Download or read book Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by River Paw Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" (Любовні листи до України від Уяви), a finalist at the 2023 International Book Awards presented by American Book Fest, is a bilingual poetry collection written in English by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and translated into Ukrainian by Volodymyr Tymchuk. It comprises 66 wartime poems centered on the current Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. The entire collection was written and translated, primarily in real-time, within just eight weeks. The poems in this book aim to build bridges in the hearts of readers, fostering a connection with Ukraine and allowing the world to witness its deep yearning for love, peace, and freedom. "This is a book of love, pure and overwhelming as love should be. This is a book of spirit, strong and willing, as spirit should be." ~ Lyudmyla Khersonska Author of "Vse svoi," and "Tyl'naia-litsevaia," reflections on Russian aggression in Ukraine. "Fresh on the heels of editing the wide-ranging and necessary anthology, "Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War, Resistance, Hope and Peace," poet Kalpna Singh-Chitnis has responded with impassioned verses of empathy in "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" as the war rages on in Ukraine. These are poems meant to bridge the divide between one world and another, between a lover and those fighting on the front lines of Ukraine. " ~ Brian Turner, Author of "Here, Bullet." "We had Auden, and we had Sassoon, but we now have Kalpna Singh-Chitnis with a different take on war. ~ Yogesh Patel MBE "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" is among the most important books of American, Ukrainian, and Indian literary societies with a cultural mission." ~ Volodymyr Tymchuk - Poet, Translator and Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "A common spiritual child, a representative of the Indian and Ukrainian people will bring us all closer to purification by a drop, a spark, and a metaphor." ~ Ihor Pavliuk - People's Poet of Ukraine, Winner of the British PEN Prize and Swiss Literary Prize 2021 "Kalpna Singh-Chitnis' patriotic poems are her original interpretation of love poetry, which grows from nostalgic listening to the voices of Ukraine, attempting to go beyond the pathos and rhetorics of textbook ideas, expanding horizons with visions, overcoming fears and deep wounds with one word-LOVE." ~ Marianna Cheletska, Literary Critic "Real Windows, Beyond the Nightly News. After reading these poems, one questions why this is happening and what is important to live, defend, and even die for?" ~ Michael Whelan, Poet, military historian, and a corporal in the Irish Air Corps of Irish Defense Forces "Love Letters to Ukraine by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an extraordinarily compelling call for love that can transform the insides of both, the writer as well as those who "receive" the letters." ~ Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, and Author of Vanishing Words "These are not just poems of love but an exhortation to fight on, a declaration of the victory of the Ukrainian and the human spirit." ~ Zilka Joseph, Author of In Our Beautiful Bones and Sparrows and Dust "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" is fiercely passionate and compassionate. Through her "love letters," Singh-Chitnis conducts a symphony of love set to the cacophony of war machines." ~ Ami Kaye, Publisher & Editor, Glass Lyre Press, LLC "In Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava, the emotional horizon that Singh-Chitnis evokes is both expansive and intimate, bringing the reader into contact with what is essential to the human condition: compassion and understanding." ~ Richard Modiano, Author of The Forbidden Lunch Box, and Director Emeritus Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center "Kalpna Singh-Chitnis breathes love into her latest poetry collection, Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava. With threads of prayers, compassion, courage, and poetry, she weaves a beautiful tapestry for Ukraine." ~ Alicia Viguer-Espert is the Author of Holding a Hummingbird

Download or read book Love Letters to Ukraine fom Uyava written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by River Paw Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" a poetry collection by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis consists of sixty-eight wartime poems in English on the current Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. The bilingual edition of "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" (Любовні листи до України від Уяви), translated into Ukrainian by Volodymyr Tymchuk, a poet and Lieutenant Colonel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been a finalist at the 2023 "International Book Awards" presented by American Book Fest. The entire collection was written and translated, primarily in real-time, within just eight weeks. The poems in this book aim to build bridges in the hearts of readers, fostering a connection with Ukraine and allowing the world to witness its deep yearning for love, peace, and freedom.

Download or read book Sunflowers written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by River Paw Press. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War, Resistance, Hope and Peace,' (Соняшники: Українська Поезія про Війну, Опір, Надію та Мир), edited by Indian-American poet Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, and published by River Paw Press features a diverse array of poems focusing on war and peace, written in the wake of the current armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This compilation includes contributions from seventy-eight poets from Ukraine and various global regions, presenting works in their original Cyrillic language alongside their translations in English. Additionally, the collection includes poems from Anglophone writers worldwide, reflecting on the war and the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

Download or read book Bare Soul written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ever since "Leaves of Grass" first appeared in 1855, we find Walt Whitman simultaneously falsely imitated and truly manifesting in America. Who would have thought that his latest local incarnation would be in the body and the soul of an exceptional woman born in Gaya, Bihar, India, where the Buddha experienced Enlightenment? Yet here he is..." ~ Jack Foley. "Kalpna Singh-Chitnis' poetry is ladened with original thoughts, spontaneity of expression and sublimity. Her poetic myth and philosophy are self-created and universal to the core. ~ Naseer Ahmed Nasir. "Kalpna's poetry is a saga of struggle between two parts of the dual principle of male-female creation as one. It is the first ever attempt in English to understand, debate and resolve this issue in poetry." ~ Satyapal Anand. "Only a poet of Kalpna's caliber could make words sing and dance or weep and mourn all at the same time." ~ John Harricharan. "These are the verses not only of a major poet, but of a true humanitarian in an era when core human values no longer seem common. Above all, this is a book of love." ~ Jennifer Reeser. "Kalpna's poetry transcends the boundaries of literary analysis, soaring above the need to categorize or dissect, or label with names, as much of English literature is approached." ~ Amata Natasha Goldie.

