Light Reading Reflections In Poetry And Prose

Author : Beth Richards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780955985294

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Light Reading: Reflections in Poetry and Prose by Beth Richards Pdf

Beth Richards writes: 'I've always maintained that writing poetry (and other forms of creative writing) is a gift from God.' Here, again, the creative muse continues to inspire Beth-hence this latest book of short stories and poetry entitled Light Reading. (Discerning readers will, of course, appreciate the pun on the word Light, hopefully made clearer by Beth's oil painting of the Baccaro Lighthouse, in Nova Scotia, on the front cover!) Beth really enjoys writing 'free verse', and so there are quite a number of these in this latest book of hers. It appears to come frequently and naturally to her. This way she is able to delve into her subconscious so that the poems-and the stories that follow, too-become reflections of some of her innermost thoughts. In the short stories she also has the remarkable gift of being able to project herself into, and identify with, a character from a completely different walk of life and sphere of experience-the mark of a true creative genius

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811493995

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Desiring Light by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. R. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615658563

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Reflections of Light by C. R. Jones Pdf

This book is a collection of Prose Poems and Verses written from the very depths of the human soul, heart, and mind. I wanted to share a very unique expression of poetry art to the world. The words written within this book challenge the barrier itself that exists between words and spirit! We may just find that the barrier we had imagined to exist is simply prolific honesty.

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812988413

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Lea Goldberg
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822982869

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On the Surface of Silence by Lea Goldberg Pdf

On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. These extraordinary texts, composed in the last years and even last days of the poet's life and published posthumously after her untimely death, exhibit a level of lyrical distillation and formal boldness that mark them as distinctive in the poet's oeuvre. Often employing a fragment-like structure, where the unspoken is as present and forceful as the spoken, stripped of adornments and engaging the reader with an uncompromising, even disarming, directness, Goldberg's last poems enact and manifest a poetics of intrepid truth-telling. The play between revelation and concealment, the language precision and the unflinching end-of-life gaze transform these texts into powerfully moving, and often surprising, poems. The book itself, in the original format as masterfully edited by Tuvia Ruebner and with drawings by Goldberg herself interspersed among the poems, is a significant and beautiful artifact of modern Hebrew culture. This bilingual edition, with translations by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back, brings us poems from a singular poetic voice of the 20th century - poems which will enrich, reflect, and stir the reader's heart.

Author : Milt Lemke Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781465331519

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Reflection by Milt Lemke Jr. Pdf

Through the years Ive learned much from my Poetry Mentors, who are many, and a few Ive mentioned in this book. They taught me by example that, yes, I too can be a Poet. I too can be a member of this extraordinary extended family. A good dose of courage, and risk taking is whats needed to achieve some sort of compromising end. Frankly Ive learned little of this art from text books and class rooms. Its The Masters; the elder Poets who are my text book and class room, teaching me the refinement process of honing and polishing. What ever course my poetry and prose might take My Tutors assure me its a well worth the journey down every path, and side path. Visiting every side show I visit, and eventually discovering my style. I consider my poems and prose as my children. Like their parent I want them to do their best. Ive nurtured them, loved them, and cared for them. Ive held on to them long enough. Its time they go out on their own. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try. Beverly Sills Milt Lemke, Jr.

Author : Tyrean Martinson
Publisher : Wings of Light Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0988993333

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Light Reflections by Tyrean Martinson Pdf

Light Reflections is a collage of everyday poetry, reflecting on life moments. Light-hearted poems on the taste of pulpy lemonade and the pleasures of reading a library book mix with more serious subjects including faith, loss, and compost. These poems walk through the seasons of the year, reflecting light off clouds, snow, rain, and water. as well as the inner spaces of thought. Previously published titles include: ""March Snow Hare,"" ""My Mother's Compost,"" ""As the Leaves Fall,"" and ""Breaking the Stillness.""

Author : Jacquelyn Poen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0533070228

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Reflections of Light by Jacquelyn Poen Pdf

Author : Morton N. Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679745624

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Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen Pdf

Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of letters and diaries, this exemplary biography conveys both the imaginative fancy and human complexity of the creator of Alice in Wonderland. Photos.

