Author: Kahlil Gibran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time.

Author: Maria Laina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999261316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Translated from the Greek by Sarah McCann. Maria Laina's debut English collection. Laina's poems carve symbolically rich images drawn from mythology and the natural world. Rose Fear follows in the Sapphic vein: fragmented, prophetic, and emotionally charged. Sarah McCann in her translations deftly captures the music and the vividness of Laina's scenes, which take their inspiration from regions as diverse as Japan, the Caribbean, and her native Greece. Yet always behind the recognizable world lie the rhythms and lights of the fairytale, the fable, and the spell. "A moving, vivid collection of verse ... The collection's strength lies in its ability to challenge the reader, and its study of time offers new ways of imagining the intangible."--Kirkus Reviews "Like a grim fairytale, Laina's silvery lullaby lyricism morphs into beautifully dark chants and hanging, haikulike scenes as it moves between voices and scraps of stories, complicating and recoloring the feeling of fear itself."--World Literature Today Poetry. Women's Studies. Greek Studies

Author: Jim Carroll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140586954
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as a poet, and has won acclaim and comparisons to everyone from Rimbaud to Frank O’Hara for his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery. This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods, released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic tributes to Robert Mapplethorpe and Ted Berrigan. “His poems’ urgent, obsessive metaphors pose tensely against their cool, streetwise surface voice, charging them with an electricity that’s at once disturbing, sexual, religious, and psychological.”—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Author: Daniel Poppick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134388
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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From Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments, narrative poems that find millennials adrift--in political upheaval and personal crisis--and trying to find their way back to one another Winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy These poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals, precariously (or just un-) employed, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet's future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship, artifice and technology, writing and ritual, hauntings and obsessions--searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.

Author: Jane Wong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948579216
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--

Author: Grace Andreacchi
Publisher: Andromache Books
ISBN: 1409236420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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BY GRACE ANDREACCHI. A short novel written in poetic and elliptical prose, rich in emotion, sometimes playful, sometimes tragic. Set in the opera world of Berlin just after the fall of the Wall, 'Poetry and Fear' is a gripping tale of spiritual love and pain and the whole damn thing. Orpheus singing in the Underworld. The melancholy Queen of Spain. For everyone who's ever been there, or wants to be.... Published by Andromache Books, London.

Author: Skyler Phillips
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781521535561
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Going through a loss of any kind can be a heart wrenching and trying experience. For the past year anytime I had an experience like this I would open my journal and let my unfiltered emotions spill over the page. Through growing up, love, loss, and life lessons my journal has always been at my side and here it is now, in your hands. Poetry has been my release, therapy and teacher. It has taught me the impermanence of emotions even when it feels like there is no sun left in your sky. So here it is, a years worth of finicky emotions, life lessons, trials and tribulations all compiled just for you.

Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Ciaran Carson s Selected Poems representswhile yet in full currentthe early prodigious poetic creativity of one of Ireland s great writers. This selection gathers poems from The New Estate (1976), The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1989), First Language (1993), Opera Et Cetera (1996), The Alexandrine Plan (1998), and The Twelfth of Never (1998), all published in North America by Wake Forest University Press. In their play, these books plumb and delve so deeply that they touch and transform philosophical, political, and religious ideas. As the English poet Glyn has said, Time and again, Carson refracts the barren and weary images of Northern Ireland, the graffiti, troops and peace wall, into the infinite possibilities of the Otherwise. "

Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930630505
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Following the publication of Collected Poems, and the critically acclaimed For All We Know, Ciaran Carson has produced in just over one short but powerfully felt year two extraordinary volumes of poetry, Until Before After and On the Night Watch. Like its companion volume, On the Night Watch moves within the tight emotional spaces of worry and waiting that characterize a period of illness in the family, creating an echo-chamber in the short-lived sonnets of this volume. The intricate and yet spare allegory of these poems details the arduous ways in which we try to cope with life's hardships.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195112214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.