Catullus
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300275292,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries.
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catul...
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Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
ISBN: PB: 9780300276763,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264173,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian.
Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only do...
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Ward Toward
ISBN: PB: 9780300273922,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273915,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation.
In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces – from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to...
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How Fire Descends
New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300272468,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
136 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
136 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan.
Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan has brought international attention to his country's strug...
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£12.99
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Thomas Hardy
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300095289,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
496 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
496 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry.
This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), edited by David B...
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Mass for Shut-Ins
ISBN: PB: 9780300267990,
ISBN: HB: 9780300268003,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
120 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
120 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds.
In "Mass for Shut-Ins", African and Western mythic systems and modern rituals orig...
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Map of Longings
The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali
ISBN: HB: 9780300264227,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
244 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
244 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
The beautifully written first biography of one of the world's finest twentieth-century poets.
Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works have touched millions of lives ar...
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Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
An Annotated Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300264661,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
344 pp., 23,4x19,0 cm, 12 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x19,0 cm, 12 black&white illus.
This beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay's oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age's most famous poet.
More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues t...
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Gilgamesh
A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
ISBN: PB: 9780300268096,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
"Gilgamesh" is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation...
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Lines and Lyrics
An Introduction to Poetry and Song
ISBN: HB: 9780300245677,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
272 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 63 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 63 black&white illus.
Bruce Springsteen, Benjamin Britten, Kendrick Lamar, Sylvia Plath, Outkast, and Anne Sexton collide in this inventive study of poetry and song. Drawing on literary poetry, rock, rap, musical theater, and art songs from the Elizabethan period to the p...
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