"Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, 'Essential Essays' showcases Adrienne Rich's singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich's lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity." - Umschlagrückseite

The central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall). So far out, in the open, cushioned in sleep. In flight from the land with love's heavy luggage. A butterfly-zone of dreams like an open parasol held up against the truth. Flight and Metamorphosis marks the culmination of Nelly Sachs’s development as a poet. Sachs, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, speaks from her own condition as a refugee from Nazi Germany—her loneliness while living in a small Stockholm flat with her elderly mother; her exile, her alienation, her feelings of romantic bereavement; and her search for the divine. Forced onto a journey of endless change, Sachs created her own path forward. From these sublime poems, she emerges as a visionary, one who harnesses language’s essential power to create and transform our world. Joshua Weiner’s translations (with Linda B. Parshall) are the first in more than half a century to elucidate Sachs’s enduring poetic power and relevance.

"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."―Booklist Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage―ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first...."

Review "There is a lovely and unexpected alchemy in these verses that veer from the stars to suburbia, from the sublime to sweaty reality, and leave traces of each in the other. Roberts has a powerful range: equally adept at ferocity and fragility, and a host of other apparent opposites, she is a borderless writer and an absolute joy to read." - June Sylvester Saraceno"Suzanne Roberts' poems in Plotting Temporality are songs of the body, the erotic imperative of flesh, the brutal finality of bone. Roberts' poems forcefully invoke "our night, our moon, but never, / never our dawn," their language striving to shape and illuminate our haunted movements--a caress, a spouse's hand pushed away, a figure approaching from the shadows, embraced with fateful longing." --Gaylord Brewer Product Description Suzanne Roberts is the author of three previous books of poetry, Shameless (2007), Nothing to You (2008), and Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011). She is also the author of a memoir, Almost Somewhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and currently teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California. For more information, please visit her website at www.suzanneroberts.org From the Back Cover The poems in Plotting Temporality are songs of the body, the erotic imperative of flesh, the brutal finality of bone. These poems flicker with shadow and light, sometimes igniting into bold vision, sometimes mapping what is missing, drawing new shapes from the natural world, giving the familiar a new dimension, a mystery that compels us to follow. About the Author Suzanne Roberts is the author of the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, as well as three previous collections of poetry: Shameless, Nothing to You, and Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel. She teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low residency MFA in creative writing at Sierra Nevada College.

This book is a compilation of poems written by Yvan Goll as he lay dying due to terminal cancer. His final poems were written on scraps of paper found in his hospital room and compiled following his death.

Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end of 1925, when she left America for Europe and Robert Graves, to 1939, the year she returned to America, renounced any further writing of poetry, and soon after married Schuyler Jackson. Published in 1928, when Riding was twenty-seven, Anarchism is a kind of early autobiographia literaria . Long out of print and now available for the first time in paperback, this is one of the most imaginative and daring works of literary theory ever written by a modernist figure. Lisa Samuels's edition sets the work in its historical context and elucidates its central intellectual difficulties. Her introduction and notes are a valuable aid to an understanding of Riding's work.