Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. »Borderlands / La Frontera« remaps our understanding of what a »border« is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Bona Vada

UK 2011, 112 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Bona Vada«, Companion volume to Jeremy Reed's collection »Bona Drag« is a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as »the most gifted poet working ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems

Centenary Edition. UK 2011, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Elizabeth Bishop's poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived and found her great passion in another woman, Lota de Macedo Soares - and move ... Weiterlesen

Allen Ginsberg: Howl - A Graphic Novel

Animated by Eric Drooker. USA 2010, 224 pp. illustrated color, brochure, € 21.95
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Harper Collins
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's »Howl« is a prophetic masterpiece - an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the 20th century. Allen Ginsburg's legendary and groundbreaking epic poem, »Howl«, is now a graphic novel - a tie-in to the major motion picture starring ... Weiterlesen

Juan A.H. Brasas: Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship

Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity. USA 2010, 206pp., brochure, € 35.95
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A giant of American letters, Walt Whitman is known both as a poet and, to many, as an early precursor of the gay liberation movement. This book recovers for today's reader a lost Whitman, delving into the original context and intentions of his poetry and prose. As the author shows, Whitman saw himself as a founder of a new religion. ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Bona Drag

UK 2009, 126 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Bona Drag«, a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as »the most gifted poet working today, an extraordinary talent.«

W. H. Auden: Selected Poems

Edward Mendelsohn (ed.). UK 2009, 344 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Faber and Faber
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's »Selected Poems« (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there ... Weiterlesen

Allen Ginsberg: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

UK 2009 (New Edition), 119 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of the (gay) counterculture. They include the apocalyptic »Howl«, which defined a generation and became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. They also include ... Weiterlesen

Constantine P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems

Transl. by Daniel Mendelsohn. USA 2009, 123 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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The never-before translated »Unfinished Poems« of the great Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, published for the first time in English: when he died in 1933 at the age of 70, C.P. Cavafy left the drafts of 30 poems among his papers - some of them masterly, nearly completed verses, other less finished texts, all accompanied by notes and variants that ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Spender: Selected Poems

UK 2009, 121 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A new selection and retrospect of the career of Stephen Spender, as poet and translator, to mark the 2009 centenary of his birth. Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, born in London, was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He ... Weiterlesen

Keith Garebian: Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems

USA 2008, 109 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Signature
In »Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems«, Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, »Blue«, is a work without visuals except »International Klein Blue«, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop ... Weiterlesen

Samuel Park: Shakespeare's Sonnets

USA 2006, 239 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Harvard 1948: Adam Standridge is a student at Harvard University with dreams of becoming a literary scholar. He's from a rich and influential family, and has become engaged to the perfect girl. His life plan is set until he's busted by the campus police for having sex with a man in a public place. Threatened with expulsion, Adam re-focuses his ... Weiterlesen

Richard Siken: Crush

USA 2004, 62 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Yale University Press
Richard Siken's »Crush«, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction ... Weiterlesen

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

USA 2004, 490 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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Oxford University Press
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. »Leaves Of Grass« is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as »the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece ... Weiterlesen

Anne Carson: If Not, Winter

Fragments of Sappho. UK 2003, 397 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Virago
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.

Charles Causley: Collected Poems 1951 - 2000

UK 2000, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Picador
This revised collection gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes his most recent unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children. Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston in Cornwall, and spent most of his life there. After serving in the navy in the second world war (an experience ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Collected Poems

USA 1997, 489 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and most influential poets, representing the complete oeuvre of Audre Lorde's poetry. Lorde published nine volumes of poetry which, in her words, detail »a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inhabited«. Included here ... Weiterlesen