Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Alternative Medicine
Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Dramas and Other Poems: Artaxerxes. The Olympiad. Hypsipyle. Titus. Demetrius. The dream of Scipio. Cantatas
Author: Pietro Metastasio
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Day the Dream Came True and Other Poems
Author: Adam D. Pfeffer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440112320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This collection of inspiring poetry includes such favorites as I THOUGHT I SAW A RAINBOW, THE LIGHT SHINING 'ROUND THE WORLD and THE WAR NOBODY FOUGHT. Besides poems inspired by Barack Obama's victory, the collection recalls events of the past including THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL and THE LAST DAY OF THE CENTURY. The collection includes rhyming poems and many free or blank verse poems and includes an historical perspective. Subjects such as television, advertising, greed, society in general and yes, love, are confronted in an entertaining manner. A conscious effort was also made to distort and, ultimately, obliterate form in some of the poems. In experimenting with the form and wordplay involved, the essentials of poetry are explored. Meant to be entertaining reading, many of these poems will stimulate you and affect your life in a positive manner. THE DAY THE DREAM CAME TRUE and OTHER POEMS is an homage to hope for anyone seeking peace in the world.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440112320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This collection of inspiring poetry includes such favorites as I THOUGHT I SAW A RAINBOW, THE LIGHT SHINING 'ROUND THE WORLD and THE WAR NOBODY FOUGHT. Besides poems inspired by Barack Obama's victory, the collection recalls events of the past including THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL and THE LAST DAY OF THE CENTURY. The collection includes rhyming poems and many free or blank verse poems and includes an historical perspective. Subjects such as television, advertising, greed, society in general and yes, love, are confronted in an entertaining manner. A conscious effort was also made to distort and, ultimately, obliterate form in some of the poems. In experimenting with the form and wordplay involved, the essentials of poetry are explored. Meant to be entertaining reading, many of these poems will stimulate you and affect your life in a positive manner. THE DAY THE DREAM CAME TRUE and OTHER POEMS is an homage to hope for anyone seeking peace in the world.
Poetry and the Doctors
Author: Charles Loomis Dana
Publisher:
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Category : Literature and medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Literature and medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Village, The Parish Register, and Other Poems
Author: George Crabbe
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Poetry by American Women, 1900-1975
Author: Joan Reardon
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
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Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
No descriptive material is available for this title.
The Monthly Chapbook
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Contemporary American Poetry
Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.
The Parish Register, and Other Poems. By the Rev. George Crabbe ... And The Sabbath, and Other Poems. By the Rev. James Grahame. With Memoirs of the Authors. [With a Portrait of Crabbe.]
Author: George Crabbe
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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