Twenty Poems

Author : Gary M. Bouchard
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814664940

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Twenty Poems to Pray by Gary M. Bouchard Pdf

Drawing from the poetry of generations of esteemed writers Gary Bouchard shows how poems often express the longings of the human heart as a kind of prayer. Emily Dickinson, Rev. Rowan Williams, Pope John Paul II, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, and Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB, among others, offer readers an inspiring path to reflect upon and pray with poetic verse. Arranged under six engaging themes, each selection uses the words of poets as vehicles to prompt “heaven in ordinary” or to praise like “exalted manna”; to find the right “paraphrase” for your own soul or maybe sense your “soul’s blood”; to muster up from your grief or anger “reversed thunder” or dare to articulate from your own personal anguish “Christ-side-piercing spear.”

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781645472377

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Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage by Roger Housden Pdf

Poems can teach us in ways that surpass other forms of understanding, especially when the subject concerns matters of the heart. When the heart’s whispers are too faint for us to hear in ordinary ways, poetry can speak to us with another kind of eloquence. From the leap of joy that a couple takes on their wedding day to a fiftieth wedding anniversary that acknowledges the deep connection that a life together can bring, marriage takes us on a journey that passes through seasons and stages, peaks and valleys. This book honors that journey through twenty poems that celebrate and illuminate some of these major stages and provides not only inspiration for the journey but also solace and wisdom. Roger Housden, the author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life, provides essential insights into the poems, creating a collection of reflective prose and poetry that makes this an inspirational guidebook as much as a volume of poetry. In Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage, Roger Housden offers poems and essays that will give voice to your heart, offering up words and wisdom not just for special occasions but to act as friends and guides to refer to throughout the life of a marriage.

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811221481

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Love Poems by Pablo Neruda Pdf

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9780829418699

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Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul by Anonim Pdf

This extraordinary celebration of the poet's craft opens the attentive reader's heart to the world of the spirit. Author/compilers Judith Valente and Charles Reynard, noted poets themselves, share elected poems that probe the classic themes of the spiritual life.

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9358983817

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda Pdf

'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair' is a collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. This became Neruda's most popular book and immediately established his reputation. It also became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish. The book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world. The collection begins with passion, describing sensual affection that slackens into melancholy and separation in the later verses. The closing poem, "A Song of Despair," is painful and anguished.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016518250

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Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1645600610

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100 Love Sonnets and Twenty Love Poems by Pablo Neruda Pdf

Pablo Neruda's two books - 100 Love Sonnets and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair are kept in one book.

Author : Tony Hoagland
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555973292

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Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays by Tony Hoagland Pdf

A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. This is more than a shame, for poetry is our common treasure-house, and we need its vitality, its respect for the subconscious, its willingness to entertain ambiguity, its plaintive truth-telling, and its imaginative exhibitions of linguistic freedom, which confront the general culture's more grotesque manipulations. We need the emotional training sessions poetry conducts us through. We need its previews of coming attractions: heartbreak, survival, failure, endurance, understanding, more heartbreak. —from "Twenty Poems That Could Save America" Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the "vertigo" effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, and Dean Young. At the heart of this book is an honesty and curiosity about the ways poetry can influence America at both the private and public levels. Tony Hoagland is already one of this country's most provocative poets, and this book confirms his role as a restless and perceptive literary and cultural critic.

Author : Hala Alyan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781328511942

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The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan Pdf

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.

Author : Vicente Aleixandre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3602501

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Twenty Poems by Vicente Aleixandre Pdf

Author : Paulo da Costa
Publisher : XinXii
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780978184735

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The Scent of a Lie by Paulo da Costa Pdf

2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean & Canada Region) 2002 City of Calgary W. O. Mitchel Book Award 2001 Canongate Prize for short fiction The Scent of a Lie is a book of fourteen inter-connected stories set in two charismatic towns in Portugal where characters weave in and out of the narrative. The book can be read as a novel in fragments. This is a remarkable debut collection of tales told by a true storyteller. The Scent of a Lie received the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean & Canada region and the 2002 City of Calgary Book Award. One of the stories received the 2001 Canongate Prize for short fiction at the International Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Scent Of A Lie, (...) marks the debut of a remarkable writer. - John Terauds, Toronto Star With this book of linked stories, Paulo Da Costa adds piquant new spice to the CanLit broth. Paying homage to a fabulist tradition running from Marquez and Borges and Carlos Fuentes all the way back to Cervantes, Da Costa evokes his God-beset, earthbound peasants, priests and villagers with palpable, redolent precision. Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail The reader can see just how well da Costa writes: the language here is lyrical and flowing, and the imaginativeness of the stories speaks for itself. Da Costa is clearly a writer to watch. Tim McNamara, Edmonton Journal The most uniformly fresh, sprightly, meaty work of Canadian fiction I’ve read in a long time. Vue weekly, Print Culture - Christopher Wiebe

Author : Olivia Harrison
Publisher : Genesis Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905662734

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Came the Lightening, Came the Light by Olivia Harrison Pdf

'"Time - we take no notice of it but for its loss". I wanted to stop time on the day George died so that I wouldn't ever have to look back. Yet here I am, twenty years and twenty poems later, one for each year I suppose. I didn't plan it that way but here they are: thoughts, feelings and words about life and death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia Harrison Came the Lightening, Came the Light presents Olivia Harrison's first book of poetry, in which she dedicates twenty poems to her late husband George Harrison in the 20th anniversary year of his passing. She tenderly reflects upon the couple's lives, examining the intimacy of the spiritual and emotional connection of their relationship. As a contributor to the book Concert for George, the revised edition of I Me Mine as well as penning the bestselling book George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Olivia Harrison is no stranger to writing beautiful words that have an ethereal connection to love. Now, in her first departure from biographical non-fiction, this book of poems is set to become a treasured debut. These poems are accompanied by a selection of photographs and mementos curated by Olivia including pictures of herself and George. Came the Lightening, Came the Light is an essential book for anyone who has ever been in love. Olivia's words explore the human psyche in reaction to grief and death, spirituality and the passing of time. In essence, though, this is a story of love.

Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chilean poetry
ISBN : 1852248629

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The Essential Neruda by Pablo Neruda Pdf

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair.

Author : Robert Kelley Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : American poetry
ISBN : BL:A0026170344

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Twenty Poems by Robert Kelley Weeks Pdf

Author : Ṭāhā Muḥammad ʻAlī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015050035719

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Never Mind by Ṭāhā Muḥammad ʻAlī Pdf

Taha Muhammad Ali writes in a forceful and direct style, with disarming humor and unflinching, at times painful, honesty--the poetry's apparent simplicity and homespun truths concealing the subtle grafting of classical Arabic and colloquial forms of expression. In Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in Europe, audiences have been powerfully moved by Taha Muhammad Ali's poems of political complexity and humanity. Never Mind is the poet's first collection to appear in English. Introduction by Gabriel Levin. --Ibis Editions.