Bøger i Wesleyan Poetry Series serien

"[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." --Harvard ReviewFinalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.In a half-unwieldy life you made, underthe hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby, if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world's harmin a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world'striple exposure or some tired committee... The ones who love us, how do theybreak through our defenses? We're tired today. Come back later.Their baffled voices melting our wax wallswith a candle, the ones who understandwhat being is--the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones-- they have their courage, you have yours; when you meet the one you love, it is so rare. When you meetthe one who loves you, it is extremely rare.

How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century

Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians.

Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography

New and selected poetry from Pulitzer prize-winning author Rae Armantrout

Generous, visionary new work by this major American poet

Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses

Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury.

The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.

Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward.

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets

Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date

Extraordinary retrospective spanning forty years

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power

Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the spinster

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled

The lifework of a preeminent New York School poet

CARE Dress like you care!Care like you care! fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes.

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."

Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain," the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: "Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us."

The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.

New work by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement.

Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration.

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

Classic poems from a famous American poet

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story