Wolf Centos

Wolf Centos
Author: Simone Muench
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781936747795

Poems structured by a wolf motif, concerned with death and beauty, urging us to retain our "wildness" as we age.

The Homeric Centos

The Homeric Centos
Author: Anna Lefteratou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0197666558

The Homeric Centos, a poem that is Homeric in style and biblical in theme, is a dramatic illustration of the creative cultural and religious dialogue between Classical Antiquity and Christianity taking place in the Roman Empire during the fifth century CE. The text is attributed to Eudocia, empress and poet, who died in exile in the Holy Land ca. 460. With lines drawn verbatim from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the poem begins with the Creation and Fall and ends with Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension. In this blend of Homeric style and Christian themes, there are also echoes of Classical and classicising literature, stretching from Homer and drama to imperial literature. Equally prominent are echoes of earlier Christian canonical and apocryphal works, verse models, and theological works. In The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven, Anna Lefteratou analyzes the double inspiration of the poem by both classical and Christian traditions. This book explores the works relationship with the cultural milieu of the fifth century CE and offers in-depth analysis of the scenes of Creation and Fall, and Jesus' Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension. This book exposes the work's debt to centuries of Homeric reception and interpretation as well as Christian literature and exegesis, and places it at the crossroads of Christian and pagan literary traditions.

Vanishing Acts

Vanishing Acts
Author: Brian Barker
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0809337274

In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry’s great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark whimsicality, Barker explores such topics as extinction, power, class, the consequences of tyranny and war, and the ongoing destruction of the environment in the name of progress. A linked sequence of poems forms the book’s backbone, with an oracular voice from the future heralding the return—or hoped for return—of common animals. Part lyrical odes, part creation myths, part excerpts from a bizarre guide for naturalists, these poems mix fact and fiction, science and fable to create an unsettling vision of a dystopian world stricken by extinction, one where the world’s last catfish sleeps “in the shadow of a hydroelectric dam.” The imaginative language and bizarre stories of these poems are perfectly suited to capture a world that no longer makes sense: a man who wears a toupee to hide an injury inflicted by secret police, a group of villagers who make a bad bargain with a land agent. The poems in Vanishing Acts straddle the comic and the tragic. They are by turns funny and haunting and ripe with scathing satire. They draw on the genres of speculative and science fiction as much as poetic traditions, and speak to the precarious state of man and the natural world in the twenty-first century.

Talking Animals

Talking Animals
Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512809357

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Phantasmata

Phantasmata
Author: R.R. Madden
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375168365

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Salad Anniversary

Salad Anniversary
Author: Machi Tawara
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1782271058

Machi Tawara's first book of poems, The Anniversary of the Salad combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara's contemporary Banana Yoshimoto. Contains 15 poems: 'August Morning' 'Baseball Game' 'Morning Necktie' 'I Am the Wind' 'Summertime Ship' 'Wake-up Call' 'Hashimoto High School' 'Pretending to Wait for Someone' 'Salad Anniversary' 'Twilight Alley' 'My Bisymmetrical Self' 'So, Good Luck' 'Jazz Concert' 'Backstreet Cat' 'Always American'

Mr. West

Mr. West
Author: Sarah Blake
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0819575186

Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.

The Names of Birds

The Names of Birds
Author: Daniel J. Wolff
Publisher: Stahlecker Selections
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781935536529

The Names of Birds is a book of connected poems about birds, names, and perception

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author: Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1999-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9789061869726

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