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The Zen Fool Ryokan
by Misao Kodama Hikosaku YanagashimaRyokan's poems are celebration of the joys and sadnesses of everyday life. His spare, direct style is remarkable for its immediacy and intimacy. This bilingual collection contains more than 150 of his finest poems in Japanese and Chinese, including his famous lyrical correspondence with the nun Teishin, who befriended him in his later years. It also includes a biographical essay on Ryokan, and useful notes on the poems themselves.
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry (Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media)
by Enaiê Mairê AzambujaThis book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics’ as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry, and religious studies.
The Zoo at Night (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
by Susan GubernatWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat’s The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as “night thoughts” resembling nocturnes, in which “a bit of light leaks in.” Both experimental and classic, Gubernat’s poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects—tactile, mechanical—took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the “thingness” of the world. In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling.
The [european] Other In Medieval Arabic Literature And Culture
by Nizar F. HermesContrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.
The dust of just beginning
by Don KerrDon Kerr knows prairie culture better than most?he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his unique prairie voice?minimalist, self-effacing, direct yet subtle and nuanced, immersed in his love of the vernacular language of this place. His line is muscular, his timing impeccable, his broad strokes with so few words exemplary.
The freeing of my thoughts
by Jacira Félix“Know to move on It’ll be painful at the beginning But then it will be normal Don’t forget you are sensational” The freeing of my thoughts is a compilation of poetry that talks about love, passions, deception, frustrations and quotidian life. In this book, you’ll identify with each verse.
Theater of Memory: New and Selected Poems
by Mark PerlbergWinner of the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry AwardGifted with a unique and elemental style that goes to the heart of things, often with Zenlike simplicity, Mark Perlberg published four books of poetry over the course of his long and accomplished life. At the time of his death in 2008 he was in the process of putting together Theater of Memory, a collection of his best poems, both published and unpublished, which he saw as the summation of his life's work. His wife, Anna Nessy Perlberg, completed the manuscript and contributed an afterword to the collection.Moving and unpretentious, the poems range from verses about the poet's childhood, including the early death of his father, to pieces in conversation with Chinese poet T'ao Ch'ien, to poignant poems about his grandson. A slowly deflating helium balloon becomes a meditation on aging and the urgency to teach his grandson "to remember in perilous / times to keep something of himself for himself."
Theatre Responds to Social Trauma: Chasing the Demons (Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance)
by Ellen W. KaplanThis book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.Chapters explore how psychic catastrophes and ruptures are often embedded in social systems of oppression and forged in zones of conflict within and across national borders. Through multiple lenses and diverse approaches, the authors examine the connections between collective trauma, social identity, and personal struggle. We look at the generational transmission of trauma, socially induced pathologies, and societal re-inscriptions of trauma, from mass incarceration to war-induced psychoses, from gendered violence through racist practices. Collective trauma may shape, protect, and preserve group identity, promoting a sense of cohesion and meaning, even as it shakes individuals through pain. Engaging with communities under significant stress through artistic practice offers a path towards reconstructing the meaning(s) of social trauma, making sense of the past, understanding the present, and re-visioning the future.The chapters combine theoretical and practical work, exploring the conceptual foundations and the artists’ processes as they interrogate the intersections of personal grief and communal mourning, through drama, poetry, and embodied performance.
Theft of a Tree: A Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire (Murty Classical Library of India #32)
by Nandi TimmanaThe first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale.Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the pārijāta for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness.This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.
Theme of Farewell and After-Poems: A Bilingual Edition
by Milo De Angelis Patrizio Ceccagnoli Susan StewartMilo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy, Theme of Farewell, and the subsequent poems of That Wandering in the Darkness of Courtyards. These two books form a sequence narrating the illness and premature death, in 2003, of the poet's wife, the writer Giovanna Sicari, a celebrated poet in her own right; they also trace De Angelis's turn from grief, through time, back to the world. Immediate, perceptive, and woven from the fabric of everyday life in contemporary Milan, the poems never depart from universal human emotions of despair and awakening. Throughout his long career, De Angelis has renewed lyric poetry with the sheer intensity of his forms and insights, and the volumes offered here have won some of the most important Italian literary awards, including the coveted Premio Viareggio. These inexorable and beautifully crafted translations will be of interest to scholars of contemporary Italian literature, students of contemporary poetry and literary translation, and those who work in comparative literature. Above all, they are bound to speak to any reader in search of a poet writing at the height of his powers of expression.
Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets
by J B LeishmanFirst published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and contemporaries, notably Spenser, Daniel and Drayton and with John Donne. By discussing their resemblances and differences, a not altogether orthodox picture of Shakespeare's attitude to life is presented, which suggests that he was not as phlegmatic and equable a person as critics have often supposed.
Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020
by Carl PhillipsA new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War <p><p> I’m a song, changing. I’m a light <p>rain falling through a vast <p> darkness toward a different <p>darkness. <p><p> Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest;” Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. <p><p> Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. <p><p> Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 03, February 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interviews with veterans Padmashree S.M.Ganapathy Sthapathy, Madurai G.S.Mani, mouth-watering recipes, homage to many veterans, short stories,an article on 37th book fair and other usual features like Ilanthendral , Kathiravanai Kelungal, Nalam Vaazha etc.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 05, April 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features an interview with Kalakshetra’s Director Priyadarshini Govind , two short stories, ‘Payanam’ talks about a visit to Marymoor Park in Washington, ‘Samayam’ features Ayirathen Vinayagar temple, an article paying homage to T.K.Sivasankaran and Kushvanth Singh, mouth watering recipes, an article on Achievers featuring Kuralarasi Geetha Arunachalam and a few other young achievers ,an article on the veteran writer Kumuthini along with usual features like Thendral Pesukirathu ,Kathiravanai Kelungal,Nalam Vaazha, Kavithai Pandhal, Pudhinam and important events of last month.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 07, June 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features an interviews with Arunachalam Muruganandam and Siripananda, few short stories , an article on Pioneer Navalar Na.Mu.Venkatasamy Nattar and another on writer Kadugu ,a couple of mouth watering recipes, a special feature on Narendra Modi along with usual features like Thendral Pesukirathu , Kathiravanai Kelungal, Nalam Vaazha, Kavithai Pandhal and important events of last month.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 08, July 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features an interviews with Professor Arogyasamy Palraj and Bombay kannan, few short stories , an article on Pioneer P.T.Srinivasa Iyengar,a couple of mouth watering recipes, Samayam featuring Marudamalai Murugan temple, along with usual features like Thendral Pesukirathu , Kathiravanai Kelungal, Nalam Vaazha, Kavithai Pandhal and important events of last month.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 09, August 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features interviews with T.V.Varadarajan, ‘Nalla Keerai’ Jagannathan , a special coverage on the volunteer driven NGO -- North South Foundation, a feature on ‘Transactions Of Belonging’ – a book by Jeya Padmanabhan, a couple of mouth watering recipes,Samayam featuring the Ragu –Kethu sthalas : Thirunageshwaram and Keelperumpallam, an article on writer Kalaniyuran, a few short stories , an article paying homage to veteran journalist ‘Vandumama’, another article on young achievers along with usual features like Thendral Pesukirathu , Anbulla Snehitiye, Kathiravanai Kelungal, Kavithai Pandhal etc and important events of last month.
Thendral: Vol. 14, Issue 6 May 2014
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features an interview with Mekala Ramamoorthy and Na.Muthukumar, two short stories , an article on Pioneer Dr.Rajammal Devdoss and another on writer Rajendra Chozhan , mouth watering recipes, ‘Samayam’ featuring a Needamangalam Sri Santhana Ramasamy temple, an aricle paying homage to S. Sripal along with usual features like Thendral Pesukirathu , Kathiravanai Kelungal, Nalam Vaazha, Kavithai Pandhal, Pudhinam and important events of last month.
Theodore Roethke
by Jay PariniJay Parini's biography of the poet, Theodore Roethke. Parini views Roethke through the lens of a Romantic poet. <P><P>With this incredibly researched and well written work, Parini reaffirms Roethke's reputation as a poet that came into his own after the publication of "The Lost Son," and then continued to develop from there and greatly extended his reputation with further works.
