0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R250 - R500 (4)
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 6 of 6 matches in All Departments

Paradise Close - A Novel (Hardcover): Lisa Russ Spaar Paradise Close - A Novel (Hardcover)
Lisa Russ Spaar
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Death of the King - And Other Poems (Paperback): Anthony Rudolf, Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann Death of the King - And Other Poems (Paperback)
Anthony Rudolf, Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann; Introduction by Lisa Russ Spaar; Translated by Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann
R292 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R17 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Monticello in Mind - Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson (Hardcover): Lisa Russ Spaar Monticello in Mind - Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson (Hardcover)
Lisa Russ Spaar
R558 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R92 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today. Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, yet at the same time a slaveholder who likely fathered six children by one of his slaves, Jefferson has been seen as an embodiment of both the best and the worst in America's conception and in its history. In Monticello in Mind, poet Lisa Russ Spaar collects fifty contemporary poems--most original to this anthology--that engage the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson and his plantation home at Monticello. Many of these poems wrestle with the history of race and freedom at the heart of both Jefferson's story and America's own. Others consider Jefferson as a figure of Enlightenment rationalism, who scrupulously excised evidence of the supernatural from the gospels in order to construct his own version of Jesus's moral teachings. Still others approach Jefferson as an early colonizer of the West, whose purchase of the Louisiana territory and launch of the Lewis and Clark expedition anticipated the era of Manifest Destiny. Featuring a roster of poets both emerging and established--including Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Claudia Emerson, Terrance Hayes, Robert Hass, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young--this collection offers an aesthetically and culturally diverse range of perspectives on a man whose paradoxes still abide at the heart of the American experiment

Acquainted with the Night - Insomnia Poems (Hardcover, New): Lisa Russ Spaar Acquainted with the Night - Insomnia Poems (Hardcover, New)
Lisa Russ Spaar
R442 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R101 (23%) Out of stock

It is the rare individual who has not, at one time or another, been kept awake for hours on end -- as the rest of the world, maddeningly, appears to be comfortably lost in the nocturnal world of dreams.

Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia -- meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world's regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence.

"Acquainted with the Night" brings together Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Rimbaud and Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley -- the great poets of the Western literary heritage -- on a theme with which each one has been acutely familiar. Lisa Russ Spaar has also unearthed ruminations on the sleepless nights of poets the world over: in a fascinatingly diverse anthology, she has harvested verse from Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Inuit, Vietnamese, Tamil, Yiddish, and Romanian poets, who together present an illuminating display of insomnia's extraordinary and enduring legacy in widely different cultures through the centuries.

As these exquisite poems chart a course from solitude, through anxiety, to epiphany, the reader truly learns what it means to be acquainted with the night.

Orexia - Poems (Hardcover): Lisa Russ Spaar Orexia - Poems (Hardcover)
Lisa Russ Spaar
R588 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R151 (26%) Out of stock
Blue Venus (Paperback): Lisa Russ Spaar Blue Venus (Paperback)
Lisa Russ Spaar
R339 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R87 (26%) Out of stock

In Blue Venus, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred. Her nocturnal poems weave themselves into the very fabric of private fervor--lyric, sexual, spiritual--beginning with "Dusk" and continuing on until "Dawn." Fierce and giving, Spaar's exquisite verse isolates essential moments of vulnerability and wonder. A series on insomnia--in the voices of some notable insomniacs--is among the most moving extended sequences in recent memory. Elsewhere, she traces poetry back to its primordial roots--prayer, lullabye, mourning, exaltation. Propelled throughout by a resolute belief in the relationship between the human and the cosmic Blue Venus is "a brilliant new star in poetry's firmament" (Carol Muske-Dukes).

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
3 Layer Fabric Face Mask (Blue)
R15 Discovery Miles 150
Have I Got GNUs For You
Zapiro Paperback R220 R160 Discovery Miles 1 600
Zap! Air Dry Pottery Kit
Kit R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950
Russell Hobbs Toaster (2 Slice…
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070
Discovering Daniel - Finding Our Hope In…
Amir Tsarfati, Rick Yohn Paperback R280 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100
HP 250 G9 15.6" Celeron Notebook…
 (1)
R5,899 Discovery Miles 58 990
RBE File Divider - Assorted Colours…
R60 Discovery Miles 600
Cadac Pizza Stone (33cm)
 (18)
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980
Brother D60 and 5000 Black Cyan Magenta…
R1,800 R1,100 Discovery Miles 11 000
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R383 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100

 

Partners