J. D. McClatchy Libros

From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo’s “Love Misinterpreted” to Noël Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” from May Swenson’s “Symmetrical Companion” to Muriel Rukeyser’s “Looking at Each Other,” these poems take on both desire and its higher love in all its tender or taunting variety.

The collection features a blend of wit and profound insight, exploring both heroic and human figures through poetry. McClatchy’s work reflects a contemporary sensibility while showcasing his extensive knowledge and skillful use of everyday language. This unique combination invites readers to engage deeply with the themes of humanity and heroism.

For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery. Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable. From Robert Frost’s tribute to the evanescence of spring in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to Langston Hughes’s moody “Summer Night” in Harlem, from the “stopped woods” in Marie Ponsot’s “End of October” to the chilling “mind of winter” in Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage the world outside ourselves.

from the 'stopped woods' in Marie Ponsot's 'End of October' to the chilling 'mind of winter' in Wallace Stevens's 'The Snow Man', the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage with the world outside ourselves.

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding The Rime of the Ancient Mariner alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's Full Fathom Five. schovat popis

Exploring the complexities of the human body, J. D. McClatchy's poetry delves into themes of identity, desire, and mortality. The collection includes the thought-provoking poem "Tattoos," which reflects on our impulse to adorn ourselves. Through vivid imagery and introspection, McClatchy captures the interplay between physical existence and emotional experiences, highlighting the heart's dual nature as both a source of pain and endless potential. The poems invite readers to confront the fragility and richness of life within their own flesh.

This comprehensive survey showcases the landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of Cornelia Foss, an American artist aligned with the "painterly realists" of Long Island, such as Fairfield Porter. Celebrated for her connection to the scenic Hamptons, Foss has captured the essence of Wainscott Pond for over fifty years. This publication marks the first extensive examination of her work, highlighting her contributions to the artistic tradition and her unique perspective within the regional art scene.

Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W.H. Auden and Alec Guinness have kept them as well, recording phrases or passages that struck them as wise or witty or quirky. The result is as much the self-portrait of a sensibility as it is a collection of miscellaneious delights. Renowned poet J.D. McClatchy has been keeping such a book for three decades now. This selection from it offers a unique look into what strange facts, what turns of mind or phrase, what glorious feats of language and nature can attract the attnetion of a poet

Im Jahr, als Eugene O’Neill den Nobelpreis für Literatur erhielt, fand er in „Tao House“ bei San Francisco endlich ein Zuhause, das seine Frau nach Feng Shui gestaltete. Hier schrieb er einige seiner bedeutendsten Werke. Für viele Dichter ist das Haus, in dem sie leben und arbeiten, von zentraler Bedeutung. Es repräsentiert oft das, was sie fürchten und gleichzeitig benötigen: einen Rückzugsort. Dieser Band beleuchtet die Wohnstätten von über zwanzig einflussreichen amerikanischen Dichtern des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, darunter Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain sowie Nobelpreisträger wie William Faulkner und Ernest Hemingway. Gleichzeitig werden weniger bekannte, aber bedeutende Schriftsteller vorgestellt, die zur amerikanischen Literatur zählen. Erica Lennard und J. D. McClatchy nehmen uns mit auf eine literarische Reise durch die USA: von Maine über Massachusetts bis Mississippi, von kleinen Dörfern bis hin zu großen Städten. Unabhängig von ihrem Stil – ob schlicht, exzentrisch oder luxuriös – bieten die Wohnstätten der Dichter einen faszinierenden Zugang zu ihrem kreativen Schaffen.