Author: Gregory Upshaw
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557399610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book represents a complilations of new and old poety. It introduces two new poets with a unique blend of poems targeted at the younger generations. Poetry of the Soul (Revelations)deals with personal and spiritual growth as well as an eye-opening look at worldly viewpoints. These viewpoints deal with social issues and gender issues that impacts "Our Community and Society" today from this poet's standpoint.
Poetry of the Soul (Revelations)
Author: Gregory Upshaw
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557399610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book represents a complilations of new and old poety. It introduces two new poets with a unique blend of poems targeted at the younger generations. Poetry of the Soul (Revelations)deals with personal and spiritual growth as well as an eye-opening look at worldly viewpoints. These viewpoints deal with social issues and gender issues that impacts "Our Community and Society" today from this poet's standpoint.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557399610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book represents a complilations of new and old poety. It introduces two new poets with a unique blend of poems targeted at the younger generations. Poetry of the Soul (Revelations)deals with personal and spiritual growth as well as an eye-opening look at worldly viewpoints. These viewpoints deal with social issues and gender issues that impacts "Our Community and Society" today from this poet's standpoint.
Risking Everything
Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 030742152X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 030742152X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.
Poetic Revelations
Author: Mark S. Burrows
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317079531
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a 'phenomenology of the flesh' as that which connects us with the world, being the site of perception and feeling, joy and suffering, and of life itself in all its vulnerability. The voices represented in this collection reflect interdisciplinary methods of interpretation and broadly ecumenical sensibilities, focusing attention on such matters as the revelatory nature of language in general and poetic language in particular, the function of poetry in society, the question of Incarnation and its relation to language and the poetic arts, the kenosis of the Word, and human embodiment in relation to the word 'enfleshed' in poetry.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317079531
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a 'phenomenology of the flesh' as that which connects us with the world, being the site of perception and feeling, joy and suffering, and of life itself in all its vulnerability. The voices represented in this collection reflect interdisciplinary methods of interpretation and broadly ecumenical sensibilities, focusing attention on such matters as the revelatory nature of language in general and poetic language in particular, the function of poetry in society, the question of Incarnation and its relation to language and the poetic arts, the kenosis of the Word, and human embodiment in relation to the word 'enfleshed' in poetry.
Soul Psalms
Author: U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163152013X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Soul Psalms, a collection of poems from Zimbabwean American poet U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, is filled with lyrical and vivid imagery that takes you on a emotional journey toward finding self. Exploring themes of family, love, body image, acceptance, and belonging, Mhlaba-Adebo’s words flow melodically and powerfully, bringing readers to a place of peace. The themes in Soul Psalms may be personal, but they appeal to a universal pull: the desire to become.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163152013X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Soul Psalms, a collection of poems from Zimbabwean American poet U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, is filled with lyrical and vivid imagery that takes you on a emotional journey toward finding self. Exploring themes of family, love, body image, acceptance, and belonging, Mhlaba-Adebo’s words flow melodically and powerfully, bringing readers to a place of peace. The themes in Soul Psalms may be personal, but they appeal to a universal pull: the desire to become.
The Soul in Paraphrase
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433558645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433558645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.
"PROPHECY" Poetry of the Soul, (Series)
Author: Gregory Upshaw (G E SHAW)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365071529
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Welcome to Poetry of the Soul Series and the 4th edition, titled "Prophecy". This book is another venture into the psyche and the visions of the Author... It represents another evolutionary journey of the writer's views and perceptions through a prism of time. Furthermore, it gives a look into the future from the perceptive of the author. Prophesy from a literary sense represents premonitions, feelings (emotions), as well as, forecasting a sense of something to come. "Prophecy" has those elements, but also takes a look at ourselves through a self-reflecting mirror. Prophecy is a macro view of social values, cultures, classism's, and labels. The audience will get a chance to discover within them the values of family, spirituality, time, and advocacy. It is a chance to interact with the author's dialogue and to see what he appreciate's in the spectrum of life.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365071529
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Welcome to Poetry of the Soul Series and the 4th edition, titled "Prophecy". This book is another venture into the psyche and the visions of the Author... It represents another evolutionary journey of the writer's views and perceptions through a prism of time. Furthermore, it gives a look into the future from the perceptive of the author. Prophesy from a literary sense represents premonitions, feelings (emotions), as well as, forecasting a sense of something to come. "Prophecy" has those elements, but also takes a look at ourselves through a self-reflecting mirror. Prophecy is a macro view of social values, cultures, classism's, and labels. The audience will get a chance to discover within them the values of family, spirituality, time, and advocacy. It is a chance to interact with the author's dialogue and to see what he appreciate's in the spectrum of life.
Wheel With a Single Spoke
Author: Nichita Stanescu
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania’s most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems – the most extensive collection of his work to date – reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the boundaries of thought. His poems, at once surreal and corporeal, lead us into new metaphysical and linguistic terrain.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania’s most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems – the most extensive collection of his work to date – reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the boundaries of thought. His poems, at once surreal and corporeal, lead us into new metaphysical and linguistic terrain.
