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Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition
by Rainer Maria RilkeA gorgeous edition of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of W. W. Norton’s 100th anniversary. This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton—a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, founded the company that bears his name—played a crucial role in elevating Rilke’s reputation in the English-speaking world. This Norton Centenary Edition commemorates Norton, known as “Polly” to friends and colleagues, and the 100th anniversary of the publishing company she co-founded. An admiring foreword by Damion Searls—himself a recent translator of Rilke’s Letters—celebrates Polly’s stylistic achievement, and an afterword by Norton’s President, Julia A. Reidhead, honors her commitment to maintaining W. W. Norton & Company’s independence. This handsome new edition of a beloved classic brings Rilke’s enduring wisdom about life, love, and art to a new generation, in the translation that first introduced him to the English-speaking world.
Letters to a Young Poet: With The Letters From The Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke Damion Searls Franz Xaver Kappus“The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.” —Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke’s ten classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever lost to posterity. Yet, shockingly, these letters were recently uncovered in Germany, and now the acclaimed translator Damion Searls has not only cast a fresh eye on Rilke’s original letters but also those of the “young poet,” Franz Xaver Kappus, an Austrian military cadet and an aspiring poet. This timeless edition, in addition to presenting their dialogue together for the first time in English, provides a new window into the workings of Rilke’s visionary poetic and philosophical mind, allowing us to reexperience the literary genius of one of the most inspiring works of twentieth-century literature.
Letters to a Young Queen: Redefining Their Throne
by Jay BarnettThis book is a collection of letters and poems for young girls. Author Jay Barnett highlights the struggles and triumphs of the young women he has encountered through the Women of Excellence Project. This book is for the fatherless little girl who is desperately seeking male attention and craves the encouragement, discipline, and authority that only a father figure can give. These letters will inspire and empower young girls from all backgrounds to grow into the queens they were destined to be. Women of the 1900’s had many fearless leaders and trailblazers to admire and respect-Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt, to name a few. Since then, women have shattered the glass ceiling-landing positions in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as politics, banking and science. Despite this progression, several prominent women in our current culture detract from the progress made thus far. The days of positive female role models are slowly disappearing, as reality stars and entertainers have captured the attention of our young girls. Young women of this generation have lost sight of the numerous sacrifices made to ensure and protect their freedoms and rights. How do we stop the perpetual cycle of uneducated and foolish behaviors of our young women before it’s too late? The Women of Excellence Project is a program dedicated to the mentoring and mental development of young women. Through this work, author Jay Barnett began to see recurring behavior patterns among the young women highlighting their need for acceptance and validation. Even at an early age, young girls want to pursue what is socially accepted. In the absence of positive role models in today’s society, girls imitate reality TV stars and their friends’ behavior on social media. Now is the time to restore young women to their rightful place in society and to build them up into the queens that they truly are.
Let’s Not Live on Earth
by Sarah BlakeSarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Blake uses self-consciousness as a tool for transformation, looking so closely at herself that she moves right through the looking glass and into the larger world. Fear becomes palpable through the classification of monsters and through violences made real. When the poems find themselves in the domestic realm, something is always under threat. The body is never safe, nor are the ghosts of the dead. But these poems are not about cowering. By detailing the dangers we face as humans, as Americans, and especially as women, these poems suggest we might find a way through them. The final section of the book is a feminist, science fiction epic poem, “The Starship,” which explores the interplay of perception and experience as it follows the story of a woman who must constantly ask herself what she wants as her world shifts around her.
Leva-me ao mar
by Mois Benarroch Maria Olinda ReisLeva-me ao mar, qual uma longa e dolorosa viagem do poeta até ao início do mundo, ao seu nascimento, ao tão desejado reencontro com a mãe, dentro do seu útero (La mère et la mer), onde se buscam as forças para as outras viagens (Faz-te à estrada): aquela que encetou há 2000 anos (2000 anos, ainda e ainda e ainda; Mãe), aquela que nos guia até à pátria tão almejada (As andorinhas; Pátria), aquela que nos leva a revisitar a nossa cidade natal (Um país longínquo), a que nos conduz ao exílio (Em terra de imigrantes), algures e em toda a parte (O lar do estrangeiro), mas também aquela nos transporta nos trilhos infindáveis da saudade eterna deixada pelo desaparecimento de entes queridos (Pai). Sem, porém, esquecer a contínua viagem que o poeta empreende, movido pela ânsia de sobrevivência, quer através da glória quer do reconhecimento (O café literário; Ser uma minoria étnica; Autocrítica).
