Poetry. Prose. DECADENTS, SYMBOLISTS, &amp; AESTHETES IN AMERICA brings together works by various late nineteenth and early twentieth century American and Canadian poets: Conrad Aiken, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, Madison Cawein, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Hall, Richard Hovey, James Huneker, Ludwig Lewisohn, Stuart Merrill, Edgar Saltus, and Vance Thompson to give a fuller sense of literary life and values in fin-de-siecle America. American literature and life could be much more colorful (and European) than history commonly admits.

DECADENTS, SYMBOLISTS, & AESTHETES IN AMERICA: FIN-DE-SIECLE AMERICAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY (Talisman Classic American Poets)

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Poetry. Edited with an introduction by Peter O'Leary. "Ronald Johnson's early poems owe much to Charles Olson's notions of projective verse, but he then began to experiment with the poetics of the international concrete poetry movement. Edited by Peter O'Leary, TO DO AS ADAM DID includes works from the full range of Johnson's career, including The Shrubberies, the long poetic sequence he was writing at the time of his death. What did Adam do? He named: naming built the Garden he dwelt in, allowing him to see it through words. Johnson recognizes the brain and the universe as mirror images: astrophysics is horticulture; scientific perception is gardening."—from Peter O'Leary's introduction

To Do as Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson

JOHNSON, RONALD

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Edited by Timothy Liu, himself an accomplished poet (VOX ANGELICA, SAY GOODNIGHT), the formidable anthology WORD OF MOUTH covers a vast range of work by twentieth-century gay American poets. Arranged in order of the poets' birthdates, so that the book shades gradually from older luminaries of the poetry scene to bright newcomers, the work here forms a sparkling composite picture of gay poetic sensibility in the U.S. Including Ashbery, Auden, Brainard, Bronk, Duncan, Denby, Doty, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Gunn, Killian, Koestenbaum, Lansing, Mead, Merrill, O'Hara, Phillips, Schuyler, Shurin, Spicer, Wieners, and Williams.

Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry

The Anatolikon

Poetry. Originally from Manchester, England, John Ash currently lives in a small village outside Istanbul. In addition to being one of England's better-known poets, he is the author of one of the great travel books of our time, A Byzantine Journey (1995). In THE ANATOLIKON, Ash's deep knowledge of Byzantine and Ottoman cultures, as well as his daily life, informs poems that somehow still reflect his awareness of Western poetics and experimentation. Ash's poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Paris Review.

Ash, John

The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. Samuel Menashe "compresses thought into language intense and clear as diamonds"—Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books. Described by Donald Davie in the New Statesman as a "testcase for readers and a challenge to writers," Menashe's poetry has been enthusiastically reviewed in some of the most prestigious journals in the English-speaking world and praised by critics and poets as various and distinguished as Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine, Austin Clarke, Hugh Kenner, Calvin Bedient, Derek Mahon, Dana Gionia, and Barry Ahearn.

Menashe, Samuel

Cultural Writing. Interviews. POETRY AND POETICS IN A NEW MILLENNIUM follows POSTMODERN POETRY, both of them collections of interviews with American experimental poets. Three of the interviews from the earlier collection are reprinted here together with six more to suggest the range of the avant-garde tradition in contemporary American poetry. Includes interviews with Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Michael Heller, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, Armand Schwerner, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh.

Poetry And Poetics In A New Millennium: Interviews

History & Criticism

Poetry. From 1956 till his death in 1999, William Bronk published thirty books of poetry and essays. Bronk returned again and again to a fundamental assertion that what is real--the world, truth, and ourselves--remains beyond the grasp of language and knowledge. Consequently, the world that we inhabit is a fiction of our own construction. Winner of the American Book Award for his collected poems, he is considered one of the foremost poets of his time. THE BODY OF THIS LIFE is an outstanding collection of essays and memoirs about his work by poets and scholars including Edward Foster, Burt Kimmelman, Robert Bertholf, and David Clippenger.

THE BODY OF THIS LIFE: READING WILLIAM BRONK

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Poetry. Translated from the Greek by many hands. Greece for the past century has given the world some of its finest poetry. Nanos Valaortis and Thanasis Maskaleris—distinguished poets, critics, and the anthology's principal translators—provide new translations of works by Constantine P. Cavafy, perhaps the greatest of all the Greek modernists; Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytris; and Nobel Prize winner George Seferis as well as works by such celebrated writers as Yannis Ritsos, Angelos Sikelianos, and almost a hundred others. No anthology of Greek poetry is as encompassing and commanding. The editors and their translators provide generous selections not only from internationally celebrated poets but also from younger writers who are beginning to play key roles in the literary world today.

An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry

Poetry. "'Hints and symbols die out. / All's actual now.' These lines seem to contain the germ of Joseph Donahue's massive, mesmerising new book, INCIDENTAL ECLIPSE. Something is going under, something is coming to the surface; each is documented by two voices, one speaking in italics. This sequence confirms Donahue as one of the major American poets of our time."—John Ashbery

Incidental Eclipse

Donahue, Joseph

Poetry. Translation. Middle Eastern Studies. The only U.S. anthology to date to track the develpment of one of the great poetic traditions of our time. Nemet-Nejat offers an introduction to modern and contemporary Turkish poetry, until now largely unknown in the West. "We ignore such work at our own peril: we're in another world, and Murat Nemet-Nejat welcomes us to it"—Ammiel Alcalay.

Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry

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