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Lumière sur la Forêt Obscure
By James Lawless, Jean-Baptiste Philippot. 2015
Cette monographie est une étude de la poésie prise comme vision alternative de voir le monde et d'appréhender les réalités…
qui offre au lecteur une approche de cette grande altérité qui, souvent nous échappe. Le processus de créativité y est traité. Les influences d'autres disciplines sur l'exacerbation de la conscience y sont décrites et les méthodes d'observation qui ont déjà fait leurs preuves depuis les 100 dernières années y sont élucidées. Une attention particulière est portée à la contribution spécifique de la poésie irlandaise moderne en particulier, quant au rôle du poète dans la société. Les travaux de trois poètes non anglophones (Salinas, Lorca et Pasternak) sont évoqués en détail et leur rôle au sein de leur propre société y est examiné en vue de confirmer la perspicacité poétique avec laquelle ils s'opposent aux forces destructrices de la société qui risque de les mener à leur perte poètes et poésie. La dernière partie de l'ouvrage traite de la poésie comme d'une forme unique d'interprétation d'un monde post-moderne aride et fragmenté.Word betaal vir jou gedigte
By Bernard Levine, Elmarié Smal. 2016
Skryf jy gedigte? Nou, kan jy betaal word vir die gedigte wat jy skryf en dit kan ook gepubliseer word…
in kaartjies, kalenders, plakkate en muurbehangsels. As jy jou skrywersdrome wil bewaarheid en terselfder tyd ook vergoed word vir jou gedigte, is hierdie unieke boek spesiaal vir jou. Om gedigte te skryf vir geld is groot pret en baie winsgewend! Word betaal om te doen waarvan jy hou.Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria
By Ifi Amadiume, Tade Akin Aina, Sumaila Umaisha, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Okinba Launko, Afam Akeh, Femi Oyebode, Amatoritsero Ede, Peter Akinlabi, Tanure Ojaide, Zainabu Jallo, Richard Ali, Ismail Bala, Obi Nwakanma, Adebayo Lamikanra, Hope Eghagha, Funso Aiyejina, Jekwu Ozoemene, Ogaga Ifowodo, Chidi Anthony Opara, Sulaiman Adebowale, Kole Ade-Odutola, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, E. E. Sule, Akeem Lasisi, Olajumoke Verissimo, Cyril Obi, Tolu Ogunlesi, Omohan Ebhodaghe, Tope Omoniyi, John Pepper Clark, Olu Oguibe, Uche Nduka, Remi Raji, Molara A32, Prince Abiathar Zadok Molara Wood Wood. 2014
In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are…
to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity. In this special collection Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, poets from different backgrounds, generations and persuasions explore what it means to be a citizen of this unique African country. Shifting from despair to hope, lamentation to happiness, condemnation to adoration and every gamut of sensibilities imaginable, the contributors reiterate the notion of engagement and the power of the written word to push for social change in their beloved nation. In fifty poems, Nigeria becomes the muse not just to raise questions about its past experiences and present contexts, but also to posit aspirations for a better nation.Blue Dusk
By Madeline Defrees. 2001
Contradiction and ambiguity are essential to the poetry of Madeline DeFrees. Her work is concentrated, multi-layered, spliced with humor and…
characterized by a passionate interest in every aspect of words: their literal and figurative meanings and associations; their histories, usage, disappearances, and resurrections. In her recent poems she approaches complex subjects with a new clarity, the dividend of a long investment in the art of writing.Just as her poetry demands distance from personal biography and revelation, it is also deeply affected by her own life story, most profoundly her 38-year tenure as a nun. Throughout her writing career--from her early poems written under the name Sister Mary Gilbert, to her newest ones in which she casts a lifelong glance back through history and lineage--the need to reclaim individual identity is balanced against the relinquishment of the self.From Going Back to the Convent What was I running from or into? The uneasy light of the senior prom? Mother's dream of a a child bride, supported by pennies from heaven? Or was it the writing life laid as a sacrifice to a jealous god on the tomb of the woman I'd hoped to become? Whatever it was, it will soon Be over. I write this now to reclaim it.A student of John Berryman, Karl Shapiro, and Robert Fitzgerald, Madeline DeFrees has taught generations of poets and poetry students, and earned widespread acclaim for her own work. Madeline DeFrees has taught throughout the US, including at the University of Montana and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she directed its Creative Writing program. She presently lives in Seattle, WA.Corruption
