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This richly illustrated biography is the first book in English to chronicle the life of Nelly Sachs 18911970 recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature The book follows Sachs from her secluded years in Berlin as the only child of assimilated German Jews through her lastminute flight from the Nazis in 1940 to her exile in peaceful Swedena time of poverty and isolation but also of growing fame Enriched by over 300 images of Sachss manuscripts photographs and possessions Flight and Metamorphosis not only offers detailed insights into the contexts of Sachss formation as a writer but also looks at themes of trauma and testimony in her central works Aris Fioretos draws upon many previously unknown manuscripts documents medical records and photos to produce the first reliably detailed narratives of Sachss foundational experiences her teenage years when she experienced the unrequited love later designated as the source for her entire oeuvre her involvement with the Jewish Cultural Leagueseven years marked by mounting terror but also by her first public recognition as a writer and her exposure to the radical Modernism of Swedish poetry in the 1940s The book further describes the years of public recognition addresses the paranoia that marked Sachss final decade and scrutinizes her close but complicated friendship with Paul Celan An interview with Sachss dear friend Margaretha Holmqvist provides touching insights into both her life in the 1960s and the events leading up to the Nobel Prize Throughout the book emphasizes the singularity of Sachss accomplishments as a writer and the exemplarity of her existential situationas a woman as an exile andas she herself saida battleground
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This richly illustrated biography is the first book in English to chronicle the life of Nelly Sachs 18911970 recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature The book follows Sachs from her secluded years in Berlin as the only child of assimilated German Jews through her lastminute flight from the Nazis in 1940 to her exile in peaceful Swedena time of poverty and isolation but also of growing fame Enriched by over 300 images of Sachss manuscripts photographs and possessions Flight and Metamorphosis not only offers detailed insights into the contexts of Sachss formation as a writer but also looks at themes of trauma and testimony in her central works Aris Fioretos draws upon many previously unknown manuscripts documents medical records and photos to produce the first reliably detailed narratives of Sachss foundational experiences her teenage years when she experienced the unrequited love later designated as the source for her entire oeuvre her involvement with the Jewish Cultural Leagueseven years marked by mounting terror but also by her first public recognition as a writer and her exposure to the radical Modernism of Swedish poetry in the 1940s The book further describes the years of public recognition addresses the paranoia that marked Sachss final decade and scrutinizes her close but complicated friendship with Paul Celan An interview with Sachss dear friend Margaretha Holmqvist provides touching insights into both her life in the 1960s and the events leading up to the Nobel Prize Throughout the book emphasizes the singularity of Sachss accomplishments as a writer and the exemplarity of her existential situationas a woman as an exile andas she herself saida battleground
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Satirist philosopher elegist aphorist cultural historian Peter Porter is perhaps too singular a talent to be described as representative of the age an Australian whose easy familiarity with the breadth of European culture puts most Europeans to shame he has long held the reputation of one of our most intellectually promiscuous and culturally sophisticated writers Porter uses the poem as a means through which a thought can be pursued this selection from fifty years work allows us the first opportunity to fully survey the quality and breadth of that thought and the unfailing intensity of its light In short his Selected Poems is a onevolume education Porters subtle and profound sense of history permits him to read any event as a point in a dynamic space where the forces of time and culture converge From these coordinates he gives perspective direction and bearing to our contemporary life and allows us to read the pattern of our ideas art and loves on the map of an ancient terrain That he has done all this with such immense good humour and human compassion is one of the literary miracles of our time
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Touching the Face of God is the fascinating true story of John Gillespie Magee Jr author of the poem High Flight Magee composed his famous poem while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England during World War II Magees High Flight gathered worldwide notice from such luminaries as Winston Churchill King George IV Helen Keller Orson Welles Tyrone Power and Katherine Hepburn The poem has been used countless times in music books movies and speeches The history of John Magee and his famous poem have been told several times but this book seeks to tell his complete and compelling story From his birth in China to his entrance into WWII as a combat pilot Touching the Face of God is a story of true love courage compassion and commitment
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Divided into two parts this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called Presumptions of Death reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hechts other poems written since his last book The Transparent Man
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Songs in flight gathers together Bachmanns two celebrated books of poetry as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form Given that Bachmann and Paul Celan are considered to be the two most important poets to emerge in postwar German letters this volume represents an introduction to a major voice in 20thcentury poetry that is long overdueInfluencing numerous writers from Thomas Bernhard to Christa Wolf Bachmanns poetic investigation into the nature and limits of language in the face of history remains unmatched in its ability to combine philosophical insight with haunting lyricism Just as Bachmanns Malina sought to expand the possibilities of the novel Songs in Flight contains the bedrock of a vision as far reaching as it is indelible and as uncompromising as it is bound to hope
