Petrarch's Lyric Poems

Petrarch's Lyric Poems

Author: Francesco Petrarca

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 9780674663480

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Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.


Blood Lyrics

Blood Lyrics

Author: Katie Ford

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1555973493

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"Katie Ford's is a finely-wrought lyrical beauty, a poetry of detail and care, but she has set it within an epic arc." —Poetry I lie still, play dead, am delivered decree: our daughter weighs seven hundred dimes, paperclips, teaspoons of sugar, this child of grams for which the good nurse laid out her studies as a coin purse into which our tiny wealth clinked, our daughter spilling almost to the floor. —from "Of a Child Early Born" In Katie Ford's third collection, she sets her music into lyrics wrung from the world's dangers. Blood Lyrics is a mother's song, one seared with the knowledge that her country wages long, aching wars in which not all lives are equal. There is beauty imparted, too, but it arrives at a cost: "Don't say it's the beautiful / I praise," Ford writes. "I praise the human, / gutted and rising."


Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry

Author: Mutlu Blasing

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-01-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1400827418

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Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.


Tropical Town and Other Poems

Tropical Town and Other Poems

Author: SalomÑn de la Selva

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781611920512

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Poems by a late Nicaraguan writer. In A Prayer for the United States, he wrote: "Apocalyptic blasts are ravaging over-sea. / With lure of flag and conquest the harlot War is wooing. / The horse John saw in Patmos its dread course is pursuing. / I pray the Lord He shelter the stars that shelter me."


One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem

One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem

Author: Neil Tennant

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0571348912

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Everything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going toOver a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish of contemporary lyricists. Arranged alphabetically, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem presents an overview of Neil Tennant's considerable achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain. The landscape of Tennant's lyrics is recognisably British in character - restrained and preoccupied with the mundane, occasionally satirical, yet also yearning for escape and theatrical release. Often surprisingly revealing, this volume is contextualised by a personal commentary on each lyric and a fascinating introduction by the author which gives an insight into the process and genesis of writing. Flamboyant, understated, celebratory and elegiac, Neil Tennant's lyrics are a document of our times.


Lyrics

Lyrics

Author: Michael Austern Cohen

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2021-12-27

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781737932505

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"Lyrics" is Michael Paul Austern Cohen's captivating collection of poetry. Michael's poetry breathes characteristic color into life's moments, capturing rhythm and moods, and often whispers from his sub conscious. Also featured throughout are paintings by Michael produced during the same period he wrote the collected poems. This poetry reflects the author's use of language to paint frames of mind, emotions and experiences, counterpoint to his use of the brush depicting cityscapes, geometries, and abstracts in his oil paintings. This is a must-read for all who appreciate art in its entirety.


Sentinel and Other Poems

Sentinel and Other Poems

Author: Robert Hunter

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1993-11-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1101501634

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This collection of poems by the rock lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his songwriting contributions to legendary performers such as Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead, features rhythmic, philosophical meditations on art, authenticity, public perception, and love. Hunter delivers his lines with effective and deceptively simple language, the ideal vehicle for his timeless, wide-ranging observations about the relationships we have with our expectations, our mythology, and each other as we navigate modern life and ephemera.


Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems

Author: A. Lang

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-26

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 338700222X

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


Midpoint and Other Poems

Midpoint and Other Poems

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0307961923

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In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. The remainder of the volume is a six years’ harvest of light verse and incidental lyrics—poems dealing with love and death, animals and angels, places and persons, dream artifacts and the naked ape. As a writer of humorous verse Mr. Updike is alone in his generation; to serious poetry he brings the vision and warmth characteristic of his prose.