BookOdyssey

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. In our times of crisis The mind has its powers This book brings together many of Ben Okri\'s most acclaimed and politically charged poems. Some of them, like \'Grenfell Tower, June 2017\', are already familiar. Published in the Financial Times less than ten days after the fire, it was played more than 6 million times on Channel 4\'s Facebook page, and was retweeted by thousands on Twitter. \'Notre-Dame is Telling Us Something\' was first read on BBC Radio 4, in the aftermath of the cathedral\'s near destruction. It spoke eloquently of the despair that was felt around the world. In \'shaved head poem\', Ben Okri wrote of the confusion and anxiety felt as the world grappled with a health crisis unprecedented in our times. \'Breathing the Light\' was his response to the events of summer 2020, when a black man died beneath the knee of a white policeman, a tragedy sparking a movement for change. These poems, and others including poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, Barack Obama, Amnesty and more, make this a uniquely powerful collection that blends anger and tenderness with Ben Okri\'s inimitable vision. Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0531, Διαστάσεις: 11x11cm

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Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us – the freedom of our spirit, the child within. He recalls the death of his father, the sacrifices of his mother, the hidden river of Edinburgh, falling in love.He writes about Virgil and Mozambique, about ringing the bell for freedom, the dreams of Calliope and the full moon. He enters the fifth circle, sings of the roses of spring, and aligns the pyramids to the magic stars. This is a rich, joyful, exciting collection for everyone who loves Ben Okri\'s vibrant style, and a perfect introduction to new readers of his poetry.\'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven\' Ali Smith\'A work of beauty, grace and uncommon power\' Marlon James on The Freedom Artist Σελίδες: 112, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0531, Διαστάσεις: 11x11cm

\'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.\' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include \'To a Mouse\', \'John Anderson my Jo\', \'A red red Rose\', \'Auld lang syne\', \'Tam o \'Shanter\' and many more, whose vernacular energy and simple beauty have ensured lasting popularity. This generous new selection offers Burns\'s work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. It reproduces the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published at Kilmarnock in 1786, the volume which made Burns famous; and it reunites a generous selection of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs with their full scores. Comprehensive notes describe the circumstances in which other poems and songs found their way into print, both before and after the poet\'s death. The edition also includes some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World\'s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford\'s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Σελίδες: 496, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Vale Ave — Latin for “Farewell, Hail” — is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries. Vale Ave is alchemical — “mystery and portent, yes, but at the same time,” as H. D. writes, “there is Resurrection and the hope of Paradise.” Σελίδες: 48, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0719, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound. In tribute and collaboration, the acclaimed American poet Forrest Gander has written a mesmerizing series of poems — hinging around a dance schematic — that captures and extends the dancers’ performance with lyrical intensity and vividness. Σελίδες: 48, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0719, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose fiction alongside towering figures such as Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev started his writing career as a poet, gaining much critical acclaim and renown in that field. The title piece of this collection, Parasha, which brought the young author to the attention of the influential critic Vissarion Belinsky and established his reputation, is a humorous narrative poem in the vein of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin or Lermontov’s Sashka, telling the story of a young woman’s marriage to her dull, unromantic neighbour and the couple’s humdrum and more or less happy life ever after. Also contained in this volume are four other narrative poems by Turgenev – Andrei, A Conversation, The Landowner and The Village Priest – all showing the author’s early interest in ordinary stories of Russian life and all displaying the wit and stylistic versatility that we have come to associate with his more famous prose works. Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0110, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück\'s masterpiece\' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother\'s possessive grief, an abducted girl\'s equivocal memories, a farmer\'s lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet\'s luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik,\" writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge of poetic impossibility, opening with a blues singer, expanding into silence, and closing into a theater of shadows and songs of the drowned. Σελίδες: 48, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0719, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde\'s most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power. \'Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... which blaze and pulse on the page\' Adrienne Rich Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free. The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good. Here are consoling verses of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging; luminous hymns to the land, the cycles of nature and the seasons as they ebb and flow. Here is the peace of wild things. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK\'s most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post-apocalyptic world, these are poems that pay tribute to all the places that house the stories we treasure.With poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, as well as Clive James, Michael Longley, Don Paterson, Patience Agbabi and many more, this beautiful anthology is a heart-warming reminder of how books nourish us, save us, and inspire us. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0911, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the \'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility\', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth\'s Lyrical Ballads is edited with a note on the text by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Classics.Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets\' reflections on mankind\'s relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge\'s contribution includes the nightmarish vision of \'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere\', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem \'The Foster-Mother\'s Tale\' and the melancholic \'The Nightingale\'. Wordsworth\'s \'We are Seven\' depicts a child\'s naïve optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while \'Goody Blake and Harry Gill\' and \'Simon Lee\' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and \'Tintern Abbey\' explores the healing powers of nature.This Penguin Classics edition allows readers to recapture the full impact and power of Lyrical Ballads. It also includes a note on the history of the text by Michael Schmidt.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted, and his position, along with that of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.If you enjoyed the Lyrical Ballads, you might like Wordsworth\'s Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets.This volume includes extensive selections from these and other editions, and contains some his most famous poems, such as \'Piano\', a nostalgic reflection on lost youth and love for his mother; \'Snake\', exploring human fear of the natural world; the short, cutting comment on sexual politics of \'Can\'t Be Borne\'; and the quiet philosophical resignation of \'Basta!\'. Using the revised poems, but in the order in which they appeared in their original collections, this selection offers a fresh perspective that reveals an innovative poet who gave voice to his most intense emotions. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Cats have been with us for thousands of year. They are:Enigmatic friendsLone hunters, family petsOur garden tigersand they too can be a man\'s best friend. The haiku is an ancient and honourable Japanese verse form - three lines, seventeen syllables - encapsulating a vision of the poem\'s subject; a person, place, even a cat...CAT HAIKU presents cats as you\'ve never seen them before. In a series of brilliant vignettes, Deborah Coates gets inside the minds of our cats and comes up with some surprising revelations. You will never look at your (or anyone else\'s) cat the same way again. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 11.2x11.2cm

