Download or read book Musings of the Mad Poet from Poetria written by J. J. Lauria and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel of the twenty-first century, destined to be made into a movie. The storyline is the most original ever written by an author. The story takes place in the quaint farming town of Galt, California. Mary Ellen, the main character, strolls on a bridge and sees two naked people that she recognizes. But something is not right about them--it frightens her. That which she sees, is against all that she had been taught. She believes wholeheartedly in the Catholic religion. She turns and runs home throwing herself on the bed sobbing uncontrollably, body trembling and chest hurting. She feels the excruciating pain of her shattered heart. Mary Ellen's best friend is Lainey Cousteau. They've gone to church every Sunday, since they were children. Johnny Butano and Eddie Goldstein have been friends since elementary school. The four fall in love. Most everyone living in Galt, attends the Catholic Church. Father O'Leary and Sister Catherine are well liked by their parishioners. Bad things begin to happen to, and around, Mary Ellen that eventually cause her to act out in an insane manner. Mary Ellen tries to block out the two people from the vision', the term she created after seeing them, because she dare not talk about it--no one would believe her. She begins to have nightmares. The two people from the vision' always appear and threaten her, blaming her for seeing them. They tell her not to ever say a word or they will kill her. Scared and confused, she begins to display outbursts of craziness. Her friends and parents are confused by her actions. Mary Ellen's nightmares become more intense. The two people from the vision' keep threatening to kill her...finally, she threatens to kill them. Mary Ellen unravels the mystery of the vision' and discovers what is not right about the two people. The ending is so shocking and disturbing that the author warns you, the reader, to get prepared to read something that will affect you emotionally.
Download or read book Poemes That Stirre the Soule and Moove the Bowelles written by J. J. Lauria and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'Deep Space Probe To Poetria, ' we traversed the Galaxy to visit the home planet of the verbal invaders of our world, the Poetrians. Then, returning in 'Payload From Poetria, ' we brought back a cargo of poeple, i.e. Poetrians. But, this familiarity with the realm of Poetrians caused the writer's dark side to overpower and break through his consciousness as 'Alter' in 'Musings Of The Mad Poet From Poetria, ' indicting Lauria as the Mad Poet, rather than he, the Parallel Universe Ego! Now, Lauria re-emerges as the dominant poet, accepting the unjust designation 'Mad, ' and sublimating his desire to avenge the indignity, by bringing forth a fourth book-not part of the Poetrian Trilogy, but one in which the Poetrians take on the work of unidentified anonymous internists (not to be confused with worms). Their objective? To stirre your soule and moove your bowelles! Can they do it? Well, let me report to you that mine soule hath been stirred and mine bowelles have been mooved! Am I being too subjective, too presumptive, too everything else in thinking you will experience the same? Perhaps, but that is for you to reflect upon after reading. I can only assure you that once your soule is stirred, your bowelles will be moved! Sincerely, Anonymous P.S. I too, like the internists, must remain anonymous. Why? So that my identity and fabulous career in the Arts does not overshadow Lauria's. Is this not awesome humility? Let's give it up for me!"
Download or read book Missionary Daughter written by Dorothea Chambers Blaisdell and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Deep Space Probe To Poetria,' we traversed the Galaxy to visit the home planet of the verbal invaders of our world, the Poetrians. Then, returning in Payload From Poetria,' we brought back a cargo of poeple, i.e. Poetrians. But, this familiarity with the realm of Poetrians caused the writer's dark side to overpower and break through his consciousness as Alter' in Musings Of The Mad Poet From Poetria,' indicting Lauria as the Mad Poet, rather than he, the Parallel Universe Ego! Now, Lauria re-emerges as the dominant poet, accepting the unjust designation Mad,' and sublimating his desire to avenge the indignity, by bringing forth a fourth book not part of the Poetrian Trilogy, but one in which the Poetrians take on the work of unidentified anonymous internists (not to be confused with worms). Their objective? To stirre your soule and moove your bowelles! Can they do it? Well, let me report to you that mine soule hath been stirred and mine bowelles have been mooved! Am I being too subjective, too presumptive, too everything else in thinking you will experience the same? Perhaps, but that is for you to reflect upon after reading. I can only assure you that once your soule is stirred, your bowelles will be moved! Sincerely, Anonymous P.S. I too, like the internists, must remain anonymous. Why? So that my identity and fabulous career in the Arts does not overshadow Lauria's. Is this not awesome humility? Let's give it up for me!"
