In a very short time the author has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (Gujarati), about America and Britain, and about Germany where she now lives. This bok includes her poems.
First English edition of a great poem byone of the most influential and controversial poets of the 20th century.
In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.
Written around the time of her mother’s death, this collection expresses the effects of weather on the poet's mood and imagination and a desire to reconnect with the animal self.
Stories of nature, folklore and Romani heritage by an award-winning poet, critic and teacher.
A career-defining collection from the multiple prize-winning poet, translator and biographer which touches poignantly on universal matters - the inevitability of age, marriage, women's issues, family conflicts etc...
The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various. This verse translation of the whole of the "Canzoniere" has notes to suggest the many connections between the poems.
Passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, paintings, apologies, and partings, all feature in this collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Ashbery.
This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same.
Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.
This Collected Poems spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle generation. In Darkest Capital engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.
A collection of poems that explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood.