The Raven . . . Annabel Lee . . . Ulalume . . . these are some of the spookiest, most macabre poems ever written, now collected in this chilling, affordable volume.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 3 October 2011
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The Selected Poems of John Ashbery
While Ashbery is usually thought of as a complex, insular poet, he often reveals a sense of childlike wonder at the world: "The spring, though mild, is incredibly wet./ I have spent the afternoon blowing soap bubbles." And if he is a writer who tackles eternal verities, the poet's selection of his verse for this collection shows that his immediate topics range from Popeye the Sailor to the Aquarian Age, Warren G. Harding and the weather. Ashbery recognizes that the creative artist today is "barely tolerated, living on the margin/ in our technological society."
Persian Sufi Poetry - An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classic Poems
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
