Let Us Believe In The Beginning Of The Cold Season Selected Poems

Author : Forough Farrokhzad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811232388

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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad Pdf

A ravishing new translation of Iran’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of contemporary world literature. Farrokhzad, as Elizabeth Gray writes in the preface, “remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its forms.” This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzad’s poems includes work from her whole writing life, early to late. Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the quotidian; of longing, loss, and desire; of classical reinvention; of lexical variation and sonic beauty; of terrifying wisdom, hope, and grief.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557289483

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Sin by Anonim Pdf

Annotation. Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.

Author : Michael Craig Hillmann,Furūgh Farrukhzād
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poets, Iranian
ISBN : UOM:39015012423904

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A Lonely Woman by Michael Craig Hillmann,Furūgh Farrukhzād Pdf

Author : Will Alexander
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811230285

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Refractive Africa by Will Alexander Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of lexical magic” (Philip Lamantia) “The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—two writers whose luminous art suffered “colonial wrath through refraction.” A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as “charged aural colony” and “primal interconnection,” a “subliminal psychic force” with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander’s improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance—incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery.

Author : Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229258

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Salient by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr Pdf

A riveting lyrical constellation centered on the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Fields and tibetan protective magic In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, “This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core ‘severance’ practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint.” Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading “not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning.” Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.

Author : Forugh Farrokhzad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1933823372

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Another Birth by Forugh Farrokhzad Pdf

Edition statement from translator's note.

Author : Matsuo Bashō
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484654

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Bashō's Haiku by Matsuo Bashō Pdf

2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.

Author : Jasmin Darznik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399182310

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Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik Pdf

A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight, and tradition seeks to clip her wings. Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh's poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules, at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution. Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad's verse, letters, films, and interviews, and including original translations of her poems, this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran, and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.--Amazon.

Author : Jack Spicer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681375427

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After Lorca by Jack Spicer Pdf

Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work. Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism. Spicer called his poems “dictations,” and they combine outrageous humor, acid intelligence, brilliant wordplay, and sheer desolation to incandescent effect. “Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write an introduction to this volume,” writes the dead Federico García Lorca at the start of After Lorca, Spicer’s first book and one that, since it originally appeared in 1957, has exerted a powerful influence on poetry in America and abroad. “It must be made clear at the start that these poems are not translations,” Lorca continues. “In even the most literal of them Mr. Spicer seems to derive pleasure in inserting or substituting one or two words which completely change the mood and often the meaning of the poem as I had written it. More often he takes one of my poems and adjoins to half of it another of his own, giving rather the effect of an unwilling centaur. (Modesty forbids me to speculate which end of the animal is mine.) Finally there are an almost equal number of poems that I did not write at all (one supposes that they must be his).” What so puzzles Lorca continues to delight and inspire readers of poetry today.

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811213838

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The Lion Bridge by Michael Palmer Pdf

A selection of 118 poems by twentieth-century American poet Michael Palmer, drawn from throughout his career from 1972 to 1995.

Author : Betsy Franco,Nina Nickles
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076361159X

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You Hear Me? by Betsy Franco,Nina Nickles Pdf

An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them, including identity, girls, death, anger, appearance, and family.

Author : NILOUFAR. TALEBI
Publisher : L'Aleph
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9176375633

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Self-Portrait in Bloom by NILOUFAR. TALEBI Pdf

Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in "freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation." Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou (nominated in 1983 for the Nobel Prize in Literature) in this part-memoir, part-biography, and part-history of literature in Iran.

Author : Weldon Kees
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803278098

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The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees Pdf

The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55). --University of Nebraska Press.

Author : Szilárd Borbély
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681370545

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Berlin-Hamlet by Szilárd Borbély Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry Before his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet—one of his major works—evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors: primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila József or Erno Szép. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German reunification.

Author : Rabe`eh Balkhi
Publisher : Mage Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949445602

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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by Rabe`eh Balkhi Pdf

One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.