Oberlin college press us (116 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: New. Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub's special status as one of Europe's leading poets and as a rare mediator between scientific and literary modes of discourse. This book is darkly witty and mordantly accurate; it documents, among other things, the ignorance, folly and brutality abroad in our world. But it also brims with tenderness, humor, and occasional gleams of hope.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Lebanese writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright's translation, Jonathan Galassi's introduction, and, as afterword, Montale's thoughtful essay on Campana, identify the heart of this poet's achievement. …

Paperback. Condición: New. Killarney Clary's spare and lucid prose poems reduce the contemporary landscape to its essences and essentials, revealing the ways in which it is broken, unchartable, mysterious, and violent. Her language is unerring, her vision unique.

Paperback. Condición: New. In this remarkable book, her fourth collection of poems, Marianne Boruch continues to explore the world around her with curiosity, wry humor, searching skepticism, and thoughtful tenderness. Her poems range widely, letting themselves be triggered, often, by quite ordinary events and people, in order to launch themselves into unpredictable questions and considerations.…

Paperback. Condición: New. High-spirited and unpredictable, Marcia Southwick's third collection is, among other things, a remarkable mirror of our place and time. With unrelenting curiosity and brio, she reflects our materialistic culture right back at us, showing us the world we live in with unflinching honesty and compassionate affection.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Timothy O'Keefe was awarded the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize for THE GOODBYE TOWN, described by Editor David Walker as "a complex and multilayered collection, deeply intelligent and humane, beautifully balanced in its sly wit and elegant lyricism. He has a fresh and distinctive voice." This is O'Keefe's first book.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This poet writes fiercely and hilariously about the trivial and the universal.in other words, about our lives and dreams. And he does it from an imagination whose inventiveness seems to have no limits. Winter is also the author of Maine and numerous children's books.

Paperback. Condición: New. This collection introduces Danish Poet Inge Pedersen to English-speaking audiences in beautiful translations by the distinguished American poet/translator Marilyn Nelson. Readers will appreciate the lyricism and realism of one of Europe's finest poets.

Paperback. Condición: New. What is the language of "home"? What would it mean to be "at home" in language? And what does it mean, in the postmodern world, not to be at home in one's language? These are some of the questions that inform Angie Estes' brilliant new collection, Chez Nous, her first since the prize-winning Voice-Over. The origins of her project lie in Theodor Adorno's comment that in the postmodern, post-Holocaust world, the only "home" now available to us is in language. The results, in poems that are lyrical, experimental, and layered with meanings that cross between languages, cultures, and historical moments, are rich and compelling.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Even though he was an important founder of modernism, companion to Picasso, Modigliani, Apollinaire, and the early Surrealists, Max Jacob has remained a somewhat neglected and little-known figure. Now this delightful and utterly original poet has been given a detailed and careful presentation in English.…

Paperback. Condición: New. In his deeply innovative and beautifully human Ghost Notes, Ralph Burns explores the vivid relation between American jazz and American poetry. His book embodies the movement of jazz in the long title poem he plays wide open, without a mute, as Red Allen advises. The result is inclusive and exhilarating, a structure that keeps on opening and opening. Winner of the 2000 FIELD Poetry Prize.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Because Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet, playwright, and screenwriter, makes her home part of the year in Amsterdam and part of the year in Tel Aviv, it was possible for her to collaborate directly with the Jerusalem-based American poet Shirley Kaufman on this impressive selection from her poetry. As witness to history and acute recorder of human relationships, this poet writes with extraordinary compassion and superb control.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Winner of the 2006 FIELD Poetry Prize, Red Studio is a collection of startling lyricism, vivid sensuality, and keen precision. Cornish's poems tell about life and art and their interdependence. They are fierce, funny, and filled with a love of the world that acknowledges candidly how precarious it is--or rather, how brief our time in it must be.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This collection, Hinrichsen's fifth and most accomplished, will intrigue readers with poems that take, again and again, journeys of risk and insight, rising into vision and rueful delight. Winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, Kurosawa's Dog displays an astonishing range of feeling, form, and human compassion. Its landscapes are both Midwestern and global.…

