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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.Anna and the Ice Troll
By C. L. Clickard. 2017
The Old English Rune Poem: A Critical Edition (McMaster Old English Studies and Texts)
By Maureen Halsall. 1981
This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the…
first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working. The introduction offers a thorough discussion of the origin, development, and uses of runes before proceeding to the close examination of text, language, literary sources, style, and themes of the poem. Following the text and translation of the poem proper, detailed explanatory notes pay particular attention to the background of each individual rune and rune name, and the appendixes provide analogous material to assist in setting the poet's achievement into the runic context. Since many of the sources necessary for an accurate assessement of the Old English Rune Poem are written in foreign or dead languages, modern English translations have been provided throughout to ensure that the poem will be accessible to students as well as to professional medievalists. (McMaster Old English Studies and Texts 2)Sentiments on Paper
By Guido Galeano Vega, Lucía Verdejo. 2018
This is a small book of poems inspired by real people and authentic feelings Its purpose when…
created was to magnify the sublime feeling of love that awakens in men a beautiful woman A virtue that men must not lose is the ability to love comprehend tolerate and protect women For obvious reasons they are the guides of our existence which may be good or bad but is ultimately a unique experience that is priceless and offers us the privilege of existing and living We owe this to love and to women Thus the existence of this humble book of poemsSe abre la Casa Rosa
By Rosa Montolío Catalán. 2017
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o Catal n Este libro es una antolog a personal que recopila las micropoes as poes as microrrelatos y relatos que durante un a o han sido seleccionados en quince concursos literarios P P Sin embargo la autora Rosa Montol o Catal n no solo nos muestra lo que escribe sino tambi n la motivaci n y las percepciones que ha sentido en los momentos creativos dando a conocer a nosotros los lectores sus ntimos secretos literarios P P En Se abre la Casa Rosa late la vida literaria subyace especialmente un gran homenaje al mundo que conlleva editoriales asociaciones escritores escritoras editores librer as libreros ferias de libros o mbitos culturales en definitiva personas y lugares que hacen posible que la literatura no se detengaA Sudden Sky: Selected Poems
By Patrick Friesen, Ulrikka Gernes. 2009
A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of…
fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things -- always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves caught in the sky. Gernes has called poetry "a resistance movement," explaining, "A poem gives us the possibility of hearing our own voices. While the media offer us the world in small pieces, which are experienced as chaos, poetry seeks connections."Poesías pedagógicas
By Ricardo Diéguez Aguilar. 2015
Es por medio de las palabras maestras como mejor nos podemos enriquecer y comunicar ante el aprendizaje…
que debemos alcanzar en nuestro viaje temporal P P El motivo principal por el que ha sido creado este libro con tintes filos ficos y trazos po ticos es para poder tener una herramienta educativa eficiente y eficaz que nos sirva de libro de consulta A la hora de definir las respuestas que surgen y emergen cuando nos ponemos a debatir sobre lo que en realidad significa el fluir o en influir del pensar y del sentir en nuestro crecimiento personal P P Creando para ello una especie de ciencia de la comunicaci n de los sentidos y de las razones a la que podamos acceder a la hora de ense ar De ense ar c mo se debe uno expresar para poder su condici n mejorar Por medio de un aprendizaje que si lo sabemos aplicar como corresponde nos puede servir para poder consolar con palabras comprensibles sensibles y sabias el sufrimiento que en ocasiones se genera en el latir que hay tanto en m como en los dem sPoemas escogidos
By José Medina. 2015
El libro que tienes en tus manos recopila los avatares de una vida desesperada en continua busca de una…
realidad nunca encontrada P P El autor describe con cierta crudeza los momentos vividos entre los sue os y la realidad no siempre sabiendo qu lado tiene m s peso en la narraci n P P Los momentos on ricos se mezclan con las vivencias de una forma que no es f cil discernir cu l es cu l y que el autor no pretende que se pueda hacer tal vez ni l mismo sepa hacerlo Puede que todo se encuentre sentado en un rinc n del desv n de su cerebroHammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems
By Christian Wiman. 2016
A visionary selection from one of America's foremost poetsOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman…
