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<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.

<b>The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial trauma.</b><br/><br/>In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. These are all crucial forces within the lives of the Indigenous families that animate this groundbreaking book: an astonishing verse novel that chronicles a hundred years of change: a book that will one day stand alongside Halldór Laxness's <i>Independent People</i> and Sigrid Undset's <i>Kristin Lavransdatter</i> as an essential Scandinavian epic.<br/><br/>The tale begins in the 1910s, as Ristin and her family migrate their herd of reindeer to summer grounds. Along the way, forced to separate due to the newly formed border between Sweden and Norway, Ristin loses one of her sons in the aftermath of an accident, a grief that will ripple across the rest of the book. In the wake of this tragedy, Ristin struggles to manage what's left of her family and her community.<br/><br/>In the 1970s, Lise, as part of a new generation of Sámi grappling with questions of identity and inheritance, reflects on her traumatic childhood, when she was forced to leave her parents and was placed in a Nomad School to be stripped of the language of her ancestors. Finally, in the 2010s we meet Lise's daughter, Sandra, an embodiment of Indigenous resilience, an activist fighting for reparations in a highly publicized land rights trial, in a time when the Sámi language is all but lost.<br/><br/>Weaving together the voices of half a dozen characters, from elders to young people unsure of their heritage, Axelsson has created a moving family saga around the consequences of colonial settlement. <i>Ædnan</i> is a powerful reminder of how durable language can be, even when it is borrowed, especially when it has to hold what no longer remains. "I was the weight / in the stone you brought / back from the coast // to place on / my grave," one character says to another from beyond the grave. "And I flew above / the boat calling / to you all: // There will be rain / there will be rain."

<strong>Includes <em>A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn</em> and<em> Winter</em></strong><br/> <br/><br/>These three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In <em>A Summer's Day</em>, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm.<br/> <br/><br/>In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, <em>Dream of Autumn</em> shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family.<br/> <br/><br/>In <em>Winter</em> a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have mistaken her intentions.