She Doesn’t Seem Autistic by Esther Ottaway
Category: Poetry & Plays
How could other parents understand she can’t regulate, can’t dress, screams in wind? Their girls touch down, their modules steady, small footsteps breaking the moon-sand’s surface, their milestones cosmic miracles of the ordinary. We long for their basic okayness, their assumption that the whole team wi ...Show more
Come Closer and Listen by Charles Simic
Category: Poetry & Plays
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charle ...Show more
Poems Penyeach by James Joyce
Category: Poetry & Plays
2012 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Pomes Penyeach is a collection of thirteen short poems written by James Joyce. It was written over a twenty-year period from 1904 to 1924 and originally published on 7 July 1927 by Shakespeare and Co. for the price of one shilling (twelve pennies) or twelve francs. The titl ...Show more
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
Category: Poetry & Plays
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams's best-known poetry, including Section I, wh ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry & Plays
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has ...Show more
OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
The Breath of Japan - Written and Painted Poetry--Japanese Contemporary Art by Heinz Kroehl (Editor); Hans Bjarne Thomsen (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays
A book that showcases writing as art through postwar Japanese calligraphy. How can we visualize the interpretation of a wise Zen aphorism, a haiku, or a description of nature? This book presents some thirty large-format works by fourteen Japanese Sho artists that focus on the close relationship betw ...Show more
A Net of Fireflies; Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings by Harold Stewart
Category: Poetry & Plays
Virgil - Eclogues by Virgil; Robert Coleman (Editor); P. E. Easterling (Contribution by); Philip Hardie (Contribution by); Richard Hunter (Contribution by); E. J. Kenney (Contribution by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life of his native countryside into the subsequent histo ...Show more
Outer Space: 100 Poems
Category: Poetry & Plays
Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space travel are used as metaphors for our feelings of love, ...Show more
Empire of the Son by Tetsuro Shigematsu; Donna Yamamoto (Foreword by); Jerry Wasserman (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry & Plays
Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines cinematography with the raw immediacy of a performance piece intimately connected to real life in real time. Through a series of audio intervi ...Show more
DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE (TCG EDITION) by Ruhl, Sarah
Category: Poetry & Plays
Satire is her oxygen… . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave. -The Washington Post Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in. -Variet ...Show more