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Poems by the Way
By William Morris.
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
By Graeme Wilson, Hagiwara Sakutaro, York Wilson. 1969
The poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro is still little known in the in the English-speaking world, though this is not altogether…
surprising when the importance of his work remains inadequately recognized in Japan itself. Nearly all Japanese critiques of post-Meiji poetry acknowledge Hagiwara as one of the best (if not, indeed, the very best) of modern Japanese poets; but almost all critics, having briefly made some such admission, thereafter shy away from him, strangely to devote long paragraphs to other poets patently less talented, sadly more diffuse and far less influential. Why? Perhaps the reason is that Hagiwara, for all his brilliance, seems somehow to switch on darkness, to radiate black luminance. In the beaconry of modern Japanese literature he is an occulting, rather than a flashing, light: but he remains nevertheless a lighthouse of supreme importance.Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery
By Dick Ringler. 2007
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a…
fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide to the work, along with his translations of three shorter Old English poems elucidate a major English text almost as well-known for its subtlety and intricacy as it is for its monsters and heroes.Rus In Urbe
By James Lawless, Licia Braga. 2015
In questa raccolta di poesie, Rus in Urbe, James Lawless esplora il mondo che lo circonda nella sua componente rurale…
e in quella cittadina. Talvolta i vividi scorci dei suoi paesaggi ci vengono descritti in inglese, talvolta in irlandese. L'armonia data dal combinarsi delle due lingue non può che arricchire la raccolta. In L'altra metà / An Leath Eile - ti sento fare addizioni / in lingua antica ... Éistim leat ag comhaireamh / sa tsean teanga ... le parole accompagnano e introducono il lettore alla magia del verso - la luce morbida, ...'le gile séimh trathnóna. Le poesie accolgono tra le diverse profondità di significato, musicalità e magia. Questo dualismo offre l'immediatezza e l'essenzialismo inglese su una pagina, la melodia e il ritmo irlandese sulla facciata opposta. Sono poesie ricche di immagini. In Vignette Parigine - I segni dell' età sul viso/ a tracciare il percorso della sua vita in contrasto con... - Il giovane sullo skateboard schiva le folate di vento, / cavalcando le onde della città. Si possono riconoscere echi di Yeats. James Lawless offre brevi e immediati sguardi sula vita quotidiana e li trasforma in vividi ricordi, con un sottofondo di tensione così appropriatamente colto nel verso. - Come posso dire / se resterò / o se me ne andrò? La presenza frequente di uccelli è un simbolo di movimenti tra la il paesaggio rurale e la città. Rus in Urbe è una raccolta poetica di incredibile maestria, essenziale nelle parole e ricca di profondità di significato.A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
By Robert Herrick.
Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet. Herrick began as an apprentice to a jeweler before attending college. In…
1627 he took his orders and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham. He then became a vicar in Devon where he lived for 31 years writing some of his best poetry. When the English Civil War broke out he lost his position, since he refused to pledge to the Solemn League and Covenant. He returned to London living off the charity of his friends and spent his time preparing his lyric poems for publication. When Charles became king Herrick returned to his post. His poetry themes were English country life, village customs, complimentary poems to various ladies and his friends, themes taken from classical writings and Christian faith.The Circle
By David Lloyd. 1974
The Broken Word
By Adam Foulds. 2011
An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a…
meditation on the inheritance of conflict and its consequences. It is a thrillingly original, profound and lyrical work.Paradise Regained
By John Milton. 2012
Paradise Regained is often thought of as the companion to Milton's Epic Paradise Lost. Here Milton tells the full story…
of Christ's forty days' temptation in the desert with Satan. The detail and emotional impact are stunning. A book for the ages.Book of English Verse
By Arthur Quiller-Couch.
As Ever
By Joanne Kyger. 2002
This collection of Joanne Kyger's work reveals her as one of the major experimenters, hybridizers, and visionaries of poetry. Kyger…
is a poet of place, with a strong voice-delicate, graceful, and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American myth as well as Asian religion and philosophy. Kyger's love for poetry manifests itself in a grander scheme of consciousness-expansion and lesson, but always in the realm of the everyday. Edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg, and with an introduction by poet David Meltzer, this book is a marvelous overview of a wonderfully challenging and important poet. .The Secret of Hoa Sen
By Bruce Weigl, Nguyen Phan Que Mai. 2014
Poems by Nguyen Phan Que MaiTranslated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que MaiNguyen Phan Que Mai…
is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier during the war in Vietnam, has spent the past 20 years translating contemporary Vietnamese poetry. These penetrating poems, published in bilingual English and Vietnamese, build new bridges between two cultures bound together by war and destruction. The Secret of Hoa Sen, Que Mai's first full-length U.S. publication, shines with craft, art, and deeply felt humanity.I cross the Lam River to return to my homelandwhere my mother embraces my grandmother's tomb in the rain,the soil of Nghe An so dry the rice plants cling to rocks.My mother chews dry corn; hungry, she tries to forget.Life Is A Song
By Lola Ayton Rowe. 2015
Life is a Song is designed to inspire the reader through poetry that is the song of the heart. Read…
it to take a break from everyday cares and to refresh your mind and your thoughts. Read Life is a Song to enjoy, reflect, laugh or ponder the meaning of life and the scope of our existence. Let the rhythms linger in your mind and keep you singing everyday. Life is a Song is for sharing with others so that they too can experience laughter or quiet contemplation. Life is a Song reflects encouragement to live and win. LBP Life is a Song takes the reader through an uplifting journey that is spiritual, romantic, nostalgic and more. It calms the soul.Madame X
By William Logan. 2012
The moody poems in Madame X, William Logan’s tenth collection, find their subjects in the byways of the past two…
centuries. Henry James visits his birthplace, the most beautiful woman in Europe ends up in a barrel at a fun fair, and a minor writer succumbs to tuberculosis at a German spa. In the title poem, the portrait of Madame X offers our century a lesson in seduction; but such public shows are balanced by poems of private desire, of the whispers of age, of the present always vanishing before us. These densely figured poems, rich in language and appointment, argue for a knowledge not sustained by the everyday.Circadian
By Joanna Klink. 2007
A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink's passionate new collection Circadian take as their…
guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and wintry prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.A Light in the Attic
By Shel Silverstein. 1981
Love Lost
By Ivan Veljanoski. 2015
Veljanoski's poems are original, interesting and powerful. Well-written they explore the nature of our life existence with its intrigue. Lost…
love is something we all have experienced, but not in the same way.Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems
By Robert Wrigley. 2013
A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned…
for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake--Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions--Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating, joyous, miserable, and perfectly imperfect of all creatures--the human being.Drunken Revolution
By Ivan Veljanoski. 2015
Veljanoski's poems are reflective, intriguing and vigorous. The author views Drunken Revolution as genuine philosophy for our own existence; the…
democracy, and the equality, the freedom and the unity, the love and the hate . . . In this collection of meditative poetry you will find the connected thoughts of a master of metaphors.Men, Women and Ghosts
By Amy Lowell.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems
By F. W. Moorman.