Louise Glück, se tenant à l'écart du courant américain de la poésie confessionnelle, compose des recueils polyphoniques où le je n'est jamais réductible à une seule identité, mais où chacune des voix participe à un vaste ensemble poétique. Dans Meadowlands s'entrecroisent ainsi celles des protagonistes de L'Odyssée, dans une réécriture du mythe qui laisse la part belle aux personnages secondaires - Télémaque, Circé, Pénélope -, et celles d'un homme et d'une femme d'aujourd'hui, au bord de la rupture. De cette confrontation entre l'atemporel et le contemporain, Glück tire un champ magnétique d'une rare puissance, une poésie au pouvoir de suggestion nouveau.Mais c'est bien par le prisme du langage que la dissolution d'un mariage est scrutée ici, dans une poésie habitée par le souci de précision et de clarté, révélant les silences, l'incommunicabilité au sein même du dialogue. D'une lucidité bouleversante sans jamais toucher au pathos, Meadowlands est comique et déchirant à la fois dans sa distance avec le quotidien et dans sa densité métaphorique, ancrée sur les rives de la Méditerranée.Meadowlands, publié aux États-Unis en 1996, est le recueil qui suivit la publication de L'iris sauvage.
Secs, sans cavalier, les mots Et leur galop infatigable Quand Depuis le fond de l'étang, les étoiles Régissent une vie.
« Ariel, génie de l'air de La Tempête, de Shakespeare, est aussi le nom du cheval blanc que montait à l'aube dans le Devon, en Angleterre, l'un des plus extraordinaires poètes du XXe siècle, Sylvia Plath, aux derniers mois de sa courte vie.
Ariel, borne décisive marquant un "avant" et un "après", parole intense jusqu'à la rage parfois, question de vie ou de mort.
Ariel, jusqu'au bout, l'extrémité du dernier souffle. » Valérie Rouzeau.
« Et ici, par une bravade frénétique, je frappai fortement avec une canne que j'avais à la main juste sur la partie du briquetage derrière laquelle se tenait le cadavre de l'épouse de mon coeur...
Pendant un moment, les officiers placés sur les marches restèrent immobiles, stupéfiés par la terreur. Un instant après, une douzaine de bras robustes s'acharnaient sur le mur. Il tomba tout d'une pièce. Le corps déjà grandement délabré et souillé de sang grumelé, se tenait droit devant les yeux des spectateurs. Sur sa tête, avec la gueule rouge dilatée et l'oeil unique flamboyant, était perchée la hideuse bête dont l'astuce m'avait induit à l'assassinat, et dont la voix révélatrice m'avait livré au bourreau. » (Le Chat noir)
Quelques mois avant sa mort, Ted Hughes (1930-1998), l'un des plus grands poètes anglais du XXe siècle, publie Birthday Letters, un recueil de lettres-poèmes adressées à son épouse l'écrivain Sylvia Plath, disparue trente-cinq ans auparavant.
Accusé - parfois violemment - d'être responsable du suicide de la jeune femme, Ted Hughes avait toujours gardé le silence, refusant d'évoquer les sept années de leur vie commune. On découvre avec Birthday Letters qu'il n'a jamais cessé d'écrire à Sylvia, s'efforçant de garder intacte sa présence, se heurtant à l'incertitude des souvenirs, et à la hantise du «futur» qui les attendait et qu'ils n'auront pu vivre.
Lors de sa publication en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, Birthday Letters a été vendu à plus de cinq cent mille exemplaires, événement sans précédent dans l'histoire éditoriale de la poésie.
Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points :
- Mouvement littéraire : Révolutions rimbaldiennes - Genre et registre : Poétique de l'image et de la contradiction - L'écrivain à sa table de travail : Difficultés du recueil - Groupement de textes : « Le lieu et la formule » : rêve, poésie et mouvement - Chronologie : Arthur Rimbaud et son temps - Fiche : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa lecture Recommandé pour les classes de lycée.
Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You dont need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write thats all.
Seeks to return Keats to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet. This title enables readers to trace the poems through letters, reviews and related material chonologically interleaved with the texts themselves. It offers an introduction, headnotes, annotations and contextual documents.
Written by a beat movement icon and visionary poet who broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse, this book presents a collection of his famous poems. It includes the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956.
Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music.
B>b>A special edition of the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021/b>/b>br>br>On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two,;to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS '' Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason Im proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic. Lana Del Rey Lanas breathtaking first book solidifies her further as ''the essential writer of her times'' ( The Atlantic ). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lanas typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff.
Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'The caged bird sings/ with a fearful trill/ of things unknown/ but longed for still/ and his tune is heard/ on the distant hill/ for the caged bird/ sings of freedom.' Of her poetry, KIRKUS REVIEWS has written, 'It is just as much a part of her biography as I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, GATHER TOGETHER in MY NAME, SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTING MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS, and HEART OF A WOMAN.
Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year PBS Summer Recommendation An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: '...the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.' This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years.
'These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. One of the most important debut collections for a generation.' Andrew McMillan
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift for poetry lovers. In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass . The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's innovative use of free verse and the quotidian achieved his aim of reaching out to the everyday American. This edition, based on the earliest published version of 1855, features Whitman's most famous poem 'Song of Myself', an American epic inspired by his personal experiences.
A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur, author the #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey . Her long-awaited second collection of poetry is a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring ones roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom
A revised hardcover edition of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers . Rupi''s long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound and foil stamped. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body , she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me theres no need to look anywhere else home