Leviathan: A Poem
by Michael ShewmakerLeviathan, the highly anticipated second collection by Michael Shewmaker, offers an innovative reimagining of the book of Job. Set in the landscape of modern East Texas, the poem unfolds in four cycles of interchanging monologues, each compounding the difficulties of a faith placed in a distant God. With an accomplished music wholly its own, Shewmaker’s verse shifts effortlessly between song and story, unearthing beauty from the deep well of loss and doubt.
Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home (The Alaska Literary Series)
by Tom Sexton“On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. / I carry a book of his poems whenever I travel, / poems that touch the heart like a gentle snow. / Look, over there in that marsh, a snowy egret rising.” The day after their wedding, Tom and Sharyn Sexton set off on the more than 4,500-mile journey from Massachusetts to Alaska. Now, more than fifty years later, Tom Sexton is retracing those steps through his exceptional poetry. He describes the communities they passed through and ruminates on the changes, good and bad, that have taken place in the decades since. He still finds hope in the country and draws transformative hope from the land that connects all of us. Appropriate for a journey that moves from east to west, the Sexton’s real-life voyage is embedded in the imaginary journey of the ancient Chinese poet, Li Bai, from Broad Pass to Polychrome Pass in the Alaska Range.
Li Fu: Un poeta campesino
by Pietro GriecoUn libro sui generis, evocativo y provocativo, a la vez profundo y elemental, que revoluciona nuestra noción de la originalidad y de nuestra propia realidad. El silencio de la naturaleza y las voces del alma sirven de fuente de inspiración a Li Fu, un poeta chino cuyo legado perdura más allá de la desmemoria de los anales. <P><P>Nacido en las postrimerías de la dinastía Tang y educado para aprobar el Shi Ching y convertirse en funcionario imperial, el talentoso Li renuncia a su ambición gubernativa y se convierte en un poeta campesino, ermitaño, aunque rodeado de discípulos. La visita de un viejo amigo le traerá de vuelta las fragancias indestructibles de la infancia y, con ellas, la añoranza de tantos instantes que el poema nunca acaba de atrapar. Ya cerca de la muerte, Li Fu tomará una decisión: seguirá el destino de la poesía pura y entregará su cadáver a las llamas. <P><P>El fuego se encenderá con los papeles de seda de sus delicados epigramas. Con inspirado pulso poético y un profundo conocimiento de la poesía y la sensibilidad chinas, Pietro Grieco nos adentra en este mundo de espejos e incesantes cadencias que, siempre por instantes, nos revelan la belleza en su elusivo pasar. La presentación de la poesía china que antecede la propia obra sitúa y enriquece esta aventura poética que interroga el intelecto y deleita los sentidos y la imaginación.
Li Shangyin (Nyrb Poets Ser.)
by Lucas Klein A. C. Graham Li Shangyin Chloe Garcia RobertsA one-of-a-kind collection of work by little-known Late Tang poetic master Li Shangyin.Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of his work set him apart from the austere masters of the Chinese literary canon. Li favored allusiveness over directness, and his poems unfurl through mysterious images before coalescing into an emotional whole. Combining hedonistic aestheticism with stark fatalism, Li’s poetry is an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and grief, desire and loss, everywhere imbued with a singular nostalgia for the present moment.This pioneering, bilingual edition presents Chloe Garcia Roberts’s translations of a wide selection of Li’s verse in the company of other versions by the prominent sinologist A. C. Graham and the scholar-poet Lucas Klein.
Li'l Bastard
by David McgimpseyOne of Quill & Quire's Books of 2011! David McGimpsey's collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry). This is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to the poetic idols of McGimpsey's youth, John Berryman and Robert Lowell, Li'l Bastard is a collection of 'chubby sonnets' - sixteen-line poems organized into eight longer sequences - that explore the poet's obsessions and engagements with America and Canada, popular culture, love and death, aging, baseball and beer and Barnaby Jones. Adopting a wild array of tones and artistic strategies, from picaresque to fantasy, to observational humour and the simple song lyric, these poems map the poet's midlife crisis on a wild night that touches down in Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas and L.A. Poignant and often achingly funny, Li'l Bastard will no doubt cement McGimpsey's status as a beloved and ever-surprising original.
Liar
by Lynn CrosbieAt once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a compelling tour through one lover's accounting for her own actions and those of her beloved. From the delusion of ownership to the pain of estrangement, Crosbie's surgical intelligence exposes what romantics so often refuse to acknowledge: the lover's own complicity in her joy and suffering. Swinging between the grotesque and the beautiful, Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem -- indeed, how we think of passion itself.
