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Ingemann er en af vore fire store, danske salmedigtere. Han var ikke som Kingo, Brorson og Grundtvig teolog, men en digter, der skrev salmer. Salmerne er på én gang båret af den tro, han havde med sig fra en tryg barndom i en præstegård, og af hans urolige hjerte, spændt ud mellem himmellængsel og forundret kærlig sans for det mindste og det største i naturen. Niels Thomsen, tidligere rektor på Præstehøjskolen, viser i sine tolkninger, hvorledes salmerne giver ord til folkelig religiøs kristendom i Danmark.

Lone Aburas' første digtsamling er digte om parallelsamfund og tvangsudsendelser, om kemisk krigsførelse og kollapsede systemer, om historieløshed, slumturisme og den ugentlige lottokupon - og så med ét blander en anden stemme sig: hendes egyptiske far, Babas stemme, som genlyder af sproget og smerten fra en tabt verden.

Digte om tilværelsens store spørgsmål - livet og døden, kunsten og kærligheden, ensomheden og samhørigheden - altid med det karakteristiske Guðmundssonske glimt i øjet og en smittende kærlighed til de skæve eksistenser, der gerne bebor forfatterskabets labyrintiske landkort. Smukt illustreret med litografier af den islandske billedkunstner Tryggvi Ólafsson, der som en nordisk Matisse inviterer til en fest for øjet, hvor klipper, hvaler, fugle og fisk blander sig med bylivets hverdagsgenstande. Einar Már Guðmundsson har bl.a. modtaget Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris, Karen Blixen-medaljen og Det Svenske Akademis Nordiske Pris. Det omfattende forfatterskab, der spænder over romaner, digte, noveller, essays og en enkelt poetik, er ikke blot oversat til alle de europæiske hovedsprog, men også til kinesisk og arabisk.

Isbjørnen Isaac - Rejsen til Afrika er en børnebog, der skildrer klimaforandringer i børnehøjde. Vi tager på eventyr med den lille Isbjørneunge Isaac, der på mystisk vis er strandet på Sydpolen, uden familie eller andre af sin art. På Sydpolen har han fået de gode venner Sif, Panum og Maria. Men alt er ikke som det plejer. Isen og deres vante verden smelter, og da vennerne rejser væk med deres familier, begiver Isaac sig ud på en opdagelsesrejse, for at finde nogle af sin egen art. Det bliver starten på et fantastisk eventyr, over det store ishav, med kurs mod det afrikanske kontinent.Isbjørnen Isaac handler om at finde mod, eventyrlyst og se på verden med nysgerrige øjne, selvom man føler sig lidt alene, midt i det hele og måske ikke altid helt forstår, hvad der sker omkring en. Isbjørnen Isaac er skrevet af forfatter og digter David A Jensen og henvender sig til børn i alderen 3-8 år og deres forældre. Bogen er første fortælling i Isaacs verdensrejse, hvor vi møder verdens kontinenter og klimaforandringerne i børnehøjde.

Med titlen I nat bar jeg Caligula slår René Jean Jensen tonen an i sit på én gang kontrollerede og stærkt elastiske litterære univers. Hos ham er jeget hele tiden i gang med at finde og miste fodfæste i en verden, der er porøs og ustabil på nye og uforudsigelige måder. Bogens digte undersøger, hvordan det er at leve i denne kaotiske verden, hvor ”intet bør uforventes” – hvordan påvirkes den enkelte og fællesskaberne, hvordan påvirkes forholdet mellem tanke og sprog, vilje og handling? Er det f.eks. stadig muligt at se forskel på håb og håbløshed, frihed og dumhed i den verden: ”fuld af håb, status quos smøremiddel/ og frihed, et felt af uerkendte dumheder, selvmodsigelser/jo større, jo bedre”. I nat bar jeg Caligula kaster et desperat kritisk – og desperat morsomt – blik på sin samtid og sig selv.

"Dén bog er vi nogle, der har ventet på" – Weekendavisen"Onkel Danny i godt humør og på frihjul" – Modspor Første samlede udgave af Onkel Danny’s Deliristiske Jukebox Jitterbug (1974), Onkel Danny’s dadaistiske disc-jockey djellaba jazzjungle joysticks (1973), Onkel Danny’s drivende dansende dirrende dinglende daskende dryppende danske dåse-digte (1974), Onkel Danny’s små sorte sitrende skinnende svirrende swingende saxsoli sæbeboble-sange (1978) og Onkel Danny’s Rullende Rallende Regnvejrs Ragtime Rhapsodi (1979).

