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Author : Alvin Russell Peebles
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781600345630
Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124053286
Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.
Author : Robyn-Marie Butt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926448073
Author : Isabella Wang
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780889714076
A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada’s most promising emerging poets Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author’s case, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the water’s reflective surface. This collection is about language and family histories. It is the author’s attempt to piece together the resonant aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which stole the life of her paternal grandmother. As an immigrant whose grasp of Mandarin is fading, Wang explores absences in her caesuras and fragmentation—that which is unspoken, but endures. The poems in this collection also trace the experiences of a young poet who left home at seventeen to pursue writing; the result is a series of city poetry infused with memory, the small joys of Vancouver’s everyday, environmental politics, grief and notions of home. While the poetics of response are abundant in the collection—with poems written to Natalie Lim and Ashley Hynd—the last section of the book, "Thirteen Ghazals and Anti-Ghazals after Phyllis Webb," forges a continued response to Phyllis Webb on Salt Spring Island, and innovates within the possibilities of the experimental ghazal form.
Author : Amar Nath Prasad
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Indic poetry (English)
ISBN : 8176257419
Author : Jennifer Mary Croy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387693290
Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780974261867
Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryû and kyôka about a major theme from I.P.O.O.H. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku)by robin d. gill 1. Haiku -Translation from Japanese to English 2. Japanese poetry - 8c-20c - waka, haiku and senryû 3. Natural History - flowering cherries 4. Japan - Culture - Edo Era 5. Nonfiction - Literature 6. Translation - applied 7. You tell me! If the solemn yet happy New Year's is the most important celebration of Japanese (Yamato) ethnic culture, and the quiet aesthetic practice of Moon-viewing in the fall the most elegant expression of Pan-Asian Buddhism=religion, the subject of this book, Blossom-viewing - which generally means sitting down together in vast crowds to drink, dance, sing and otherwise enjoy the flowering cherry in full-bloom - is less a rite than a riot (a word originally meaning an 'uproar'). The major carnival of the year, it is unusual for being held on a date that is not determined by astronomy, astrology or the accidents of history as most such events are in literate cultures. It takes place whenever the cherry trees are good and ready. Enjoyed in the flesh, the blossom-viewing, or hanami, is also of the mind, so much so, in fact, that poetry is often credited with the spread of the practice over the centuries from the Imperial courts to the maids of Edo. Nobles enjoyed link-verse contests presided over by famous poet-judges. Hermits hung poems feting this flower of flowers (to say the generic "flower" = hana in Japanese connotes "cherry!") on strips of paper from the branches of lone trees where only the wind would read them. In the Occident, too, flowers embody beauty and serve as reminders of mortality, but there is no flower that, like the cherry blossom, stands for all flowers. Even the rose, by any name, cannot compare with the sakura in depth and breadth of poetic trope or viewing practice. In Cherry Blossom Epiphany, Robin D. Gill hopes to help readers experience, metaphysically, some of this alternative world. Haiku is a hyper-short (17-syllabet or 7-beat) Japanese poem directly or indirectly touching upon seasonal phenomena, natural or cultural. Literally millions of these ku have been written, some, perhaps, many times, about the flowering cherry (sakura), and the human activity associated with it, blossom-viewing (hanami). As the most popular theme in traditional haiku (haikai), cherry-blossom ku tend to be overlooked by modern critics more interested in creativity expressed with fresh subjects; but this embarrassment of riches has much to offer the poet who is pushed to come up with something, anything, different from the rest and allows the editor to select from what is, for all practical purposes, an infinite number of ku. Literary critics, take note: Like Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (2003) and Fly-ku! (2004), this book not only explores new ways to anthologize poetry but demonstrates the practice of multiple readings (an average of two per ku) as part of a composite translation turned into an object of art by innovative clustering. Book-collectors might further note that while Cherry Blossom Epiphany may not be hardback, it takes advantage of the many symbols included with Japanese font to introduce design ornamentation (the circle within the circle, the reverse (Buddhist) swastika, etc.) hitherto not found in English language print. It is a one-of-a-kind work of design by the author.
