Download or read book Kamesan s World Haiku Anthology on War Violence and Human Rights Violation written by Dimitar Anakiev and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamesan's World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation, edited by the renowned film director and haiku poet Dimitar Anakiev, is a unique haiku anthology: 903 haiku written in 35 languages by 435 poets from 48 countries across the globe and non-English language haiku accompanied by their English translations. The original idea of publishing this kind of world haiku anthology with its sharp focus on war stemmed from Anakiev's late 1990s experience in the war-torn Balkans. During that tumultuous period of time, he served as the co-editor of Knots: The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry, receiving many haiku on the topic of confrontation and violence. Then, in 2009, he invited the poets from the Balkan region to submit their haiku on the topic of war. To his great surprise, he received many haiku by poets from all corners of the world. He recognized the universality of the theme of war and decided to publish a world haiku anthology on war, violence, and human rights violation (p. 5).As Dimitar Anakiev emphasizes in the Forward, titled "Towards the 'haiku of the third millennium," "three elements shape this anthology. First, it was created as an expression of the real need of poets to speak about the theme of war, violence, and human rights violation through haiku.... The second element is the experience of war, violence, and human rights violation [that] seems to be more present than ever. The third element, the multicultural (and multilingual) concept of the book, is directly linked to the theme." (p. 5) In the rest of the forward, he also clearly points out an aesthetic "need to [open] new poetic horizons for and with haiku. These horizons include an openness to different poetic methods like metaphor, personification, varied syllable counts including 5-7-5." (p. 6) Then, he traces the linguistic root of the ancient Greek word for "anthology" that leads to "flowery meadow." (p. 6) While editing the anthology, he adopted an editorial attitude based on the principle of this democratic image and tried to plant a meadow of world haiku with "various kinds of flowers," not a greenhouse with only a certain type of "best flowers." (pp. 6-7).This anthology includes not only the haiku written by contemporary poets around the world, but also the classic ones composed by New Rising haiku poets 1 and gendai haiku poets, and most importantly, the most-famous anti-war haiku by Japanese master Basho. By way of publishing this world haiku anthology, Dimitar Anakiev also searched for an answer to the question - "what qualities would define haiku in the third millennium?" - raised 12 years ago during the founding the World Haiku Association (p. 7). Now, he can say that the "third millennium haiku will perhaps be completely freed from cultural clamps, colonialism and neocolonialism, from fundamentalisms of all kinds, and will be left to the poets of the world to use the form the best they can, in all cultures, in their own specific way." (p. 7) And he sincerely hopes that "this anthology is the start of this new haiku, freed from cultural politics." (p. 7)Tributes:A great anthology, which, in addition to literary value has also ethical and political message!-Boris A. NovakThis landmark collection, interweaving hundreds of poetic voices from around the world, creates a powerful statement for peace and against war. -Kim GoldbergIn this amazing anthology, poets from many countries hold the shock and anguish of war within a loving and sorrowful gaze that recognizes the true costs to our shared humanity. -Marilyn HazeltonThe poets from all corners of the world courageously take a closer look at war and sincerely explore its true costs to our shared humanity.-Chen-ou Liu

Download or read book Kamesan s World Haiku Anthology on War Violence and Human Rights Violation written by Dimitar Anakiev and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Haiku Anthology 3e written by Den Heuvel Van and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Generous, irreplaceable. . . . It's an eye-opener and a who's-who of haiku today."—Providence Sunday Journal Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery—in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revised and updated, comprises 850 haiku and senryu (a related genre, usually humorous and concerned with human nature) written in English by 89 poets, including the top haiku writers of the American past and present. A new foreword details developments since the publication of the last edition. "Each of these perfect little poems will come as a revelation to the uninitiated reader and will bring joy to the haiku enthusiast. . . . This is an exceptional selection of English-language haiku at its finest."—Library Booknotes

