Download or read book The Uses of Adversity written by Ronald Wallace and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uses of Adversity - titled after the line from As You Like It, "Sweet are the uses of adversity" - is a collection of one hundred sonnets cobining the craftiness of traditional form with the effortlessness of free verse. The language is often richly textured and musical, often plain spoken and conversational, but always witty and accessible. The subject matter ranges widely from Rootie Kazootie and Froggy the Gremlin, Howdy Doody and Elvis Presley, to Christopher Columbus, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Kevorkian; from Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician, Li'l Abner and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Transtromer, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche; from the tradtional themes of lyrics - love (both sacred and profane), death, the changing of the seasons, marriage, birth, divorce, childhood, sex, religion,art, the natural world, illness - to the most unexpected and quirky contemporary narratives.The title sequence, which explores a father's illness and death, is both elegiac and celebratory, evoking the conflictual bonds in any father-son relationship. In these sonnets, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Wallace once again proves himself to be one of our most versatile and affirmative poets.
Download or read book Adversity a poem written by John Cox Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ADVERSITY Vol 1 written by Robin Barratt and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting poets worldwide, and published in two volumes, ADVERSITY is probably one of the largest international collections of poetry on the theme of adversity ever published. ADVERSITY, Vol. 1 - contains 138 contributions from 75 poets in 32 countries worldwide: Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Republic Of North Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, Wales and Zimbabwe, and 19 States across the USA: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Washington. ADVERSITY, Vol. 2 - contains 134 contributions from 83 poets in 29 countries worldwide: Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kurdistan, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Montenegro, Nepal, Philippines, Republic Of Ireland, Republic Of North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Wales and Zimbabwe, and 12 States across the USA: California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Recognised for its in-depth interviews, and for producing some of the largest international anthologies of poetry on particular themes and topics ever published, THE POET is devoted to showcasing poets and publishing amazing poetry from around the world. "We do not criticize or critique, we are simply a place where poets can both inspire others, and be inspired by others, and a platform where poets are given an opportunity to have their work published, and their words read." Robin Barratt - Editor and Founder. No matter what your background and experience; whether an established, multi-published poet laureate, with many titles to your credit, or an emerging poet exploring the creative use of words, structure, ideas and expression for the first time, our philosophy here at THE POET is to embrace and welcome all poets, everywhere.
Download or read book Poems of Adversity written by Jean Elizabeth Ward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of Adversity from poets: Adelaide Anne Procter, Percy Shelley, Charles, Kingsley, James W. Watson, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Amelia Anne Blandford Edwards, John Fletcher, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chediock Tichborne, Lord Houghton, Walter Savage Landor, Henry Neele, John Keats, Ralph Hoyt, Will Carleton, Mary Louise Ritter, John Milton, George Crabbe, Thomas Noel, Thomas Hood, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Moss, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ya Perezhil Svoi Zhelanya, Pierre-Jean De Beranger, Frances Quarles, Frances Bacon, and a final chapter by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Ed. including Naani, Tanka, Kimo, Choka, and Shape Poems. The Wail of Prometheus Bound with picture. Poems mentioning Houston, Texas, Texas, New Quay, Wales, and the Titanic.
Download or read book Adversity or the Tears of Britannia A poem by a Lady written by and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adversity Or the Miseries of the Seduced A Poem To which is Subjoined a Military Tale in Verse Called Henry and Eliza Etc written by W. H. POULETT and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Unknown Sea written by David Whyte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.
Download or read book Ascending Adversity written by Colleen Carnahan and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascending Adversity is a collection of poems that are part auto-biographical, part social commentary. Told from the perspective of the poet this collection takes you on a journey through adversity commonly experienced as a result of unjust social norms. And explores the possibility of ascending beyond such adversity by addressing the norms that allow for their existence.
