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Cover of Roma di Mario Dell'Arco

Roma di Mario Dell'Arco

poesia & architettura

by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 7, 2016

“Occorre dire con chiarezza” ha scritto recentemente Pietro Gibellini “che Mario dell'Arco entra nello scelto manipolo dei poeti della letteratura italiana senza aggettivi, e senza limitazioni di tempo”. Il Catalogo della Mostra Roma di Mario dell'Arco: poesia & architettura si affianca alla...
Cover of Patrick Chamoiseau et la mer des récits
by Delphine Rumeau, Guy Larroux, Pierre Soubias
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2018

L’œuvre de Patrick Chamoiseau, « auteur-carrefour » majeur au sein du vaste ensemble des littératures postcoloniales, appelait un point substantiel sur la recherche qui lui est aujourd’hui consacrée. Vingt chercheurs d’Europe, d’Afrique et des Amériques montrent comment une oeuvre multiforme...
Cover of Fosa común
by Miguel Marcotrigiano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2015

La poesía siempre alcanza sus cumbres más altas cuando escruta, en inclemente merodeo, su propia gestión; su vida misma. Nada más inestimable para la comprensión y nada más impostergable para la afectividad que la poesía haciendo poesía de la poesía o concibiendo la poesía de unos tratando...
Cover of L'Arca
by Simone Mazzei
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2014

L’Arca è il simbolo della salvezza, è il rifugio sicuro dalle asperità della vita, dalle impetuose alluvioni che senza tregua insidiano il genere umano. L’Arca raccoglie, l’Arca soccorre, l’Arca salva. E accanto a brutture, a corruzione, al tempo che fugge e che sembra non lasciare scampo,...
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L’allodola e il fuoco

Le cinquanta poesie che accendono la vita

by Davide Rondoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2017

“Questo libro non è una antologia. Non è nemmeno un vero e proprio libro di poesie. La poesia, del resto, non è mai stata una faccenda di libri. L’hanno fatta passare per una cosa di libri solo di recente, e hanno sbagliato. Lei infatti non ci sta. Con grave scorno di editori, professori e...
Cover of Ungaretti, poeta
by Carlo Ossola
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 24, 2016

«Sono un frutto/ d’innumerevoli contrasti d’innesti». Così si definisce Giuseppe Ungaretti nella poesia Italia, manifesto del Porto Sepolto, 1916. Tale l’origine, e pari il destino: nato ad Alessandria d’Egitto nel 1888 da genitori lucchesi emigrati al momento delle opere di scavo del...
Cover of Ensenada gris
by César Mejía Chiang
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 18, 2016

La poesía puede nacer como una sensación, un recuerdo, una certeza, una luz, o una sombra que se prolonga en la mente.
Cover of Zero spaccato
by flavia sabato
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2015

Flavia Sabato nasce a casarano nel 1985. Lavora e gioca con l'arte soprattutto con la musica popolare che le ha permesso di viaggiare e ancor più ascoltare, sentire come il soffio del vento può attraversare una conchiglia, la voce di un bimbo o il canto di un'anziano le rallegra la giornata, il...
Cover of The Banished Immortal

The Banished Immortal

A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)

by Ha Jin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were...
Cover of Masks Of Anarchy

Masks Of Anarchy

The History Of A Radical Poem, From Percy Shelley To The Triangle Factory Fire

by Michael Demson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later. Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing...
Cover of Longfellow

Longfellow

A Rediscovered Life

by Charles C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia). Calhoun's Longfellow emerges...
Cover of Nine Lessons From The Dark
by Adam Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013

Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments...
Cover of The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe
by Jonathan Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation...
Cover of Horace

Horace

A Life

by Peter Levi
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the emperor, while his legendary poems (Satires, Odes, Epistles) about friendship, philosophy, love and sex still have widespread appeal. This biography...
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