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Frank O'Hara was a pioneering modern American poet and playwright - an art critic, a musician, and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art - who defined New York City in its post-WWII heyday. For many these poems defined the city's midcentury zeitgeist.

"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare.

Penned by one of Nichol’s numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writer’s various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poet’s biographical self-awareness. The audiobook demonstrates how the subject’s main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and "unintended" meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species - both in high literature and comical prime time television.

An accomplished poet and the author of Canadian Hungarian Literature (1897 - 2017), Frank Veszely brings to the English listener the rich treasure-house of folk, classical, and modern Hungarian poetry (1000 - 2020).

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another, their interaction mediated (at times) by the affable host - Chaucer himself. Naxos AudioBooks’ third volume presents the tales of six people, here in an unabridged modern verse translation (by Frank Ernest Hill, 1935).

Composed during the 14th century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve.

Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His audio represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the English poet William Blake consists of a series of texts written in the style of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own beliefs. Composed between 1790 and 1793, the book makes reference to Milton and Swedenborg, and adopts a device from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost: a visit to hell. Blake expresses a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are both part of the divine order.

A book about contemporary American experience reflects on people and their experience of the natural and built environment. Scenes in the forest to library restrooms, migrant workers picking strawberries and reflections on the search for God, Sunday school teachers and children, dealing with obesity and strokes all find a place in this diverse collection about American society at the beginning of the 21st century.

Dig into this delectable journey through the dark, sensual, and ravishing poetry of Frank Watson. Ruminate the searing to the sultry as you absorb this haunting lilt of burning carnality. The poems ignite rapid and surprising shifts in focus and perspective as they twist and turn your preconceptions, allowing the implications to linger in your thoughts.

Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals. There have been numerous translations of Baudelaire’s work into English, but many of them have been judged as not being particularly successful. Strum’s version of The Flowers of Evil is unusual and notable for its accuracy in capturing the elusive appeal of the originals.

"Welt mit allen Sinnen aufzunehmen und mit seinen Versen auf berückende Weise wieder auszuatmen, das beeindruckt an Frank Richter. Lebens-Leichtigkeit und Lebens-Schwere vermag er sprachzupackend zu bannen." Elfi Conrad, Bestsellerautorin "Frank Richter liebt und lebt sein Leben und kostet es in allen Farben aus. Diese Erfahrung spürt man in jeder Silbe, denn er schreibt um des Schreibens willen und das völlig ohne Filter. Genau deswegen ist seine Lyrik eine intime Liebesbekundung an das Leben und eine Einladung zum Verweilen.

Welche Relevanz hat Lyrik heute noch? Für sich hat Frank Richter eine klare Antwort gefunden: keine Lyrik ist auch keine Lösung. Zusammengefasst in einem Gedichtband, präsentiert Frank Richter den ersten sowie den bisher unveröffentlichten zweiten Teil seiner "lyrisophischen Buchstabenfolgen". Die 54 Gedichte folgen dem Alphabet, sind allerdings thematisch wie stilistisch bittersüß gemischt - ganz wie das Leben und Lieben selbst. Eine Ode an das L(i)eben.

Are you living as though the best years of your life are a time in your past? Or do you start each day feeling your life is full of possibility–that there are still great challenges, joys, and life victories ahead of you? Your honest answer to this question is the most important decision you will ever make.

A man, tiring of an astronomy lecture, takes a walk in the mystical night air to renew his sense of purpose.

In these verses, comprised of several years worth of selected material from various stages of his life, author Frank R. Chappell explores the follies of melancholic youthfulness, exuberant love, energetic faith, complete nihilism, profane tirades, and sacred contemplation.

Es ist ein Gefühl, das uns alle in seinen Bann zieht - die Liebe. Sie entfaltet sich wie eine zarte Blüte, lässt unsere Herzen höher schlagen und verwandelt graue Tage in leuchtende Momente. In diesem Buch sind die schönsten Liebesgedichte vereint, die das ewige Mysterium der Liebe in all ihrer Pracht und Zartheit feiern. Jedes Wort ist ein Liebesbrief an die Frau, an die Seelenverwandte, an die Gefährtin des Herzens.

This collection was published posthumously in 1869 under the title of Petits Poèmes En Prose, but is also known as Le Spleen de Paris. A prime influence was Gaspard de la Nuit, the prose poem collection by Aloysius Bertrand. Baudelaire described these short pieces as experiments, and also "confessions." The poet was seeking to create "the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle and staccato enough to follow the lyric motions of the soul, the wavering outlines of meditation, the sudden starts of the conscience."

Ob Liebesbotschaft oder Memento mori, ob schauerliche Ballade oder heiterer Wortwitz - die deutsche Dichtung des 18., 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts bietet zwischen hoher Kunst und schelmischem Sprachspiel eine wunderbare Vielfalt. Große Stimmen interpretieren die schönsten Gedichte in einer so weit gefassten Auswahl, wie es sie bisher noch nicht gab.

The book chronicles, in poetic form, the life of a woman who, in three distinct and significant life events, feels she is “the other woman” to her husband, to her child, and even to herself, rather than the woman who is “good enough” just as she is. Not until she loses her eyesight does she finally allow herself to stop putting herself aside and be who she always has been—a strong, insightful, creative, resilient, faith driven, funny, and fun-loving woman. A resurrected woman!