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.
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.
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.
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.
B>b>The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong/b>/b>br>br>How else do we return to ourselves but to foldbr> The page so it points to the good partbr> ;br> In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mothers death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuongs poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.br> ;br> The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.br>;
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.
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother''s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous , Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong''s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicentre of the break. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds , winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.
''For there is always light If only we''re brave enough to be it. If only we''re brave enough to see it.'' ** Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller** '' I was profoundly moved... The power of your words blew me away '' Michelle Obama, TIME '' A moment of history in book form '' Stylist '' Deeply rousing and uplifting '' Vogue On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman spoke a message of truth and hope to millions. Aged twenty-two, she delivered a poetry reading at the inauguration of US President Joe Biden. Her poem, ''The Hill We Climb'', addressed the country and reached across the world: a call for a brave future. This special edition, which includes an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, marks that poem and offers us courage, consolation and the inspiration to make change. '' I was thrilled '' Hillary Clinton '' She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves '' Lin-Manuel Miranda, TIME
This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience est un recueil de poésie du peintre et poète pré-romantique britannique William Blake, édité pour la première fois en 1789 par l'auteur lui-même en quelques exemplaires. Cette jolie édition en petit format reproduit les illuminations de l'artiste, avec ses gravures et les poèmes reproduit dans leur lettrage original.
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First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, ''Leaves of Grass'' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of themes, encompassing American identity and cultural values, democracy, nature and the mysteries of the human spirit.
Featuring the poems of the original 1855 edition, ''Leaves of Grass'' remains an influential work within the American literary tradition, studied and treasured around the world.
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled - from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.
This new annotated edition inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles.
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.
