By James Perrin Warren
The street to the Spring is the 1st ebook booklet of Mary Austin’s
(1868–1934) poems. top identified for her prose ebook The Land of Little
Rain (1903), Austin used to be actually a poet from the start of her profession to
the tip, although she by no means released a quantity devoted to her own
unique poetry. as an alternative, Austin’s paintings got here to gentle in collections of poetry
and in prestigious journals corresponding to Poetry, the kingdom, the discussion board, Harper’s,
and Saturday assessment of Literature, between many others.
the line to the Spring includes greater than two hundred poems, so much of which
can merely be present in out-of-print books, magazines, and periodicals, and
her unpublished manuscripts archived on the Huntington Library. This singular
e-book comprises her unique paintings, poems she claimed to have
written together with her grammar institution scholars on the finish of the 19th century,
and her translations and "re-expressions" of local American songs,
which regularly diverge drastically from the other identified assets. Warren includes
an advent, laying out Austin’s position in American literature and
situating her writings in feminist, environmentalist, regionalist, and Native
American contexts. He additionally comprises notes for these new to Austin’s work,
glossing local phrases, geographical names, and the ethnological sources
of the local songs she re-creates.
By Nicole Goodwin
By Erica Jong,Jos. A. Smith
With a mixture of real fascination, passionate enthusiasm, and prepared feminist perception, Erica Jong wades via a bathroom of myths, incorrect information, old hysteria, and modern Halloween costumes to provide a beneficiant exploration and social gathering of witches.
From their origins as descendants of old goddesses to modern practitioners of the craft, the evolution of the idea that of “witch” has been as changeable because the centuries themselves. From evil crone to sexual seductress, they're the embodiment of either mild and darkish, fertility and dying, divinity and paganism, baleful curses and therapeutic treatments. they've been scapegoated because the item of men’s worst fears and embraced as heroines of girl empowerment. As muses, they've got stimulated pop culture from Shakespeare and Yeats to Anne Sexton and Ken Russell. With reverence and a touch of mischief, Jong unearths witches’ rites, rituals, and magical recipes, together with real spells and incantations.
“A steaming cauldron of superbly illustrated prose, poetry, love potions and flying creams” (Glamour) from the well known writer of Fanny, Witches is “nothing under an entire transformation of our thought of witches . . . accomplishe[d] with panache during this sumptuously and provocatively illustrated e-book" (Publishers Weekly).
This e-book positive aspects an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, together with infrequent images and never-before-seen records from the author’s own collection.
By Melinda Black
By Donna Lynch,Steven Archer
Daughters of Lilith is a collaboration among poet Donna Lynch and artist Steven Archer. This full-color artwork booklet comprises greater than 25 poems and 50 work devoted to all kinds of girls, from the inspiration to the murderess.
By Joan Crate
By Karen Finneyfrock,Mindy Nettifee,Rachel McKibbens
By Elizabethe Kelley
By Jeanne Marie Beaumont,Jeanne Beaumont
Burning of the 3 Fires indicates Jeanne Marie Beaumont utilizing her attribute number of innovations: dramatic monologues, lists, prose poems, item poems, and ekphrasis, to which she provides biography, elegy, and rites. This e-book takes a multifaceted examine womanhood: there are dolls, old and smooth girlhoods, mythic retellings of characters from Goldilocks to the Bride of Frankenstein, emotionally charged family trinkets, or even a talk with Sylvia Plath performed through a Magic 8- Ball.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the writer of Curious Conduct (BOA variations, Ltd., 2004) and the nationwide Poetry Serieswinning booklet Placebo Effects. She lives in big apple City.
By Christine Lavant,Doris Moser,Fabjan Hafner
Christine Lavant schrieb Gedichte, die in ihrer sprachlichen Eigenwilligkeit und existentiellen Zerrissenheit für Thomas Bernhard zu den »Höhepunkten der deutschen Lyrik" zählen. Er beschrieb ihre Lyrik als »das elementare Zeugnis eines von allen guten Geistern mißbrauchten Menschen".
Lavant selbst sah ihre Kunst als »verstümmeltes Leben, eine Sünde wider den Geist, unverzeihbar" und struggle sich der poetischen Kraft ihrer Gedichte dennoch gewiss: »Wenn ich dichtete, risse ich jede Stelle Eures Daseins unter Euren Füßen weg und stellte es als etwas noch nie von Euch Wahrgenommenes in Euer innerstes Gesicht".
Der erste Band der vierbändigen Werkausgabe versammelt alle zu Lebzeiten publizierten Gedichte in einer komplett neu edierten Fassung. Er enthält neben den drei Gedichtbänden, die Lavants Ruhm begründet haben (»Die Bettlerschale", »Spindel im Mond", »Der Pfauenschrei"), auch das Frühwerk »Die unvollendete Liebe", Lavants späte, in Liebhaberausgaben und Sammelbänden veröffentlichte Lyrik (»Sonnenvogel", »Wirf ab den Lehm", »Hälfte des Herzens") sowie zahlreiche verstreute Gedichte, die erstmals wieder zugänglich gemacht werden.