Download or read book Sighting and Other Poems of Faith written by John Robert Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Robert Lee has been described as the foremost Caribbean Christian writer of his generation with a truly incarnational view of faith, anchored in the reality of human experience and expressed in richly textured images of Caribbean landscapes, dress, street life, music, dance and his native Creole language. The selected poems in Sighting and other poems of faith mark the pilgrims progress of this writer over three decades. In the poems he sees his life and experiences through the lens of the Christian faith, yet, in the words of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, his Saint Lucian contemporary, you dont get in the poetry anything that is, in a sense, preachy or self-advertising in terms of its morality. His is a poetry that is rooted in the flesh and blood reality of his times, even as he looks beyond to the transcendent promises of his faith. St. Lucia, Boston, the Haitian earthquake of 2010 are the scenes to which he turns his perceptive gaze, with a poetry that is remarkably mature. The poetry is accessible to anyone who loves a craftsman who turns the language into startling and provocative images.
Download or read book Childhood in Poetry written by John MacKay Shaw and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1967 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer and Other Poems written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Custer and Other Poems is a collection of philosophical poems on subjects ranging from a person's smile to the Greek transformation of Psyche, to the human compassion for those less fortunate. Excerpt: "All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race, By only running right, We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height."
Download or read book Maud the Princess Enoch Arden and Other Poems written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metrical Tales and Other Poems written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballads metrical tales and other poems written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Henry Raeburn R A written by James Greig and published by London : "The Connoisseur" (Otto limited). This book was released on 1911 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sun Up and Other Poems written by Lola Ridge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun-Up, and Other Poems is a lyrical collection by Lola Ridge. Excerpt: "It's strange about stars.... You have to be still when they look at you. They push your song inside of you with their song. Their long silvery rays sink into you and do not hurt. It is good to feel them resting on you like great white birds... and their shining whiteness doesn't burn like the sun— it washes all over you and makes you feel cleaner'n water."
Download or read book The Present Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vivas to Those Who Have Failed Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet Martín Espada gives voice to the spirit of endurance in the face of loss. In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour workday. At the heart of this volume is a series of ten poems about the death of the poet’s father. “El Moriviví” uses the metaphor of a plant that grows in Puerto Rico to celebrate the many lives of Frank Espada, community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer, from a jailhouse in Mississippi to the streets of Brooklyn. The son lyrically imagines his father’s return to a bay in Puerto Rico: “May the water glow blue as a hyacinth in your hands.” Other poems confront collective grief in the wake of the killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and police violence against people of color: “Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World” urges us to “melt the bullets into bells.” Yet the poet also revels in the absurd, recalling his dubious career as a Shakespearean “actor,” finding madness and tenderness in the crowd at Fenway Park. In exquisitely wrought images, Espada’s poems show us the faces of Whitman’s “numberless unknown heroes.”
Download or read book Corazon de Hojalata written by Margarita Saona and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corazón de hojalata recoge poemas escritos desde la experiencia del fallo cardiaco, la cirugía, la cercanía de la muerte, un transplante de corazón y otras situaciones extremas. Margarita Saona confronta el dolor, la alienación, el amor y la otredad impuestas por el cuerpo enfermo desde un lenguaje en el que la intensidad, las imágenes y el ritmo no toman distancia de la cotidianidad de las palabras Tin Heart brings together a series of poems born out the experience of cardiac failure, surgery, the proximity of death, a heart transplant, and other extreme situations. Margarita Saona confronts the pain, alienation, love, and otherness imposed by an infirm body with a language in which intensity, imagery, and rhythm do not detract from the simplicity of everyday words.
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trances of the Blast written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle—moving, authoritative, generous.
Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa written by Chika Sagawa and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation • The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). Translated by and with an introduction by Sawako Nakayasu An important and daringly experimental voice in Tokyo’s avant-garde poetry scene, Chika Sagawa broke with the gender-bound traditions of Japanese poetry. Growing up in isolated rural Japan, Sagawa moved to Tokyo at seventeen, and begin publishing her work at eighteen.She was immediately recognized as a leading light of the male-dominated Japanese literary scene; her work combines striking, unique imagery with Western influences. The results are short, sharp, surreal poems about human fragility and the beauty of nature from Japan’s first female Modernist poet. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance. AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES • THE AWAKENING • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY • THE HEADS OF CERBERUS • LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET • LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS • PASSING • THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER • THERE IS CONFUSION • THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN • VILLETTE
Download or read book Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems written by Eric Mackay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the commencement of the year 1885, a captivating little volume of poems was mysteriously issued from the "Leadenhalle Presse" of Messrs. Field and Tuer—a quaint, vellum-bound, antique-looking book, tied up on all sides with strings of golden silk ribbon, and illustrated throughout with fanciful wood-cuts. It was entitled "Love Letters by a Violinist," and those who were at first attracted by its title and suggestive outward appearance, untied the ribbons with a certain amount of curiosity. Love-letters were surely of a private, almost sacred character. What "Violinist" thus ventured to publish his heart-records openly? And were they worth reading? Were the questions asked by the public, and last, not least, came the natural inquiry, "Who was the 'Violinist'?" To this no satisfactory answer could be obtained, for nobody knew. But it was directly proved on perusal of the book that he was a poet, not a mere writer of verse. The poet was Eric Mackay.
Download or read book A Different Person written by James Merrill and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill--winner of the Pulitzer and National Book Award--is one of America's most celebrated poets. This acclaimed memoir--nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award--traces Merrill's painful yet often hilarious life as a young man. "Stands with Merrill's finest work".-- Los Angeles Times Book Review.
