A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in "The Prelude,"
The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge
All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic movements by looking for radical ......
Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature
For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and ......
A new look at the unique poetics of C. P. Cavafy.Konstantinos P. Kavafis--known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy - has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted the admiration of eminent literary figures such as E. M. Forster, F. T. Marinetti, W. H. Auden, George Seferis, and James Merrill. Cavafy's ......
Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi
For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for musha?irahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the musha?irah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, Nathan L. M. Tabor ......
Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi
For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for musha?irahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the musha?irah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, Nathan L. M. Tabor ......
What does it mean to live as a ghost, to live with ghosts, and how might ghosts lead to a path of healing and reimagining? Through an investigation of the intimate relationship between haunting and grief, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women posits that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived ......