Author: Hermann HessePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 9780686859741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Hours in the Garden and Other Poems
Author: Hermann HessePublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux
ISBN: 9780374514235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Written during the same period as The Glass Bead Game, these poems reflect the book's mysticism and help to illuminate Hesse's physical and metaphysical search for a "sublime alchemy" that would go beyond all images
Hours in the Garden and Other Poems
Author: Hermann HessePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 9780686859741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Rilke's Book of Hours
Author: Anita BarrowsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594481567
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text. While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine—a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.
Book of Hours
Author: Kevin YoungPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375711880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.
Blue Hour
Author: Carolyn ForchePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062004239
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted. "The voice we hear in Blue Hour is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence." -- Robert Boyers
The Garden in Winter and Other Poems
Author: Prentiss MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9780783789392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Garden Time
Author: W. S. MerwinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556595943
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
W.S. Merwin's final book, brimming with longing, loss, and unanswerable questions.
The Garden of Years and Other Poems
Author: Guy Wetmore CarrylPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Garden in Winter and Other Poems
Author: Prentiss MoorePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292727224
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A book of poems by a Texas writer.
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