Poetry of Presence

Poetry of Presence PDF Author: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998258836
Category : Mindfulness (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.

Poetry of Presence

Poetry of Presence PDF Author: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998258836
Category : Mindfulness (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.

Exploring Poetry of Presence

Exploring Poetry of Presence PDF Author: Gloria Heffernan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737105503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Book Description
This companion guide to POETRY OF PRESENCE, the popular anthology of mindfulness poems, includes a list of engaging reading strategies, fifty stimulating writing prompts, and a twelve-week workshop curriculum.

Vigil

Vigil PDF Author: Pamela Heinrich MacPherson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692777619
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Vigil: The Poetry of Presence, a collection of sixty-five poems, is written from the perspective of a seasoned hospice volunteer processing her varied experiences while being present and bearing witness to the sacred moments of dying. These unedited, tender and insightful poems, taken from the author's personal journal, are ready to be savored.

In the Presence of Absence

In the Presence of Absence PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744658
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award “What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity.” —Saadi Yousef “There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s poetry.” —Anton Shammas One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell.

In the Presence of the Sun

In the Presence of the Sun PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826348173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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"In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to express instinctive continuities of a pre-Columbian vision."--Library Journal "The strong, spare beauty of In the Presence of the Sun is compelling evidence that Scott Momaday is one of the most versatile and distinguished artists in America today."--Peter Matthiessen ". . . the images, the voices, the people are shadowy, elusive, burning with invention, like flames against a dark sky. For behind them is always the artist-author himself . . . a man with a sacred investiture. Strong medicine, strong art indeed."--The New York Times Book Review

Latin American Poetry

Latin American Poetry PDF Author: Gordon Brotherston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521207638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
This study considers the ways Spanish American and Brazilian poets differ from their European counterparts by considering 'Latin American' as more than a perfunctory epithet. It sets the orthodox Latin tradition of the subcontinent against others that have survived or grown up after the conquest then pays attention to those poets who, from Independence, have striven to express a specifically American moral and geographical identity. Dr Brotherson focuses on Modernismo, or the 'coming of age' of poetry in Spanish America and Brazil, and the importance of the movements associated with it. He considers César Vallejo and Pablo Neruda, probably the greatest of the selection, Octavio Paz, and modern poets who have reacted differently to the idea that Latin America might now be thought to have not just a geographical but a nascent political identity of its own. Poems are liberally quoted, and treated as entities in their own right.

Nebraska Presence

Nebraska Presence PDF Author: Greg Kosmicki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979393433
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac including Greg Kuzma, Marjorie Saiser, Twyla Hansen, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki, as well as widely noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many others.

For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing

For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing PDF Author: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578653068
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A stunning meditative poem that will help you say what you want to say when someone you love is dying. Read it for solace. Use it as a keepsake journal, attaching photographs, jotting down reminiscences and reflections. Share it during gatherings of farewell and remembrance. Offer it as a gift of compassion. However you choose to use it, may it bring you consolation.

Thinking Its Presence

Thinking Its Presence PDF Author: Dorothy J. Wang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804789096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets—Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Lu—the book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets.

A Book of Luminous Things

A Book of Luminous Things PDF Author: Czesław Miłosz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156005746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Book Description
Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.