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1) On love
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On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.” Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos,...
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Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent Rilke some of his verses, seeking an opinion of their worth. Rilke declined to offer a critique, instead encouraging the student to rely upon his own inner judgment: "Nobody can advise and help...
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Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and letters have inspired countless readers around the world with their wisdom and insight into how we can be more than ourselves without recourse to religion, politics, or ideology: through the experiences of art and love. Gathered here for the first time in original translations are Rilke's candid, piercing, and lyrical reflections on love-the experience he considered paramount for human existence but also, with the exception...
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"Blazing high style" is how The New York Times describes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor transforming Poetry, the country's oldest literary magazine. Ambition and Survival is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading Milton in Guatemala, recalling violent episodes of his youth, and traveling in Africa with his eccentric father, as well as a series of penetrating essays on writers...
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POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS. Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry...
8) Dos Letras
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Fascinante epistolario de Alejandra Pizarnik que contiene las cartas que la poeta envía a su amigo, el pintor y escritor Antonio Beneyto. Las cartas rescatadas en este libro nos permiten acercarnos al lado más personal de una de las más grandes poetas argentinas; en ellas se ofrece un retrato más íntimo que el que podría esbozar cualquier biógrafo.
9) Walt Whitman
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First published to wide critical acclaim in 1981, this revised and expanded monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."), this new edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence, Neruda, Borges, Ginsberg, Jordan, Duncan, Le Sueur, Rich, Snyder...
10) I am Soul
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I am Soul is a short collection of poetry and prose from Yecheilyah covering Black History, Faith, Love and all things Soul.
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Deux nomades, poètes, guérisseurs, l'une innue, l'autre, québécois, partagent l'amour du même territoire : la Cte-Nord et, au-delà, le Nord. Uashtessiu • Lumière d'automne rassemble les correspondances qu'ils se sont échangées.
Quatre saisons pour tisser l'amitié, instants précieux, souffle profond des ancêtres, cri de rivières étranglées, clarté de l'enfance. La parole poétique relie les coeurs là o souvent d'autres formes de...
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Anne Gilchrist was a British woman of letters. Upon reading Walt Whitman's poems for the first time, she immediately wrote to the author to let him know her delight in the poems and to thank him for publishing them. Eventually she began corresponding with Whitman, this collection of letters is a captivating look at an unusual friendship.
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Extrait : "Si quelque chose peut adoucir une profonde douleur, c'est de la voir réellement comprise, et ta lettre, mon vieil ami, m'a apporté la seule consolation qui peut aller jusqu'à mon cœur. Tu as évoqué pour moi les communs souvenirs de nos jeunes années, et j'ai revu cette maison de la grande rue peuplée d'htes bien-aimés que le tombeau a pris presque tous."
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14) Poesía
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Con motivo del centenario del nacimiento del poeta, Fundación Banco Santander reedita esta antología de 1996 revisada, a la que se ha añadido un colofón de textos líricos en prosa -algunos inéditos- que proponen una mirada distinta a la figura del poeta y que de seguro deslumbrarán a los lectores con su aliento poético.
15) One art: letters
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From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years-from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979-Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred missives for this volume. In a way, the letters comprise Bishop's autobiography, and Giroux has greatly enhanced them with his own detailed, candid, and highly informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal...
16) Épîtres
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Extrait : "Noble sang du plus grand des rois, Son amour et notre espérance, Vous qui, sans régner sur la France, Régnez sur le cœur des François, Pourrez-vous souffrir que ma veine, Par un effort ambitieux, Ose vous donner une étrenne, Vous qui n'en recevez que de la main des dieux ? La nature en vous faisant naître, Vous étrenna de ses plus doux attraits, Et fit voir dans vos premiers traits, Que le fils de Louis était digne de l'être."
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17) On drinking
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Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired.
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The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter-the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely-if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter to a friend. A Wild Perfection is a compelling...
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THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic government. His crusade frames one of the most tumultuous periods of Nigeria's...
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In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively-globally, locally, and in their personal lives-and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a generous...
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