By Camille Norton. 2011
A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004…
National Poetry Series Open Competition For more than twenty-five years, the National Poetry Series has sought out and discovered new voices, helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as the former poet laureate Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.Rough Day
By Ed Skoog. 2013
Composed during long walks throughout Washington, DC, and careful to err on the side of recklessness, Rough Day finds its…
essential unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes-from Yellowstone and New Orleans to Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. Throughout, Ed Skoog maintains an openness to discovery that unveils rare and prismatic views into his country.A native of Topeka, Kansas, Ed Skoog's first book of poetry, Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press), was published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and The Paris Review. He teaches at the University of Montana and lives in Missoula, MontanaModern Poetry of Pakistan
By Iftikhar Arif, Waqas Khwaja. 2010
Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from…
seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu). Collecting the work of forty-two poets and fifteen translators, this book reveals a society riven by ethnic, class, and political differences--but also a beautiful and truly national literature, with work both classical and modern, belonging to the same culture and sharing many of the same concerns and perceptions.Ideal Cities
By Erika Meitner. 2010
Exploring themes of pregnancy, motherhood, ancestry, and life in the borderline slums of Washington, DC, the richly felt and adroit…
poetry of Erika Meitner's Ideal Cities moves, mesmerizes, and delights. The work of an important emerging voice in contemporary American poetry-a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Paul Guest-Ideal Cities gloriously perpetuates NPS's long-standing tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets.Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth
By Stephen Berg. 1989
When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before…
denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day.Stephen Berg is the Editor and founder of American Poetry Review.Also available by Stephen BergSteel CricketPB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X * CUSANew & Selected PoemsPB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 * CUSAMen, Women, and Ghosts
By Debora Greger. 2008
New from Debora Greger??a special poet in every sense? (Poetry)In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just…
the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li Po and Tu Fu, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, always seeking out the beast that is man and the beast that is woman. She explores both the remoteness of the past (those radioactive fifties that were her childhood), and the weight of it?or, better, the responsibility of it. These modern traveler?s tales?musing, insistent, marvelous?place one woman?s collection of pasts into a world inhabited by Horace, Chekhov, the bank vault of England, and the giant octopus of Puget Sound.Alma Florescida: Poemas de Amor Total
By Janaina De Oliveira Ribeiro, Doobie Shemer. 2015
Alma Florescida: Poemas de Amor Total, de Doobie Shemer, é uma compilação de poemas de elevação espiritual curtos, que tocará…
a seu coração e iluminará sua vida. É um livro pequeno, embora poderoso, muito comovente, belamente escrito, que trás conforto, alegria e inspiração para a vida. Alma Florescida é dedicado a todas as mulheres, onde quer que elas estejam. A sua luta contínua é a fonte de inspiração de Doobie e a única motivação para escrever estes poemas. Seu desejo é que compartilhando as palavras dos poemas, cada alma em sofrimento compreenda que não está sozinha e reconheça que unidas são fortes e cheias de esperança.Rumore & Riflessioni sul Suono
By James Lawless, Melissa Camotti. 2015
Che cos'è il rumore? Cosa succede quando ti entra in testa? In Riflessioni sul Suono, una storia divertente puntellata di…
pathos, James Lawless ci mostra col suo tipico stile umoristico alcuni degli effetti del suono sulla società moderna, seguiti da Rumore, una poesia dalle tinte costantemente scure che esplora la devastazione che una cacofonia fuori controllo può causare nelle persone sensibili.Ruído & Reflexões sobre o Som
By James Lawless, Patrícia Pinto. 2015
Uma pequena história e um longo poema que abordam o problema do ruído na sociedade. O que é o ruído?…
