The full score to George Benjamin's A Mind of Winter for soprano voice and orchestra.
Bevis addresses the most puzzling and least studied aspect of Wallace Stevens’ poetry: detachment. Stevens’ detachment, often associated by readers with asceticism, bareness, or withdrawal, is one of the distinguishing...
Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an ...
A series of personal essays matched with scholarly commentaries on theorists of the Imagination in Western intellectual history.
Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation and Literature
For example, Quen- tin in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury seems to talk in fragments: You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of ...
The illustrations of a Caldecott Medalist are combined with a seasonal selection of poems by 25 celebrated writers including William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Edgar Allen Poe
A contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition.
Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet ...
Discover the wonder and activity that lies beneath winter s snowy landscape in this magical book.