Author : Hayan Charara
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781639550555
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good—a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves “separate / from [our] thoughts and experiences.” After all, “No work of love / will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart.” But how do we act on fullness of heart? How, knowing as we do that “genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest texts”? Thoughtful but never preachy, Charara sits beside us, granting us access to life’s countless unglamorous dilemmas: crushing a spider when we promised we wouldn’t, nearing madness from a newborn’s weeping, resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. “Good poems demand to be written from inside the poet,” we are reminded. And that is where we find ourselves here: inside a lively and ethical mind, entertained by Charara’s good company even as goodness challenges us to do more.
Author : Nellie E. Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 048480801X
Excerpt from Blossoms: A Book of Poems I was searching in tho garret, one misty, rainy day, Passing 'mid the chests and boxes the lonely hours a way, Finding rare and ancient treasures of the days of yore, Which would nevermore be needed, - nevermore. I sat there sadly thinking of the by-gone, 'youthful years, That ere as full of pleasure as the present was of tears, When, in a distant corner, Grandma's spinning wheel I spied, Man y years it had stood there, ever since the day she died. Oh. The many recollections that came thronging to me then, As I thought of vanished pictures, of times that once had been, 1 wandered back to childhood's artless, happy days, Ere I knew pain or sorrow or the world's deceitful ways. Once more I heard the stories told by grandma, as she spun, And across the broad, white floor saw the golden sun beams run. But a time ca1newhcn forever ceased the wheel's loud hum, And the voice that told the stories, was in death forever dumb. When the wrinkled, trembling hands that ne'er lay in idle rest, Were folded white as marble, 011 a cold and pulseless breast; We missed the dear old grandma when her form was laid away, A 11 1 our sorrow, it was almost too deep for us to pray A nd when, back to the homestead, I came from o'er the sea, I found no one waiting here, no one to welcome me; Fo1 all familiar faces were hidden 'neath the sod. While their spirits had ascended to their home with God. 1 a 11 growing older, grayer, as the days glide slowly by. And the time comes soon or late when I too must die. And, like me, this spinning-wheel is growing older, day by day, It I'll keep, a sacred treasure, till we both to dust decay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Flower language
ISBN : OSU:32435000215111
Author : Nellie E. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:18013549
Author : Robert Millhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCD:31175035203481
Author : Charles Elliott
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711261976
Artists and writers have always been drawn to flowers, as sources of inspiration, for simple enjoyment, and flowers themselves have been the muses for many of our greatest and most memorable works of art. This volume brings together the best flower poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from Shakespeare and Milton, to Reginald Farrer and Edward Augustus Bowles, to twentieth-century poets such as Marianne Moore and Theodore Roethke. Wild and garden flowers are here explored in all their moods and mysteries. The poems and extracts are illustrated with botanical art from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library, acknowledged as the world’s finest horticultural library. Addison • Betjeman • Bowles • Bradley and Cooper • Burns • Burroughs • Capek • Carroll • Clare • Colette • Crabbe • Ellacombe • Farrer • Fish • Gerard • Gilbert • Hanmer • Hardy • Hopkins • Housman • Hudson • Hunt • Jekyll • Johnson • Lawrence • Longfellow • Marvell • Milton • Mitchell • Moore • Parkinson • Pitter • Plunkett • Ridler • Roethke • Rohde • Rossetti • Sackville West • Seward • Shakespeare • Silkin • Sitwell • Stevenson • Swinburne • Thomas • Williams • Williamson • Wither • Wordsworth
Author : W. N. Herbert,Lian Yang,Brian Holton,Xiaoyu Qin
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1852248955
Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.
Author : Jane Holloway
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101907955
A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the "Language of Flora" was an elaborately refined system, especially in England and America, where books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers. Transcending the charm of its Victorian predecessors, this anthology creates an extended, updated, and more robust floral anthology for the twenty-first century, presenting poets through the ages from Sappho, Shakespeare, and Shelley to Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück, and across the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, and roses and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire, and the Arabic world. The most timeless human emotions and concepts--love, hope, despair, fidelity, grief, beauty, and mortality--find colorful expression in The Language of Flowers.
