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Rumi: A New Translation of Selected Poems
By Rumi, Farrukh Dhondy. 2013
Championed by the likes of Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country…
that a few years ago he was proclaimed our bestselling poet. But translations that have popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi mystic have also strayed from its essence. In this new translation, Farrukh Dhondy seeks to recover both the lyrical beauty and the spiritual essence of the original verse. In poems of love and devotion, rapture and suffering, loss and yearning for oneness, Dhondy has rediscovered the Islamic mystic of spiritual awakening whose quest is the key to his universal appeal. Here is at once a great poet of love, both human and divine, and the authentic voice of a moderate Islam--a voice that can resonate in today's turbulent, fundamentalist times.The Latest Illusion
By Donald Everett Axinn. 2012
A poet and novelist, Donald Everett Axinn is also a major real estate developer in the New York area who…
personally experienced the dizzying heights and gaping depths of business in the 1980s and survived to tell the tale.Change As A Curved Equation
By Donald Everett Axinn. 2012
Grounded in nature and the earth, but often soaring to high altitudes (Axinn is a veteran pilot) this new book…
of poems catches moods, seasons, weather; poses questions large and small about life, the earth, the passage of time and the seasons, about geography and geometry. In this his sixth volume of poems, he hones his language more cleanly and elegantly than ever before.Travel in My Borrowed Lives: New and Selected Poems
By Donald Everett Axinn, Jay Parini. 2011
For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his…
introduction, "the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page." A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world from above as he lovingly, though often wryly, surveys the scene around him here below. Whether in his charming love poems, his delight in the evolving seasons, or his search to understand people and places - and indeed himself - Axinn offers a fresh look at the world through the eyes of a constantly questing, and questioning, poet. "Here is a man," writes Parini, "who has looked at the world from many angles . . . with a sense of gathering wisdom."Writing Poetry Book (The Everything )
By Tina D Eliopulos, Todd Scott Moffett. 2005
Giving voice to ''what gets lost in translation'' is the challenge every poet faces. With The Everything Writing Poetry Book,…
that challenge just got easier. Featuring examples from works of celebrated poets and instruction on communicating your ideas, this clear and accessible reference helps you gain confidence as you find your own voice. Written by a team who each hold a master’s degree and teach creative writing and literature, this easy-to-follow guide has all you need to take your work to the next level. - With this handy guide, you will learn to:Create meter and rhyme - Express your innermost thoughts - Use imagery and metaphor - Polish your word play - Find your own rhythm - Work with other writersand more - The Everything Writing Poetry Book helps you make the most of this rewarding craft - whether you’re a fledgling poet or a seasoned wordsmith.Dark Testament: And Other Poems
By Elizabeth Alexander, Pauli Murray. 1970
With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli…
Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940—fifteen years before Rosa Parks—for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray’s poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.A Doctor of Sorts: In Peace and in War
By V. J. Downie. 1992
Anecdotal in style, these memoirs do not follow a chronological order. The author is a surgeon who, from the harrowing…
account of the crossing of the River Rapido in World War II to the story of a man with a poker up his backside, reveals himself to be a man of compassion and a skilful raconteur.Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home
By Joe Klein. 2015
This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy who come home from the Middle…
East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country In Charlie Mike Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military discipline and values to help others This is a story that hasn t been told before one of the most hopeful to emerge from Iraq and Afghanistan--a saga of lives saved not wasted Greitens a Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar spends years working in refugee camps before he joins the military He enlists because he believes the innocent of the world need heavily armed moral protection Wounded in Iraq Greitens returns home and finds that his fellow veterans at Bethesda Naval Hospital all want the same thing they want to continue to serve their country in some way no matter the extent of their injuries He founds The Mission Continues to provide paid public service fellowships for wounded veterans One of the first Mission Continues fellows is charismatic former Marine sergeant Jake Wood a natural leader who began Team Rubicon organizing 9 11 veterans for dangerous disaster relief projects around the world We do chaos he says The chaos they face isn t only in the streets of Haiti after the 2011 earthquake or in New York City after Hurricane Sandy--it s also in the lives of their fellow veterans who ve come home from the wars traumatized and looking for a sense of purpose Greitens and Wood believe that the military virtues of discipline and selflessness of sacrifice for the greater good can save lives--and not just the lives of their fellow veterans They believe that invigorated veterans can lead by personal example to stronger communities--and they prove it in Charlie Mike Their personal saga is compelling and inspirational Greitens and Wood demonstrate how the skills of war can also provide a path to peace personal satisfaction and a more vigorous nationFounder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
