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A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within...

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, this book reveals...

'Poetry for the Corporate Coffee Table' is ideal for poetry and non-poetry lovers alike. This powerfully visual titles contains a collection of poetry written by the author and captures a decade of work, life and intimacy. It offers a searingly honest yet upbeat acknowledgement of a corporate man's struggles...

The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting. The short-lived genre of Latin love elegy produced spectacular, multi-faceted and often difficult poetry. Its proponents Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid remain to this day...

MPT’s Spring 2016 issue ’The Great Flight’ features a focus on refugee poetry – poetry by refugees and about the plight of refugees and migrants - with new translations of Ribka Sibhatu, Hama Tuma, Golan Haji and Amarjit Chandan, plus prose by Nasrin Parvaz and Don Mee Choi. Also in this issue:...

‘The Tangled Route’ features a focus on new and classic Uruguayan poetry: new translations of Líber Falco, Horacio Cavallo and Ida Vitale, plus a conversation between two women poets from Uruguay: Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin discuss exile, identity and literature. Also in this issue:...

MPT’s summer 2015 issue ‘I WISH’ features a focus on world poetry for children: new translations of poems from Russia, Taiwan, Mexico and Eritrea and more, and some classic poems from Poland by Julian Tuwim. The focus also includes a discussion between former children’s laureate Michael Rosen...

Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until...

Ezra Pound’s definition of an epic as “a poem containing history” raises questions: how can a poem “contain” history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry’s Engagement...

Poetry through my ages is an account of my journey and development as a person and a writer, through the poems Ive written. This anthology records my poetry from the age of fifteen, being the age I first took an interest in writing poetry. The poems contained in this book feature in chronological...

When Nandita writes, she does so in volume, unable to contain the poetry flowing through her veins. - FT Ledrew (Poet, writer, musician, song writer, Canada) From start to finish, Nandita writes with verve and spirit. In her unique poetic prose, she weaves together mind, body and soul in a superlative...

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his works, providing insight into...

As National Poetry Month was just last April, it’s only fitting that we celebrate poetry this July. The poets in this collection represent the depth and breadth of contemporary American poetry: its independence, its drive to find new ways of making meaning, and its commitment to innovative ways of...