Download or read book Private Perry and Mister Poe written by William F. Hecker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing poetry and inspecting artillery bombs for the army do not seem like compatible endeavors, which is perhaps why many biographers and critics have overlooked Edgar Allan Poe's stint in the military, dismissing it as an odd aberration in his literary career. William F. Hecker, however, is in a unique position to appreciate the influence that military culture and training had on the young poet. A professional artilleryman and a Poe scholar, Hecker offers a lively, nuanced account of Poe's experience as an enlisted soldier and West Point cadet and relates it to his writing, especially his Poems (1831), presented here in facsimile for the first time since 1936. Military service appealed to Poe's romantic sense of adventure, and in 1827 he joined the army under the name Edgar A. Perry. He rose quickly through the ranks -- most notably learning cannon drill -- but suffered as a social misfit in the field and at West Point, where legends about a brilliantly defiant jester still abound. Shortly after being dismissed from the Military Academy for neglecting his duties, Poe published his third book of verse, Poems (1831), which he dedicated to his fellow West Point cadets and funded through subscriptions to them. Hecker explores these events, filling in biographical gaps and drawing connections to Poe's poetic vision. Poe's desire that his poems act as aesthetic bombs -- deranging the senses, striving for Beauty but failing explosively -- emerges as a key theme. With a foreword by poet and Poe critic Daniel Hoffman and an afterword by Gerard A. McGowan addressing the martial element in the poems "Tamerlane" and "To Helen," among others, Private Perry and Mister Poe offers the definitive statement about Poe's military experience while making the early versions of many of his most famous poems widely available.

Download or read book Japanese Literature in the Meiji Era written by 岡崎義恵 and published by Tokyo, Obunsha. This book was released on 1955 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Welcome to FOB Haiku written by Randy Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sherpatude no. 26: 'Humor is a combat multiplier ...' Has your war become workaday? Does life on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) now seem commonplace? Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism -- and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest -- journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again." --

Download or read book Policing the Campus written by Anthony J. Nocella and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression.

Download or read book Here Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Download or read book The Atomic Bomb written by Kyoko Iriye Selden and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Five balloon Morning written by Charles Trumbull and published by Red Mountian Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Charles Trumbull is a poet of quiet, deep emotion. His haiku are ripples on the pond; the source invisible, yet of paramount importance. A FIVE-BALLOON MORNING has a subtitle, New Mexico Haiku, and, though that sets the scene, it is in no sense strictly regional or limiting. In fact, as regular readers of haiku might attest, the more particular the focus, the greater the potential for a more universal theme—in the hands of the right poet, that is... There is a sense not just of the past in these lines, but of the future, the reclaiming back of things as they were. Certainly thoughts such as these are never far away in a desert clime... Trumbull has composed a set of poems that in some ways are like whispers, just barely heard, until we learn how to focus in on the sound. It isn't so much the volume of the sound as it is the locale. It comes from within."—Lilliput Review Poetry Blog

Download or read book Pale Harvest written by Braden Hepner and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply moving and intellectually profound novel built on the iconic myth of the American West." —KIRKUS REVIEWS Working a dying trade in a dead town, dairy farmer Jack Selvedge finds his life and existence stagnant. When Rebekah Rainsford moves back to town on the run from her father, her dark history consumes him. It soon becomes clear why girls like her don’t stay in towns like these, as elements of humanity in ruin culminate in tragedy. A deeply written and deeply felt story of love, depravity, and shattered ideals, Pale Harvest examines the loss of beauty, purity, and simplicity within the mindset of the rural American West.

Download or read book Heroes written by John Jeffcock and published by Ebury. This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, with the full support of the MOD, John Jeffcock, poet and a former soldier in the Coldstream Guards, invited contributions for a book of modern war poems. He was overwhelmed by the response: contributions came from serving soldiers, veterans and their families - wives, sisters, daughters (one just 11 years old). The writers have one thing in common: these are people whose lives have been changed by war, and the poems speak to readers with direct, emotional appeal. While over half of the contributions relate to Afghanistan, there are also poems inspired by the Second World War, The Falklands and Northern Ireland. This is also the first time that poems have been gathered from all ranks and all organizations - from the Parachute Regiment to the Special Air Service, from the Gordon Highlanders to the Royal Marines. As the poetry of Brooke, Owen and Sassoon spoke to those who endured the First World War, here are poems that speak of war in our time - the theatres of war might change but the emotional resonance remains the same.

