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Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but
ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian
bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the
banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book
that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an
instant sensation-earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously,
disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had endured his own
public trial for published indecency (for Madame Bovary), a French
court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense against public morals
and six poems within it were immediately suppressed (a ruling that
would not be reversed until 1949, nearly a century after
Baudelaire's untimely death). Subsequent editions expanded on the
original, including new poems that have since been recognised as
Baudelaire's masterpieces, producing a body of work that stands as
the most consequential, controversial and influential book of
poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed translator and poet
Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary text with an ear
attuned to Baudelaire's lyrical innovations-rendering them in "an
assertive blend of full and slant rhymes and fluent iambs" (A.E.
Stallings)-and an intuitive feel for the work's dark and brooding
mood. Poochigian's version captures the incantatory, almost
magical, effect of the original-reanimating for today's reader
Baudelaire's "unfailing vision" that "trumpeted the space and light
of the future" (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana Gioia offers
a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of Baudelaire's
masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler explores its
continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in English and
French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows readers to commune
both with the original poems and with these electric, revelatory
translations.
Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but
ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles
Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the
banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book
that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an
instant sensation—earning Baudelaire plaudits and,
simultaneously, disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had
endured his own public trial for published indecency (for Madame
Bovary), a French court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense
against public morals and six poems within it were immediately
suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949, nearly
a century after Baudelaire’s untimely death). Subsequent editions
expanded on the original, including new poems that have since been
recognized as Baudelaire’s masterpieces, producing a body of work
that stands as the most consequential, controversial and
influential book of poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed
translator and poet Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary
text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire’s lyrical
innovations—rendering them in “an assertive blend of full and
slant rhymes and fluent iambs” (A. E. Stallings)—and an
intuitive feel for the work’s dark and brooding mood.
Poochigian’s version captures the incantatory, almost magical,
effect of the original—reanimating for today’s reader
Baudelaire’s “unfailing vision” that “trumpeted the space
and light of the future” (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana
Gioia offers a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of
Baudelaire’s masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler
explores its continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in
English and French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows
readers to commune both with the original poems and with these
electric, revelatory translations.
This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short
fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From
Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a
rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short
fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible,
engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration of
biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate
understanding of the works and their authors.
How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the
world’s greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle
for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of
all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the
greatest poets in the English language. He ranks seventh among the
most frequently reprinted English-language poets, surpassed only by
Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, and Wordsworth. Yet
when the English Jesuit priest died of typhoid fever at age
forty-four, he considered his life a failure. He never would have
suspected that his poems, which would not be published for another
twenty-nine years, would eventually change the course of modern
poetry and influence such poets as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas,
Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney.
Like his contemporaries Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, Hopkins
revolutionized poetic language. And yet we love Hopkins not only
for his literary genius but for the hard-won faith that finds
expression in his verse. Who else has captured the thunderous voice
of God and the grandeur of his creation on the written page as
Hopkins has? Seamlessly weaving together selections from
Hopkins’s poems, letters, journals, and sermons, Peggy Ellsberg
lets the poet tell the story of a life-long struggle with faith
that gave birth to some of the best poetry of all time. Even
readers who spurn religious language will find in Hopkins a
refreshing, liberating way to see God’s hand at work in the
world.
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Borderless - The Art of Luis Tapia (Hardcover)
Dana Gioia; Introduction by Charlene Villaseñor Black; Contributions by Denise Chávez, Edward Hayes, Lucy R. Lippard, …
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Seneca - The Madness of Hercules
Seneca; Translated by Dana Gioia; Introduction by Dana Gioia
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In Praise of Limes (Paperback)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim; Preface by Dana Gioia; Afterword by Boey Kim Cheng
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Aesthetics Volume I (Paperback)
Dietrich Von Hildebrand; Foreword by Dana Gioia; Introduction by John F. Crosby
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Here at Last is Love (Hardcover)
Dunstan Thompson; Edited by Gregory Wolfe; Afterword by Dana Gioia
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Here at Last is Love (Paperback)
Dunstan Thompson; Edited by Gregory Wolfe; Afterword by Dana Gioia
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This is a newly restored vision of World War I in verse from a
talented - and largely unknown - American soldier-poet.First
published in 1928, ""This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets""
is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the
beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan
Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American
Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received
strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929,
the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great
Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary
scene.This new edition of ""This Man's Army"" restores to print a
lost vantage point on the American experience in the Great War as
valuable for its high literary merits as for its historical
accuracy. The new introduction by Dana Gioia, chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts, chronicles the life of the elusive
author and maps the book's critical reception and place in World
War I poetry, while new annotations by military historian B. J.