has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his "daring and urgent" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, "What is poetry's role when the world is burning?" Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems might be read as an answer to that question. From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, Hammer Is the Prayer bears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in "Five Houses Down" with his "wonder-cluttered porch" and "the eyesore opulence / of his five partial cars," or the tragicomic character in "Being Serious" who suffers "the world's idiocy / like a saint its pains." Hammer Is the Prayer brings together three decades of Christian Wiman's acclaimed poetry. Selected by the author, these poems reveal the singular music and metaphysical urgency that have attracted so many readers to his work, and firmly assert his place as one of the most essential poets of our time.Li Fu: Un poeta campesino
By Pietro Grieco. 2018
Un libro sui generis, evocativo y provocativo, a la vez profundo y elemental, que revoluciona nuestra noción de la originalidad…
y de nuestra propia realidad. El silencio de la naturaleza y las voces del alma sirven de fuente de inspiración a Li Fu, un poeta chino cuyo legado perdura más allá de la desmemoria de los anales. Nacido en las postrimerías de la dinastía Tang y educado para aprobar el Shi Ching y convertirse en funcionario imperial, el talentoso Li renuncia a su ambición gubernativa y se convierte en un poeta campesino, ermitaño, aunque rodeado de discípulos. La visita de un viejo amigo le traerá de vuelta las fragancias indestructibles de la infancia y, con ellas, la añoranza de tantos instantes que el poema nunca acaba de atrapar. Ya cerca de la muerte, Li Fu tomará una decisión: seguirá el destino de la poesía pura y entregará su cadáver a las llamas. El fuego se encenderá con los papeles de seda de sus delicados epigramas. Con inspirado pulso poético y un profundo conocimiento de la poesía y la sensibilidad chinas, Pietro Grieco nos adentra en este mundo de espejos e incesantes cadencias que, siempre por instantes, nos revelan la belleza en su elusivo pasar. La presentación de la poesía china que antecede la propia obra sitúa y enriquece esta aventura poética que interroga el intelecto y deleita los sentidos y la imaginación.Como las hormigas de Dalí: Cuando las vomité todas
By Adana López. 2016
Disfrutarás de mis hormigas si estás loco, si no lo estás, o si eres un cuerdo enamorado del desequilibrio. Lo…
mío más que mariposas en el estómago, eran hormigas. Fuertes y llenas de picardía, algunas enfundando el miedo, otras la pasión y la locura Conseguí al fin vomitarlas todas, por los andenes, en los vagones. Por las calles, en cada esquina. Bajo la lluvia, sobre la almohada En forma de letras atrapadas y encerradas en este libro como pedazos de mí, para vosotros.Complete Poems and Fragments
By Sappho, Stanley Lombardo, Pamela Gordon. 2016
"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not included…
in the original edition, as well as the new poems discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representations of old age, two of her brothers, and her special relationship with Aphrodite. Pamela Gordon’s engaging, balanced, and informative Introduction has been revised to incorporate discussion of the new fragments, which subtly alter our previous understanding of the archaic poet’s corpus. Complete Poems and Fragments also offers a useful updated bibliography, as well as a section on 'Elegiac Sappho' that presents the reception of the Lesbian poet in later Greek and Latin elegiac poems. A wonderful find for any Greekless reader searching for a complete and up-to-date Sappho. —Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin–MadisonGirls Like Me
By Lola Stvil. 2016
Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl…
bully in school. When she falls in love with Blake, a mysterious boy online, insecure Shay doesn't want to tell him who she is. But with the help of her two best friends, as well as an assist by Kermit and Miss Piggy, ultimately Shay and Blake's love prevails. Girls Like Me is a fun and fresh poetic take on teen angst, social media and online anonymity, and high school romance.Honeybee: A Story Of Letting Go, By Lgbt Poet Trista Mateer
By Trista Mateer. 2018
You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It's not something they say.…
It's something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you. Honeybee is an honest take on walking away and still feeling like you were walked away from. It's about cutting love loose like a kite string and praying the wind has the decency to carry it away from you. It's an ode to the back and forth, the process of letting something go but not knowing where to put it down. Honeybee is putting it down. It's small town girls and plane tickets, a taste of tenderness and honey, the bandage on the bee sting. It's a reminder that you are not defined by the people you walk away from or the people who walk away from you. Consider Honeybee a memoir in verse, or at the very least, a story written by one of today's most confessional poets.Short Talks
