Poems of Consolation

Poems of Consolation PDF Author: Howard Walsh
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450045391
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts PDF Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213046
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important techniques. Describing Szymborka's poetry, Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire write that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. She writes of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. She looks on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement, but almost never with despair.

The Art of Drowning

The Art of Drowning PDF Author: Billy Collins
Publisher: Pitt Poetry
ISBN: 9780822955672
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music.

This Place I Know

This Place I Know PDF Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763628758
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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A collection of life-affirming verses, inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, includes poems paired with artwork volunteered by such well-known picture book artists as G. Brian Karas, Keven Hawkes, and Giselle Potter.

Love, Remember

Love, Remember PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1786220016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.

Fortune's Prisoner

Fortune's Prisoner PDF Author: Boethius
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Boethius' reputation as a poet is reestablished in these fresh and thoughtful versions.

The Animal Family

The Animal Family PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780063435858
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Here

Here PDF Author: Wisława Szymborska
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054736461X
Category : Poetry
Languages : pl
Pages : 101

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A collection of more than twenty-five poems by Nobel Prize-winnning author Wisława Szymborska, including the title selection in which she examines life on Earth.

Little Book of No Consolation

Little Book of No Consolation PDF Author: Becka McKay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736607510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged;' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection; THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide; she reimagines Biblical figures; governments; and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates; on a pole of syntax all her own; the gyroscopic effect dazzling."--Denise Duhamel

The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy

The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy PDF Author: Stephen Blackwood
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191028118
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.

The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson

The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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