Regional & Cultural

Author: Colburn, NadiaPrice: $19.95Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2023-11-17T00:00:01ZPages:103Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:081319864XISBN:13:In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world–and a human world–that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood…

Author: Vallejo, CésarPrice: $30.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2009-12-14T00:00:01ZPages:736Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0520261739ISBN:13:9780520261730“César Vallejo is the greatest Catholic poet since Dante—and by Catholic I mean universal.”—Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain “An astonishing accomplishment. Eshleman’s translation is writhing with energy.”—Forrest Gander, author of Eye Against Eye “Vallejo has emerged for us as the greatest of the great…

Author: Clark, John LeePrice: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2022-12-06T00:00:01ZPages:112Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:132403534XISBN:13:A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar). Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired…

Author: Genet, JeanPrice: $11.39Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Dramas & PlaysPublication Date:1994-02-16T00:00:01ZPages:168Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:080215056XISBN:13:In The maids, two maids alternate between loving and hating their tyrannical mistress. Finally, they decide it’s all too much and plan to kill her. Death watch is about inmates in a women’s prison.

Author: AlfaPrice: $10.61Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2019-10-08T00:00:01ZPages:196Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:125023381XISBN:13:No summary available.

Author: Leav, LangPrice: $18.39Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2021-11-16T00:00:01ZPages:256Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1524868868ISBN:13:9781524868864International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date, spanning across her world-renowned poetry and prose titles from Love & Misadventure to Love Looks Pretty on You. In addition, this beautifully conceived clothbound anthology includes…

Author: Taha Muhammad AliPrice: $14.76Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2008-09-01T00:00:01ZPages:280Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1556592450ISBN:13:9781556592454A collection of selected poetry written in both English and Arabic by Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali.

Author: Gibran, KahlilPrice: $7.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2019-08-27T00:00:01ZPages:102Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1949982327ISBN:13:9781949982329The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. A spiritual masterpiece set in prose poetry, The Prophet follows the advice of the prophet Al Mustafa as he gives his insight on the intricacies…

Author: Ali, Agha ShahidPrice: $12.07Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1998-04-17T00:00:01ZPages:98Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393317617ISBN:13:9780393317619“Translucent elegies ‘for the city that is leaving forever’ (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America’s finest younger poets.”–John Ashbery

Author: Wilson, EdmundPrice: $22.53Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:1994-09-17T00:00:01ZPages:850Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393312569ISBN:13:9780393312560Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson’s greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.

Author: Tennant, NeilPrice: $22.95Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2018-12-04T00:00:01ZPages:235Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0571348904ISBN:13:9780571348909“Arranged alphabetically, [this book of lyrics] presents an overview of [Pet Shop Boys member Neil Tennant’s] … achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain”–Publisher marketing.

Author: Flynn, NickPrice: $14.00Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2023-11-07T00:00:01ZPages:112Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1644452596ISBN:13:9781644452592Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma. Punctuating Nick Flynn’s signature lyric poems are prose pieces and sequences, veering toward essays, including “Notes on a Calendar Found in a Stranger’s Apartment,” a truly strange…

Author: Dickinson, EmilyPrice: $19.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2018-11-01T00:00:01ZPages:160Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1788884701ISBN:13:9781788884709Although a greatly talented writer, Emily Dickinson lived most of her life in private seclusion, in contrast to the culture of the time which emphasized community and socializing. Throughout her life, Emily’s family ensured her care and comfort; she lived a life characterized by quiet self-seclusion. Emily’s…

Author: Boland, EavanPrice: $18.46Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2009-11-30T00:00:01ZPages:320Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393337308ISBN:13:9780393337303An expansive, celebratory collection from “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” (Poetry Review). An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987 confirmed Eavan Boland’s place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems now brings the record of her achievement up…

Author: Perrine, LaurencePrice: $33.76Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1992TPages:350Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0155826107ISBN:13:9780155826106No summary available.

Author: O’Donnell, Angela AlaimoPrice: $19.53Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2024-04-09T00:00:01ZPages:96Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1640609377ISBN:13:9781640609372An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and master of the sonnet, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell. In the summer of 2021, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell honored the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, by embarking…

Author: Molnar, Daniela NaomiPrice: $15.94Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2023-01-20T00:00:01ZPages:135Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1632431114ISBN:13:9781632431110Poems that incorporate multiple voices to embrace fragmentation, discord, and plurality. At a time of simultaneous isolation and interconnection, this book is an inquiry into the edges of the self. Pushing back on capitalist messages of individuality, CHORUS instead seeks the multifaceted self that engages with…

Author: Oliver, MaryPrice: $11.23Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2003-03TPages:88Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0306812061ISBN:13:9780306812064“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing,” wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago; and recently, Rita Dove described her last volume, The Leaf and the Cloud, as “a brilliant meditation.” For the many admirers of Mary Oliver’s dazzling poetry and luminous vision,…

Author: Lynch, John W.Price: $14.95Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1968-01-01T00:00:01ZPages:288Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0809119056ISBN:13:9780809119059A classic epic poem about Mary’s fidelity and piety.

Author: Paz, OctavioPrice: $27.85Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1991-04-17T00:00:01ZPages:688Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0811211738ISBN:13:9780811211734Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

Author: Williams, SaulPrice: $23.84Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2003-09-01T00:00:01ZPages:192Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0743470796ISBN:13:9780743470797The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of…

Author: Szymborska, WislawaPrice: $10.78Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:1995-05-26T00:00:01ZPages:224Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0156002167ISBN:13:9780156002165From one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life’s improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw…

Author: Faizullah, TarfiaPrice: $16.32Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2014-03-06T00:00:01ZPages:80Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0809333252ISBN:13:9780809333257The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child…

Author: Williams, SKPrice: $10.40Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2024-04-02T00:00:01ZPages:224Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1524877360ISBN:13:9781524877361Sometimes, beneath the weight of the world, we find ourselves drowning. Let this collection of poetry breathe life back into your lungs and remind you of everything that you’ve already overcome. SK Williams dives back into their past with Before You Know It, a collection of poetry…

Author: Levine, Amy-JillPrice: $27.99Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2014-09-09T00:00:01ZPages:320Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0061561010ISBN:13:9780061561016The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers. Jesus was a skilled…

Author: Mistral, GabrielaPrice: $32.50Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2011-02-15T00:00:01ZPages:431Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0826328199ISBN:13:9780826328199The breadth and depth of Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral’s poetry is passionately translated to English by Le Guin in this landmark bilingual edition.

Author: NerudaPrice: $7.79Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural PoetryPublication Date:2004-12-29T00:00:01ZPages:102Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:9706660712ISBN:13:9789706660718No summary available.

Author: William BuckPrice: $11.49Buy NowCategory:Regional & Cultural Literary CriticismPublication Date:2012TPages:464Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0520272986ISBN:13:9780520272989Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana, written some 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama—with all its…