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Verses from the Center
by Stephen BatchelorThe understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna.
Verses Sertanejos
by Aldivan Teixeira Torres Luís CostaSertão of the northeast, arid and barren land, Cradle of the greatest droughts, In cycles she delights herself. When they come it causes great damage, For the earth, fauna, flora and the man himself. Everything she consumes. And what to do? Before tremendous tragedy? There are two possibilities: Stay and fight to survive Or get out. Although the second option is more plausible The sertanejo insists for the first one For the love of her land, her own origins. Your attitud is admirable and praiseworthy. I feel proud of this noble character Which is coarse, thick, strong And at the same time simple. Her example shows us where the true force is. A powerful force that is able to fight against the impossible This is something that politicians do not even think about. And so the sertão of the northeast lies/dies forgotten.
Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others
by Stanley FishStanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of Renaissance texts, he meditates on the interpretive problems that confront readers and offers a sustained critique of historicist methods of interpretation. Intention, he argues, is key to understanding which pieces of historical data are relevant to literary criticism. Lucid, provocative, direct and inimitable, this new book from Stanley Fish is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Milton and early modern literary studies.
Versos de un joven poeta
by Rainer Maria RilkeVersos de un joven poeta, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es una selección de los versos más representativos del gran poeta en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rainer Maria Rilke, acompañada de su celebrada carta «Carta a un joven poeta». Abre esta selección la famosa «Carta a un joven poeta», una delicada misiva que Rainer Maria Rilke dirigió a un joven admirador en la que bien podría estar hablándole a todos aquellos movidos por un espíritu creador. Esta antología incluye algunos poemas tempranos, donde se entrevé el intelectual en el que se acabaría convirtiendo y también el amante que erró por toda Europa, enamorando sin promesas y huyendo, incapaz de vivir más allá de sí mismo. Cierra la antología una selección de El libro de horas, dedicado a la poesía, esa vocación total que le abdujo y le cobijó de una realidad en la que nunca llegó a encajar, siempre a la deriva entre lo divino y lo terrenal. Principal exponente de la poesía en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rilke nació en Praga en 1875, donde estudió letras y filosofía, una carrera que continuaría en Múnich y en Berlín. Un viaje a Rusia en 1899 le inspiraría sus conocidas Elegías de Duino (1922). La leyenda de amor y muerte del alférez Christoph Rilke, incluida en esta antología, atrajo la atención de los críticos en Francia, donde había residido y trabado amistad con el escultor Auguste Rodin y el escritor André Gide. Tras la primera guerra mundial, en la que participó brevemente, viajó por varios países mediterráneos y finalmente se estableció en Suiza, donde publicaría los Sonetos a Orfeo, una de sus obras más conocidas. -------«Cuánto quiero a las pobres palabras, que tan míserasestán en lo diario: a ellas, las invisiblespalabras. De mis fiestas les regalo coloressonríen, y se ponen alegres lentamente.»-------
Versos de un joven poeta (Flash Poesía #Volumen)
by Rainer Maria RilkeVersos de un joven poeta, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es una selección de los versos más representativos del gran poeta en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rainer Maria Rilke, acompañada de su celebrada carta «Carta a un joven poeta». Abre esta selección la famosa «Carta a un joven poeta», una delicada misiva que Rainer Maria Rilke dirigió a un joven admirador en la que bien podría estar hablándole a todos aquellos movidos por un espíritu creador. Esta antología incluye algunos poemas tempranos, donde se entrevé el intelectual en el que se acabaría convirtiendo y también el amante que erró por toda Europa, enamorando sin promesas y huyendo, incapaz de vivir más allá de sí mismo. Cierra la antología una selección de El libro de horas, dedicado a la poesía, esa vocación total que le abdujo y le cobijó de una realidad en la que nunca llegó a encajar, siempre a la deriva entre lo divino y lo terrenal. Principal exponente de la poesía en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rilke nació en Praga en 1875, donde estudió letras y filosofía, una carrera que continuaría en Múnich y en Berlín. Un viaje a Rusia en 1899 le inspiraría sus conocidas Elegías de Duino (1922). La leyenda de amor y muerte del alférez Christoph Rilke, incluida en esta antología, atrajo la atención de los críticos en Francia, donde había residido y trabado amistad con el escultor Auguste Rodin y el escritor André Gide. Tras la primera guerra mundial,en la que participó brevemente, viajó por varios países mediterráneos y finalmente se estableció en Suiza, donde publicaría los Sonetos a Orfeo, una de sus obras más conocidas. -------«Cuánto quiero a las pobres palabras, que tan míserasestán en lo diario:a ellas, las invisiblespalabras. De mis fiestas les regalo coloressonríen, y se ponen alegres lentamente.»-------
A Vertical Art: On Poetry
by Simon ArmitageFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.
The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers
by Bhanu Kapil RiderPoetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of the travelog and the coming of age novel. It is written by a young Indian woman whose travels take her between homes in two countries, India and England, and through parts of the United States. These short pieces reveal new ways of belonging in the world and possibilities for an art grounded in a localized cosmopolitan culture.
