Literary studies: poetry & poets books

Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

The first collection to engage with “Instapoetry,” this book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st...  Read More >>

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

An exploration of the symbolic and philosophical roles of animals and hybrid creatures in Italian literature from...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

A new translation into English by G. J. Racz of José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro and...  Read More >>

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'A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara's place on the international stage.' Paul Perry, novelist and poet...  Read More >>

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An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose...  Read More >>

Now in paperback, with a new preface and clear, reader-friendly annotations that unlock Crane's landmark poem.  Read More >>

Traces the connection between poetic content and form in the contradictory logic of determination that permeates...  Read More >>

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A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

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