A tradition of poets that includes Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop has a palpable distinction, but it may be too soon to speak or write of a canon of “American women poets.” The poets studied in this volume are not chosen arbitrarily, yet consideration of the book’s length as well as the poets’ canonical probability have entered into my selection. But the poets studied here do seem a central grouping, and the canonical process is always an ongoing one anyway. Future editions of this volume may be relied on to correct emphases and clarify choices.
The year of 2006-2007 issue contains a myth or legend well-known in one of the five countries: Ireland. England, the USA. South Africa and Australia. Legends, folk stories and myths are important to the understanding of a culture, and we hope you'll enjoy those we have chosen to represent each of these countries. We enjoyed researching the articles for you, and we hope we have chosen great poets from each country for the Literature section whose works represent the myths and legends.
Anna Akhmatova, Nancy K. Anderson. The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory.
Anna Akhmatova - one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past.
Specific subject selections from the Critical Survey of Poetry create 24 single-volume trade paperbacks. Titles include Beat Poets,Feminist Poets, Green Movement Poets, Surrealist Poets, plus Asian, Greek, French, German, Latin, Russian, Italian and Jewish Poets.
10 Onomatopoeic Words for Poetry and Everyday Writing -2012-
What is onomatopoeia? This unique phonetic phenomenon includes a wide variety of words that imitate, resemble or mimic the sounds or actions they describe. Children use them, animal noises embody them, comic books print them and world-class poets control them. Here are 10 of the funniest, quirkiest and handiest onomatopoeic words.