Download or read book The Poet s Guide to Life written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.” –RAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration, here are Rilke’s thoughts on how to live life in a meaningful way: Life and Living: “How good life is. How fair, how incorruptible, how impossible to deceive: not even by strength, not even by willpower, and not even by courage. How everything remains what it is and has only this choice: to come true, or to exaggerate and push too far.” Art: “The work of art is adjustment, balance, reassurance. It can be neither gloomy nor full of rosy hopes, for its essence consists of justice.” Faith: “I personally feel a greater affinity to all those religions in which the middleman is less essential or almost entirely suppressed.” Love: “To be loved means to be ablaze. To love is: to shine with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away; to love is to last.” Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated, and brimming with the wonder and passion of Rilke, The Poet’s Guide to Life is comparable to the best works of wisdom in all of literature and a perfect book for all occasions.
Download or read book Riding the Waves of Thought written by Jason Pache and published by Coping with Adversity Through Poetry. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts come at us like waves in the ocean - both terrifying and exhilarating. We can ride the waves of thought through learning how to surf these waves. One way to surf with these waves is through fully immersing our mind in reading and writing in literature and philosophy - like fully immersing our body when we bodysurf a wave. And like bodysurfing in a wave, literature and philosophy can allow us to immerse our soul into the ocean-soul of being, lifting us to new heights, catching us as we go over the falls, and sustaining us as we glide across the ocean's glassy surface. Like the need for appreciating beauty, a meaningful life depends on discovering a way to glide over the ocean of thought and, to a fulfilling life, finding a way to flow within these undulations is indispensable to finding inspiration. However, like the bodysurfer left without a means to catch a wave if he or she is without fins on his or her feet, we find ourselves in this same predicament when we are without words to help us appreciate the beauty of the spiritual and intellectual movements that are carried by waves of thought. In this book, you will find the vocabulary of literature and philosophy in which you will discover ways of coping with adversity - the crash of waves in front of you - to let you plunge under the redoubtable terror of their prodigious immensity, until you arrive beyond the breakers, ready to catch the next wave onto the heights of poetic ecstasy. The enjoyment of the literary arts and philosophical speculation, like bodysurfing waves, is a lifelong and rapturous pursuit, and, once you start, you cannot stop enjoying the union of your soul with the ocean-soul of being that is the essence this soulful enrapture. Herein is an offering of vocabulary enhancement that will acquaint you with the beauty of the written word. These words speak in the language of literature and philosophy and are like the fins of a bodysurfer offering a means of being buoyed by - and flowing within - the soulful undulations of the ocean of thought.
Download or read book Light for the World to See written by Kwame Alexander and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin's "A Report from Occupied Territory," Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America's crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope. Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior. A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author.
Download or read book Wings of Courage written by Janice Marie and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings of Courage, a collection of poems, shows how a young person used their faith, grit, and courage to fly on the wings of one's dream into freedom even after the scars of abuse. Readers journey through the transformation of a broken child who learns to speak her truth during adolescence, finds strength to rise as a young adult, and is now encouraged to share her story of resiliency. Wings of Courage is sure to inspire and bring hope to readers young and old - anyone with obstacles to endure.
Download or read book Jim Harrison Complete Poems written by Jim Harrison and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. 'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius... a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.
Download or read book The Hill We Climb written by Amanda Gorman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. “Stunning.” —CNN “Dynamic.” —NPR “Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe with her call for unity and healing. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition, perfect for any reader looking for some inspiration. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this remarkable keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.
Download or read book Bloom for Yourself written by April Green and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April Green's 'Bloom for Yourself' is a beautiful, tender book of poetic writing, woven into spiritual lessons on healing, growth, faith, and self-love. April's approach to writing is visceral; giving readers layer upon layer of thought-provoking optimism and faith. Her words are shared by thousands of people all over the world, including Jenna Dewan Tatum, Shantel Vansanten and Cartia Mallan. 'Bloom for Yourself' is a book for anyone feeling lost, alone, depressed or unworthy. It is a book to be read many times over as you come to experience April's extraordinary gift for helping you understand that you are never truly alone.
Download or read book Ode on the Spring written by Thomas Gray and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1921 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
