Lynx us (54 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : New. Born of hours spent watching and listening to the testimonies of Polish Holocaust survivors and those who came to their aid, these poems by noted Polish poet Piotr Florczyk document the unspeakable evil unleashed by the Nazis in Poland, while also interrogating the very concept of memory literature. With f…

Paperback. Etat : New. Born of hours spent watching and listening to the testimonies of Polish Holocaust survivors and those who came to their aid, these poems by noted Polish poet Piotr Florczyk document the unspeakable evil unleashed by the Nazis in Poland, while also interrogating the very concept of memory literature. With f…

Paperback. Etat : New. Lady Wing Shot is an exploration of the life of famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who was called both the "Peerless Lady Wing Shot" and "Little Sure Shot," a name given to her by Sitting Bull. The collection illuminates the woman behind the mask of fame and connects her to both her own historical context an…

Paperback. Etat : New. John Hodgen's What We May Be is a cry of love and pain (and he makes them almost indistinguishable) on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems of this award-winning poet declare again and again that the reaching itself defines the…

Paperback. Etat : New. Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for PoetryIn The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden…

Paperback. Etat : New. In Every Waking Moment, James Crews plumbs his past and family life for insights, yet always returns to the moment at hand, approaching the world with mindfulness, openness, and clarity. He finds the miraculous in a shaft of sunlight while waiting for the subway, in an eagle glimpsed from a train along the…

Paperback. Etat : New. A lyrical exploration of the dysphoria of our current social reality, Drunken Man on a Bicycle focuses on the intersection between personal and communal experience as authoritarian national leadership overwhelms the individual consciousness.These poems capture the atmosphere of the absurd and the horrific,…

Paperback. Etat : New. "Christina de Villier's Long Coordinates is an old-time book of mountain tunes, of blues, of songs sung by a soul deeply enmeshed in place and trying to reckon love and all its complications.The language here is keen-edged and playful, breathtaking at times, and de Villier's sharp, even gaze lights in one…

Paperback. Etat : New. For five decades Albert Goldbarth has been astonishing readers with the erudition, wit, lyric invention, wisdom, and depthless humanity of his prolific writing. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry twice and has been awarded the Mark Twain Prize for humour in poetry, the Chad Walsh…

Paperback. Etat : New. Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry"Sophisticated and cerebral gymnastics of language sway with gravity through the poems and poetic sequences of Explain This Corpse. Throughout, Kirsten Kaschock's gestures are contemporary, jagged, and stop-start, wonderfully torqued and rippling with unexpected flig…

Paperback. Etat : New. Mother Water centres on maternal inheritance in literal and figurative forms. Through its water motif, the book traces the speaker's transformations as she absorbs, and often resists, lessons from the women who guide her.The poems explore the speaker's sense of self through feminine genealogy and her mothe…

Paperback. Etat : New. Abiding Time, Robert McNamara's fourth collection of poems, features a clear, direct and considered voice reminiscent, at times, of Herrick and Marvel, but fully contemporary. In poem after poem attention, reflection, and a sweeping, multi-faceted faith emerge as ingredients without which the individual li…

Paperback. Etat : New. Small Talk gathers poems from Peter Sears's eight previous collections, and adds thirty entirely new poems. The many admirers of his poetry will be delighted to find so many old friends back in print and under a single cover.Eclectic, comic, disarming, deadly, and ever fresh and surprising, these poems off…

Paperback. Etat : New. By means of exceptionally concrete and direct language, Laura Stott's poems lift dark matter up out of the shared unknown and give it shape. They have the simplicity of blue shadows and bells, the curiously beautiful postures of shore birds in a marsh.This is a book of clear-eyed and original work. Neither…

Hardback. Etat : New. Van Winckel's poems hover at the intersections of folktale and history, of past life regressions and future life visions, in a voice that is intimate, eerie, wry, and always strangely like a voice that has been going on in our heads without our noticing. The chill and pleasure it renders is a little like wh…

Paperback. Etat : New. This volume brings together pieces from David Axelrod's previous nine collections along with thirty-two brilliant new poems--the whole a kind of symphonic effort to clarify the unity of consciousness, water, wind, and stone--all life, in fact, and the planet itself. These poems are powerful meditations. To…

Paperback. Etat : New. Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many exceptional long poems as Levine, and his influence has continued virtually undisturbed since his death in 2015.In t…

Paperback. Etat : New. The action of this novel takes place in the West, but it is not a "Western"; and though its central focus is the life of Adaline Carson, daughter of the famed frontiersman Kit Carson, it is also not a biography. Set in the time of the California gold rush, it is a detailed and graphic elegy for America's w…

Paperback. Etat : New. Born of hours spent watching and listening to the testimonies of Polish Holocaust survivors and those who came to their aid, these poems by noted Polish poet Piotr Florczyk document the unspeakable evil unleashed by the Nazis in Poland, while also interrogating the very concept of memory literature. With f…