Vertigo
by Marvin Bell"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."-Harvard Review"One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."-Booklist"Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."-Publishers WeeklyMarvin Bell is one of America's great poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the "Dead Man" poems. The Dead Man is alive and dead at once: not a persona, but an overarching consciousness, embedded in poetics and philosophy. Vertigo is the latest from the Dead Man-a brilliant, enigmatic, wise, and wild book.The dead man stands still, waiting for the boomerang to-you know.He hears the words of philosophers ricochet among chasms and disappear in the far away.His scent goes forth, his old skin, hair and nails, and he spits, too.He leans forward to look backward, and the ancient world reappears.It is the beginning, when mountains, canyons and seas were new,before the moon had eyes, before paper, before belief.Anything he says now are souvenirs of the future...Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Award and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was the first State Poet of Iowa. He lives in Iowa and Washington.
Vertigo & Ghost: Poems
by Fiona BensonNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost offers a searing reimagining of Greek myths of sexual violence that crackles with rage, energy, and empathy. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, basis. In the volume’s second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood—its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love—reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood. Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power.
Vértigos y norias
by RuloRulo se atreve por primera vez a ir más allá del universo de sus letras musicales y nos abre las puertas a su mundo interior a través de este libro repleto de textos, poemas y reflexiones. «La infancia es ese hogar que nunca podrás deshabitar». No somos más que niños en un parque de atracciones, un cúmulo de vértigos y norias, una aventura desordenada a la que a veces le falta argumento y otras le sobran giros de guion. Pero en ese imprevisto juego de azar está la gracia: sentir es un deporte de riesgo en el que no hay medidas de seguridad. Estas páginas componen un dibujo perfecto de esa apuesta que es vivir, de esa carrera de obstáculos que es latir cada día, de esa nostalgia y ese deseo que nos hacen caminar hacia delante sin olvidar el laberinto que nos trajo hasta aquí. En este libro, Rulo, cantante, compositor y uno de los grandes exponentes del rock español de las últimas décadas, se atreve por primera vez a ir más allá del universo de sus letras musicales y nos abre las puertas a su mundo interior a través de una gran variedad de textos, poemas y reflexiones fruto de sus experiencias y anécdotas rodadas a lo largo de miles de kilómetros con su furgoneta y tras los escenarios.
Verwurzelungen. Sarah Kirsch (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft)
by Jana Kittelmann Stephan Pabst Mike RottmannSarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche Literaturlandschaft nachhaltig beeinflusst. Kirsch hinterließ ein vielfältiges Werk, das neben Gedichten auch Briefwechsel, Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Reiseberichte, Feuilletonbeiträge, kleinere Prosatexte, Übersetzungen, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle umfasst. Der Sammelband arbeitet mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Tod der Dichterin die fortwährende Brisanz und Aktualität ihres Werks heraus, das von dem unverwechselbaren „Sarah-Sound" (Peter Hacks) ebenso geprägt ist wie von einer präzisen und zugleich visionären Wahrnehmung von Natur und deren Gefährdung.
Very Bad Poetry
by Kathryn Petras Ross PetrasWriting very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter),Very Bad Poetryis sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
A Very Small Something
by David Hickey Alexander Griggs-BurrFrom A Very Small Something:Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and underanother sun, where favourite earrings find new earsand missing marbles run, the hillsides madetheir marvelous shapes for a town called Covington-And a great pink factory as long as the breezeweighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegum.Olivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the world's biggest bubblegum factory, where its citizens blow bubbles all day. But Olivia can't blow a single one and feels as if everyone looks down on her. Leaving Covington to find a place where she might belong, she learns the true meanings of family and home.A Very Small Something, beautifully illustrated by Alexander Griggs-Burr, is a story to which all children-and any tuned-in parent-will be able to relate. Blowing bubbles may indeed be a very small something . . . but when you are a small child and it's the thing you most want to do, a bubble can mean the whole world.David Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada, and the author of two collections, including Open Air Bindery . He has tested his children's poems in schools across the country for the last seven years. He is finishing a PhD at the University of Western in London, Ontario.Alexander Griggs-Burr illustrated the Ontario Library Association Red Maple-nominated Nieve in 2010. He lives and works in Stratford, Ontario.
