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Presents the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with a culture of violence and war. This book intends to restore a sense of the original strangeness of American literature and culture by pushing the boundaries of the essay form.

Paul Evans (1945-1991) was a significant member of a group of radical new poets that appeared in England in the late 1960s, but his work remains scattered through a number of small-press publications from 1970-1987. This title presents a selection of Evans' work from throughout his career.

"For Larkin, landscape is not so much a thing as a process, a kind of prosody marked by opening (which the prose poem enacts through clearings of verse) and by colonizing, to a rhythm not necessarily human. It is a process whose articulations colonize the poet-forester's abandoned grammars." - Jonathan Skinner

Centres specifically on the area of East Kent where Australian poet Laurie Duggan lives. It features excursions and interludes elsewhere in Britain, the Continent and North Africa.

Demarcates the literary landscape.

Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out - the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each other as they did in the original poem. This collection of poems uses that method.

Introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet . This book presents the extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation.

A collection of poems and prose poems that navigate the vulnerabilities revealed in relationships, only to abandon these in a wandering search for new encounters and new truths.

A collection of poems that depict the author's personal encounter with her landscape. It celebrates the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century.

Written by a poet whose works minimize the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and pleasurable sensations, and the 'mediated' pleasure of the poem.

Presents a book-length poem that appears to confront specifically Jewish themes and can also be read and thought - through in non-denominational ways, not least because at its core lie questions concerning how we (individually and collectively) might still learn to become ourselves in peaceful relationship with others.

Includes poems that play with the expectations we have of the form, as much as they use the sonnet sequence's traditional power to switch viewpoint or attention poem by poem. This title wonders whether compassion is still one of the passions and tests the strengths of what the poems call the human covenant against human unfinish.

Assuming the form of postcards authored by an 'alien' of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations, people in public toilets, et al), this title offers a document of fear and loneliness in the 21st century US.

From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to Holderlin to California, this book takes us on a journey through the tissues of memory and the patchwork of images that make up our contemporary world of learning, consuming and creating.

Includes poems that point to devastating historical events.

Presents a study of contemporary British poetry. This work offers studies of some thirteen modern poets, together with a number of general essays giving an overview of events and trends in British poetry.

Presents work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material. This book includes texts that form an extended record of self and world, their focus twisting to reflect thought and language process.

Consists of three long sequences of poems. This title aims to recuperate what may be had of a lyric tradition refracted through a post-Language sensibility; generating, amongst other things, responses to Proust, Shelley and the experience of dancing.

An anthology which includes works by several of the poets of the Spanish rennaissance and "siglo de oro": Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega, Montemayor, Cervantes, the Argensolas, Gongora, Quevedo and others. It features translators who are 16th and 17th century British poets: Yong, Sidney, Shelton, Fanshawe, Stanley, Dummmond and Ayres.

A collection of poems, which are connected 'at the blade's edge'.

Deals with many aspects of the history and development of Liverpool, drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, and culminating with a vivid account of what the national press called the 'Toxteth Riots' of 1981.

Contains a variety of poems and prose: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs tossed in the direction of some famous poets, mostly meant in an ironic, joshing way.

A collection of poems which fuses elements of folklore, botany, literature, myth and narrative.

A collection of poems which testify to the poet's vocalic pitch.

A collection of poems, which engage the content and form of anger, violence, intimacy, and the poetics of proximity.

Shows the full range of the author's work and presents his long poem "Tu Mano Mi Boca" (Your Hand, My Mouth), which was so well received in Ruth Fainlight's translation when it was included in her collection of poems.

Alfred Kolleritsch is the doyen of the Graz literary scene, and editor of the indispensable magazine 'manuskripte', for decades one of the major German-language literary/poetic journals and a major force in contemporary Austrian culture. The work presents English-language survey of Alfred Kolleritsch's work.

Considers the disparities between memory and expectation as well as the alteration in events separated by the gap of years.