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Divided into two parts this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called Presumptions of Death reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hechts other poems written since his last book The Transparent Man
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Touching the Face of God is the fascinating true story of John Gillespie Magee Jr author of the poem High Flight Magee composed his famous poem while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England during World War II Magees High Flight gathered worldwide notice from such luminaries as Winston Churchill King George IV Helen Keller Orson Welles Tyrone Power and Katherine Hepburn The poem has been used countless times in music books movies and speeches The history of John Magee and his famous poem have been told several times but this book seeks to tell his complete and compelling story From his birth in China to his entrance into WWII as a combat pilot Touching the Face of God is a story of true love courage compassion and commitment
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An inspiring collection of work by the 14th century Turkish poet Yunus Emre This new translation into English by Judith Reynolds Brown offers an affirmation of Emres mystic Sufism and deep humanism which is as timely today as it was when written
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In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost Catherine Martin presents Miltons poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another She argues that rather than merely extending the allegorical tradition as defined by Augustine Dante and Spenser Milton has written a metaallegory that stages a confrontation with an allegorical formalism that is either dead or no longer philosophically viable By both critiquing and recasting the traditional form Milton describes the transition to a new epoch that promises the possibility of human redemption in historyMartin shows how Paradise Lost written at the threshold of the enormous imaginative shift that accompanied the Protestant scientific and political revolutions of the seventeenth century conforms to a prophetic baroque model of allegory similar to that outlined by Walter Benjamin As she demonstrates Miltons experimentation with baroque forms radically reformulates classical epic medieval romance and Spenserian allegory to allow for both a naturalistic empirically responsible understanding of the universe and for an infinite and incomprehensible God In this way the resulting poetic world of Paradise Lost is like Miltons God an allegorical ruin in which the divine is preserved but at the price of a loss of certainty Also as Martin suggests the poem affirmatively anticipates modernity by placing the chief hope of human progress in the fully selfauthored subjectMaintaining a dialogue with a critical tradition that extends from Johnson and Coleridge to the best contemporary Milton scholarship Martin sets Paradise Lost in both the early modern and the postmodern worlds Ruins of Allegory will greatly interest all Milton scholars as well as students of literary criticism and early modern studies
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A collection of the authors prose poems sketches stories and allegories includes the threeact novelette The Metamorphosis and a special translation of The Penal Colony Reprint 15000 first printing
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The first three books of one of our best poets including her National Book Awardwinning volume Presentation Piece plus Separations and Taking Notice The wonder of Marilyn Hackers poemsis that she insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice The result again and again is a poem of intense intimacy beauty and authorityW S Merwin
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This brave collection of poems focuses on what is to come and what remains and how the two interact Many of the poems are about naturetrees of course but also wildflowers and gardens with weeds birds in flight horses and dogs the sea the mountains The hours of the day from morning to night the seasons of the year from spring to winter and back to spring And running throughout is an acknowledgment of time passing the end approaching The poet bravely accepts what is coming even celebrates the coming of what will change us all from body back into nature Meanwhile until we greet that day we greet each day Jeanne Lohmann works with nature and listens to natures lessons a lifelong practice The lessons seem to say that each moment is to be appreciated as unique even if the whole process is recurring and dependable Permanent and transitory Nature stands for our wellbeing So do trees
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Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision dealing with such themes as rebirth physical and symbolic mythology memory bondage blood family identities in flux migration politics and flights of fancy The contents move back and forth between the past and the present and project into the future envisioning a new worlda new creation The message that we are our brothers and our sisters keepers and that the earth is our home a home that we must protect and keep safe if we are to survive resonates throughout Copper Woman is a call to arms against apathy and all forms of tyranny It is liberatory dub poetics that say equality and equity are possible and within reach It invites its readers to cast off their chains and shackles and proclaim their freedom It invites us all to grasp a greater vision of our world Jamaicanborn Dr Afua Cooper has achieved considerable success as a dub poet and as the author of a childrens book a collection of poetry and as coauthor of The Underground Railroad Next Stop Toronto Dr Cooper is a recent recipient of the Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence
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A varied collection of stories and poems from around the world reveals the mysterious connection that exists between birds and humans revealing why human imaginations have always been inspired by their plumage and colors courtship rituals behavior sweet songs and gift of flight
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