Theogony / Works and Days
by Hesiod Roger Scruton Eric Voegelin C. S. MorrisseyPhilosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod's two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet's essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy,most notably of Plato, and thereby gave a distinctive shape to all of Western philosophy. Theogony recounts the genesis of the first generations of the Greek gods and recollects how Zeus used both force and persuasion to establish his cosmic reign of justice. Works and Days tells the story of the origin and ordination of human beings within this cosmos and their perennial struggle to win order from disorder in a world overwhelmed by harsh sorrows and injustice.In the wake of personal adversity and suffering, Hesiod was inspired by the Muses to sing out against the untruth of society and to disclose the truth about justice in the cosmos. Theogony, which won him his laurels in a poetic competition, begins by telling of how the Muses chose him as an individual vessel of inspiration, to be a rival to Homer and the old myths with a newer vision of the struggle for justice among the gods. In Works and Days, Hesiod includes these autobiographical details within a reflection on the two-fold role of competition in life: "the bad strife" is visible everywhere in the manifold forms of universal disorder, although "the good strife" is part of the struggle to maintain order in the wake of chaos and the primeval void.These new translations are contextualized with a foreword by distinguished philosopher Roger Scruton and text by the late philosopher and historian Eric Voegelin, who argues the magnitude of Hesiod's influence on Greek philosophy and Western history, and how his sublime contribution to literature has formed a signal bridge between myth and metaphysics.
Theogony And Works And Days
by Hesiod Translated By Stephanie Nelson Edited Richard CaldwellGreek poet Hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge - myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding - and wove them into one great whole. He did as much with the origins of the Greek gods in the Theogony, and then did the same in creating his manual of moral and practical advice, Works and Days. Here, Stephanie Nelson's translation of Works and Days is paired with Richard S. Caldwell's take on the Theogony. Along with introductory essays, these comprehensible versions of Hesiod's two best-known poems make it easy for readers to see why Hesiod's writings continue to resound through the ages.
Theophobia
by Bruce BeasleyTheophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems called "Pilgrim's Deviations" and forms a deviant and deviating pilgrimage through science, history, politics, and popular culture. Beasley seeks the Biblical Kingdom of God among Dolly the cloned sheep, the wonders and horrors of extremophilic creatures living in astonishing intensities of temperature, robotic phone operators, and Wikipedia's explanation of the mysteries of the Holy Spirit. Bruce Beasley is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems (University of Washington Press, 2007). He has won fellowships from the NEA and the Artist Trust of Washington and three Pushcart Prizes.
Theophobia (American Poets Continuum #136.00)
by Bruce BeasleyTheophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems called "Pilgrim's Deviations" and forms a deviant and deviating pilgrimage through science, history, politics, and popular culture. Beasley seeks the Biblical Kingdom of God among Dolly the cloned sheep, the wonders and horrors of extremophilic creatures living in astonishing intensities of temperature, robotic phone operators, and Wikipedia's explanation of the mysteries of the Holy Spirit. Bruce Beasley is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems (University of Washington Press, 2007). He has won fellowships from the NEA and the Artist Trust of Washington and three Pushcart Prizes.
Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)
by Erín Moure Elisa SampedrínWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else? Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English? Moure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration patterns, queeritude, mother mimory, wars, silence, constraints on breath, and social bias played out in terms of race and/or class. Moving from present to past to a future in the unwritten; querying borders, jarred by intrusions from alter ego Elisa Sampedrín, Theophylline finishes with poems informed by pandemic walks and human aging that include two translations: from Rosalía de Castro, pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak, and from César Vallejo, the twentieth century Peruvian whose poetics shattered the colonial (Spanish) tongue.
Theorie des lyrischen Gedichts: Eine Einführung
by Dieter LampingAusgehend von handlichen Definitionen des Gedichts und des lyrischen Gedichts erörtert die Einführung Grundfragen der Lyrik-Theorie – etwa die, welche Bedeutung die Form beim Verstehen von Verstexten hat, wer in ihnen jeweils spricht, inwiefern Lyrik auch fiktional sein kann, welche Typen des lyrischen Gedichts sich unterscheiden lassen und welche Funktionen Lyrik erfüllt. Ihre Beispiele entnimmt sie der Weltliteratur von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart: von Sappho über Shakespeare und Goethe bis zu Rilke, Brecht und Kästner. Dabei bemüht sie sich um eine ohne spezielle Voraussetzungen verständliche Darstellung.