The Book of Nightmares

The Book of Nightmares PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395120989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.

The Book of Nightmares

The Book of Nightmares PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395120989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.

When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone

When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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A collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219124
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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This newly assembled volume draws from two books that were originally published in Galway Kinnell's first two decades of writing, WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS (1960), which included the poem "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," and FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK (1964). Kinnell has revised some of the work in this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.

Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell

Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell PDF Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Strong is Your Hold

Strong is Your Hold PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547053660
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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Presents a collection of poetry by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, including "When the Towers Fell," his requiem for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Three Books

Three Books PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life's work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell's best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Ten Poems to Change Your Life

Ten Poems to Change Your Life PDF Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307421759
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Great poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives. In Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden shows how these astonishing poems can inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words for. "The Journey" by Mary Oliver "Last Night as I Was Sleeping" by Antonio Machado "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman "Zero Circle" by Rumi "The Time Before Death" by Kabir "Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda "Last Gods" by Galway Kinnell "For the Anniversary of My Death" by W. S. Merwin "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott "The Dark Night" by St. John of the Cross

A New Selected Poems

A New Selected Poems PDF Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618154456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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A collection of more than sixty of Galway Kinnell's poems, spanning 1960-1994.

Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.