By Margaret C Jones. 2018
The story of the daughter of Alfred the Great, who fought against Viking invaders and ruled a kingdom in the…
tenth century. Alfred the Great’s daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention by arranging for her daughter to succeed her on the throne of Mercia. To protect her people and enable her kingdom in the Midlands to prosper, Aethelflaed rebuilt Chester and Gloucester, and built seven entirely new English towns. In so doing she helped shape our world today. This book brings Aethelflaed’s world to life, from her childhood in time of war to her remarkable work as ruler of Mercia. The final chapter traces her legend, from medieval paintings to novels and contemporary art, illustrating the impact of a legacy that continues to be felt to this day.From Normandy to Auschwitz
By Paul Le Goupil. 2018
The odds on Paul le Goupil living to see the end of the Second World War let alone the 21st…
Century were negligible in 1944. Yet he did.As his extraordinary memoir describes, as a young man he found himself caught up in the maelstrom of the Second World War, active resistance to, and defiance of, the German occupation came naturally to Paul but led to his capture, beating and interrogation by the Gestapo and solitary incarceration in first French prisons. Worse still was to come and after an appalling journey and various labor camps he ended up in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He experienced starvation, slave labor, unbelievable hardship—death for many was a relief.Paul survived but his suffering was not over as he and others had to endure a nightmare march before being liberated by the advancing Russians. All this and far more make this memoir an unforgettable, moving and inspiring account.Museum of the Americas (National Poetry Series)
By J Michael Martinez. 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius…
Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identityThe poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.Mientras tanto vérsame
By Paula Yeste. 2019
Resulta fácil leer poesía y recordarte, entre versos. En una realidad llena de máscaras, los ojos más sinceros son aquellos…
que se atreven a liberar su alma. Si susurrarte al oído no fue suficiente, creo que será mejor que espere. Estaré sentada hasta que se aclaren las estrellas, tú, mientras tanto, vérsame.La escala de Mohs
By Don Iwana, Gata Cattana. 2019
El único poemario de una artista polifacética que es todo un referente para varias generaciones: feminista, música y poeta; comprometida…
y talentosa. Gata Cattana. La escala de Mohs es una tabla de diez minerales ordenados por su dureza que se usa para medir la maleabilidad de cualquier otro. Y eso son también estos poemas, una unidad de medida de nuestros principios, como personas y como sociedad, un libro que nos pregunta salvajemente por lo que creemos y nos creemos. "Todo el mundo se vende. Yo me vendí por tres milímetros de iris azul tanzanita en cada ojo" escribe Gata. "Todo el mundo tiene un precio". La identidad, la crítica a una sociedad grotesca, el feminismo, el amor, la torpe historia que se repite agónicamente... Todo eso es este libro. Pero ante todo, es el legado de un talento magnífico, el de la politóloga, rapera y poeta Gata Cattana, un mito y una voz imprescindible para nuestras generaciones. El libro contiene dos poemas inéditos de Gata, uno de ellos en su versión manuscrita. Críticas:«Bajo su cabeza llevaba el cartel de promesa. Muchos la veían como la sucesora de La Mala Rodríguez, otros como la que vendría a salvar el rap femenino y feminista en nuestro país.»Eldiario.es «Un año después de su muerte la gente no se ha olvidado de Gata Cattana. Su música sigue siendo referente para muchas jóvenes empoderadas y los designios musicales que transitó en su corta pero intensa carrera artística a buen seguro serán objeto de estudio en un futuro.»AS «Una de las voces más potentes y lúcidas del rap español: capaz de invocar, en una misma canción, a la pensadora Silvia Federici, la Teoría King Kong de Virgine Despentes, o a la republicana Clara Campoamor.»Playground Magazine «Gata comparte todo lo que le pasa por dentro con sinceridad y determinación. Porque, en ella, las ideas se hacen arte; se haceninmortales.»Vice «Inteligente y sensible, su trabajo estaba cambiando muchas cosas.»Mala RodríguezElocuencia de silencios: Eloquence of silence
By Francisco Mu oz Soler. 2019
Sus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Francisco…