Omanson establish the historical context of individual poems.Wyeth
(1894-1981), the son of a prominent New York medical family, had
just completed a master's degree in French at Princeton when the
United States entered World War I in 1917 and he was motivated into
service. His fluency in French garnered him a position in the
Interpreters Corps as a second lieutenant in the Thirty-third
Division deployed to France and Belgium, and he served in this
capacity until his discharge in October 1919. ""This Man's Army""
is an autobiographical account of Wyeth's service years, detailing
his duties as interpreter, messenger, and occasionally sentry while
traveling town by town toward the German Hindenburg line. With an
unwavering eye for singular details, Wyeth recounts the devastating
effects of modern warfare, the cultural interactions of American
and French forces, and the lighthearted camaraderie of soldiers on
leave. Although he is keenly aware of the brutality of combat,
Wyeth's narrator never doubts the eventual American victory.The
term fifty-odd in the subtitle describes the sonnets both
quantitatively - in that there are fifty-five in total - and
qualitatively - as Wyeth stretched the traditional form through
incorporation of American and British military jargon and Jazz Age
slang as well as a new rhyme scheme unprecedented in the
seven-century history of the form.The republication of ""This Man's
Army"" restores to American historical literature an authentically
detailed and imaginatively idiosyncratic vision of the Great War
from a remarkable soldier-poet who shares universal truths about
warfare as relevant and provocative today as when they were
written.
By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist,
musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in
New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however,
he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco, and worked as
an artist and filmmaker. On July 18, 1955, his car was found on the
Golden Gate Bridge, and he has not been seen since.
These stories by Kees, predominantly set in Depression-era
mid-America, feature bleak, realistic settings and characters
resigned to their meager lives. The owner of an auto parts store
occasionally "sells" his sister Betty Lou to interested patrons; a
cryptic message in library books indicates the yearnings of a
silenced patron; a young woman taking tickets at the Roseland
Gardens futilely dreams of escape from the future she sees for
herself; and an old man carefully saves his money to fulfill the
requirements of a chain letter only to be disappointed by a
spiteful daughter-in-law. Many of these stories are set in the
Nebraska of Kees's youth, and they are written from a Midwestern
sensibility: keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly
fantastic.
In this new edition, Dana Gioia has added three stories to the
fourteen gathered in the first edition, "The Ceremony and Other
Stories," "The New York Times" named that first edition, published
in 1984, a notable book of the year.
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were
creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education
aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who
could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America's
contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also
the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this
nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward
education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of
educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought together in
Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship to grapple
with the issue of civic illiteracy and its consequences. The
essays, edited by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Jonathan W. White,
force us to not only reexamine the goals of civic education in
America but also those of liberal education more broadly.
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were
creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education
aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who
could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America's
contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also
the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this
nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward
education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of
educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought together in
Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship to grapple
with the issue of civic illiteracy and its consequences. The
essays, edited by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Jonathan W. White,
force us to not only reexamine the goals of civic education in
America but also those of liberal education more broadly.
His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made
Ogden Nash, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and
frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, readers have longed
for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good nature; now we
have it in Douglas Parker's absorbing and delightful life of the
poet. Intelligent, informative, and engaging.... There is no
comparable study not only of Nash's life but also of the role that
poetry, especially comic verse, played in modern American literary
culture.... A story long overdue in the telling. -Dana Gioia
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