The debut collection from Adrian B. Earle plays with the language of formality, the magic of the mundane, the events & characters hidden in the mass of a crowd or behind the glare of a computer screen.
Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will inevitably be running to catch up - often arriving at a scene the moment after the moment has gone.
A translation of the complete correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, this volume also includes a translation of "The Calamities of Abelard", of the letters of Heloise and Peter the Venerable, and of selected songs, hymns, and laments of Abelard. It also includes a chronology, map, and index.
Probing the philosophical foundations of Wordsworth's religious outlook, this book takes its reader on a journey into the mind of the poet who happened to record in his verse the rise to prominence of some of the most troublesome uncertainties which have defined Western culture for the last three centuries.
A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.