Download or read book Poom written by J. J. Lauria and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time on Poetria there are explosions resulting from pombs detonated by Poetrians. Poetria? Poetrians? Where is that? Who are they? Sorry, answering such questions requires research, and this back cover has word number limitations. You'd find these answers in my first three books-a trilogy: Deep Space Probe To Poetria, Payload From Poetria, and Musings Of The Mad Poet From Poetria, all available from AuthorHouse, or special order through retail book outlets. These are my poetry legacy, a way of leaving some of my works in a published form, to gather dust on a shelf until someone opens one of the volumes-this being the sixth on poetry-and reads it-particularly this one-and POOM! A pomb goes off! More about this inside. Duck for cover!
Download or read book The Anthologist written by Nicholson Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker’s brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. * * * A New York Times Notable Book, 2009 Favorite Fiction of 2009–Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2009–The Christian Science Monitor Best of 2009–Slate.com "A Year’s Reading" Favorites, 2009–The New Yorker Best Books of 2009–Seattle Times
Download or read book Lu Pavone written by Giuseppe Jovine and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questa raccolta di poesie e di racconti popolari anonimi in dialetto molisano tracciano il percorso di due storie che, pur diversificate, si compenetrano e si completano a vicenda: la storia individuale dell' autore e la storia collettiva della società di un paese del Sud. Le immagini di un mondo apparentemente immobile e arcaico si alternano alle vicende di una realtà storica complessa e tormentata, nel cui magma vecchio e nuovo si scontrano e si fondono. This collection of poems and anonymous folktales in the Molisan dialect traces the unfolding of two stories which, although distinct, interweave and complete each other: the author's individual story and the story of a town in the South of Italy. The images of an apparently immobile and archaic world alternate with the events of a complex and tormented historical reality, in whose magma the new and the old clash and fuse.
Download or read book The Pocket Sappho written by Willis Barnstone and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes. Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet. This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho.
Download or read book The Spring of My Life written by Kobayashi Issa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on translating (and reading) haiku.
Download or read book Collected Poems 1947 1997 written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 1507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous landmark works 'Howl' and 'Kaddish' to the poems of White Shroud and Cosmopolitan Greetings, and on to his later writings such as the caustically funny 'Death and Fame', the provocative 'New Democracy Wish List' and the elegiac 'Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgia)'. Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. Also containing illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends, illuminating notes to the poems, original prefaces and photographs, this is the essential record of one of the most influential voices in twentieth century poetry.
Download or read book The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Works of Audre Lorde written by Audre Lorde and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay. Among the essays included here are: "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" "I Am Your Sister" Excerpts from the American Book Award–winning A Burst of Light The poems are drawn from Lorde’s nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are: "Martha" "A Litany for Survival" "Sister Outsider" "Making Love to Concrete"
Download or read book When the Roll Is Called a Pyonder written by Diana Renee Zimmerman and published by Electio Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With grace, humor, and sensitivity, Diana R. Zimmerman renders a traditional Mennonite farm family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as seen through a child's eyes and spoken in the hypnotic rhythms of a young girl's voice. The spirited speaker develops a rich sense of herself and her community as she grows up in a conservative religious context where "help means spank," and female children are reared for lives of obedience, modesty, and piety. This is a remarkably immediate work of memory and imagination-authentic, fair-minded, and unsentimental- suitable for readers of all ages." -Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author of Sleeping Preacher and The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life "Diana R. Zimmerman has written a great American memoir. I was reminded of Huck Finn and Harriet the Spy and Jo March as I chuckled and gasped and laughed out loud through this book. You will love this little Mennonite girl, and she will lead you back to your own inner child. You will also start seeing the world through her eyes. You won't want this story to end." -Shirley Hershey Showalter, author of Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World
Download or read book Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy written by Blake Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
Download or read book Poetry of the Magyars written by John Bowring and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meadowlands written by Louise Gluck and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of The Odyssey: the "unanswerable/affliction of the human heart: how to divide/the world's beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves."
Download or read book The People Look Like Flowers At Last written by Charles Bukowski and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing, there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. —from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"
