Navigational Hazards
by Elisavietta Ritchie and Donald Grady Shomette
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning Life's most tender feelings are best expressed in poetry. From love's excitements to its anguish and heartbreak, the great poets over the centuries have offered us solace through verse. This new anthology ranges from Shakespeare in the early 17th century through the golden age of Romantic poets up to the late 19th and early 20th century. Poets who feature include Donne, Whitman, Rossetti and Browning, along with the Romantic po...
The Rules of Poetry - Essays on Poetic Theory as Told by the Greats
by Various
Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, the most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon, Laura Tohe and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from...
Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture,...