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the \'Letter from a Young Worker\', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke\'s life. In Lewis Hyde\'s introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth\'s afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke\'s religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'It was with aweThat I beheldFresh leaves, green leaves,Bright in the sun\'When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He writes of the seasons changing, the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These writings not only chronicle Basho\'s travels, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.Translated with an Introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favourites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of Penguin\'s Poems for Life and the forthcoming Penguin\'s Poems for Love) this anthologoy is an essential addition to everyone\'s repertoire. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband. Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

A stunning collection of poems from one of the most revered rap artists in the world, Tupac Shakur, now the subject of the major motion picture, All Eyez On Me. His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect.His death was tragic – a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable – remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, are Tupac Shukar’s most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry – a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand at the age of nineteen, they embrace his spirit, his energy and his ultimate message of hope. These poems, which Tupac wrote from the heart, will encourage people to take the first steps necessary to see his literary importance, as well as have us acknowledge the life struggles of black men.  There is no better way to get inside the mind of an artist than to examine his artistic expressions: sharing his sensitivity, insight, revolutionary mind, fears, passions, and sense of humour, Tupac\'s stature and recognition as a rapper is clear and unequivocal. THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE now also confirms his place amongst the best writers and poets of his generation.    Σελίδες: 176, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0904, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as \'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge\', \'Tintern Abbey\', \'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud\', \'Lucy Gray\', and \'Michael\'. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth\'s astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work. Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

.The Prophet, an international besteller and translated into over fifty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahil Gibran\'s many spiritual and religious writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet, arrayed as twentysix prose poetry essays, speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can only be achieved through love.These qualities made The Prophet the iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, which embraced love and spirituality. Illustrated with his own enchanting and mystical drawings, The Prophet is a masterpiece, the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century, and a wonderful companion for anybody embarking on their own spiritual journey. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

The present selection traces the development of Yeats’s verse, encompassing the poet’s interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac ‘Easter 1916’, the apocalyptic ‘The Second Coming’ and the reflective and spiritual ‘Sailing to Byzantium’.Often radical in content but always traditional in form, these poems are by turns startling and affecting, and never less than inspired. Taken together, they form an ideal introduction to the poetic career of one of Ireland’s greatest literary figures. Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1115, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

The Objectivist Press published George Oppen’s first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in 1934. Four years earlier, the twenty-one-year-old poet had sent an unbound sheaf of typewritten poems with the title 21 Poems  hand-written in pencil on the first page to the poet Louis Zukofsky, who forwarded them on to Pound in Paris. These poems, suffused with Oppen’s love for his young bride Mary, as well as his love of sailing, are strikingly different from what they’d eventually become in Discrete Series. The scholar David B. Hobbs recently found 21 Poems buried in Ezra Pound’s papers at Yale’s Beinecke Library, and they appear here as a collection of their own for the first time. Σελίδες: 64, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0915, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

Part of our revived \"Poetry Pamphlet Series\", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something because I am a survivor in this ocean. Σελίδες: 48, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0409, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

Conamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade. In daylight, a subtle radiance of gentle colours envelops the place. Yet on the threshold of darkness, the fading light reveals an almost haunted vista of mysterious beauty.In this exquisitely crafted collection of poetry, John O\'Donohue evokes the vital energy and rhythm of the Conamara landscape, engaging with earth, sky and sea, and the majestic mountains that silently preside over this glorious region. Here too, as he draws upon the ancient memory and history of this sacred place, he focuses upon the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, tenderly revealing the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship.Written with penetrating insight and a deftness of touch, Conamara Blues offers a unique, imaginative vision of a landscape steeped in mystery and legend - a landscape of hope and possibility that is at once both familiar and unknown. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 12.7x12.7cm

Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz—to name only some of the masters in this slim volume.          “The poems in this collection,” as Schulman notes in her introduction, “sing of grief as they praise life.” She notes, “As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. ‘Time doesn’t heal grief; it emphasizes it,’ wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don’t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence.” Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0628, Διαστάσεις: 10.4x10.4cm

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman’s lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time “Nature without check with original energy”. Famously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery and an unbridled love of nature and life in all its forms, and containing celebrated poems such as the ebullient ‘Song of Myself’ – described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written – and the elegiac ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’, Leaves of Grass is not only the finest achievement of a highly unique poet, but a founding text for American literature and modern poetry. Considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and a pioneer of free verse, Walt Whitman (1819–92) was also a prolific writer of essays and articles. Controversial in its time, his sprawling collection Leaves of Grass is regarded as his magnum opus. Σελίδες: 576, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0603, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, Girondo is one of the pioneers of Latin American literature. This selection offers a glimpse of a precise and playful writer who insisted that a poem “should be constructed like a watch and sold like a sausage.” Σελίδες: 48, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0207, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

Take comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough\'s new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever. There may be a stronger strain of melancholy than before (the death of a regular in the local pub; the news that a daughter might be moving abroad), as well as a distinct sense of menace, small but insistent, which inhabits many of the poems. But there is plenty of McGough\'s characteristic wit and wordplay too, including a scintillating series of haiku inspired by a London tube strike and a striking reworking of his famous 1960s poem \'Let Me Die a Youngman\'s Death\', this time entitled \'Not For Me a Youngman\'s Death\'. Who but McGough would characterize the butcher\'s window as \'the friendly face of the abattoir\', or imagine the almost limitless ways in which we might go to bed?A new book of poems by Roger McGough is always an event. Published just ahead of his 75th birthday, As Far As I Know is truly cause for celebration.\'The patron saint of poetry\' Carol Ann DuffyRoger McGough was born in Liverpool. During the 1960s he was a member of the group Scaffold which had an international hit with \'Lily the Pink\'. He has won two BAFTAs and a Royal Television Award for his broadcasting work, and presents the popular Radio 4 programme Poetry Please. He has published many books of poems for adults and children, and both his Collected Poems (2003) and Selected Poems (2006) are bestselling poetry titles on the Penguin list. He was made a Freeman of the City of Liverpool in 2001, and received a CBE in 2004 for his services to literature. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled\' William Blake Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake\'s poems, including the complete poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience.William Blake is one of Britain\'s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. Σελίδες: 192, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Including such gems as Why Are You in The Shower With Me? Our Love is Tested in Traffic and What Time Should We Leave for the Airport? John Kenney\'s poems are packed with funny, wry observations about the reality of life once the initial shine of a relationship has dulled. From parental gripes to dwindling sex lives; from less-than-romantic gifts to irritating personal habits, it\'s all covered.____________________Are you in the mood?I am.Let\'s put the kids down.Have a light dinner.Shower.Maybe not drink so much.And do that thing I would rather do with you than with anyone else.Lie in bed and look at our iPhones. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

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The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet\'s death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien\'s etchings of cats. Σελίδες: 32, Διαστάσεις: 11.4x11.4cm

\'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mindThat I am forever waking in a lost country...\'SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both \'gifts and harms\'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, \'the hour of rust\', when memory is haunted by loss and decay. But in the silence that follows, as the soul is cast adrift, there is also reconciliation with the transience of all things; the knowledge that there is a place, \'changeable, that will not betray\'. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0809, Διαστάσεις: 19.8x19.8cm

Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including \'Howl\', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.\'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked\'Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic \'Howl\', which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother, \'Kaddish\'; the searing indictment of his homeland, \'America\'; and the confessional \'Mescaline\'. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was an American poet, best known for the poem \'Howl\' (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l\'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, won the National Book Award for The Fall of America and was a co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world.If you enjoyed Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, you might like Jack Kerouac\'s On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\'The poem that defined a generation\'Guardian on \'Howl\'\'He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt\'William Carlos Williams Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm