The Dream Of The Poem

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400827558

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The Dream of the Poem by Anonim Pdf

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom. The Dream of the Poem traces the arc of the entire period, presenting some four hundred poems by fifty-four poets, and including a panoramic historical introduction, short biographies of each poet, and extensive notes. (The original Hebrew texts are available on the Princeton University Press Web site.) By far the most potent and comprehensive gathering of medieval Hebrew poems ever assembled in English, Cole's anthology builds on what poet and translator Richard Howard has described as "the finest labor of poetic translation that I have seen in many years" and "an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us." The Dream of the Poem is, Howard says, "a crowning achievement."

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466879638

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The Dream Songs by John Berryman Pdf

The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788726587043

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A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

An example of Poe’s melancholic and morbid poetic pieces, "A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem that pitifully mourns the passing of time. The poet’s own life, teeming with depression, alcoholism, and misery, cannot but exemplify the subject matter and tone of the poem. The constant dilution of reality and fantasy is detrimental to the poetic speaker’s ability to hold reality in his hands. The quiet contemplation of the speaker is contrasted with thunderous passing of time that waits for no man. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

Author : Tony Hoagland
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979089

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Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland Pdf

The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me The parade for the slain police officer goes past the bakery and the smell of fresh bread makes the mourners salivate against their will. —from "Note to Reality" Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with the hobnailed abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of twenty-first-century America can stay human. With whiplash nerve and tender curiosity, Hoagland both surveys the damage and finds the wonder that makes living worthwhile. Mirthful, fearless, and precise, these poems are full of judgment and mercy.

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385403689

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Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson Pdf

This title contains Michael Jackson's personal writings and over 100 photographs, drawings, and paintings from his own collection. The book is a personal view of the world around us and the universe within each of us.

Author : Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English poetry
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000118150

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The Dream, and Other Poems by Caroline Sheridan Norton Pdf

Author : Wyschogrod
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802813550

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Abraham's Promise by Wyschogrod Pdf

Abraham's Promise presents a selection of important writings by noted Jewish philosopher-theologian Michael Wyschogrod, who is widely admired for his singular contributions to Jewish- Christian relations. Including several pieces never published before, this reader aptly captures the broad scope of Wyschogrod's work on Judaism and the Jewish-Christian encounter, collecting seminal essays, articles, and reviews that address such topics as the God of Abraham and the God of philosophy, sin and atonement, Judaism and the land, the Six Day War, Paul on Jews and Gentiles, and the theology of Karl Barth. An introductory essay by editor R. Kendall Soulen sets Wyschogrod's career and writings in context.

Author : Louise Bernice Halfe
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781550506662

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Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe Pdf

In heart-wrenching detail, Louise Halfe recalls the damage done by the residential schools to her parents, her family, and herself in her new poetry collection.

Author : Antonio Machado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061328236

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Border of a Dream by Antonio Machado Pdf

"Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was a member of Spain's famous "Generation of '98," and one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Intensely introspective and mediative, his poetry is grounded in the Spanish landscape and deeply influenced by his wife's early death, his own uprootedness, and the civil war and severe poverty which afflicted Spain."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dennis Cooper
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802134572

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The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper Pdf

The Dream Police collects the best poems from five of his previous books and also includes a selection of new works. From his darkly erotic early verse to the more refined, post-punk poems, to his later experimental pieces. Cooper's evolving study of the distances in romantic relationships has made him a singular voice in American poetry.

Author : Jenny George
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321847

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The Dream of Reason by Jenny George Pdf

Jenny George’s debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya’s grotesque bestiary, George’s own dreamscape is populated by purring moths, bats that crawl like goblins, and livestock—especially pigs, whose spirit and slaughter inform a central series of portraits. The poems invite moments of stark realism into a spacious, lucid realm just outside of time—finding revelation in stillness, intimacy in violence, and vision in language that lifts from the dark. From “Threshold Gods”: I saw a bat in a dream and then later that week I saw a real bat, crawling on its elbows across the porch like a goblin. It was early evening. I want to ask about death. But first I want to ask about flying. Jenny George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Author : Elizabeth Emmet Lenox CONYNGHAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600042287

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The Dream, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Emmet Lenox CONYNGHAM Pdf

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348071

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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild “The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399550195

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That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes Pdf

“Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of Float. To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done…. Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork. Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun. Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant—and necessary—today as when it was first written.

Author : Sarah Arvio
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307959560

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night thoughts by Sarah Arvio Pdf

In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams. As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence of dream poems, followed by “Notes.” The poems, in the form of irregular sonnets, describe her dreamworld: a realm of beauty and terror emblazoned with recurring colors and images—gold, blood red, robin’s-egg blue, snakes, swarms of razors, suitcases, playing cards, a catwalk. The Notes, also exquisitely readable, unfold the meaning of the dreams—as told to her analyst—and recount the enlightening and sometimes harrowing process of unlocking memories, starting with the diaries she burned to make herself forget. Arvio’s explorations lead her back to her younger self—and to a life-changing understanding that will fascinate readers. An utterly original work of art and a groundbreaking portrayal of the power of dream interpretation to resolve psychic distress, this stunning book illumines the poetic logic of the dreaming mind; it also shows us, with surpassing poignancy, how tender and fragile is the mind of an adolescent girl.