Hafiz, Gibran, Neruda, Rumi ... their yoga mats were blank pieces of paper; they did asana with pencils between their fingers; their pranayama was inverted metaphor; and their Samadhi was uninhibited, naked poetry. Yoga is a journey, an intricate dance of mind, body, breath, and…
"Hafiz, Gibran, Neruda, Rumi. their yoga mats were blank pieces of paper; they did asana with pencils between their fingers; their pranayama was inverted metaphor; and their Samadhi was uninhibited, naked poetry. Yoga is a journey, an intricate dance of mind, body, breath, and s…
"For James Richardson, poetry is speculative and serious play. By the Numbers captivates with its range of line and movement, its microlyrics, crypto-quatrains, and "ten-second essays," its aphorisms that twist and snap. Drawing from myriad lore--Ovidian and Shakespearean, georg…
Heather Christle's stunning fourth collection blends disarming honesty with keen leaps of the imagination. Like the boundary between our sun's sphere of influence and interstellar space, from which the book takes its name, the poems in Heliopause locate themselves along the bord…
After apple picking / by Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / by Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / by Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / by Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / by Audre Lorde -- The horses / by Ted Hughes -- In respons…
Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
America, America / Saadi Youssef -- An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Babii Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- From the rising of the sun / Czeslaw Milosz -- Heart's needle / W. D. Snodgrass -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- …
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / e. e. cummings -- The centaur / May Swenson -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- Freeway 280 / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning / Alice Walker -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch …
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
An ancient gensture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca --…
Back when all was continuous / by Colette Inez -- A beautiful girl combs her hair / by Li Ho -- City of dreams / by Diane Ackerman -- Counting the mad / by Donald Justice -- Earth tremors felt in Missouri / by Mona Van Duyn -- The erlking / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Guide…
Alzheimer's / Kelly Cherry -- Blonde white women / Patricia Smith -- The broken tower / Hart Crane -- The concrete river / Luis J. Rodraiguez -- Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- For a daughter who leaves / Janice Mirikitani -- Indigo / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Inner tube / Michael…
Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas -- Annunciation overheard from the kitchen / by Mary Szybist -- Carmel point / by Robinson Jeffers -- Coal / by Audre Lorde -- The emperor of ice-cream / by Wallace Stevens -- Fable / by Octavio Paz -- A felicitous life / by Czeslaw Milosz -- A golde…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.