The Very Stuff: Poems on Color, Thread and the Habits of Women
by Stephen BealFrom the book: 991 Every red haired woman in the world has worn this green. When the movies went to Ireland in 1952, a chorus line of lady leprechauns tricked out in 991 - satin caps and satin shorts and snappy satin vests- greeted Gene Kelly as he danced off the ship, and down the pier, and through the town, and over the hill, slick two-leaf clovers of green rumps blossoming behind. Blue-green, really, an August color in the shade, deep shade, a shade of the texture and the longing and the long afternoons in the Alabama of Kurt Weill. There is smoke in this green, smoke and romance, as Susan Hayward in a hoop skirt strolls the verandah impatient for her swain. So what we've got here is a movie green, the designer Edith Head swirling out a bolt of 991 - always in satin, only in satin- and draping it around Rita Hayworth, who is perfect, and smooth, like a woman made of peaches, peaches and cognac and vanilla ice cream. How can God make such beauty? How can God resist? The Whole Class When I consider the colors I have written poems for, I see a photo of a class of children in 1948. You can tell the leaders-those who are big, or well dressed, or not intimidated by the camera: the girl with the ribbon in her long blonde hair, the tall boy with the rakish smile, the pretty twins. If these children were the colors I have written poems for, I would say I know them well; I would say they do good work. Yes, I would say, I regard them as my stars. But I would also say I love the rest of the class, those whose features and abilities are not developed yet, the kids who tend to look like each other until you get to know them, until you hold their hands and take them for a walk. So, if you should ask me, "Which colors do you love?," I would have to say, "All." I would have to say, "Here are all my friends," as I take from the drawers of Grandmother's Italian chest the bags and boxes in which I keep my floss, then overturn them on the rug where the colors jumble together in the sun, humming with contentment- like jewels unearthed from Ali Baba's cave, like kids set free from school. ISBN: 1-88301046-0
Vessel
by Parneshia JonesThe imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones' debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms of Chicago, Jones knits "a human quilt" with herself at the center. She relates everything from the awkward trip to Marshall Fields with her mother to buy her first bra to the late whiskey-infused nights of her father's world. In the South, "lard sizzles a sermon from the stove"; in Chicago, we feast on an "opera of peppers and pimento." Jones intertwines the stories of her own family with those of historical Black figures, including Marvin Gaye and Josephine Baker. Affectionate, dynamic, and uncommonly observant, these poems mine the richness of history to create a map of identity and influence.
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
by Maxine Hong KingstonNational Book Award Winner Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace, has been leading writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans for more than a decade. The practice of meditating together, writing stories and poems, and then reading their works aloud has been extremely healing for these individuals and has produced some extraordinary writing - Tolstoy-like descriptions of battle scenes, Hemingway-esque flashbacks, and gripping accounts of growing up in military families, serving as medics in the thick of war, coming home to homelessness, and finally doing the work to experience first-hand the deep transformation that is possible when one truly comes to grips with one's whole past.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets)
by Annelyse GelmanA mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter’s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman’s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader’s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets)
by Annelyse GelmanA mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter’s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman’s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader’s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
The Via Veneto Papers: Translated from Italian by John Satriano
by Ennio FlaianoThe first section is an evocation of the Rome of La Dolce Vita, of the early stages in the writing and the realising of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant little sketches, a commemoration of the ageing poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, sceptical survivor from an earlier time, representative of an altogether different life. "Occasional Notebooks" comprises the second section and the third section is an interview given by Flaiano shortly before his death.
Viability
by Sarah VapSelected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo BangSarah Vap's sixth work of poetry, Viability is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in an effort to understand and to ask questions about the bodies (and minds, maybe even souls) that are owned by capitalism. These threads of language include definitions from an online financial dictionary, samples from an essay on the economics of slavery, quotations from an article about slavery in today's Thai fishing industry, lyric bits and pieces about pregnancy and infants of all kinds, and a wealth of quotations falsely attributed to John of the Cross. The viability that Vap is asking about is primarily economic and biological (but not only). The questions of viability become entwined with the need, across the book, to "increase"--in both a capitalist and a gestational sense. John of the Cross tries, at first with composure, to comment on or to mediate between all the different strands of the collection.
El viaje mínimo de Hernán Medina
by Juan Medina¿Poesía de autoayuda? ¿Relato de mis días contigo? ¿Cuaderno de viajes de tu mano? Poemas para cuando explores el mundo. Sus dilemas, sus euforias, su intemperie. Porque existir es delicado. Pero tú decides. Aunque no lo creas. Estás vivo. Nada menos. No es fácil. Pon atención. A ti. Aquí. Ahora.
Vice: New and Selected Poems
by AiCollected here are poems from Ai's previous five books--Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed--along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
The Vicinity
by David O'MearaWinner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region -- Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards In The Vicinity David O'Meara gives us a new kind of cityscape, one that brings its unseen, and usually unsung, materials to the foreground. Brick, concrete (that "not-so-silver screen / our walk-on parts are posed upon"), glass, steel, wire: they step boldly from anonymity into fresh focus, backdrops goaded into stardom. Full of casually-worn wit and humour, often using intricate forms that deftly reflect their subjects, these poems probe our conventional attitudes while walking us down present or remembered streets -- "Some-such Avenue / Rue Saint Whatever."
Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle
by Charlotte Boyce Páraic Finnerty Anne-Marie MillimTennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.
The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona (Routledge Revivals)
by Joseph BristowThe practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted it as a natural vehicle of expression, and for some subjects, in particular sexuality, the only literary mode. Indeed, the sexual question was made even more acute by the sudden phenomenon of the ‘poetess’, and the relation of poetry to gender raised interesting new critical questions. At the same time, the cultural role of the poet came under increasing debate: Victorian poetry was the first contemporary poetry to be studied. This selection of central texts illustrates these pressures on the Victorian practice of poetry, and the introductory remarks suggest ways in which theory can be related to the understanding key poems themselves.