November 20, 2009
New Arrivals · Poetry
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Contemporary poets
November 16, 2009
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2010.
vii, 209 p. ; 25 cm.
From the modernist explorations of the first half of the 20th century to the diverse styles and practitioners of the 21st century, contemporary American poetry has forged a vital and enduring tradition. This volume explores the genre's recent history and development, as succeeding generations of poets have taken up the American idiom and molded it into their own unique modes of expression. This new edition explores contemporary poetry through a selection of critical essays and also features an introductory essay by esteemed professor Harold Bloom.
Apocalypse then : Merwin and the sorrows of literary history / Marjorie Perloff -- Periodizing Ashbery and his influence / Stephen Paul Miller -- Re-versing the past : Adrienne Rich's outrage against order / Barbara L. Estrin -- Contemporary American poetry / Roger Gilbert -- Treasure box / Anthony Hecht -- The sower against gardens / Linda Gregerson -- Self-deception and self-knowledge in John Hollander's poetry / David Bromwich -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking" / Willard Spiegelman -- Hall of voices : Richard Howard / Langdon Hammer -- The modern element in criticism / Adam Kirsch.
Missing her
November 13, 2009
Keelan, Claudia, 1959-
Kalamazoo, MI : New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, 2009.
79 p. ; 25 cm.
Poems.
Conga blues
November 13, 2009
Vélez, Victor M.
[S.l.] : XLibris Corp., c2008.
99 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Conga blues : the first time -- An empty crib : in search of cultural identity -- The mist : in search of personal identity -- Conscious awakening : in search of social identity -- The windowsill : the coda -- About the author -- Other artistic works by Victor M. Vélez -- About the cover illustrator -- Photo gallery [related to his music career and conga drum playing].
Sets of poems grouped by themes.
Messenger : the legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
November 13, 2009
Stepanek, Jennifer Smith.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
570 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Plan B
November 13, 2009
Muldoon, Paul.
London : Enitharmon Press ; London : Distributed in the UK by Central Books ; Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions Inc., 2009.
63 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Yeshiva boys : poems
November 13, 2009
Lehman, David, 1948-
New York : Scribner, 2009.
x, 95 p. ; 23 cm.
The most ambitious and serious work to date from one of the most prominent figures in the poetry world and editor of "The Best American Poetry" series.
Dearest creature
November 11, 2009
Gerstler, Amy.
New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
84 p. ; 23 cm.
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler's newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and- blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
November 11, 2009
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
xii, 296 p. ; 25 cm.
Coleridge's poetry often overshadows the brilliance of the other genres and forms of writing that occupied his interests. Classic works such as "Kubla Khan" have taken their place among the most accomplished poems written in the English language. His critical work also extends and reveals a wealth of profoundly sensitive observations and a prophetic vision of compelling authenticity. This new addition to Bloom's Classic Critical Views features classic essays on Coleridge's writings, a chronology of his life, an index for quick reference, and an introductory essay from literature professor Harold Bloom.
"Volume editor: Janyce Marson ; series design: Erika K. Arroyo ; cover design: Takeshi Takahashi"--T.p. verso.
Incident light : poems
November 10, 2009
Hix, H. L.
Wilkes-Barre, PA : Etruscan Press, c2009.
73 p. ; 23 cm.
"Any new book by this inventive poet is cause for excitement."-"The Kansas City Star" "Incident Light," H. L. Hix's latest poetry collection, explores the life of artist Petra Soesemann, changed by the startling revelation-when she was forty-nine-that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Dad's devotion, mother's passion, father's honor, and the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood: "Incident Light" shows many lives converging on one life, infusing it with beauty and mystery. H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His "Chromatic" was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Names : poems
November 10, 2009
Hacker, Marilyn, 1942-
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2010.
105 p. ; 22 cm.
"Hacker is, to use a trite term, a major poet. More than that she is exciting and true."-George Szirtes
The testament of Cresseid and seven fables
November 10, 2009
Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
xix, 183 p. : 22 cm.
The Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator of "Beowulf" presents a brilliant new translation of Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
The testament of Cresseid -- Seven fables. The prologue ; The cock and the jasper ; The two mice ; The lion and the mouse ; The preaching of the swallow ; The fox, the wolf and the carter ; The fox, the wolf and the farmer ; The toad and the mouse.
Robert Frost
November 6, 2009
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010.
xi, 427 p. ; 24 cm.
This volume brings together a variety of critical perspectives on Frost's life and works. Four original essays provide valuable context for understanding and assessing his work. They outline the work's historical and cultural contexts, survey the major pieces of Frost criticism, examine Frost's relationship with modernist poetics, and consider how his use of paradox and contradiction participate in and differ from the use established by Whitman and Emerson. Previously published essays deepen readers' understanding and offer a sampling of the key concerns of contemporary Frost critics.
