The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Author: Audre Lorde

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1324004622

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A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay. Among the essays included here are: "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" "I Am Your Sister" Excerpts from the American Book Award–winning A Burst of Light The poems are drawn from Lorde’s nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are: "Martha" "A Litany for Survival" "Sister Outsider" "Making Love to Concrete"


Poetry and Experience

Poetry and Experience

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780691029283

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This is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing, influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. The essay "The Imagination of the Poet" (also known as his Poetics) is his most sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also included are "The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present Task," "Fragments for a Poetics," and two final essays discussing Goethe and Hölderlin. The latter are drawn from Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for the geistesgeschichtliche approach to literary history.


Poetry as Experience

Poetry as Experience

Author: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780804734271

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An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, this book addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action, a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself.


Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké

Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké

Author: Angelina Weld Grimké

Publisher: Schomburg Library of Nineteent

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780195061994

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Centered around the themes of death, women as objects of desire, lost love, motherhood, and children, the poems in this selection offer insight into the work of this well-known abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. Including Grimke's prose and drama, which often focus on lynching, this volume sheds new light on a perspective characterized by the African-American experience of racial pride and the reaction against racists acts.


Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Author: Robert Pinsky

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-08-19

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1466878487

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Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street—these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry." That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.


The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters, Biographies

The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters, Biographies

Author: Robert Browning

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2024-01-06

Total Pages: 5326

ISBN-13:

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Robert Browning's 'The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters, Biographies' is a comprehensive collection that showcases the diverse talents of the renowned Victorian poet. Known for his dramatic monologues and rich poetic imagery, Browning's literary style captures the complexities of human nature and emotions, making him a prominent figure in Victorian literature. This collection includes a variety of his works, allowing readers to delve into Browning's exploration of themes such as love, morality, and ambition through different mediums including poetry, plays, letters, and biographical accounts. Browning's use of language and his unique narrative techniques set him apart as a masterful storyteller of his time. Readers will find themselves captivated by the depth and intricacy of Browning's writing, gaining insight into the social and cultural context of the Victorian era through his works. This comprehensive collection is a must-read for anyone interested in experiencing the genius of Robert Browning's literary legacy.


We Are the Ocean

We Are the Ocean

Author: Epeli Hau‘ofa

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2008-01-29

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0824865545

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We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau‘ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world. Hau‘ofa’s essays criss-cross Oceania, creating a navigator’s star chart of discussion and debate. Spurning the arcana of the intellectual establishments where he was schooled, Hau‘ofa has crafted a distinctive—often lyrical, at times angry—voice that speaks directly to the people of the region and the general reader. He conveys his thoughts from diverse standpoints: university-based analyst, essayist, satirist and humorist, and practical catalyst for creativity. According to Hau‘ofa, only through creative originality in all fields of endeavor can the people of Oceania hope to strengthen their capacity to engage the forces of globalization. “Our Sea of Islands,” “The Ocean in Us,” “Pasts to Remember,” and “Our Place Within,” all of which are included in this collection, outline some of Hau‘ofa’s ideas for the emergence of a stronger and freer Oceania. Throughout he expresses his concern with the environment and suggests that the most important role that the “people of the sea” can assume is as custodians of the Pacific, the vast area of the world’s largest body of water.


Visions and Ecstasies

Visions and Ecstasies

Author: H.D.

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 1644230232

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H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.