Download or read book Pray Me Stay Eager written by Ellen Watson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afaa Michael Weaver says, "This is a taut and wise collection... The craft is impeccable, the inner vision revelatory..."

Download or read book Poetry Unbound written by Mike Chasar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies in complex, unexpected, and powerful ways. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, Chasar follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats, including silent film, sound film, and television. Mass and nonprint media have not stolen poetry’s audience, he contends, but have instead given people even more ways to experience poetry. Examining the use of canonical as well as religious and popular verse forms in a variety of genres, Chasar also traces how poetry has helped negotiate and legitimize the cultural status of emergent media. Ranging from Citizen Kane to Leave It to Beaver to best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur, this book reveals poetry’s ability to find new audiences and meanings in media forms with which it has often been thought to be incompatible. Illuminating poetry’s surprising multimedia history, Poetry Unbound offers a new paradigm for understanding poetry’s still evolving place in American culture.

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Gulzar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulzar, one of India’s finest film-makers and lyricists and has always been a poet at heart. His oeuvre is steeped in a poetic sensibility, marked by a lyricism rare in the world of Hindi cinema. Today, Gulzar is regarded as one of India’s foremost Urdu poets, unparalleled in his exploration of human relationships and the insight and sensitivity with which he addresses the many facets of daily life. The sophistication and cadences of Gulzar’s work come alive in this bilingual edition of some of his best poetry, sensitively translated by Pavan K. Varma.

Download or read book The Blind Lady s Descendants written by Anees Salim and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to silently warring parents, Amar Hamsa grows up in a crumbling house called the Bungalow, anticipating tragedies and ignominies. True to his dark premonitions, bad luck soon starts cascading into his life. At twenty-six, he decides to narrate his story to an imaginary audience, and skeletons tumble out of every cupboard in the Bungalow. The Blind Lady’s Descendants is an utterly compelling and haunting family saga, brimming with intense heartache and wry humour, confirming Anees Salim’s reputation as one of our most outstanding storytellers. The Blind Lady’s Descendants is an utterly compelling and haunting family saga, brimming with intense heartache and wry humour, that confirms Anees Salim as one of our most outstanding storytellers.

Download or read book You Must Change Your Life The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin written by Rachel Corbett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.

Download or read book I ll Be Strong for You written by Nasim Marashi and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the lives of three young women in Tehran over the course of two seasons as they pursue their wildly different dreams even as they discover that it may mean breaking with the past and endangering their longstanding friendship. Three recent college graduates in Tehran struggle to find their footing in this award-winning debut by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi. Roja, the most daring of the three, works in an architecture firm and is determined to leave Tehran for graduate school in Toulouse. Shabaneh, who is devoted to her disabled brother and works with Roja, is uncertain about marrying a colleague as it would mean leaving her family behind. Leyla, who was unable to follow her husband abroad because of her commitment to her career as a journalist, is wracked with regret. Over the course of two seasons, summer and fall, in bustling streets and cramped family apartments, the three women weather setbacks and compromises, finding hope in the most unlikely places. Even as their ambitions cause them to question the very fabric of their personalities and threaten to tear their friendship apart, time and again Roja, Shabaneh and Leyla return to the comfort of their longtime affection, deep knowledge and unquestioning support of each other. Vividly capturing three very distinct voices, Marashi's deeply wrought narrative lovingly brings these young women and their friendship to life in all their complexity.

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Download or read book Ennemonde written by Jean Giono and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde’s can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel. "Roads move cautiously around the High Country..." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself. Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world.

Download or read book Winter Counts written by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANTHONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL THRILLER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller)

Download or read book Dear Ms Schubert written by Ewa Lipska and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is composed of 62 poems selected from several of Ewa Lipska's books in which the figure Ms. Schubert appears. Ms. Schubert, a modern European everywoman, is the addressee in poems that read like brief, intimate communiqués between a man and a woman whose relationship over time interweaves a shared secret life with the historical domain of wars, extremist governments, shifting economies, languages (Polish, German, English), and technologies. Ms. Schubert, as recipient of these cryptic postcards, represents the poet's subtle call to her readers as we navigate our own historical moment-balancing sociopolitical action with the authentic love that can endure only between and among individuals"--

Download or read book The Kali Project written by Candice Louisa Daquin and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of poetry, prose, and art produced by women of Indian descent

Download or read book Grief Songs written by Jack Foley and published by Sagging Shorts. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a brief biography of Adelle Foley (pages 139-141), the statement for the inauguration of the Annual Adelle Foley Award from PEN Oakland (pages 142-147), and an addendum of other writings for Jack and Adelle by family and friends.

Download or read book An Alabaster Flask written by Jennifer Reeser and published by Wordtech Communications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: