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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy(2019) WILSON, BLAKE (DICKINSON COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA)Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre), the dominant form of solo singing in Italy prior to the mid-sixteenVezava: Trda168,62 € -
Stressed, Unstressed(2016)Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Conamara Blues(2001) O'DONOHUE, JOHN, PH.D.Conamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Words as Grain(2021) DUO, DUOAn authoritative new collection by one of China's most lauded poetsVezava: Trda42,78 € -
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained(2008) MILTON, JOHNHe fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this dramatic and influential epic, Milton tells the story of the serpent and the apple, the fall of man and the exile from paradise in stunningly vivid and poweVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Refusal(2020) MOLBERG, JENNYIn Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny - invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide - to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppressVezava: Mehka30,21 € -
Dear Vulcan(2020) DAVENPORT, LAURALaura Davenport confronts the vexing possibilities of human intimacy, confessing, “The question is what keeps me coming back.” The crisp narrative style and confiding voice of these poems invite readers to consider the ways in which unspoken expectationsVezava: Mehka27,63 € -
Naming the Leper(2020) MANES, CHRISTOPHER LEEAs a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like “leper”, whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illness or a word inscribed on the caskets of the deceased, cannot define the lives of individuals or encompass tVezava: Mehka35,56 € -
Romances(2020) AMPLEMAN, LISAIn this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances emphasizeVezava: Mehka35,56 € -
This Tilted World Is Where I Live(2020) TAYLOR, HENRYGathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time. The remaining seventy-five poems appear froVezava: Trda75,39 € -
Louder Birds(2020) VORAS-HILLS, ANGELAAngela Voras-Hills's Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that iVezava: Mehka30,21 € -
Surprised by Sound(2021) TARTAKOVSKY, ROIIn Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to large questions about poetic freedom, cognitive and psychoanalytic theories, and the accidental aspects ofVezava: Trda68,62 € -
Rumi: The Big Red Book(2011) BARKS, COLEMANConsidered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, this title is written by a medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Selected Poems(2009) AKHMATOVA, ANNAWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFYAnna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produceVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Greek Epitaphic Poetry(2022)Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed on stone. They shed rich light on ancient moral values, religious ideas and gender relations and attitudes, and many are of very high literary quality. This commentaryVezava: Mehka55,13 € -
Pam Ayres Poetry Collection(1997) AYRES, PAMWarm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for more than 30 years since her first television appearance on Opportunity Knocks.19,63 €
