W.H. Auden at Work: The Craft of Revision explores revision in the poetry of W.H. Auden, focusing on Auden's early sonnet sequences, "A Voyage," and "Sonnets from China." It enumerates in great detail the substantial changes Auden made to those sequences over the course of thirty years. Auden's observations are an amalgam of abstract ......
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of Am
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from `America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.
Watermarks is dedicated to green literature and theories. Its poetry and prose questions the nature of place and of writing's capacity to sing the more-than-merely-human world. Eric Rolls, Noni Sharp, Robert Adamson, Margaret Somerville, Tom Griffiths and Herb Wharton each discuss the poetics and the politics of place.
Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.
Agnes Meadows' reputation as an International performance poet has made her a firm favourite at festivals all over the world, including the Austin International Poetry Festival, Mediterranean Poetry Festival, and Palestinian PEN's International Poetry Festival. Woman is a selection of new poems fused with work from; her two previous books You and ......
Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay, ''Shibboleth for Paul Celan.''''Despite a growing interest in Celan over the past twenty years, there is no collection in English which comes as close to the extended critical presentation assembled here. Word Traces will be a standard text on Celan--the ......
Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800-1830: Romantic Crises is a study of the political lives of William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans between 1800 and 1830. Benjamin Kim argues that the dominant paradigm for their political thought was that of "crisis." Obsessed with the mysterious connections between the individual, the home, and the state, ......
