Product DescriptionFocusing on the music of the great song composers–Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss–Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, “The Language of Poetry,” provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the methods of analysis for German Romantic poetry. Part [...]

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Product DescriptionWriting very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence [...]

Product DescriptionJapanese Master Eihei Dogen was not only one of the most remarkable teachers in the history of Zen, he was also an outstanding poet. This collection of Dogen’s poems translated by scholar Steven Heine offers a beautifully personal reflection of Dogen’s clarity of understanding and his poetic genius…. More >>
Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses [...]

Product DescriptionWilliam Pratt?s The Imagist Poem has been hailed as the most important anthology of Imagist poetry ever published. This third edition features an expanded selection of poems and an updated introduction by the editor, making it an indispensable tool for any student of twentieth century poetry or Modernism. Poets represented include: T. E. Hulme, [...]

Product DescriptionThe best of contemporary Israeli poetry is presented here in exciting new English translations. Poets included in the anthology are Amir Gilboa, Abba Kovner, Haim Gouri, Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis, Natan Zach, David Avidan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ory Bernstein, Meir Wieseltier, and Yona Wallach…. More >>
Israeli Poetry: A Contemporary Anthology

Product DescriptionA classic comparative study of poetry from Homer to the 20th century, reissued for today’s readers…. More >>
A Test of Poetry

Product Description“One pleasure of discovering the lives and teachings of the rare women we find in the history of Buddhism is seeing how they take up the tragedies in their lives and transform them. Because their stories are less accessible—-finding someone like Rengetsu is a great gift. To sit with the poems of Rengetsu is [...]

Product DescriptionIn this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and “ungrammatical,” yet admired for its wit [...]

Product DescriptionAFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY, with its wellsprings in jazz and vernacular culture and its inescapable political dimension, stands among the most important [...]

Product DescriptionA landmark work—part personal narrative, part critical exploration—by a distinguished American poet. Fables of the Self traces ideas of imagined selfhood through the lyric poetry of classical Greece and Rome, the modernist poetry of France, and modern and contemporary English and American lyrics. Rosanna Warren’s work [...]