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<p>THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.</p><p>Lana Del Rey Lana's breathtaking first book solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana's typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. </p><p>The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff. </p>

<p>The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.<br/><br/>Victoria Adukwei Bulley<br/>Rachael Allen<br/>Simon Armitage<br/>George Barker<br/>Emily Berry<br/>Laurence Binyon<br/>Rupert Brooke<br/>Robert Browning<br/>Thomas Campion<br/>Mary Jean Chan<br/>John Clare<br/>Gillian Clarke<br/>Wendy Cope<br/>Thomas Dekker<br/>John Donne<br/>T.S.Eliot<br/>Lavinia Greenlaw<br/>David Harsent<br/>Seamus Heaney<br/>A.E. Housman<br/>Ted Hughes<br/>Ishion Hutchinson<br/>John Keats<br/>Zaffar Kunial<br/>Nick Laird<br/>Philip Larkin<br/>D.H. Lawrence<br/>Charlotte Mew<br/>Paul Muldoon<br/>Daljit Nagra<br/>Rowan Ricardo Phillips<br/>Sylvia Plath<br/>Kathleen Raine<br/>Maurice Riordan<br/>Declan Ryan<br/>William Shakespeare<br/>Stevie Smith<br/>Wislawa Szymborska<br/>Jack Underwood<br/>Derek Walcott<br/>W.B. Yeats</p>

Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood - An Illustrated Retellilng [Bok / Inbunden]

<p>A special edition of the poem &ldquo;The Hill We Climb,&rdquo; read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021 On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, &ldquo;The Hill We Climb,&rdquo; is now available to cherish in this special edition.</p>

<p>The debut poetry collection by inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. Including &quot;The Hill We Climb,&quot; the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this debut collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in American poetry.</p>

<p>It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman&apos;s effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute - an expert on comics and graphic narratives - assembles the world&apos;s best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.</p>

<p>The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic.</p><p>     Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. </p><p>A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics.</p><p>Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. </p><p>Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. </p><p>This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity. </p>