Snake and Other Poems

Snake and Other Poems PDF Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486406474
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
This exceptional collection contains a rich cross-section of Lawrence's work, including the title poem, "A Collier's Wife," "Monologue of a Mother," "Fireflies in the Corn," and several others.

Snake and Other Poems

Snake and Other Poems PDF Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486406474
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
This exceptional collection contains a rich cross-section of Lawrence's work, including the title poem, "A Collier's Wife," "Monologue of a Mother," "Fireflies in the Corn," and several others.

Snake Poems

Snake Poems PDF Author: Francisco X. Alarcón
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539715
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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For beloved writer and mentor Francisco X. Alarcón, the collection Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation was a poetic quest to reclaim a birthright. Originally published in 1992, the book propelled Alarcón to the forefront of contemporary Chicano letters. Alarcón was a stalwart student, researcher, and specialist on the lost teachings of his Indigenous ancestors. He first found their wisdom in the words of his Mexica (Aztec) grandmother and then by culling through historical texts. During a Fulbright fellowship to Mexico, Alarcón uncovered the writings of zealously religious Mexican priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón (1587–1646), who collected (often using extreme measures), translated, and interpreted Nahuatl spells and invocations. In Snake Poems Francisco Alarcón offered his own poetic responses, reclaiming the colonial manuscript and making it new. This special edition is a tender tribute to Alarcón, who passed away in 2016, and includes Nahuatl, Spanish, and English renditions of the 104 poems based on Nahuatl invocations and spells that have survived more than three centuries. The book opens with remembrances and testimonials about Alarcón’s impact as a writer, colleague, activist, and friend from former poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez, who writes, “This book is another one of those doors that [Francisco] opened and invited us to enter. Here we get to visit a snapshot in time of an ancient place of Nahuatl-speaking ancestors, and Francisco’s poetic response to what he saw through their eyes.”

Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems

Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems PDF Author: Ghareeb Iskander
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653743
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today. In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the epic. Iskander’s modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life. While Gilgamesh was searching for the elixir of life, Iskander’s hero is searching for consolation.

Snake Like Charms

Snake Like Charms PDF Author: Amanda Joy
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742589404
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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This book is grounded deep in reality, as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Author Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the world's oldest religious tradition. According to Indigenous song-cycles, a snake literally created this country. These lines from the poem 'Your Ground' carry their wisdom lightly "snake says / be still / stand your ground / it the only protection we have.' This book quivers with snakes, consorting with birds and animals, in company with humans: "There's no animal alive / won't meet your eye." The author won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, created by Australian Book Review, in 2016. ***.This book is teaming with life, it's a celebration of families surrounded by animals, a book where ideas snake through the lines like arteries. Amanda Joy's variegated language explores rebellious ideas, delves into the underground but remains compassionate. This poet takes a hard look at the world now and yet comes up with a hugely optimistic book.--Robert Adamson (Series: UWAP Poetry) [Subject: Poetry]

Snake and Other Poems

Snake and Other Poems PDF Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486812847
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
This exceptional collection contains a rich cross-section of Lawrence's work, including the title poem, "A Collier's Wife," "Monologue of a Mother," "Fireflies in the Corn," and several others.

Medusa's Mourning

Medusa's Mourning PDF Author: Paria Honardoust
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Medusa's Mourning draws out the authentic nature of overthinking. As humans, we all have our self-criticisms, inner-turmoil, and snakes that whisper into our ears, meddling with our minds and dimming our perceptions. This collection of poems examines the many manifestations of insecurities and the attempt of regaining the territories of the mind taken by intrusive thoughts. Honardoust's work will resonate with readers who feel overwhelmed with their inner voice; you will feel empowered and heard in Medusa's Mourning. This poetry disregards ties to Greek mythology and any references made to Medusa are used as symbolism.

The Slippery Snake and Other Children's Poems

The Slippery Snake and Other Children's Poems PDF Author: Janet Spenelli
Publisher: Trafford
ISBN: 9781412043991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Del Otro Lado de la Noche

Del Otro Lado de la Noche PDF Author:
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816521807
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 240

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Book Description
The Chicano poet offers a collection of poems from the last fifteen years, including fourteen new works that discuss love, sex, and AIDS.

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold PDF Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547906501
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold summons forth the charms and dictates of winter. Just as Joyce Sidman captured the drama of the pond in Song of the Water Boatman and the night woods in Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, here she captures the drama of the cold. Why don't snakes freeze to death? How does the tiny honeybee survive frost? Learn about the secret lives of animals happening under the snow and how it buds to spring!

Still Life with Feeding Snake

Still Life with Feeding Snake PDF Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473524040
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the other. As we grow, that world expands further, to include new species, lost continents, the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space, unseen creatures pass through a garden at dusk; we are surrounded by delectable mysteries. The question of this contested, liminal world sits at the centre of Still Life with Feeding Snake, whose poems live at the edge of loss, or on the cusp of epiphany, always seeking that brief instant of grace when we see what is before us, and not just what we expected to find. In ‘Approaching Sixty’, the poet watches as a woman unclasps her hair: ‘so the nape of her neck/is visible, slender and pale/for moments, before the spill/of light and russet/falls down to her waist’. This, like each poem in the book, becomes an essay in still life and a memento mori, illuminating transient experience with a profound clarity and a charged, sensual beauty.