Cora Fry's Pillow Book

Cora Fry's Pillow Book
Author: Rosellen Brown
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466884134

Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that come with a woman's growth toward middle age, reflecting an older Cora's place in her family, community, and the larger world.

Unbinding The Pillow Book

Unbinding The Pillow Book
Author: Gergana Ivanova
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231547609

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual history, and its thematic and stylistic depth. In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions. Ivanova examines how and why The Pillow Book has been read over the centuries, placing it in the multiple contexts in which it has been rewritten, including women’s education, literary scholarship, popular culture, “pleasure quarters,” and the formation of the modern nation-state. Drawing on scholarly commentaries, erotic parodies, instruction manuals for women, high school textbooks, and comic books, she considers its outsized role in ideas about Japanese women writers. Ultimately, Ivanova argues for engaging the work’s plurality in order to achieve a clearer understanding of The Pillow Book and the importance it has held for generations of readers, rather than limiting it to a definitive version or singular meaning. The first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon, Unbinding The Pillow Book sheds new light on the construction of gender and sexuality, how women’s writing has been used to create readerships, and why ancient texts continue to play vibrant roles in contemporary cultural production.

Introspections

Introspections
Author: Robert Pack
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780874517736

Fifty-five essays by major American poets reflecting on their own work.

Worlding Sei Shônagon

Worlding Sei Shônagon
Author: Valerie Henitiuk
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2012-06-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0776619799

The Makura no Sôshi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes about life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Shônagon. Its opening section, which begins haru wa akebono, or “spring, dawn,” is arguably the single most famous passage in Japanese literature. Throughout its long life, The Pillow Book has been translated countless times. It has captured the European imagination with its lyrical style, compelling images and the striking personal voice of its author. Worlding Sei Shônagon guides the reader through the remarkable translation history of The Pillow Book in the West, gathering almost fifty translations of the “spring, dawn” passage, which span one-hundred-and-thirty-five years and sixteen languages. Many of the translations are made readily available for the first time in this study. The versions collected in Worlding Sei Shônagon are an enlightening example of the many ways in which translations can differ from their source text, undermining the idea of translation as the straightforward transfer of meaning from one language to another, one culture to another. By tracing the often convoluted trajectory through which a once wholly foreign literary work becomes domesticated—or resists domestication—this compilation also exposes the various historical, ideological or other forces that inevitably shape our experience of literature, for better or for worse.

Contemporary Poetry of New England

Contemporary Poetry of New England
Author: Robert Pack
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780874519662

Experience New England's landscape and seasons, its cities and towns, its history and people, with 58 poets as your guide.

The FSG Poetry Anthology

The FSG Poetry Anthology
Author: Jonathan Galassi
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374722617

To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1787
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 185743269X

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Half a Heart

Half a Heart
Author: Rosellen Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2001-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312278304

In a moving story about estrangement and intimacy, race and privilege, identity and belonging, a woman's comfortable life shatters with the appearance--after almost 18 years--of her biracial daughter.

The Lake on Fire

The Lake on Fire
Author: Rosellen Brown
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1946448249

The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a façade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition luring thousands to Lake Michigan’s shore. The pair scrapes together a meager living—Chaya in a cigar factory; Asher, roaming the city and stealing books and jewelry to share with the poor, until they find different paths of escape. An examination of family, love, and revolution, this profound tale resonates eerily with today’s current events and tumultuous social landscape. The Lake on Fire is robust, gleaming, and grimy all at once, proving that celebrated author Rosellen Brown is back with a story as luminous as ever.