The Continuing Silence Of A Poet

Author : A.B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912600106

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The Continuing Silence of a Poet by A.B. Yehoshua Pdf

This new edition of A. B. Yehoshua's novellas and short stories includes two stories which did not previously appear in the hardback edition published in 1988, and no longer includes 'Mr. Mani' which, in the intervening years, has been developed into a prize-winning novel. The development of the author's style can be traced from its dark beginnings in stories such as 'The Yatir Evening Express', about a village which decides to vent its frustration at its isolation and insignificance on the evening express. Isolation and loneliness are central to Yehoshua's concerns, whether it be people's isolation from each other, from their community or from their family. The pain of this isolation is intense, as in the title story in which the distance between an ageing poet and his simple son is agonising. In 'Facing the Forests', a fire-watcher's isolation gives rise to deep longings for tragedy – a story which has since been seen to symbolise the relationship between Jew and Arab in Israel. Several of the stories deal with people thrust into positions of responsibility and the feelings of frustration and impotence which ensue are disturbing – murderous even. In 'Three Days and a Child', a man agrees to care for the three-year old son of a former lover. Those three days are marked by a strange detachment and sadistic, heart-stopping neglect of the child. The stories are ironic and understated, and the pace masterly. This collection confirms Yehoshua's talent as a major short-story writer. He has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his entire œuvre.

Author : Abraham B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0006544045

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The Continuing Silence of a Poet by Abraham B. Yehoshua Pdf

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1550969536

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J'Accuse... ! by George Elliott Clarke Pdf

In a time of malevolent righteousness, often described as Cancel Culture, J'Accuse is an essay-in-poetry by Canada's Parliamentarian Poet Laureate emeritus that responds to the impacts of being "cancelled." Shame is not a word that gets much play these days among the caustically righteous, but Clarke had been wronged, and the people who did the wronging should be ashamed of themselves. J'Accus is a poignant statement that calls upon individuals, scholars, artists, and journalists to never submit to impulses that intentionally, or even unintentionally, forbid debate and questioning. J'Accus ponders what is truly unspeakable: injustice. Clarke boldly confronts the reality that in our turbulent time there must be an interest in real voices and stories, otherwise any individual can fall victim to silencing - blacklisting - gag-orders - cancelling... And ultimately, this cri-de-coeur reveals the personal cost.

Author : Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643901019

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Aldous Huxley, from Poet to Mystic by Jerome Meckier Pdf

Aldous Huxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satirical poet of ideas, who used art against itself to produce a parodic poetry of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suited to the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, most irreverent poems are contrapuntal: they, in effect, silence venerable poets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley's poetic personas either fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them. By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formative intelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, and Lucretius) who once synthesized their respective eras positively. In this book, author Jerome Meckier explicates most of Huxley's poems, including Leda, his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth. Meckier traces Huxley's development in terms of the poets he inserted in five of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostly fail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another. But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying the creative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romantic and Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Eventually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positing a utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her potentiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: the sage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmatic career took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems and poets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 11)

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1716 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135456061

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780791477144

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Poets on the Edge by Anonim Pdf

Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel's most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twenty-seven established and emerging poets, bringing many to readers of English for the first time. Thematically and stylistically innovative, the poems chart the evolution of new currents in Hebrew poetry that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and, in breaking from traditional structures of line, rhyme, and meter, have become as liberated as any contemporary American verse. Writing on politics, sexual identity, skepticism, intellectualism, community, country, love, fear, and death, these poets are daring, original, and direct, and their poems are matched by the freshness and precision of Keller's translations.

Author : Rob Gittins
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847718990

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The Poet and the Private Eye by Rob Gittins Pdf

New York. 1953. A private investigator takes on a tail job, his quarry a newly-arrived visitor from the UK. The private eye has never heard of him, but he will. The mark is the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. And in three weeks' time, Mr Thomas will be dead. Reprint; first published in 2014.

Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815651055

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Yom Kippur in Amsterdam by Maxim D. Shrayer Pdf

Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer’s native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present. The title story follows Jake Glaz, a young Jewish man apprehensive about marrying a Catholic woman. After realizing Erin will not convert, Jake leaves the United States to spend Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, "a beautiful place for a Jew to atone." In "Sonetchka" a literary scholar and his former girlfriend from Moscow reunite in her suburban Connecticut apartment. As they reminisce about their Soviet youth and quietly admire each other’s professional successes, both wrestle with the curious mix of prosperity, loneliness, and insecurity that defines their lives in the United States. Yom Kippur in Amsterdam takes the immigrant narrative into the twenty-first century. Emerging from the traditions of Isaac Babel, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shrayer’s vibrant literary voice significantly contributes to the evolution of Jewish writing in America.

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0810150158

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Out of Silence by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Out of Silence is a poetry book encompassing the contradictions of twentieth-century America.

Author : Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555978808

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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Pdf

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Author : A.B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905559466

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Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua Pdf

In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies. His years of loving care have ended and his newfound freedom proves unlike the one he had imagined. It is an uneasy freedom, filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love, but whose longing for meaningful relationships is held hostage by the spirit of his wife. Five Seasons is a subtle and often comic novel about love and renewal, and the determination of a seasoned heart to love.

Author : Alessandro Guetta,Masha Itzhaki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004169319

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Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry by Alessandro Guetta,Masha Itzhaki Pdf

Analysing well-known Hebrew medieval poets from a new, refreshing standpoint and focusing on less known authors and periods, this book shows the maturity of the research in this field. Written in English (and French) the articles make the Hebrew texts more easily available to scholars of comparative literature.

Author : James Acheson,Romana Huk
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791427684

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Contemporary British Poetry by James Acheson,Romana Huk Pdf

This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781599638645

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2015 Poet's Market by Robert Lee Brewer Pdf

The most trusted guide to getting poetry published! Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than the 2015 Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book/chapbook publishers, poetry publications, contests, and more. These include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the listings, Poet's Market offers articles on the Craft of Poetry, Business of Poetry, and Promotion of Poetry--not to mention new poems from today's best and brightest poets, including Beth Copeland, Joseph Mills, Judith Skillman, Laurie Kolp, Bernadette Geyer, and more. Learn the habits of highly productive poets, the usefulness of silence, revision tricks, poetic forms, ways to promote a new book, and more. You also gain access to: • Lists of conferences, workshops, organizations, and grants • A free digital download of Writer's Yearbook featuring the 100 Best Markets *Includes access to the webinar "How to Build an Audience for Your Poetry" from Robert Lee Brewer, editor of Poet's Market*

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317576686

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Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet by Ranjan Ghosh Pdf

Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.