Author: Jürgen Becker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625579386
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Translated from the German by Okla Elliott. "Jurgen Becker was born in 1932. His childhood, therefore, was the Second World War a disease from which he has been recovering ever since the fighting stopped. His poems do not presume to address the horrors directly, but with great courage he casts sidelong glances at things he remembers or the things that prompt such memories. These are important poems, not just about the war but about any unbearable catastrophe the scars of which last forever. Okla Elliott's scrupulous translations are faithful to the poems' nervous hurt: their appearance in English is a major event." David R. Slavitt"
Selected Shorter Poems
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420950410
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Although known best for his sweeping allegorical epic "The Faerie Queen," Edmund Spenser wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work "The Shepherd's Calendar" begins this collection of his "Selected Shorter Poems." An emulation of Virgil's "Eclogues," "The Shepherd's Calendar" depicts the life of shepherd Colin Clout through the twelve months of his year. The twelve eclogues of the poem, each named after a different month, discuss abuses of the church, offer praise for Queen Elizabeth, and reveal the struggles of a lonely shepherd. Also included in this edition of Spenser's poetry are the following poems: "The Ruins of Time," "Prosopopoia," "Muiopotmos," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Amoretti," and "Epithalamion."
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420950410
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Although known best for his sweeping allegorical epic "The Faerie Queen," Edmund Spenser wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work "The Shepherd's Calendar" begins this collection of his "Selected Shorter Poems." An emulation of Virgil's "Eclogues," "The Shepherd's Calendar" depicts the life of shepherd Colin Clout through the twelve months of his year. The twelve eclogues of the poem, each named after a different month, discuss abuses of the church, offer praise for Queen Elizabeth, and reveal the struggles of a lonely shepherd. Also included in this edition of Spenser's poetry are the following poems: "The Ruins of Time," "Prosopopoia," "Muiopotmos," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Amoretti," and "Epithalamion."
Selected Shorter Poems
Author: James Reaney
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888780638
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This is the first selection of Reaneys poems, an invaluable resource for Canadian literature courses or anyone interested in Canadian poetry.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888780638
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This is the first selection of Reaneys poems, an invaluable resource for Canadian literature courses or anyone interested in Canadian poetry.
Beyond Silence
Author: Daniel Hoffman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807128619
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, "Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight." This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response to the natural world. Beyond Silence, to be published on Hoffman's eightieth birthday, presents his shorter poems culled from eight previous collections, plus several new poems. Here, rather than in chronological order, they appear thematically and invite the reader to partake of the pleasures that characterize this distinguished poet's verse: "clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of visual detail and dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily" (Fred Chappell). Arriving at last. It has stumbled across the harshStones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craftAnd strength it has, it has comeAs a sole survivor returns. From the steep pass.Carved on memory's staffThe legend is nearly decipherable.It has lived up to its vowsIf it enduresThe journey through the dark placesTo bear witness,Casting is messageIn a sort of singing. -- "The Poem"
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807128619
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, "Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight." This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response to the natural world. Beyond Silence, to be published on Hoffman's eightieth birthday, presents his shorter poems culled from eight previous collections, plus several new poems. Here, rather than in chronological order, they appear thematically and invite the reader to partake of the pleasures that characterize this distinguished poet's verse: "clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of visual detail and dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily" (Fred Chappell). Arriving at last. It has stumbled across the harshStones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craftAnd strength it has, it has comeAs a sole survivor returns. From the steep pass.Carved on memory's staffThe legend is nearly decipherable.It has lived up to its vowsIf it enduresThe journey through the dark placesTo bear witness,Casting is messageIn a sort of singing. -- "The Poem"
Blackbirds in September
Author: Jürgen Becker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625579386
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Translated from the German by Okla Elliott. "Jurgen Becker was born in 1932. His childhood, therefore, was the Second World War a disease from which he has been recovering ever since the fighting stopped. His poems do not presume to address the horrors directly, but with great courage he casts sidelong glances at things he remembers or the things that prompt such memories. These are important poems, not just about the war but about any unbearable catastrophe the scars of which last forever. Okla Elliott's scrupulous translations are faithful to the poems' nervous hurt: their appearance in English is a major event." David R. Slavitt"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625579386
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Translated from the German by Okla Elliott. "Jurgen Becker was born in 1932. His childhood, therefore, was the Second World War a disease from which he has been recovering ever since the fighting stopped. His poems do not presume to address the horrors directly, but with great courage he casts sidelong glances at things he remembers or the things that prompt such memories. These are important poems, not just about the war but about any unbearable catastrophe the scars of which last forever. Okla Elliott's scrupulous translations are faithful to the poems' nervous hurt: their appearance in English is a major event." David R. Slavitt"
St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems
Author: J. Chester Johnson
Publisher: Brunswick Publishing Corp
ISBN: 9781556182112
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Brunswick Publishing Corp
ISBN: 9781556182112
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Gary Soto
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811807586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811807586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
English-born poet, whose world view developed from youthful rebellion to rediscovered Anglo-Catholicism. In his work Auden reconciled tradition and modernism. Auden is widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
English-born poet, whose world view developed from youthful rebellion to rediscovered Anglo-Catholicism. In his work Auden reconciled tradition and modernism. Auden is widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century.
Selected Shorter Poems
Author: Donald Finkel
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Toward the Distant Islands
Author: Hayden Carruth
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592361
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592361
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.
Great Short Poems from Around the World
Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486478777
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This hardcover edition presents an international sampling of classic poetry. It features ancient Greek, Latin, and Persian poets such as Homer, Sappho, and Martial as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Yiddish poems from the 12th century BC through the 20th century, plus English, Irish, and American classics by Yeats, Byron, Dickinson, and others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486478777
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This hardcover edition presents an international sampling of classic poetry. It features ancient Greek, Latin, and Persian poets such as Homer, Sappho, and Martial as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Yiddish poems from the 12th century BC through the 20th century, plus English, Irish, and American classics by Yeats, Byron, Dickinson, and others.