Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.

WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved.

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude.

Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Selected Poems is the perfect way to begin with ...

Het gaat in deze gedichten over de strijd met de eigen gedachten. Maar vooral ook over eenzaamheid. Het thema van solidariteit en samen doorstaan is de rode draad. Soms klinkt zachtheid door, zelfs in tijden van oorlog en verwarring.

Haiku of cats, humans… or both.

Cats nap on laptops. Humans beg for coffee.

Both trip over the same silence.

This book gathers haiku, haibun, and haiga

(in sumi-e style) into one playful mirror of

daily life. Sometimes funny, sometimes sharp,

always recognisable.

Here, the cat is never only the cat,

and the human is never only human.

A perfect gift for cat lovers, poetry fans,

and anyone who lives with a little chaos.

“These poems purr, laugh, and scratch at

what it means to share li...

Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races.

Het gaat in deze gedichten over de strijd met de eigen gedachten. Maar vooral ook over eenzaamheid. Het thema van solidariteit en samen doorstaan is de rode draad. Soms klinkt zachtheid door, zelfs in tijden van oorlog en verwarring.