Literary studies: poetry & poets books

Sociable Song: this volume examines German-language love songs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its chapters...  Read More >>

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The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to show that our oldest styles of poetic articulation – the elegy,...  Read More >>

It analyses Hughes’s techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the...  Read More >>

The ambition of the book is therefore twofold: on the one hand, it aims to offer new readings of the three poets,...  Read More >>

For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with...  Read More >>

Brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between...  Read More >>

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This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly,...  Read More >>

Explores the intersections between Indigenous literature and social movements over the past thirty years through...  Read More >>

A portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate...  Read More >>

Chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using...  Read More >>

This book is the interpretation of the principles of Sufism, Islamic literature and its specific terms, words or...  Read More >>

The first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, this book offers a group of essays that considers poetry in...  Read More >>

What is it to write a poem? The thread running through the essays in How to Make a Circle is an ongoing investigation...  Read More >>

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

How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of material...  Read More >>

Analyses the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian....  Read More >>

How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor...  Read More >>

The land of Ireland has been beset with pillaging, war and colonisation leaving the people traumatised generation...  Read More >>

Chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using...  Read More >>

In many of his poems, the great Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship,...  Read More >>

What is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also be visual in artworks....  Read More >>

In this innovative study, Alice Loda explores migration and translingualism in contemporary poetry, focusing on...  Read More >>

Dante engaged with an extraordinary range of traditions, disciplines and media, and a variety of speech-communities,...  Read More >>