Muñoz Soler es un poeta inusualmente dotado de Málaga (España), que tiene el coraje de sus convicciones. Sus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Los poemas profundizan en temas pertinentes como la tragedia del desplazamiento masivo, el terror institucionalizado y la violación de los derechos humanos. En muchos poemas lo vemos inspirándose en los pensamientos de almas valientes del pasado, cuya intrépida sabiduría formó la conciencia humana. Los lectores encontrarán sus reflexiones de búsqueda de alma muy convincentes y sus versos dejarán una marca indeleble en su psique.Caracola de los vientos
By Carlos Blanco Fadol. 2019
Una sutil ofrenda a la mujer, especialmente a aquellas que alumbraron mi camino de sendas entrecruzadas. Caracola de los vientos…
es un poemario centrado en la mujer, en ese amor de mujer que el autor guarda como camafeo en las soledades de los caminos, y constituye el incentivo principal de su viaje, en esa búsqueda ancestral que no tiene bien definida, pero que compensa ir por la vida intentando encontrarla.Los años 50
By Antonio Caralps. 2019
I Was Hitler's Chauffeur: The Memoir of Erich Kempka
By Roger Moorhouse, Erich Kempka. 2012
Erich Kempka served as Adolf Hitler’s personal driver from 1934 through to the Führer’s dramatic suicide in 1945. His candid…
memoirs offer a unique eyewitness account of events leading up to and during the war, culminating in those dark final days in the Führer’s headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin. He begins by describing his duties as a member of Hitler’s personal staff in the years preceding the war, driving the Führer throughout Germany and abroad, and accompanying him to rallies. The crux of his memoir, however, covers his life with Hitler in the Berlin Führerbunker. Crucially, Kempka witnessed Hitler’s marriage to Eva Braun and his last dinner and personal farewell to all those present, before he and his wife committed suicide. Hitler’s final order to Kempka was that he have ready enough petrol to burn him and his wife. Under constant Soviet artillery fire, Kempka, Linge, and others poured petrol over the bodies and burnt them. The account concludes with Kempka’s hazardous escape out of a burning Berlin more than 800 kilometers through Allied-occupied Germany, his arrest, and interrogation before being sent to serve as a witness at Nuremburg.How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War
By Allen Packwood. 2018
When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence.…
This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain’s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested. With the limited resources available to the UK, Churchill had to pinpoint where his country’s priorities lay. He had to respond to the collapse of France, decide if Britain should adopt a defensive or offensive strategy, choose if Egypt and the war in North Africa should take precedence over Singapore and the UK’s empire in the East, determine how much support to give the Soviet Union, and how much power to give the United States in controlling the direction of the war. In this insightful investigation into Churchill’s conduct during the Second World War, Allen Packwood, BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, enables the reader to share the agonies and uncertainties faced by Churchill at each crucial stage of the war. How Churchill responded to each challenge is analyzed in great detail and the conclusions Packwood draws are as uncompromising as those made by Britain’s wartime leader as he negotiated his country through its darkest days.A Woman in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front
By Helena Hall, Linda Grace, Margaret Nicolle. 2014
Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and…
evocative personal records of the Second World War as it was experienced by people living in an English village. In her journal she describes her everyday activities alongside momentous national and international events. The war overshadows her narrative. Each daily entry gives us an insight into the extraordinary impact of the conflict on local lives, and shows how much energy and commitment ordinary people put into the war effort. This edited edition of her previously unpublished diary, written without embellishment or hindsight, shows how she heard about the war and how she reacted to it, and how it was reported and understood. It allows the reader today to connect directly with the wartime past and to see events clearly, as they were seen at the time.Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45
By Armin Scheiderbauer. 2003
The author could be described as a 'veteran' in every sense of the word, even though he was only aged…
21 when the war ended. Armin Scheiderbauer served as an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German Army, and saw four years of bitter combat on the Eastern Front, being wounded six times. This is an outstanding personal memoir, written with great thoughtfulness and honesty.Scheiderbauer joined his unit during the winter of 1941/42, and during the following years saw fierce combat in many of the largest battles on the Eastern Front. His experiences of the 1943-45 period are particularly noteworthy, including his recollections of the massive Soviet offensives of summer 1944 and January 1945. Participating in the bitter battles in East Prussia, he was captured by the Soviets and not released until 1947.Adventures in my Youth is a unique memoir—the author originally wrote it only for his daughter. It has never been published in any language, until now.