Poetry of the Soul, Anniversary Edition
Author: G E Shaw
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312175036
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This collection of poems represents my inner-thoughts, my self-reflections, my personal viewpoints, as well as my spiritual awareness of life and society; all of which, is view through my eyes. It is my hope that through my writings, it will bring enlightenment, as well as spiritual and personal growth to whomever chooses to read this book. "Poetry of the Soul" is a book where everyone can interact and seek their own spiritual growth. This book represents a place to go for sanctuary; to see the world through a different pair of eyes. Finally, it is a place to go, to understand that in these stressful and at times, unjust society, we are not alone. Poetry of the Soul, seeks to understand life from many perspectives and cultures.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312175036
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This collection of poems represents my inner-thoughts, my self-reflections, my personal viewpoints, as well as my spiritual awareness of life and society; all of which, is view through my eyes. It is my hope that through my writings, it will bring enlightenment, as well as spiritual and personal growth to whomever chooses to read this book. "Poetry of the Soul" is a book where everyone can interact and seek their own spiritual growth. This book represents a place to go for sanctuary; to see the world through a different pair of eyes. Finally, it is a place to go, to understand that in these stressful and at times, unjust society, we are not alone. Poetry of the Soul, seeks to understand life from many perspectives and cultures.
Stomach of the Soul
Author: Sylva Fischerová
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988790346
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Czech by Sylva Fischerová, Stuart Friebert and Andrew Jan Hauner. Sylva Fischerová's newest volume, STOMACH OF THE SOUL, features an ample selection of award- winning poetry written by a poet whom Ilya Kaminsky refers to as "one of the few European poets who are a great fun to read, without compromising the truth, without selling out the magic," while Bruce Weigl sees these new poems as "fierce in their complete devotion to the revelation of a new way of seeing the world." Calypso Editions is proud to publish STOMACH OF THE SOUL, a bilingual collection in which Fischerová's ironic wit and deep human empathy are perhaps at their best. These particular poems invite paradox where personal and historical forces, faith and skepticism and humor, live side by side like "mosquitoes in holy water." "Sylva Fischerová is a poet like no other. What does it mean? It means that here we have a poet who 'lives with the dead,' who 'finishes their gestures' and raves and dances and loves in a large way, with both arms open, but also whispers, conjures, casts a spell. She speaks of fate, but not: 'as in Greek tragedy / where you carry it inside / where it's wrriten in your eyes.' Her fate is 'like rain: a branch fallen, / right in front of you, / pointing to the graveyard.' This is a voice that speaks without patronizing, that knows of mystery but admits that 'in the last room, / the soul tied up in a password,/ which I'm not gonna tell you—'. This refusal to say, with all its warmth, with love, with verbal skill, aplomb, and fireworks of the highest order, is wisdom. She is not just one of the most important European poets alive, she is also one of the few European poets who are a great fun to read, without compromising the truth, without selling out the magic. She entertains in the old way, teaching the lesson. Her phrases utterly playful and utterly instructive: or 'what the Greeks / died in admiration of, /all these are statues. / They can't eat spinach. Can't see / how you, before the mirror, / try to find yourself, / the inside of your statue.' Fischerová teaches me something new each time I open her book. This is a poet to live with."—Ilya Kaminsky "These new poems from Fischerová are fierce in their complete devotion to the revelation of a new way of seeing the world. They represent no less than the redefining of significant ideas such as fate, death, poetry, and even god, reshaped through the jarringly original vision of the world that drives these remarkable poems. The coming together of Fischerová and Friebert—one of our most distinguished literary translators—is great news too for the lovers of poetry among us. We used to say: These are the kinds of poems that literally transport you to other realms of seeing and feeling and knowing. Hold onto your hats."—Bruce Weigl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988790346
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Czech by Sylva Fischerová, Stuart Friebert and Andrew Jan Hauner. Sylva Fischerová's newest volume, STOMACH OF THE SOUL, features an ample selection of award- winning poetry written by a poet whom Ilya Kaminsky refers to as "one of the few European poets who are a great fun to read, without compromising the truth, without selling out the magic," while Bruce Weigl sees these new poems as "fierce in their complete devotion to the revelation of a new way of seeing the world." Calypso Editions is proud to publish STOMACH OF THE SOUL, a bilingual collection in which Fischerová's ironic wit and deep human empathy are perhaps at their best. These particular poems invite paradox where personal and historical forces, faith and skepticism and humor, live side by side like "mosquitoes in holy water." "Sylva Fischerová is a poet like no other. What does it mean? It means that here we have a poet who 'lives with the dead,' who 'finishes their gestures' and raves and dances and loves in a large way, with both arms open, but also whispers, conjures, casts a spell. She speaks of fate, but not: 'as in Greek tragedy / where you carry it inside / where it's wrriten in your eyes.' Her fate is 'like rain: a branch fallen, / right in front of you, / pointing to the graveyard.' This is a voice that speaks without patronizing, that knows of mystery but admits that 'in the last room, / the soul tied up in a password,/ which I'm not gonna tell you—'. This refusal to say, with all its warmth, with love, with verbal skill, aplomb, and fireworks of the highest order, is wisdom. She is not just one of the most important European poets alive, she is also one of the few European poets who are a great fun to read, without compromising the truth, without selling out the magic. She entertains in the old way, teaching the lesson. Her phrases utterly playful and utterly instructive: or 'what the Greeks / died in admiration of, /all these are statues. / They can't eat spinach. Can't see / how you, before the mirror, / try to find yourself, / the inside of your statue.' Fischerová teaches me something new each time I open her book. This is a poet to live with."