A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus -- Polynices and Eteocles -- for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story fromGreek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against Thebes , Statius chose his subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian, was not too distant from the civil wars that had threatened the survival of the empire. Published in 92 A.D., the Thebaid was an immediate success, and its fame grew in succeeding centuries. It reached its peak of popularity in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, influencing Dante, Chaucer, and perhaps Shakespeare. In recent times, however, it has received perhaps less attention than it deserves, in large part because there has been no accessible, dynamic translation of the work into English. Charles Stanley Ross offers a compelling version of...