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Author : Ahmadou Siendou Konaté
Publisher : INIDAF Editions
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9782491557461
New and Selected Poems on various subjects
Author : Michael D. Higgins,Mark Patrick Hederman
Publisher : Liberties Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781907593710
Michael D. Higgins is one of Ireland's leading public intellectuals. As well as having made a significant contribution to public life, he is a prolific poet, whose work ranges from the personal to the political, and geographically from the west of Ireland to Nicaragua and the Middle East. Here, he has gathered together the very best of his poetic output over the years. In these poems, he casts a wry, compassionate eye on human weakness and resilience, and the centrality of love to all human relations. Throughout it all, his yearning for a world marked above all by social justice stands out. This collection is a treasury of the very best of his writing over the years and is sure to delight younger readers as well as his established followers.
Author : Jennifer Huang
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571317179
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks “what name / do you crown yourself,” Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huang’s poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a “myth a mess of myself.” Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of “beating hearts / through objects passed down,” the poems travel through generations—among Taiwan, China, and America—cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather’s smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child’s bowl, a slap felt decades later—the result is a map of a present-day life, reflected through the past. Return Flight is a thrumming debut that teaches us how history harrows and heals, often with the same hand; how touch can mean “purple” and “blue” as much as it means intimacy; and how one might find a path toward joy not by leaving the past in the past, but by “[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.”
Author : Daniel Hoffman
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807114537
When Daniel Hoffman published a brief volume of selected poems in England, the Times Literary Supplement praised “his zestful verbal performance, supple use of rhyme and other sound effects” that “make the processes of his writing interesting.” That same vitality and interest inform Hang-Gliding from Helicon, which presents more than forty new poems and a generous selection from six of Hoffman’s previous books. Commenting on the most recent of these in the Southern Review, Monroe K. Spears wrote, “Hoffman’s new volume seems to me to establish his claim to the title of major poet.” In the New Republic, Josephine Jacobsen observed: “Three major strands knit into a strong texture: myth, history, and immediate experience . . . What he once wrote of Robert Graves is true of his own work: both combine ‘A Dionysian compulsion to belief with an Apollonian clarity of presentation.’” In the opening piece of this volume, entitled “The Poem,” Hoffman writes: True to itself, by what craft And strength it has, it has come As a sole survivor returns From the steep pass. Carved on memory’s staff The legend is nearly decipherable. It has lived up to its vows If it endures The journey through the dark places To bear witness, Casting its message In a sort of singing. Hoffman’s poetry is a celebration of life, yet some of his poems have dark implications. “The City of Satisfactions” is a journey into the haunted heart of the American dream. “The Center of Attention” portrays a suicidal man being taunted by a crowd to jump from a bridge, and “Witnesses” explores the aftermath of a car wreck on a desolate stretch of rural highway. Each of Hoffman’s poems represents a striking response to the moments of being alive. Hang-Gliding from Helicon affirms the power of poetry to make possible the acceptance and transformation of life. Daniel Hoffman has given us a remarkable statement of his deep poetic faith.
Author : Hilda Raz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781496226822
With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.
Author : W.S. Graham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262496
When T.S. Eliot wrote of W.S. Graham's collection, The Nightfishing, that 'some of these poems - by their sustained power, their emotional depth and maturity and their superb technical skill - may well be among the more important poetical achievements of our time', he could not have stated the truth more clearly. Graham's career, which ended with his death in 1986, followed a pattern of steady refinement of vision and ever-deepening enquiry. In Selected Poems, taken from both the publications of his lifetime and posthumous volumes, and containing at least one major poem never collected before, the full stature of this still insufficiently appreciated genius is revealed.
Author : Lew Welch
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780872865792
"Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings . . . jazz musical phrasings of American speech is one of Welch's clearest contributions." ? Gary Snyder Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. He disappeared in 1971, leaving a suicide note behind. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and some drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output from his early years until his death. First published by legendary poetry editor Donald Allen, this new edition includes photos, a biographic timeline, and a statement of poetics gleaned from Welch's own writing.
Author : Sarah Doudney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781946145291
This collection contains all 51 poems from Sarah Doudney's "Psalms of Life" together with 115 poems and hymn lyrics never before collected from nineteenth century periodicals such as "The Sunday Magazine," "Good Words Magazine," "Littell's Living Age" and others. Included are all her poems that have become favorites: "The Lesson of the Water-Mill," a very popular poem; "The Christian's Goodnight," sung at Charles Spurgeon's funeral; "The Hardest Time of All," an often quoted poem; "Between the Lights," reflections between the sunset and moon-rise, and "Some Words," about the power of words. R. H. Barnes wrote in the Preface: "The highest aspiration of the writer will, I know, be attained, if any words of hers shall minister comfort to the sorrowing, hope to the downcast, and strength to the weary." Sarah Doudney (1841-1926) was born in Portsmouth, England. Her father, George E. Doudney, was with a large candle and soap business. She grew up in the rural area of Cathrington, Hants, where she did her writing.
Author : Françoise Lionnet
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781603293631
Praised by Voltaire and admired by Pushkin, Évariste Parny (1753-1814) was born on the island of Réunion, which is east of Madagascar, and educated in France. His life as a soldier and government administrator allowed him to travel to Brazil, Africa, and India. Though from the periphery of France's colonial empire, he ultimately became a member of the Académie Française. Despite his reaching that pinnacle of respectability, some of his poetry was banned after his death. This edition includes poems from the Poésies érotiques and Élégies, which established Parny's reputation; the Chansons madécasses ("Madagascar Songs"), which were influential in the development of the prose poem; five of his published letters, written in a mixture of prose and verse; the narrative poem Le Voyage de Céline; and selections from his sardonic, anticlerical later poetry. A substantial introduction discusses Parny's poetry in connection with its literary context and the themes of gender, race, and postcoloniality.
Author : Steve Orlen
Publisher : Ausable Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1931337284
Generous retrospective of passionate, straight-talking poems that have been delighting readers for over forty years.
Author : Lawrence Welsh
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780826350190
The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the famous, the infamous, and the forgotten.
Author : Scott Slovic
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816516642
An eclectic anthology of contemporary nature writing from the Southwest, including nonfiction, fiction, field notes, and poetry, through which artists of diverse backgrounds both celebrate and illuminate the vitality and complexity of southwestern nature and literature.
Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026426304
Author : Suzanne U. Rhodes
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1640604057
"A hopeful belief in heaven and the end of suffering colors these profoundly spiritual, often uneasy, poems"--
Author : Friedrich Rückert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476648941
German poet Friedrich Ruckert's (1788-1866) youngest children died of scarlet fever, the pandemic of his age. Over a six month period in 1834, he wrote hundreds of laments that were published posthumously in the classic poetry collection Kindertotenlieder. Here in English for the first time, these evocative modern translations by a fellow bereaved father reveal "an honest grappling with grief" (The Christian Century). Each poem is accompanied by insights into the bereaved, along with personal anecdotes, historical and cultural information, the latest research on grief, and discussions of literary and biblical allusions.