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<b>The only constant in life is change. </b><br/><br/><i>Climate </i>is a journey in embracing change both internally and externally. It guides readers through all the weather they face.<br/><br/>From heartbreak to the storms we create inside our brain, <i>Climate</i> reminds readers to embrace the sun, storm, and rain.<br/><br/>Most importantly, it emphasizes the beauty, value, and consistency of change.<br/><br/><b>Readers LOVE Whitney Hanson's poetry</b><br/><br/>'This book is<b> everything I needed and more</b>' <i>5* reader review</i><br/>'A <b>phenomenal </b>writer and she portrays the truths of life so beautifully' <i>5* reader review</i><br/>'This book <b>did wonders for my mental health and heartbreak</b>'<i> 5* reader review</i><br/>'I felt like she was talking about my own experiences' <i>5* reader review</i><br/>'<b>Best poet</b> out there' <i>5* reader review</i><br/>'I felt <b>such an emotional connection</b> to these poems' <i>5* reader review</i><br/>'Gave me<b> literal goosebumps</b>' <i>5* reader review</i>

<b>Pause, breathe, and savor the quiet beauty of Saigy&#333;,one of Japan's most quintessential poets, in this celebration of nature and Buddhist insight.</b><br/><br/>Born in the twelfth century during a time of great political upheaval and warfare, Saigy&#333; made the unusual decision in his youth to resign from his respectable post as a guard to the emperor&rsquo;s family and pursue a life of Buddhist renunciation, wilderness wandering, and poetry. Over the course of his lifetime, he became one of Japan&rsquo;s most celebrated poets. Today, his spare poems of spiritual longing and aching identification with the natural world continue to inspire fathomless, ineffable emotion in readers all over the world.<br/><br/>With 193 poems on 11 themes like the moon, journeys, mountain abodes, love, and the dreamlike world, <i>Blossom Awakening</i> reveals Saigy&#333; as a spiritual seeker who gave his life to the artist&rsquo;s path. Translators Peter Levitt and Kazuaki Tanahashi present their English renderings with the original Japanese text and offer commentary that illuminates the political, religious, and literary dimensions of Saigy&#333;&rsquo;s life and work.

Under Milk Wood, the beloved classic, has been skilfully adapted and abridged by Cerys Matthews. This gorgeously illustrated new edition will become a book to treasure and pass through generations.

A special edition of the poem &ldquo;The Hill We Climb," 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," is now available to cherish in this special edition.

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.

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.

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.<br/><br/>     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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.