Bogen indeholder 50 af Kobayashi Issas bedste haiku, udvalgt og oversat af Niels Kjær, som også har skrevet forord og efterskrift. De 50 haiku på dansk er forsynet med japansk lydskrift (romaji).

The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation AtticusLove Her Wildis a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, who has captured the hearts and minds of well over 300k followers on his Instagram account, @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flare,Love HerWildcaptures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love, a late night drive singing along to a car radio, the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit, the simple pleasure of a good whiskey. Atticus distills the most exhilarating highs and the heartbreaking lows of life and love into a few short lines, ensuring that his words will become etched in your mindand will awaken your sense of adventure.

Henrik Ibsens psykologiske drama "Vildanden" fra 1884 kredser om forstillelse og illusioner og sætter spørgsmålstegn ved, hvad der er sandt og usandt. Stykket handler om Hjalmar Ekdal og hans familie og om de ubehagelige hemmeligheder og løgne, der kommer frem i lyset, da Hjalmars barndomsven Gregers Werle flytter ind i huset efter et skænderi med sin far.Den norske dramatiker og digter Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) er én af de vigtigste forfattere i Det Moderne Gennembrud og regnes som grundlæggeren af det moderne drama med skuespil, der sætter den menneskelige psykologi i centrum og kredser om den fortid, det er så umuligt at flygte fra. Ibsen er verdensberømt for skuespil som "Et dukkehjem", "Peer Gynt" og "Hedda Gabler", men producerede i alt over tyve dramaer, der stadig opføres på teatre over hele verden.

"Her er den profetiske og visionære tone dominerende, og i stedet for at fordømme den verden der findes, besynger Zarathustra den verden, der skal komme. Han indfører en vision om det hinsidige, og denne vision virker tilbage som en nedvurdering af det jordiske liv ... Nietzsches ganske brede popularitet skyldes formodentlig ikke mindst, at han er så ganske enestående citérbar, og i den henseende er der intet der overgår »Zarathustra«.Undertiden virker det som om, hver anden sætning er skrevet med henblik på at blive citeret. Specielt vil yndere af politisk helt igennem ukorrekte udtalelser her finde et sandt skatkammer. Alene af den grund skal »Zarathustras« popularitet og aktualitet nok vise sig at være holdbar langt ind i næste årtusinde." Asger Brandt, Kristeligt Dagblad

I digtsamlingen Månen atlas over sandparken avenue af forfatteren Glenn Christian optræder et mylder af navngivne væsner, som løber, flygter, kravler og gemmer sig i et landskab, hvor liv kvæles, grænser lukkes, og sproget spoles tilbage, så meddelelsen strander på en dynge af varm sand. En død mumlen i en gold have, hvor månen brænder som en gul sol.

The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance.

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the ObserverThis beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings from Larkin's typescripts and the early printings are recorded.For the first time, the poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Due prominence is given to the poet's comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.

Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus "for his brother who died in the Troad." Nox is a work of poetry, but arrives as a fascinating and unique physical object. Carson pasted old letters, family photos, collages and sketches on pages. The poems, typed on a computer, were added to this illustrated "book" creating a visual and reading experience so amazing as to open up our concept of poetry.

Excellent prose translation of ancient epic recounts adventures of the homeward-bound Odysseus. Fantastic cast of gods, giants, cannibals, sirens, other supernatural creatures - true classic of Western literature. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of the twentieth century, nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing. But it also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.

Brings together Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year", "After the Flood", and "A Season in Hell". This book is divided into eight 'seasons' including - Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, and The Damned Soul - that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life.

Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.

Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . .Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry.

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'The caged bird sings/ with a fearful trill/ of things unknown/ but longed for still/ and his tune is heard/ on the distant hill/ for the caged bird/ sings of freedom.' Of her poetry, KIRKUS REVIEWS has written, 'It is just as much a part of her biography as I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, GATHER TOGETHER in MY NAME, SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTING MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS, and HEART OF A WOMAN.

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential.This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu. This text is translated by Andrew George.