Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Rather than making something out of nothing, what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is inf...

Este libro recoge los ensayos de siete autores que reflexionan sobre la forma en que la figura del narrador chileno Jose Donoso se ha modificado tr...

Permutations of a Self grapples with issues of belonging and connection, all from the perspective of someone who does a lot more observing and rumi...

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico García Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and de...

Readers of poetry are often told to leave poems alone - to learn them by heart or to enjoy how they sound and leave it at that. This is all very we...

Scholars have long noted the deeply rooted veneration of the power of the wordboth the expressive and communicative capacities of languagein Russia...

Joy Kogawa is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of British Columbia with numerous honorary degrees and lifetime achievement...

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an a...

Jose Marti occupies a central place in Latin American letters, and he is an unparalleled foundational figure in Cuban culture. Marti''s writing sh...

The rise of modernism marked one of the major transitional periods in contemporary literature. The American modernist poets created a rich legacy i...

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto t...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and ...

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily...

The appearance of David R. Slavitts translation of Orlando Furioso (Mad Orlando), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance...

How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Ins...

This new title in the Braziller Series of Australian Poets features a poet whose work has been instrumental to the evolution of Australian poetry. ...