On Robert Frost / Morris Dickstein -- Biography of Robert Frost / James Norman O'Neill -- The Paris review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport -- Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, and modernist poetics / Matthew J. Bolton -- Robert Frost: a look at the critical reception / Janyce Marson -- Technology, labor, and the sacred: the cultural context of Robert Frost / Jamey Hecht -- The paradoxes of Robert Frost: a mediation on "discordant elements" / Anastasia Vahaviolos Valassis -- Frost's North of Boston, its language, its people, and its poet / David Sanders -- Robert Frost and the politics of labor / Tyler B. Hoffman -- Robert Frost: the walk as parable / Roger Gilbert -- Nature and poetry / Judith Oster -- The resentments of Robert Frost / Frank Lentricchia -- We are sick with space / Robert Bernard Hass -- The need of being versed: Robert Frost and the limits of rhetoric / Shira Wolosky -- National forgetting ad remembering in the poetry of Robert Frost / Jeff Westover -- Robert Frost / Denis Donoghue.
T.S. Eliot
November 6, 2009
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
viii, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
Essay selections offer detailed analyses of Eliot's most important works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," TheWaste Land, AshWednesday, Four Quartets, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Murder in the Cathedral, and The Cocktail Party. These essays examine Eliot's poetry and critical writings through the lens of his relations to romanticism and modernism; analyze the psychic dramas contained in his early and unpublished poems; investigate the biographical details informing Eliot's work; assess the Eliot canon and his contributions to poststructuralism; and explore the gothic elements pervading the writer's plays.
On T. S. Eliot / John Paul Riquelme -- Biography of T. S. Eliot / R. Baird Shuman -- The Paris review perspective / Gemma Sieff -- Cultural contexts / Neil Heims -- Critical reception and influence / John Paul Riquelme -- T. S. Eliot and Robert Browning's dramatic monologues / Matthew J. Bolton -- Voices and language in T. S. Eliot's The waste land / Allan Johnson -- "Poetry as poetry" / Louis Menand -- Playing at relationship / John T. Mayer -- "Prufrock, " "Gerontion" and fragmented monologues / John Paul Riquelme -- "Unknown terror and mystery": The waste land / Ronald Bush -- 'The world within the world': Ash-Wednesday and the 'Ariel poems' / Nancy K. Gish -- The soul's mysterious errand / Lee Oser -- Fear in the way: the design of Eliot's drama / Michael Goldman.
Gwendolyn Brooks
November 6, 2009
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
ix, 406 p. ; 24 cm.
The essays in this set explore how the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement influenced Brooks's work, with close readings of selections from A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters, In the Mecca, Riot, and Family Pictures. Essays also provide a survey of the major pieces of Brooks criticism and Brooks's novel Maud Martha, and offer a close reading of "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock."
On Gwendolyn Brooks / Mildred R. Mickle -- Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks / Charles M. Israel, William T. Lawlor -- The Paris review perspective / Jascha Hoffman -- The historical and social context of Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Kathy Rugoff -- The critical reception and influence of Gwendolyn Brooks / Martin Kich -- Gwendolyn Brooks and the epic tradition / Matthew J. Bolton -- Close reading as an approach to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock" / Robert C. Evans -- Sweet bombs / Danielle Chapman -- The satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Brooke Kenton Horvath -- Double consciousness, modernism, and womanist themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The anniad" / A. Yemisi Jimoh -- Heralding the clear obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and apostrophe / Lesley Wheeler -- Dialectics of desire: war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Negro hero" and "Gay chaps at the bar" / Ann Folwell Stanford -- "A material collapse that is construction": history and counter-memory in Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca / John Lowney -- A prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca" / Sheila Hassell Hughes -- "My newish voice": rethinking black power in Gwendolyn Brooks's Whirlwind / Raymond Malewitz -- Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry / Annette Debo -- Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / Annette Debo -- Killing John Cabot and publishing black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / James D. Sullivan -- "The kindergarten of new consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood / Richard Flynn.
Mister Skylight
November 5, 2009
Skoog, Ed.
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2009.
viii, 86 p. ; 23 cm.
The Canterbury tales
November 5, 2009
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2009.
xxii, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.
Lit : a memoir
November 4, 2009
Karr, Mary.
New York, NY : Harper, c2009.
x, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
Critical companion to William Butler Yeats : a literary reference to his life and work
November 4, 2009
Ross, David A., 1970-
New York : Facts On File, c2009.
xix, 652 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
The Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. Yeatss works vary from complex and highly symbolic to short and straightforward, making him popular in both high school and college literary classes. His most famous poemsincluding "The Second Coming," "Easter 1916," and "Among School Children"are among the best known in the world. This heavily illustrated new volume is essential for high school and college students interested in this prolific poet.