O que acontece quando ele permanece na sua cabeça? Na sua hilariante história, marcada com Reflexões piegas sobre o Ruído, o Sr. James Lawless revela-lhe, de uma forma típica bem humorada, alguns dos efeitos dos sons, na sociedade contemporânea, seguido pelo seu poema O Ruído, ascendentemente pesado, que explora o que a devastação descontrolada cacofónica provoca a indivíduais sensíveis.Nursery Rhymes
By Random House. 1977
Nursery Rhymes
By Random House. 1977
Soar High
By Phil Ray Jack. 2015
Soar High is a collection of essays and poems addressing the complexities of life's experiences. The topics range from dealing…
with grief and anger to finding the love that is at the base of our being.Eagle Saints: A Creation of Poems by Don H. Polston
By Don H. Polston. 2014
Each poem you are about to read has a theme of the issues of life. The different waves and stages…
of living are found on each page, with every poem having an individual truth in itself. Polston's poetry is deep, insightful, and thought-provoking. He uses many metaphors to drive home messages about Jesus Christ, His church, and how to be victorious in every season of life. Gems are hidden in each stanza if we are willing to search them out and open our hearts.Steps
By Ariiah. 2013
STEPS by Ariiah is a poetic diary documenting how one Soul entered, by agreement, a body living on Earth. One…
took her leave and one took her welcome. When the host body lost its etheric particles and acquired new ones, a journey of Transformation began when the higher Soul was installed into the body. The author used poetry to cope with the tremendous Spiritual/physical/emotional and psychological challenges of the Process, while retaining the former host's memories. Poems became paper friends; hands to hold onto in the silence, giving comfort to the solitary passage. Everyone and everything grows Spiritually by taking Steps of Enlightenment. These poems were like handrails accompanying some of the steps. One of the steps was becoming a Group Soul. These steps were recorded without the thought of writing a book, but this little book, a Soul's personal journey into a new life in a different body and on Earth, became what it was meant to become. A poetic peek into an ascension at the Soul level. A completion of a promise written long ago, in Love. Enlightenment is not something that happens with one step. It is a process. A good metaphor is a staircase. Steps of Enlightenment open up everything and everyone. No two paths could ever be the same. But they do lead in the same direction. Everyone and everything goes back into the same Eternal Prime energy; a Love that cannot be described. I did an impossible thing. I changed staircases and became a totally different person. Wistancia took her leave and Ariiah took her welcome. My Soul was brought into this host body and placed on different Steps. It could never be easy to change Souls in the same body. This is the story of my journey. But it is more than that. We are all on a journey and we are all taking big steps now and they are going in the same direction. Today I am more gently slipping into my new garment of life. But even that is just another step.The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
By Rainer Rilke, Ulrich Baer. 2018
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet reflections on grief and loss collected and…
published here in one volume for the first time A great poet s reflections on our greatest mystery Billy Collins Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke s voluminous never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death s place in our lives Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet this book arranges Rilke s letters into an uninterrupted sequence showcasing the full range of the great author s thoughts on death and dying as well as his sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence Presented with care and authority by master translator Ulrich Baer The Dark Interval is a literary treasure an indispensable resource for anyone searching for solace comfort and meaning in a time of grief Advance praise for The Dark Interval Even though each of these letters of condolence is personalized with intimate detail together they hammer home Rilke s remarkable truth about the death of another that the pain of it can force us into a deeper level of life and render us more vibrant Here we have a great poet s reflections on our greatest mystery Billy Collins As we live our lives it is possible to feel not sadness or melancholy but a rush of power as the life of others passes into us This rhapsodic volume teaches us that death is not a negation but a deepening experience in the onslaught of existence What a wise and victorious book Henri ColeBluets
By Maggie Nelson. 2009
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical,…
philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.