Liberation
by Ha Jin Mark LudwigAn exploration of freedom by some of the world's most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps The year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But around the world, oppressed and imprisoned people are still longing for freedom and asking, "What does it mean to be free?" This collection of poems explores that question.In honor of this anniversary, some of the world's top contemporary voices--including Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Jay Parini, Yusef Komunyakaa, Agi Mishol, Tsering Woeser, Han Dong, Ernesto Santana, and Richard Blanco--have written poems on the theme of liberation as it inspires them personally and creatively. Nearly all of their poems are published for the first time in this volume.The result is an artistic representation of the universal yearning for freedom from twenty-five countries--and countless stories of oppression, imprisonment, and liberation. Here are Afghan women writing in secret, Tibetan and Cuban dissidents, memories and hopes inspired by topics from Fergusson to the Middle East, from illness to spirituality to joy in nature. This collection demonstrates the power of art to heal and to bring attention to freedom as a universal human right.Lyrical, uplifting, contemplative, sometimes angry, sometimes hopeful, always masterful, these are enduring poems to enrich and inspire.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Libro Uno: (Uno y Verso)
by Sonia Logan BPuedes venir a caminar con las que surgen de dentro afuera y que son tuyas verdaderas, porque las palabras te hacen fuerte. Y como dice Platón: andar nos ayuda a pensar, la forma mejor de reconocerte en las palabras es pensar muy bien lo que dices. <P><P> «¿Es aquí el alma? ¿Necesitas ayuda? Chatea con uno de nuestros agentes.» De este modo, una serie de poemas van sucediéndose unos a otros a modo de diálogo entre la poeta y el saber universal. <P>A veces se le presta oídos a una hoja; a veces se ve por los ojos recién abiertos de un rosal. La interrelación entre quien habla y aquello de lo que se habla puede producir un efecto trampantojo; como un juego de espejos, la realidad se realiza en su multiplicidad.
Libro de la erudición poética
by Luis Carrillo y SotomayorEl Libro de erudición poética is the text that describes the principles of the occult. According to Carrillo, thorough readers should interpret, with extreme patience, references and metaphors of the text through re-reading. While his work was obscure, its perceived "darkness" was due in large part to its depth.
Libro de poemas | Primeras canciones | Canciones (Poesía completa #1)
by Federico García LorcaLibro de poemas | Primeras canciones | Canciones es el primer volumen de la Biblioteca Federico García Lorca y el primero que compila su «Poesía completa». La figura de Federico García Lorca abarca, tanto en España como en el exterior, mucho más que su literatura. Su poesía, traducida a infinidad de lenguas, recorre paisajes, hurga en tradiciones y denuncia injusticias con la maestría de quien ha sabido utilizar la pluma como pocos, y sus libros continúan leyéndose sin atender al paso del tiempo ni a las arbitrariedades de la moda. En este libro el lector podrá acercarse al joven Lorca, en cuya poesía germinan ya las grandes obras que lo erigieron en un maestro indiscutible, como el Libro de poemas, las Canciones, el Juego y teoría del duende o las Suites. La edición y los prólogos, a cargo de Miguel García-Posada, permiten al lector acercarse a la complejidad de su obra y disfrutar, a lo largo de los siete volúmenes que componen esta Biblioteca Federico García Lorca, de uno de los autores españoles más relevantes del siglo XX. Luis Buñuel dijo...«La obra maestra era él. Me parece, incluso, difícil encontrar a alguien semejante. Podía leer cualquier cosa, y la belleza brotaba siempre de sus labios. Tenía pasión, alegría, juventud. Era como una llama.» --------------------------------------------------------------------------BIBLIOTECA FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Poesía competa:1. Libro de poemas | Primeras canciones | Canciones2. Romancero gitano | Poema del cante jondo3. Poeta en Nueva York | Sonetos Teatro completo:4. La zapatera prodigiosa | Mariana Pineda5. El público | Así que pasen cinco años6. Bodas de sangre | Yerma7. La casa de Bernarda Alba | Doña Rosita la soltera--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Libro de poemas, libro de palabras
by Paqui Gómez PrietoLas historias que he vivido, las historias que me han contado convertidas en poesías Estos poemas los he estado escribiendo desde los dieciséis, diecisiete años hasta ahora que casi lo he dejado. <P><P>Faltan poemas, faltan poemas a mi familia, a la hermosa naturaleza, a los sirios que están muriendo y pocos hacen algo por ellos. Falta el poema a mis amigos actuales, y a mi perra Nana que es adorable, y cariñosa, única y buena perra. <P>Y no sé si falta pero me gustaría dedicar un poema a la paz que siento, a los instantes que vivo. Faltan poemas, poemas actuales que ya no escribo, por ejemplo falta un poema, que sería precioso, a los maestros, los profesores que actualmente me están enseñando a conseguir algo más que un título de la ESO, los que me están enseñando el bachillerato, los que me han enseñado cursillos o cursos porque son buena gente y se les nota que quieren enseñar, sin palos, sin La letra con sangre entra, para que todos seamos mejores personas. <P>Y a los compañeros con los que estudio que me ayudan mucho también les escribiría un poema. Pero estoy en paz, aunque no siempre, y no necesito escribir más, a veces me sale alguno, puede que incluso llene otro libro de poemas con el tiempo, ¿quién sabe lo que puede pasar en el futuro?
