Tag: Poems
A River Dies of Thirst – $295
by rgonzalezr
This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish’s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and often lighthearted conversation with death. A River Dies of Thirst is a collection of […]
Categories: Periodismo, Poesía • Tags: 2009, Arabic, Archipelago, Darwish, fragments, Journal, meditations, palestine, Poems, Poetry
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 – $395
by rgonzalezr
Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka—”whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others” (New York Times)—was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as […]
Categories: Poesía • Tags: African american, Amiri Baraka, Beat, Beat Generation, grove press, oppression, Poems, Poetry, Race, Racism, Revolution
Alternative Medicine – $295
by rgonzalezr
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of […]
Categories: Poesía, Salud • Tags: 2013, Alternative medicine, Duke University Pres, healing, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, rafael campo, Salud
This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra – $295
by rgonzalezr
THIS PLANET IS DOOMED: THE SCIENCE FICTION POETRY OF SUN RA Foreword by Amiri Baraka • Introduction by Bhob Stewart (KB2). Kicks Books. THIS PLANET IS DOOMED serves up a traumatic torrent of future shock from Afrofuturist Sun Ra-deeply personal and critical commentary and unsettling advice to the people of Earth, who fail to acknowledge this planet’s role in the universe. These lost poems, culled from the vaults by Sun Ra Music Archive director Michael Anderson, are available for the […]
Categories: Poesía • Tags: black poets, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, Sci fi, Sun Ra
This Is the Ocean – $325
by rgonzalezr
Robert Krut’s award-winning second collection dives into a visceral tour of spaces raw and unknown. In THIS IS THE OCEAN, winner of the 2012 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, Krut invites investigation through transformative images that bite and bark, and unshakeable mantras that allow for redemption. http://www.poemeleon.org/robert-krut/
Categories: Poesía • Tags: 2013, Bona Fide books, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, Robert Krut
Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings – $295
by rgonzalezr
If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer . . . Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. […]
Categories: Ilustrado, Infantil • Tags: 2004, Children, harper collins, Infantil, Poems, Shel Silverstein
Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics – $295
by rgonzalezr
Containing a body of work that spans more than three decades, Pass Thru Fire is a stunning collection of the lyrics of an American original. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde–Lou Reed’s work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo career-albums […]
Categories: Música, Poesía • Tags: 2013, Da Capo, Lou Reed, lyrics, music, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, Velvet Underground
Poems of the Late T’ang – $275
by rgonzalezr
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T’ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T’ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable anthology of late T’ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the […]
Categories: Antología, Poesía • Tags: 2008, anthology, China, Nyrb, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, T'ang
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 – $365
by rgonzalezr
Winner of both the Queen’s Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, “Terminal Moraine“, to the dramatic and political monologues of “The Memory of War” and “Children in Exile“, through to the unforgettable love poems of “Out of Danger” and his most recent work: poems is an essential selection by, as Stephen Spender put it, […]
Categories: Poesía • Tags: 2011, British, English, Faber & Faber, James Fenton, Poems, Poesía, Poetry, Yellow Tulips
Book of longing – $325
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Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California’s Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author’s playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen’s artistry […]
Categories: Dibujo, Poesía, Zen • Tags: 2007, american poetry, book of longing, Buddhist, Ecco, Leonard Cohen, Poems, Poetry, zen
In the Sierra: Mountain Writings – $315
by rgonzalezr
Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth’s poetry and prose described the way Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra. Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, […]
Categories: Nature, Poesía • Tags: 2012, American, Americana, Kenneth Rexroth, nature, New Directions, Poems, Sierra Nevada
Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems – $245
by rgonzalezr
A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people’s roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death and everything in between with equanimity, holding a steady hand to the quivering breast wherever there is breath. Published in The New Yorker, La Nouvelle Revue Française, and in nearly a hundred magazines and poetry journals from […]
Categories: Poesía • Tags: Barry Gifford, Poems, Poetry, Seven Stories Press
Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest and Hope – $355
by rgonzalezr
In Love Rise Up, readers will find genuine hope and inspired art in these lyrics, a desire to show the humanity behind the struggle for social justice. With courage, foresight, and even a good dose of humor, the poems in this collection address the causes and concerns of generations past and present, revealing ways to combat adversity with strength and integrity. Beginning with classic poets like Langston Hughes and highly-acclaimed, established poets including Sherman Alexie, Patricia Smith, and Martín […]
Categories: Antología, Poesía • Tags: Benu Press, Love rise up, Occupy, Poems, Poetry, Rebellion