—Ilya Kaminsky "These new poems from Fischerová are fierce in their complete devotion to the revelation of a new way of seeing the world. They represent no less than the redefining of significant ideas such as fate, death, poetry, and even god, reshaped through the jarringly original vision of the world that drives these remarkable poems. The coming together of Fischerová and Friebert—one of our most distinguished literary translators—is great news too for the lovers of poetry among us. We used to say: These are the kinds of poems that literally transport you to other realms of seeing and feeling and knowing. Hold onto your hats."—Bruce Weigl
Somewhere Between the Stem and the Fruit
Author: Gwen Frost
Publisher: Broadstone Books
ISBN: 9781937968625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. Young Adult. Somewhere between the stem and the fruit is that paradoxical nexus, the point that is both connection and separation, from where you came, to what you are becoming, the scene of the severing, the letting go, the stepping away, the necessary violence and the radical isolation required to be oneself, wholly. And, perhaps, holy. "The poems are written / before they occur to me," Gwen Frost declares at the conclusion of her shattering first collection. "Something about a scar, something about a hymn." She says that poetry saved her life, making this volume a document of that on-going process of healing, and a gift and a hope for others on the same journey. Foremost, it is a document of a contemporary young woman negotiating her way through a perilous world. "Turns out, there are a million different ways to kill a girl," she observes in "Watch," a poem that references Hitchcock's advice to "torture the women" in order to make a popular film, and by extension the misogynistic voyeurism that fetishizes violence against women. This book documents more than a few of those ways, and nowhere more chillingly than in the poem "sticking heads in the sand," in which the query "How was your summer?" follows up almost casually with another question, "What was your rapist's name?" In the inventory of anticipated experience for a young woman, "summer love and sexual assault / adventures and attacks" go hand in hand, "heads pushed into sand" both an act of violence and an act of willful forgetting. Gwen Frost won't forget, and won't let us forget. She is fiercely self-examining and self-revealing, admitting her chief fear is "what I am capable of, I am afraid / that I could kill a man, / and I am afraid / that I might like it." In lieu of this (perhaps understandable) act of violence, she exorcises and expiates through her verse. In the process, she might save us along with herself. She concludes that she "will write one, unshareable poem, / and I will let it die with me, simple and / forever, folded neatly in my throat." This is her one prediction that we must hope is untrue, for we need her to write many, many more poems, and to share them for many years to come.
Publisher: Broadstone Books
ISBN: 9781937968625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. Young Adult. Somewhere between the stem and the fruit is that paradoxical nexus, the point that is both connection and separation, from where you came, to what you are becoming, the scene of the severing, the letting go, the stepping away, the necessary violence and the radical isolation required to be oneself, wholly. And, perhaps, holy. "The poems are written / before they occur to me," Gwen Frost declares at the conclusion of her shattering first collection. "Something about a scar, something about a hymn." She says that poetry saved her life, making this volume a document of that on-going process of healing, and a gift and a hope for others on the same journey. Foremost, it is a document of a contemporary young woman negotiating her way through a perilous world. "Turns out, there are a million different ways to kill a girl," she observes in "Watch," a poem that references Hitchcock's advice to "torture the women" in order to make a popular film, and by extension the misogynistic voyeurism that fetishizes violence against women. This book documents more than a few of those ways, and nowhere more chillingly than in the poem "sticking heads in the sand," in which the query "How was your summer?" follows up almost casually with another question, "What was your rapist's name?" In the inventory of anticipated experience for a young woman, "summer love and sexual assault / adventures and attacks" go hand in hand, "heads pushed into sand" both an act of violence and an act of willful forgetting. Gwen Frost won't forget, and won't let us forget. She is fiercely self-examining and self-revealing, admitting her chief fear is "what I am capable of, I am afraid / that I could kill a man, / and I am afraid / that I might like it." In lieu of this (perhaps understandable) act of violence, she exorcises and expiates through her verse. In the process, she might save us along with herself. She concludes that she "will write one, unshareable poem, / and I will let it die with me, simple and / forever, folded neatly in my throat." This is her one prediction that we must hope is untrue, for we need her to write many, many more poems, and to share them for many years to come.