Theory of mind : new & selected poems
November 4, 2009
Ramke, Bin, 1947-
Richmond, Calif. : Omnidawn Pub., 2009.
197 p. ; 23 cm.
Dusty roads & faded signs : [poems
October 28, 2009
Clark, Ryan, 1979-
Louisville, Ky. : Bearhead Pub., c2009.
98 p. ; 22 cm.
Subtitle from cover.
Poems.
Open interval
October 28, 2009
Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae.
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
84 p. ; 23 cm.
Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in ]Open Interval[ locate the self in the interval between body and name.
Messenger : the legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
October 23, 2009
Stepanek, Jennifer Smith.
New York : Dutton, 2009.
324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Sunrise on the pier -- Morning coffee -- Pumpkin season -- Shaping heartsongs -- Awakening after a close call -- Wishes -- Mosaic of gifts -- Embracing each moment -- Breath of hope -- Believing in the journey -- Choice vows -- Ambassador of humanity -- Coming of age -- Afternoon tea -- Silent strength -- Whispers of peace -- Sunset.
Upgraded to serious
October 22, 2009
McHugh, Heather, 1948-
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2009.
xi, 85 p. ; 24 cm.
Easy : poems
October 21, 2009
Ponsot, Marie.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
ix, 82 p. ; 22 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
We troubled the waters : poems
October 21, 2009
Shange, Ntozake.
New York : Amistad/Collins, 2009.
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Shange's stirring poems and Brown's raw, striking paintings evoke the turbulence of the civil rights movement. Illustrations.
The war that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trajan War
October 21, 2009
Alexander, Caroline, 1956-
New York : Viking, 2009.
xix, 296 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Many have forgotten that the subject of the "Illiad" was war--not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but war, in all its enduring devastation. This groundbreaking reading of Homer's epic poem restores the poet's vision of the tragedy of war, addressing many of the central questions that define the war experience of every age.
Scribe
October 13, 2009
Finkelstein, Norman, 1954-
Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres, 2009.
117 p. ; 23 cm.
Poems.
Edward Lear's The duck and the kangaroo
October 13, 2009
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2009.
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Lear's classic verse about an unlikely friendship between a duck and a kangaroo is retold with funny, hip photo collages by Wattenberg. Full color.
"First published in Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets (London : R.J. Busch, 1871)"--Colophon.
Mennonite in a little black dress : a memoir of going home
October 9, 2009
Janzen, Rhoda.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.
The poetry of Rilke
October 9, 2009
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
xxviii, 684 p. ; 25 cm.
Rainer Maria Rilke's revelatory poetry is one of the great achievements of the modern era. Deeply influenced by classical literature but endowed with a personal symbolic language all its own, his work is a profound investigation of the possibilities of connection and authenticity in a modern world characterized by disbelief and anxiety. He has influenced generations of writers and artists, and continues, more than eighty years after his death, to feel vibrantly contemporary in his style and themes. In his translations of "New Poems," "The Book of Images," "Uncollected Poems," "Duino Elegies," and "Sonnets to Orpheus," Edward Snow has emerged as Rilke's most able English-language interpreter. "The Poetry of Rilke "offers selections from all these books in Snow's newly revised versions. Adhering faithfully to the intent of the poet's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English, "The Poetry of Rilke "will serve as the authoritative selection for years to come.
"Bilingual edition"--T.p.
English and German on facing pages.
News of the world : poems
October 9, 2009
Levine, Philip, 1928-
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2009.
viii, 65 p. ; 24 cm.
Shadow ball : new and selected poems
October 8, 2009
Webb, Charles Harper.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
ix, 145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"Shadow Ball" gathers together in one collection the best of Charles Harper Webb's prize-winning books, as well as a selection of his newest poems.
The bride of E : poems
October 6, 2009
Bang, Mary Jo.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2009.
90 p. ; 24 cm.
The new collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and "one of the finest poets of her generation" (Marjorie Perloff) "I took. I borrowed. I turned. --from "A Equals All of a Sudden" Following her acclaimed "Elegy," Mary Jo Bang's sixth collection, "The Bride of E," confronts what the first poem posits in its title: "Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride of Existence." Out of that solitude of being, Bang has fashioned an abecedarian that is at once wild and rapturous in its language and music, and compelling and beautiful in its awareness of and yearning for what isn't there. "The Bride of E" is the brilliant new work by one of our essential, most innovative poets.
Wheeling motel : poems
October 6, 2009
Wright, Franz, 1953-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
xi, 91 p. ; 22 cm.
In his 10th collection of poetry, Wright gives readers an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.
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