Download or read book Homeless Memorial written by John La Greca and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Download or read book Funeral and Memorial Service Readings Poems and Tributes written by Rachel R. Baum and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words can fail even the most articulate when called upon to speak at a loved one's funeral or memorial occasion. The bereaved desires to say something meaningful, yet services are often held so quickly that there is little time to find something appropriate at the library or bookstore. This book is a collection of poetry and prose appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. To assist the reader in finding a suitable passage, the book is divided into eleven chapters. There are tributes for mothers; fathers; children; spouses and soulmates; friends; siblings and other close relatives; soldiers and victims of war or violence; pets; and general readings appropriate for men, women, or any loved one. These selections will also prove helpful for clergy, counselors, and hospice, hospital, and funeral professionals. Appendices list resources and support organizations, and each selection is indexed by author, title, and first line. A special additional index references pieces by famous uses, such as in a film, novel, or celebrity's funeral, so readers can locate a passage they remember from its context.
Download or read book The Picador Book of Funeral Poems written by Don Paterson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our deepest grief we still turn instinctively to poetry for solace. These poems, drawn from many different ages and cultures, remind us that the experience of parting is a timelessly human one: however alone the loss of a loved one leaves us, our mourning is also something that deeply unites us; these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief or bereavement. Whatever our loss, it is assuaged in finding a voice – and whether that voice is one of private remembrance or public memorial, The Picador Book of Funeral Poems will help you towards it.
Download or read book Memorial Poems written by Edmund Turney and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Poems written by George W. Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Funeral Poems written by Michael Ashby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 137 FUNERAL POEMS to COMFORT YOU, already being used by UK & US Funeral Directors & Civil Funeral Celebrants; 80 inspirational famous poems by SHAKESPEARE, TENNYSON, WORDSWORTH, BURNS, KEATS, SHELLEY, BYRON, DICKINSON, BROWNING, ROSSETTI, BROOKE... and 57 MODERN funeral poems including: "I AM NOT GONE", "A LONG CUP OF TEA", "RAINBOWS ON THE MOON", "MY MUM", "GRANDPA'S LOST HIS GR", "THE GOLF COURSE IN THE SKY" & "I WANT TO BE BURIED WITH MY MOBILE PHONE"... by Michael Ashby, one of the world's leading, modern funeral poets, whose poems have already touched the lives of millions in over 172 countries through Michael's website & facebook pages & moving, global Comments from these are included.
Download or read book Memorial Poems Etc written by Edmund TURNEY and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of the War L envoi The cathedral Three memorial poems Heartsease and rue Sentiment Fancy Humor and satire Epigrams written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poets Tributes to Garfield A Collection of Many Memorial Poems written by Moses King and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time.
Download or read book Miscellaneous poems Memorial verses Sonnets I XXVII L Envoi Vision of Sir Launfal written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Is Nothing at All written by Canon Henry Scott Holland and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.
Download or read book Memorial written by Alice Oswald and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James Wood, The New Yorker
Download or read book Felicity written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.
Download or read book The Nonconformist s Memorial written by Susan Howe and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. Howe is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth-century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T.S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into two sections, "Turning" and "Conversion", in half-ironic nonconforming counterpoint to Eliot's Four Quartets. Her collaging and mirror-imaging of words are concretions of verbal static, visual meditations on what can and cannot be said. For Howe, "Melville's Marginalia" is the essential poem in the collection, an approach to an elusive and allusive mind through Melville's own reading and the notations in his library books. This, says Howe, is "Language a wood for thought".
Download or read book Grief and Horses written by Patrick Daly and published by Broadstone Books. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Daly indeed writes of both grief and horses (among other animals, all sources of wisdom), but his deeply empathetic poems cover the full range of emotion to arrive at hope. There is grief, to be sure, in Patrick Daly's new poetry collection, especially associated with the madness of war and its aftermath. And horses, yes, along with many other animals, all with wisdom to offer. But most of all there is language, the love of it and the skillful use of it, as in the opening poem "Words" in which he wishes to learn the language of trees, "But the words of trees / are so large we cannot hear them." Perhaps not, but in Daly's poetry, we nevertheless can sense that wider world. Writing in the foreword to the book, J. David Cummings observes that "Empathy is the rich center of all the poems in this book," the "hidden alchemy" by which Daly works this wonder, such that in the end it is not grief that we take away from these poems, but hope. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction.