Libro del anhelo
by Leonard CohenUn poemario «excepcional. Austero y sensual, cósmico e íntimo, pícaro y profundo» (The New York Times), por el ganador del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras «Cohen ha creado un imaginario sentimental en el que la poesía y la música se funden en un valor inalterable.» Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2011«Siempre he pensado que soy un escritor menor. Mi territorio es limitado, pero les aseguro que lo exploro paso a paso y muy a fondo», comentaba Leonard Cohen, el hombre que era y seguirá siendo una de las figuras más fascinantes de nuestro tiempo. Su voz rota ha cantado todas las miserias y grandezas de la condición humana y sus palabras están más vivas que nunca. Muchas veces se le ha calificado como uno de los mejores poetas del siglo, gracias, en gran medida, a que su talento musical ha ido siempre acompañado de una asombrosa destreza verbal. Cohen trabajó en este poemario durante más de veinte años. En él volcó su emoción, sus dudas, sus miedos, sus consideraciones en torno al amor, la vejez, el mundo que nos rodea y, finalmente, la muerte. Los poemas aquí reunidosvienen además acompañados por dibujos del autor, lo que hace de este Libro del anhelo un complemento imprescindible a su obra. Reseñas:«En estas páginas se nos regala la oportunidad de asistir al proceso de construcción de la escritura de Cohen, casi como si entráramos en el taller de su talento.» Ray Loriga «Excepcional. Austero y sensual, cósmico e íntimo, pícaro y profundo.» The New York Times«Sobrecogedor […]. Cohen emerge como el místico irónico y sensual que sus seguidores siempre han sabido que era.» Sunday Telegraph «Deslumbrante.» Sunday Herald «Travieso, colorido, erótico […]. Brillante y afilado como el pedernal.»Big Issue «Cohen cartografía este páramo del corazón con humor, y a veces con rabia.» The Independent «Hay poca, poquísima gente que pueda ocupar el lugar que habita Cohen. Es nuestra Mary Shelley, nuestro lord Byron.» Bono«Leonard Cohen es tres escritores diferentes que son el mismo poeta; sus obras pueden estar en verso, en prosa o dentro de una canción, pero siempre logran lo que consigue un buen poema: transformar las palabras en un encantamiento.» Benjamín Prado, El Mundo «Un escritor de gran energía y color.»The Observer
Life Could Be Verse: Reflections on Love, Loss, and What Really Matters
by Kirk DouglasDiscover the life and lines of Spartacus. . . He is Spartacus. And a whole lot more. That rugged chin. Those broad shoulders. A swag epitomized in epic films such as Spartacus and The Bad and the Beautiful. Crowned one of greatest actors of all time, Kirk Douglas, whose son Michael continues to build on his Hollywood legacy, is more than legendary. He's a husband. A father. A philanthropist. A Renaissance man. At 97 years old, Kirk Douglas has embraced many roles. But poet? Playing on his Yiddish roots, Life Could Be Verse--not worse--gives readers the best seat in the house to the intimate world of an acclaimed actor who has turned the silver screen gold. But his poems transcend pentameters--they are nostalgic celebrations of old Hollywood, of timeless lessons in life and love, reflecting an era when people had few coins in their pockets but an abundance of hope in the promise of the American dream. Through poems, prose, and photographs, Douglas candidly shares it all as he chaperones us through the stages of his life, including the untimely death of his youngest son and the stroke that left him unable to speak. Still, Douglas doesn't dwell in the sadness. Instead, he tantalizes us with his words, his perspective on life, and some never-before-seen photographs and stories of Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, Brigitte Bardot and his most cherished leading lady of all, his wife of sixty years, Anne Buydens.Life Could Be Verse is uncomplicated yet revealing, poignant yet playful. It's the life and the lines of Spartacus-an uplifting reminder that many times the story of our lives is the most entertaining script of all. (The following is an original poem Kirk wrote about his famous son Michael Douglas): Fathers and Sons"Am I a good father?'" I asked my son He took a pause, too long for meI waited and waited for him to answer And finally he said, "Ultimately." But the pause was all I heard The silence was so loudI was waiting for some kind wordSomething that would make me proud.How could I have been so dumb?And I never heardThe answer in the pause,When he spoke not a word.I became a "good father,"It took me too long to see,When I needed himMore than he needed me.
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
by Maya Angelou Sara Jane Boyers Jean-Michel BasquatThis stirring marriage of poetry and art combines the daring of Basquiat's vision with the courage and strength of Angelou's poem to create a place where every child may experience and celebrate his or her own fearlessness.
Life Is A Song
by Lola Ayton RoweLife is a Song is designed to inspire the reader through poetry that is the song of the heart. Read it to take a break from everyday cares and to refresh your mind and your thoughts. Read Life is a Song to enjoy, reflect, laugh or ponder the meaning of life and the scope of our existence. Let the rhythms linger in your mind and keep you singing everyday. Life is a Song is for sharing with others so that they too can experience laughter or quiet contemplation. Life is a Song reflects encouragement to live and win. LBP Life is a Song takes the reader through an uplifting journey that is spiritual, romantic, nostalgic and more. It calms the soul.
Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995
by Paula Gunn AllenThis omnibus collection of poetry richly reflects the experience of its already legendary author, invoking myth and history, tragedy and comedy, narrative and lyric, nightmare and the clear light of day.
Life Of The Buddha (Clay Sanskrit Library #10)
by Patrick Olivelle AshvaghosaThe Buddhist monk Ashva·ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali·dasa's more famous works. The most poignant scenes on the path to his Awakening are when the young prince Siddhártha, the future Buddha, is confronted by the reality of sickness, old age, and death, while seduced by the charms of the women employed to keep him at home. A poet of the highest order, Ashva·ghosha's aim is not entertainment but instruction, presenting the Buddha's teaching as the culmination of the Brahmanical tradition. His wonderful descriptions of the bodies of courtesans are ultimately meant to show the transience of beauty.
Life Organic Form And Romanticism
by Denise GiganteWhat makes something alive? Or, more to the point, what is life? The question is as old as the ages and has not been (and may never be) resolved. Life springs from life, and liveliness motivates matter to act the way it does. Yet vitality in its very unpredictability often appears as a threat. In this intellectually stimulating work, Denise Gigante looks at how major writers of the Romantic period strove to produce living forms of art on an analogy with biological form, often finding themselves face to face with a power known as monstrous. The poets Christopher Smart, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats were all immersed in a culture obsessed with scientific ideas about vital power and its generation, and they broke with poetic convention in imagining new forms of "life. ” In Life: Organic Form and Romanticism, Gigante offers a way to read ostensibly difficult poetry and reflects on the natural-philosophical idea of organic form and the discipline of literary studies.
Life Pig (Phoenix Poets Ser.)
by Alan ShapiroFrom Let Me Hear You Outside is inside now. The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into the mouth that's shouting it. Alan Shapiro's newest book of poetry is situated at the intersection between private and public history, as well as individual life and the collective life of middle-class America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recognizable and freshly social--both timeless and utterly of this particular moment.
Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry - Introductions to Great Poets
by Josephine HartJosephine Hart, author of the bestselling novel Damage, had what she called 'a long love affair' with poetry. It was an affair that started as a child and lasted until her untimely death at the age of sixty-nine in 2011. She said 'I was a word child' growing up in Ireland 'a country of word children where life was language before it was anything else'. As a teenager and later she found the poetry of Eliot, Larkin, Yeats and others a lifeline,'a route map through life'.In the late 1980s, Hart, by now a successful West End theatre producer, began a hugely popular event in which actors read the words of the great poets to an enraptured audience. In 2004, The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour moved to the British Library, where it remains today. By her own admission, Josephine Hart gave 'dead poets society' . But she also gave them intelligent and exciting introductions; all of which are now collected here in this volume. They are insightful, even great, works in their own right. Life Saving leaves us an inspiring legacy. It takes us on a journey of the imagination to some of the greatest poems written in the English language and allows us to understand, intuitively and deeply, why poetry matters.