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979614

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WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier Pdf

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Author : Azure Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798989093977

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Reflections by Azure Hall Pdf

Mythology, religion, classic literature; characters made immortal who reach through time to embody our emotions and weave together a shared human experience. These are the source materials for Azure Hall's debut collection of poetry and prose. Reflections offers readers snapshots of the author's own coming-of-age contextualized within the works of Homer, Shakespeare, Sappho, and even King James. Superimposing their stories on her own, Hall invites the reader to join the likes of Aphrodite, Lilith, Eve, and more as they wade through the beautiful, and often treacherous, waters of womanhood. Find yourself within the threads of a universal story, surrounded by a chorus of characters who have walked the same road. With lyrical language and heartbreaking vulnerability, Reflections blurs the line between allegory and reimagining to create something wholly its own.

Author : Lee Rust Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674248848

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The Emerson Museum by Lee Rust Brown Pdf

In 1832, Emerson made his famous decision to pursue wholeness in his life and in his writing. The Emerson Museum shows how this undertaking transformed American literary practice by turning the legacy of European romanticism into a writing project answerable to American urgencies.

Author : Daniel Westover
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162895

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R. S. Thomas by Daniel Westover Pdf

R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) is the most recognizable literary figure in twentieth-century Wales. His controversial politics and public personality made him a cultural icon during his life, and the merits of his poetry have continued to be debated in the years after his death. Yet these debates have too-often circled familiar ground, returning to the assumed personality of the poet or to the received narrative of his experience. Even the best studies have focused almost exclusively on ideas and themes. As a result, the poetry itself has frequently been marginalized. This book argues that Thomas’s reputation must be grounded in poetry, not personality. Unlike traditional literary biography, which combines historical facts with the conventions of narrative in an attempt to understand the life of a literary figure, this stylistic biography focuses on the essential relationship between the maker and the made object, giving priority to the latter. R. S. Thomas began his career by writing sugary, derivative lyrics inspired by Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, yet he ended it as a form-seeking experimentalist. This study guides the reader through that journey, tracing Thomas’s stylistic evolution over six decades. In so doing, it asserts a priority: not to look at poetry, as many have, as a way of affirming existing notions about an iconic R. S. Thomas, but to come to terms with the tensions within him as they reveal themselves in the tensions – rhythmic, linguistic, structural – of the poetry itself.

Author : Elena Botts
Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780797486171

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Epochs of Morning Light by Elena Botts Pdf

"In poet and artist Elena Botts' new poetry collection: epochs of morning light, we see a shimmering, variegated new voice; we hear: "where the trees still talk to each other, and winter feels like a song..." (from When I have died we will be here). We feel the weather of her emotions; a contract with the ethereal and the visceral, as when we stand within the short but large poem: blossoms back to under the earth: "I felt your ghost move through me out past the Baltic as though you had been in my heart the whole time." In this sensual canvas, beauty never suffers from loneliness, nor the sublime. Each poem herein as Botts wanders memory and weaves tapestries of word worlds, reveals a true and original voice in modern poetry: allowing light to conquer darkness; darkness to defy the estate of the sun, and colors mixed in ways only an artist of the pen could fathom..." - Robert Milby, Hudson Valley New York poet, Poet Laureate, Orange County, NY 2017-2019

Author : Tracy K. Smith
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307962669

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Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith Pdf

National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her “extraordinary range and ambition” (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. The youngest of five children, Tracy K. Smith was raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But just as Tracy is about to leave home for college, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, a condition she accepts as part of God’s plan. Ordinary Light is the story of a young woman struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. In lucid, clear prose, Smith interrogates her childhood in suburban California, her first collision with independence at Harvard, and her Alabama-born parents’ recollections of their own youth in the Civil Rights era. These dizzying juxtapositions—of her family’s past, her own comfortable present, and the promise of her future—will in due course compel Tracy to act on her passions for love and “ecstatic possibility,” and her desire to become a writer. Shot through with exquisite lyricism, wry humor, and an acute awareness of the beauty of everyday life, Ordinary Light is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and family, one that skillfully combines a child’s and teenager’s perceptions with adult retrospection. Here is a universal story of being and becoming, a classic portrait of the ways we find and lose ourselves amid the places we call home.