Marge Piercy 
Art of Blessing the Day 

Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection ‘There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful rec …

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment …

Representing the best of ten books and twenty years” work, Matthew Sweeney”s Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will be …

In his 6th full-length, thought-provoking, collection of poetry, the poet brings together a tapestry of ancient and modern histories to tie the lost Hebrew tribes from the biblical narrative with the …

Jalaloddin Rumi”s Masnavi-ye Ma”navi, or ”Spiritual Couplets”, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his …

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry. The leading question of the book is how the socio-cul …

First published in 1989. The ballad or romance, as it is commonly called, has played a vital role over the centuries in Hispanic culture as an orally transmitted narrative song. It is characteristica …

Poetry & Pose is the first time Jordi Llavina’s work has been translated into English and published. The book is a collection of two of his most important and popular pieces of work: The Hermitage …