Author: Charles Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9390287820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9390287820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
The Farewell
Author: Charles Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Farewell Glacier
Author: Nick Drake
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN: 9781852249335
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have explored this far north. Sailing as close as possible to the vast glaciers that dominate the islands, they saw polar bear prints on pieces of pack ice the size of trucks. And they tried to understand the effects of climate change on the ecosystem of this most crucial and magnificent part of the world. Nick Drake's new collection gathers together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape-shifters and the powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year 2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever. Many of the poems from The Farewell Glacier were included in the ground-breaking High Arctic exhibition, installed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from July 2011 to January 2012, which received substantial national publicity, including a feature on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and national press reviews. 'A scintillating collection of poems...;a mastery of form and tone, and a simple, uncontrived unravelling of emotional and psychological complexities...; If you care about words; if you care about the impossibility but the nobility of trying to express the ineffable in language that is accessible but that stuns, then haunts you, buy this book' - Lloyd Rees, Envoi 'Subtle, funny and tremendously moving. He has an eye for the small detail as well as the big picture. These poems brilliantly evoke time and place' - Jackie Kay
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN: 9781852249335
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have explored this far north. Sailing as close as possible to the vast glaciers that dominate the islands, they saw polar bear prints on pieces of pack ice the size of trucks. And they tried to understand the effects of climate change on the ecosystem of this most crucial and magnificent part of the world. Nick Drake's new collection gathers together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape-shifters and the powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year 2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever. Many of the poems from The Farewell Glacier were included in the ground-breaking High Arctic exhibition, installed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from July 2011 to January 2012, which received substantial national publicity, including a feature on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and national press reviews. 'A scintillating collection of poems...;a mastery of form and tone, and a simple, uncontrived unravelling of emotional and psychological complexities...; If you care about words; if you care about the impossibility but the nobility of trying to express the ineffable in language that is accessible but that stuns, then haunts you, buy this book' - Lloyd Rees, Envoi 'Subtle, funny and tremendously moving. He has an eye for the small detail as well as the big picture. These poems brilliantly evoke time and place' - Jackie Kay
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115291
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115291
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
No Word of Farewell
Author: R. S. Gwynn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
R. S. Gwynn is America's greatest poetry satirist. This book collects the finest poems from the author's previous five collections -- all printed in limited editions, and now long out of print. A leading figure in the renaissance of form and narrative in American poetry, Gwynn is a master of song and storytelling. A rare, true wit.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
R. S. Gwynn is America's greatest poetry satirist. This book collects the finest poems from the author's previous five collections -- all printed in limited editions, and now long out of print. A leading figure in the renaissance of form and narrative in American poetry, Gwynn is a master of song and storytelling. A rare, true wit.
Insomnia
Author: Linda Pastan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 039324718X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets. These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as an invitation to reflect on the world's quieter movements—from gardens heavy after a first storm to the moon slipping into darkness in an eclipse—as well as on the subtle but relentless passage of time. Insomnia embodies Linda Pastan's graceful and iconic voice, both lucid and haunting.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 039324718X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets. These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as an invitation to reflect on the world's quieter movements—from gardens heavy after a first storm to the moon slipping into darkness in an eclipse—as well as on the subtle but relentless passage of time. Insomnia embodies Linda Pastan's graceful and iconic voice, both lucid and haunting.
After the Fall
Author: Edward Field
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990717
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter—the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America—as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990717
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter—the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America—as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.
Farewell, Samsara
Author: Margaret Henderson Hager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989651103
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Selected poems by Margaret Henderson Hager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989651103
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Selected poems by Margaret Henderson Hager
The farewell, a poem
Author: Charles Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Farewell [poem].
Author: Cyril Bart Coaby
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Death of an old man.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Death of an old man.