Tag: National Poetry Month 2019

April 18, 2019

Book Excerpt and Media Roundup: Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems

“The work of Taiwanese poet Yang Mu brings vivid and playful pastoral imagery. He examines both Chinese and Western literary and cultural traditions through his personal lens, and his writing retains its beautifully lyrical nature through the translation.” ~ Yang...

April 16, 2019

Book Excerpt! Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

“Logan’s ear can be superb, and when he’s on charitable form, he can teach any reader to hear better.” ~ Cal Revely-Calder, Times Literary Supplement An Excerpt From Chapter 8: Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues...

April 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age (introduction)

“Thick and Dazzling Darkness undertakes the daunting task of exploring spirituality (qua poetry) in a way that connects such otherwise dissimilar poets as the self-consciously backward-looking Robinson Jeffers, the peculiarly American modernism of Robert Duncan, and the (at)tendent postmodernism of Fanny...

April 11, 2019

Onno Oerlemans on the Poetry of Pets

In conjunction with National Pet Day, today’s National Poetry Month post comes from an excerpt of Onno Oerlemans’ Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human. In chapter 4 “The Individual Animal in Poetry,” Oerlemans discusses the poet’s challenge of conveying a meaningful experiences...

April 9, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (preface)

“A major achievement. With wit and erudition, Hamid Dabashi has pushed open one of the great locked doors of world literature: the Shahnameh. In bringing the central work of Persian literature vividly to life, he also offers us a new way...

April 5, 2019

Media Roundup: Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters

“Ghalib is the first ample and compact introduction to the Urdu oeuvre of the last great ‘Mughal’ poet of India. It fills a long-felt lacuna, and does so admirably well. The translators have provided all that a reader might need to...

April 4, 2019

Book Excerpt! Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (introduction)

“This is a superb introduction to this marvelous poet, resonant with his subtle nuances and exquisite meanings.” ~ Asif Farrukhi, editor of An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets Read about Ghalib’s life and times in the introduction to...

April 1, 2019

Book Giveaway! National Poetry Month 2019

In celebration of National Poetry Month we’ll be featuring media roundups and book excerpts from recent titles about poetry as well as highlighting works of poetry published by The Chinese University Press. In addition to these weekly features, we’re offering...