Download or read book A Vast Sky written by Bruce Ross and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vast Sky is an anthology of contemporary world haiku from 2000-2014. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind, with generous selections by established editors of Japan, Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia, India, Africa, etc. It includes insightful introductions to the history and poetics of haiku in its four major sections: Japan, Europe, The New World, and The Rest of the World. It includes up-to-date sources for contemporary world haiku.

Download or read book Haiku Guy written by David G. Lanoue and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first novel to take as its subject the appreciation and crafting of haiku, this is the story of Buck-Teeth, a provincial poet and fictitious student of the Japanese classical haiku master Issa, who, in the course of his training, travels to ancient Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and ultimately learns what it is to be a poet. Along the way we are offered gentle lessons on haiku and what we might put into it, how it and we got this way, and what it all might mean.

Download or read book Love and Other Poems written by Alex Dimitrov and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

Download or read book War Haikus written by Martin Raninqueo and published by Red Dragonfly Press. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Raninqueo, whose last name comes from a Mapuche great-grandfather, was born in 1962. Like most of his contemporaries, he was conscripted under the generals' dictatorship and sent in 1982 to hold the Falklands (las Malvinas) against Maggie Thatcher's expeditionary force. Martin fought in the critical and bloody Argentine defeat of Mount Longdon, and was held as a prisoner of war aboard a British battleship. The Falklands debacle brought about the fall of the dictatorship. Strong and stunning in their often brutal brevity, these haiku come out of a critical moment in Argentine history."

Download or read book The Book of Anna written by Joy Ladin and published by Eoagh Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Fiction. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. THE BOOK OF ANNA is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying book of prose diary entries and autobiographical poems offers intimate glimpses of Anna's present --her writing process, relationships with neighbors, obsessive sexual behavior, chain-smoking, and idiosyncratic exploration of Jewish tradition --while the poems recount her unsparing efforts to reckon with horror, survival, and their aftermath. Written in the midst of Joy Ladin's gender transition, this book asks provocative questions about the meaning of trauma, gender, suffering and empathy that speak to our current historical moment in haunting and indelible ways. This second edition of a classic text of trans literature features a new afterword by the author, "Anna and Me," reflecting on this book's pivotal importance for the development of the author's poetics and identity. "Part novel, part shattering lyric sequence, THE BOOK OF ANNA presents itself as the work of Anna Asher, a Holocaust survivor living in 1950s Prague who looks back on her pre-war love of a Heidegger-reading yeshiva bocher, on the women who saved her life in Barracks 10 (The Rebbetzin, The Physicist, The Whore), and on the Biblical 'song made of songs' where 'God is so utterly absent that the rabbis decided --what else could they do? --to see Him everywhere.' A stunning, sometimes shocking mix of Jewish learning and daring, THE BOOK OF ANNA was Ladin's breakthrough volume, and scarred, sardonic Anna is an unforgettable contribution to Jewish American poetry." --Eric Selinger "It's nearly impossible to capture the magnificence that is Joy Ladin's THE BOOK OF ANNA, what it begins and what it foretells. There is something deeply familiar in the text. I feel as if I am suddenly sitting on the yellow plastic-covered couch in my grandmother's living room, listening to the conversations while she and her friends play bridge or mahjong. The women speak Yiddish or Hungarian, and their talk is filled with cigarettes, gossip, and the kind of dry side-eyed humor that belies their own survival and the loss of parents, brothers, sisters, entire families, in the genocide that occurred not two decades before in the villages and towns of their birth. These were women trying to live. Through poems and accounts of a friendship with another survivor, Ladin follows Anna's efforts to find some sign that will allow her to go on living. 'And something shaped like a woman / As you are shaped like a man / Waiting in the middle of the Charles Bridge / For death or truth / To make her breathe again.' In the end, Ladin's Anna chooses to breathe, and we are grateful for her journey in all of its reckoning, and for this prescient and gorgeous book of becoming." --Samuel Ace