Paperback. Condición: New. In her third collection, Carol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-reaching and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetus. Attracting charged material as a lightning field attracts lightning, the poems reference narrative but move beneath and beyond it through a restless and rewarding insistence on making and remaking, on seeing by degrees and seeing whole.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Herman de Coninck, Belgium's leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience. Bosselaar and Brown, both fine poets in their own right, are skillful translators. .…

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Paperback. Condición: New. Angie Estes' Voice-Over explores the erotics of language and its meanings in poems both experimental and lyric. This stunning collection of poems was the winner of the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize.

Paperback. Condición: New. Gallagher's second book of poems, Stubborn, follows quickly after publication of her first book, This Minute (Fordham), which received the Poets Out Loud Prize. Stubborn won the ninth annual FIELD Poetry Prize. "Readers will not want to put down this book once they have started to encounter it. It shines with power and crackles with excitement." (David Young).…

Paperback. Condición: New. In pure lyrics and longer elegiac poems this great Hungarian poet inscribed not only his own sad fate but that of millions in an Eastern Europe that only nominally "between the wars" during the '20s and 30s. Translator Bátki demonstrates how contemporary this work remains.

Paperback. Condición: New. Dennis Schmitz has provoked praise, delight and amazement among his readers. His complex, energetic poems, diving fearlessly into the physical world in pursuit of spiritual meanings, have proved rich and rewarding to those who have encountered them. This collection, the inaugural work of the FIELD Poetry Series, draws on five previous volumes.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Winner of the 2013 FIELD Poetry Prize, Bern Mulvey's Deep Snow Country is centered in the subject of Japan and the earthquake, tsunami, and reactor meltdown of 2011, but its voice is never that of the tourist or the travel guide. As an American poet who lives and works in Japan, Mulvey is positioned to respond not only to current events, but to all the rich history of interactions and meanings involving two very different cultures and languages. Such exploration requires unusual expertise and tact. In poems that draw on a sensibility and imagination of great scope, in language as intimate as it is precise, Mulvey guides us repeatedly to discoveries that are dazzling and unforgettable.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Since the publication of We Weep for Our Strangeness in 1969, Dennis Schmitz has been widely praised and admired as one of our most original and fearless American poets. Animism finds him at his surprising, wry, elegantly layered, and brilliantly crafted best.The world of Schmitz's poems is deeply, vividly physical, intense in its sense perception and detail, yet also ultimately spiritual, affirming the presence of divinity and spirit in the most unlikely places and things. We learn as we go, along with the poet, about death, about desire, about our relation to the non-human world-in short, about the things that truly matter.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Angie Estes' Tryst was named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The citation called it "a collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language.".

Paperback. Condición: New. These endlessly inventive contemporary American prose poems work forward from the tradition represented by Russell Edson and Charles Simic with energy and delight.

Paperback. Condición: New. Start, Jean Gallagher's third full-length collection, turns to the world of Greek mythology, using the figures of Demeter and Persephone to explore the mysteries of motherhood, loss, grief, and renewal. Her brilliant concision and riveting music bring the ancient narrative sharply into the present, transforming it to a vision that feels thrillingly contemporary and personal.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Stunning new work by this inimitable French master.

Paperback. Condición: New. Winner of the 2007 FIELD Poetry prize, poems on recovery from injury, materialism, aging, love, and death.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Angie Estes has recently created some of the most beautiful verbal objects on the planet." (Stephen Burt, Boston Review)"James Merrill, Amy Clampitt and Gjertrud Schnackenberg all won praise, and sparked controversy, for their elaboration; Estes shares some of their challenges, should please their readers, and belongs in their stellar company."- Publishers WeeklyAngie Estes' previous book, Tryst (also from Oberlin College Press), was named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, as"a collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language." Her much-anticipated new book is another glittering demonstration of her gifts.…