The Chinese Translations

The Chinese Translations PDF Author: Witter Bynner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374517088
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Lyrical translations of two famous Chinese works - Chu Sun's Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang and the Tao Te Ching - as interpreted by renowned poet Witter Bynner.

The Chinese Translations

The Chinese Translations PDF Author: Witter Bynner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374517088
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Book Description
Lyrical translations of two famous Chinese works - Chu Sun's Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang and the Tao Te Ching - as interpreted by renowned poet Witter Bynner.

Spectra

Spectra PDF Author: Arthur Davison Ficke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu PDF Author: Witter Bynner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399512988
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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“The eighty-one sayings in this volume shine like gems-cut clear and beautiful in every facet . . . . This translation will stand as the perfect rendering of a classic work.”—John Haynes Holmes Lao Tzu was one of the greatest mystics of all time. Legend tells us that he was immaculately conceived by a shooting star. Confucius, who met him only once, likened him to a dragon, the one creature in all creation whose ways he would never understand. Some hold that Lao Tzu was not one man but many men, and the work attributed to him, the Tao Teh Ching, the product of many minds over many centuries. But whether or not the Tao Teh Ching, here presented as The Way of Life, is the author’s own matters little. From its original in sixth-century B.C. China it has come down to us as one of the most powerful testaments ever written to man’s fitness in the universe. The basis of Taoism, one of the world’s great religions, the Tao Teh Ching has been translated more frequently than any other work besides the Bible. Articulating the way of poise, serenity, and complete assurance, it teaches us how to work with the invisible forces of nature, the psyche, and the soul for a more successful life. Not passive contemplation, but creative quietism is the Way of Lao Tzu, and it has never been more relevant than it is today.

The New World

The New World PDF Author: Witter Bynner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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On Speaking Terms

On Speaking Terms PDF Author: Connie Wanek
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"Connie Wanek . . . is superb, mature [and] a master of mood and language."--St. Paul Pioneer Press "No poet I know, with the exception of Jane Kenyon, is as able to discover the magic and depth in ordinary, day-to-day life and to artfully render that vision for the reader."--Louis Jenkins Connie Wanek's third book of poems, On Speaking Terms, is amusing, tender, and surprising. Herself a librarian in Duluth, Minnesota, Wanek's poems emerge from everyday objects--Scrabble, garlic, lipstick, hawkweed--and the landscapes, waterscapes, and severe winters of the upper Midwest. Readers will shove off in canoes, buckle on skis, set fishing nets in Lake Superior, and spend time in the real world of the imagination. Lit by startling metaphors, Wanek's work has been justly compared to Wislawa Szymborska's for its wry wit and spare "Eastern European" sensibility. . . . Afterwards it was Eve who made the first snowman, her second sin, and she laughed as she rolled up the wet white carpet and lifted the wee head into place. "And God causeth the sun to melt her labors, for He was a jealous God." Connie Wanek is the author of two books of poems. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is a public librarian and renovates old houses with her husband. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry. In 2006 she was named a Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry from the Library of Congress.

Uncertain Grace

Uncertain Grace PDF Author: Rebecca Liv Wee
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591543
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets.

Grenstone Poems

Grenstone Poems PDF Author: Witter Bynner
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Leaving Saturn

Leaving Saturn PDF Author: Major Jackson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032342X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Leaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbors, and friends while growing up in Philadelphia. His poems hauntingly reflect urban decay and violence, yet at the same time they rejoice in the sustaining power of music and the potency of community. Jackson also honors artists who have served as models of resistance and maintained their own faith in the belief of the imagination to alter lives. The title poem, a dramatic monologue in the voice of the American jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra, details such a humane program and serves as an admirable tribute to the tradition of African American art. Throughout, Jackson unflinchingly portrays our most devastated landscapes, yet with a vividness and compassion that expose the depth of his imaginative powers.

Look at This Blue

Look at This Blue PDF Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry! Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human, plant, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.

Madwoman

Madwoman PDF Author: Shara McCallum
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1938584414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are?