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Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day - from the legacy of Hasan's poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin. As with other Persian poets, Hasan worked within a highly regulated set of poetic conventions that brought into relief the interpenetration of apparent opposites - metaphysical and material, mysterious and quotidian, death and desire, sacred and profane, fleeting time and eternity. Within these strictures, he crafted a poetics that blended Sufi Islam with non-Muslim Indic traditions. Of the Persian poets who practiced the ghazal, Hafez and Rumi are best known, but their verse represents only a small fraction of a rich tradition. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers' bookshelves alongside better known Iranian names.
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In 2006 overleed de Nederlandse dichter en criticus Jeroen Mettes (1978-2006). Postuum verscheen in 2011 zijn lange prozagedicht 'N30'. In dat werk probeerde Mettes een 'direct engagement met de buitentekstuele werkelijkheid' tot stand te brengen door het talige lawaai van die werkelijkheid tot onderdeel te maken van zijn poëzie. 'N30' sloeg in als een bom. Mettes' poëziekritiek en zijn dichtwerk vormden een inspiratiebron voor een nieuwe generatie Nederlandstalige dichters die een poëzie gingen schrijven die tegelijkertijd politiek, experimenteel én persoonlijk was. In 'Vluchtlijnen van de Poëzie' vormt de experimentele dichtkunst en politieke essayistiek van Mettes het uitgangspunt voor een creatieve lezing en (her)interpretatie van de (recente) poëziegeschiedenis. De vluchtlijnen brengen de lezer van Mettes naar Friedrich Hölderlin, Herman Gorter, Gertrude Stein, Sybren Polet, J.F. Vogelaar, Ron Silliman, Dominique De Groen, Hannah van Binsbergen en vele anderen. Het poëtische sterrenstelsel dat zo ontstaat biedt zicht op de relatie tussen politiek, poëzie en vorm.
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De geschiedenis van het Crabeels-geslacht te Overijse begint wanneer de jonge Brusselse rechtsgeleerde Antonius-Laurentius er zich als notaris in 1733 kwam vestigen. Hij is er waarschijnlijk op stage geweest bij één van de twee toenmalige notarissen in functie, nl. bij judocus-Joannes Vandevelde (die overigens als doopheffer van zijn zoon Judocus-Joannes-Carolus Antonius staat opgetekend), ofwel bij mr. Judocus de Wint, met wiens dochter hij op 2 juni 1738 in het huwelijk trad, waardoor hij zich stevig in de plaatselijke notabelenkaste wist vast te ankeren. We zullen het vervolgens meemaken dat deze Brusselse inwijkeling te Overijse de hoogste ambten zal bekleden, nl. als rentmeester van de prins van Horne en als overmeier van de Vrijheid en het Prinsdom Overijse, alle functies die ettelijke generaties lang door zijn schoonfamilie waren gecumuleerd.
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Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without parallel. He is renowned particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of song traditions from the ancient past, and his premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view him as the emblematic cursed poet, whose fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial and demonic beings seemed to presage the brevity of his own existence. Li He's style and diction are often idiosyncratic and even hermetic, and his work presents daunting challenges to readers wishing to follow the flights of his imagination, or simply to construe the basic sense of his language. This volume presents close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other technical matters. Taken together, these features will be a welcome aid to readers wishing to explore Li He's poetic worlds first-hand.
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Charles Noble's long poem playfully connects autobiography, narrative, philosophy, history, and satire and experiments with language and structure in a way that pushes the limits of contemporary poetry. Noble leaves no leaf unturned as he touches on issues related to contemporary Western society, including mass media culture, gender politics, postindustrial technology, and the politics of postmodern.
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As palavras "épica" e "herói" resistem a generalizações, especialmente as universalizantes. Mesmo como conceitos gerais, "épico" e "herói" não estão necessariamente relacionados. Reconhecendo dificuldades desta natureza, a presente exposição explora os exemplos mais representativos dos constructos da poética antiga conhecidos comumente como "heróis épicos", ao se concentrar sobre Aquiles e Odisseu na Ilíada e na Odisseia de Homero. Pontos de comparação com estas figuras homéricas incluem: Gilgamesh e Enkidu nos registros cuneiformes sumérios, acadianos e hititas; Arjuna e os outros Pāṇḍava-s no épico indiano Mahābhārata; e Eneias na Eneida do poeta romano Virgílio.
Epic poetry. --- Heroic poetry --- Poetry
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A Neo Tropical Companion is the first collection of haikus written by Xiu Xiu singer, Jamie Stewart. This is the first time his haikus, which have been featured in several literary journals and small press releases, will be comprehensively collected. Two thirds of the work will include new poems written for specifically for this book. The title, A Neo Tropical Companion, comes from an antiquated guide book to North East South America that Stewart found molding on the ground in the jungle. The poems, written in the classical Japanese poetry form, concern death, uncertainty, cats, being on weird tours, horrible sex, hating other people, bird watching in Guyana, and growing up in a dim and boxed-in valley.
Poetry. --- poetry --- American poetry --- modern poetry
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"Don't sit on your stool, watching life go by," insists Soutcho Lydie Toure. In this collection of reflections written over a decade, she explores insecurities and vulnerabilities, with which many a reader will relate. She shares about loneliness and feeling different and goes on to ponder everyday life in "Politicking" and "VDN" -- a memorable highway in Dakar which pedestrians must cross "under the mocking smile of the sun." Toure draws on experiences and insights from her life betwixt and between West Africa and North America. In her verses, spiced with nature, color, joy, humor and fantasy, questions and answers compete equally for the reader's attention. A veritable source of confidence in the force of life and love. Confidence that makes one grow wings.
Poetry --- Poetry, Modern
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Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focussing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry - and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions.
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The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture.
Chinese poetry --- Poetry
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