By Anne Carson. 2015
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's…
40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992, this is Carson's first and only collection of poems published with an independent Canadian press. It announced the arrival of a profound, elegiac and biting new voice. Short Talks can comfortably stand alongside Carson's other bestselling and award-winning works.The Luskville Reductions
By Monty Reid. 2008
A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem. The Luskville Reductions records a…
year in the life of a small Quebec town and the marriage that disintegrates there. While a book about loss, it is also a book about the state of becoming that coexists with change, the imbalance that for a time makes everything lucid, all the details adding up to much more than only an "us." The visible goes beyond mere facts in these poems, transformed into the deeply seen - and therefore sacred. The problem with daylilies is the usual contemporary twaddle: how is it we know anything now that you're gone. What do you mean now that you're gone? What do you mean daylilies? "Marry the passionate grief of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept with the pared-down utterances of Beckett's lost men and you might arrive at The Luskville Reductions. While it evokes the dark cry of the lover in ‘O Western Wind,' this long poem is entirely contemporary in its ontological alertness, its wry ironies. At once threnody and enactment of loss, it brings something utterly new into the corpus of Canadian poetry. It is a brilliantly achieved poem." -- Mary DaltonThe Pearl King and Other Poems
By Catherine Greenwood. 2004
Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories…
and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to engage a rich array of themes, including the clash between an aesthetics of refinement and nuance, and mass manufacture. With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl, and explores the sometimes bizarre consequences of an overwhelming rage for beauty. As the seal is strong and breathes air, As the fish is quick and breathes water, So make me, a mermaid strong and quick. Bless me with abalone abundant as mushrooms, Oysters dropping ripe as plums into my palm. Let my births keep me ashore a few days only, Only for a little while let labour make me rest. from "The Diving Girls’ Prayer" When, in other sections of the book, Catherine Greenwood turns her attention to such matters as the still birth of a calf, teeth, moles, or the Shetland Island stone, she does so with the same care for the exact fit of style, the same sharply-angled craft. "The ancient Taoists believed that a pearl was grounded at the soul’s centre, that it took wisdom and clarity to create its essence. Catherine Greenwood’s first collection of poems is proof of that. Here is a new pearl, the beginning of a strand I hope, that will continue to be added to with such depth of field and luminosity." - Don DomanskiTwo Hemispheres
By Nadine McInnis. 2007
Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award, the 2008 Lampman Scott Award and the 2008 ReLit Awards Imagining the lives…
of nineteenth-century women asylum patients, Nadine McInnis charts her descent into, and recovery from, depression. In the afterword to Two Hemispheres, McInnis describes her first encounter with the remarkable photographs that illustrate this moving volume. Patients of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, these women's names and stories are lost to history. McInnis imagines their experiences of mental illness as she explores her own journey through clinical depression, and finds in these haunting photographs solace and community. I used to embellish an impressive picture of the woman whose palms I mysteriously possess, describing her right down to her mismatched shoes: her gait, stiff and shuffling, from nights spent sleeping under the bridge near the off-ramp, her hair, a tangled nest of leaves and dead grass. -- from "Entertainment: a dramatic spectacle" "In the medical world, the body is often described metaphorically as a machine. Physician-poet William Carlos Williams invoked a similar metaphor when he noted that a poem is a machine made of words. What intrigues me about Nadine McInnis's insightful collection of poems is how the mechanics of poetry serve to explore what can happen when we as human machines break down. Equally captivating in these evocative and sometimes disturbing poems is the historical impetus for their creation-Victorian medical photographs. Two Hemispheres truly acts as a causeway between past and present, health and illness, and the supposed vastly different worlds of arts and biomedicine." - Dr. J.T.H. Connor, John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland