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Religion und Literatur: Zur Darstellung des Sakralen in den Werken von Rainer Maria Rilke
by Chiinngaihkim GuiteIn dem vorliegenden Buch wird untersucht, auf welche Weise Rilkes religiöse Erfahrungen einen ästhetischen Ausdruck in seinem Werk finden und wie diese Motive literarisch verarbeitet werden. Die Autorin beschäftigt sich eingehend mit den in Rilkes Werk auftauchenden christlichen, islamischen und buddhistischen Motiven. Die Analyse konzentriert sich somit auf die Schnittstelle zwischen Literatur und Religion. Darüber hinaus wird auch Rilkes künstlerische Entwicklung, vor allem der Bezug seiner poetischen Werke zur bildenden Kunst hervorgehoben. Kunst und Poesie bilden einen engen Zusammenhang in Rilkes Werk, in dem eine komplexe Interaktion zwischen verbaler und visueller Kunst stattfindet.
Relinquenda: Poems
by Alexandra RegaladoA 4-part poetry collection that explores women&’s roles in familial dynamics, immigration, and El Salvador&’s civil war while reflecting on the death of the poet&’s fatherA National Poetry Series winner, selected by the celebrated poet Reginald Dwayne BettsWhen COVID-19 broke and the United States closed the border to travel, Alexandra Lytton Regalado was separated from family back in El Salvador. She wrote Relinquenda entirely during lockdown as a meditation on cancer, the passing of her father, and the renewed significance of community.The central part of the collection focuses on her father during his 6-year struggle with cancer and considers how his stoicism, alcoholism, and hermitage might serve as mirror and warning. In contrast, she dedicates other poems to what it means for daughters, mothers, and wives to care for another as reflected in her relationships with the men in her life.Situated in the tropical landscapes of Miami, Florida and El Salvador, the poems also negotiate the meaning of home, reflecting on immigration and the ties between United States and El Salvador 30 years after her birth country&’s decade-long civil war.In a lyrical and often bilingual voice, Regalado explores the impermanence and the body, communication and inarticulation, and the need to let go in order to heal regrets.
Reliquaria (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
by R. A. VillanuevaIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.
Reloj de sol (Ya Leíssste? Ser. #Vol. 6)
by Gabriel ZaidGabriel Zaid ha escrito poemas en prosa y verso, ensayos acerca de los problemas sociales de la poesía y breves comentarios sobre poetas mexicanos. De su entusiasmo inicial por formas que fueron gratas al gongorismo de los años veinte, Zaid derivó hacia una lírica de la brevedad y la concentración en que la ironía, la nostalgia, el sentimiento del tiempo, se expresan con un tono cada vez más personal y con una economía de medios admirable. Zaid hizo una recopilación de sus mejores poemas en Reloj de sol (1995). En los primeros poemas de Zaid "están ya casi todas las cualidades que después distinguirían a su poesía: la economía, la justeza del tono, la sencillez, la chispa repentina del humor y las revelaciones instantáneas del erotismo, el tiempo y el otro tiempo que está dentro del tiempo. Maestría precoz, excepcional en la poesía contemporánea [...] La sátira cobra importancia a partir de Campo nudista [...] En la sátira se cruzan las tres direcciones cardinales de la poesía de Zaid: el amor, el pensamiento y la religión. Nuestra insensibilidad ante lo espiritual y lo numinoso ha alcanzado tales proporciones que nadie, o casi nadie, ha reparado en la tensión religiosa que recorre a los mejores poemas de Zaid. [...] Poeta religioso y metafísico, Zaid es también -y por eso mismo- poeta del amor. En sus poemas amorosos la poesía opera de nuevo como una potencia transfiguradora de la realidad. Esa transfiguración no es cambio ni transformación sino desvelamiento, desnudamiento: la realidad se presenta tal cual. El colmo de la extrañeza es que las cosas sean como son". Octavio Paz
El reloj del sol
by Gabriel ZaidEn la sátira se cruzan las tres direcciones cardinales de la poesía de Zaid: el amor, el pensamiento y la religión. En los primeros poemas de Zaid están ya casi todas las cualidades que después distinguirían a su poesía: la economía, la justeza del tono, la sencillez, la chispa repentina del humor y las revelaciones instantáneas del erotismo, el tiempo y el otro tiempo que está dentro del tiempo. Maestría precoz, excepcional en la poesía contemporánea. Poeta religioso y metafísico, Zaid es también, y por eso mismo, poeta del amor. En sus poemas amorosos la poesía opera de nuevo como una potencia transfiguradora de la realidad. Octavio Paz
Reluctant Survivor
by Sridala SwamiThe poetry of 'A Reluctant Survivor' is concerned with the self and the ways in which it negotiated the world and withdrew from it by turns. In this book, places and people can appear at once familiar and fantastic, vulnerable and strange.
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
by Ruth PadelRuth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in love. Wonderfully versatile in tone, it blends the lyrical and the colloquial, formality and wit, myth and the Spice Girls. It includes the poem that won the 1996 National Poetry Competition 'Icicles round a tree in Dumfriesshire'.
Remember
by Joy HarjoUS Poet Laureate Joy Harjo&’s iconic poem "Remember," illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.Remember the sky you were born under, Know each of the star's stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun's birth at dawn, That is the strongest point of time. So begins the picture book adaptation of the renowned poem that encourages young readers to reflect on family, nature, and their heritage. In simple and direct language, Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke Nation, urges readers to pay close attention to who they are, the world they were born into, and how all inhabitants on earth are connected. Michaela Goade, drawing from her Tlingit culture, has created vivid illustrations that make the words come alive in an engaging and accessible way.This timeless poem paired with magnificent paintings makes for a picture book that is a true celebration of life and our human role within it.
Remember Love: Words for Tender Times
by Cleo WadeFrom the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, a collection of prose and poetry that explores how we can find light in periods of lostness, love for ourselves after heartbreak, okay-ness in the midst of change, and strength in letting go. How do we find steadiness within ourselves in the midst of dizzying personal and global change? At a time when many of us feel overwhelmed by fear and isolation, Cleo Wade&’s Remember Love offers intimate, uplifting words that anchor, nurture, and make us feel less alone. She shares that the heart work we do for ourselves is not done to avoid the tough stuff—periods of lostness, self-doubt, depression, grief, heartbreak, and anxiety. Wade instead suggests that to live is to get lost, and it&’s our task, our great privilege, to learn to love ourselves so that we can handle these periods and our discomfort does not block our healing. Remember Love reminds us that lostness is not our permanent state but a starting point for self-discovery, connection, and growth.
Remembering Maya: Extraordinary Love Story Of An Ordinary Man
by Jitendra RathodJayesh Satvahana, a lawyer, is a loser and a winner--rolled into one. A successful and progressing career makes him a winner, but as far as relationships go--he's a loser. A chance meeting with the beautiful Maya Choudhary shakes Jay and he questions the very foundations of his life. Maya comes for help to save her non profit organization from greedy commercialists. Before Jay realizes, he is madly in love with Maya. He fights her case with audacity and determination. He struggles to win the case and wants to win Maya--and spend the rest of his life in peace and happiness. But fate is not without a cruel sense of irony.
Remnants of Another Age (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
by Nikola Madzirov"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."-Li-Young LeeBorn 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. Remnants of Another Age is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's Remnants of Another Age is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.""I SAW DREAMS"I saw dreams that no one remembersand people wailing at the wrong graves.I saw embraces in a falling airplaneand streets with open arteries.I saw volcanoes asleep longer thanthe roots of the family treeand a child who's not afraid of the rain.Only it was me no one saw,only it was me no one saw.
Remnants of Another Age
by Nikola Madzirov Carolyn Forché"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."-Li-Young LeeBorn 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. Remnants of Another Age is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's Remnants of Another Age is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.""I SAW DREAMS"I saw dreams that no one remembersand people wailing at the wrong graves.I saw embraces in a falling airplaneand streets with open arteries.I saw volcanoes asleep longer thanthe roots of the family treeand a child who's not afraid of the rain.Only it was me no one saw,only it was me no one saw.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Horatio PaterA discussion of Renaissance art and poetry from a 19th-century author with scholarly annotations.
The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past
by Anthony WelchThis book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period--including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music--must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. Welch's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso
by Valeria FinucciThe controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the essays in Renaissance Transactions reexamine these two provocative poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant today. Resituating these writers' works in the context of the Renaissance while also offering appraisals of their uncanny "postmodernity," the contributors to this volume focus primarily on Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Essays center on questions of national and religious identity, performative representation, and the theatricality of literature. They also address subjects regarding genre and gender, social and legal anthropology, and reactionary versus revolutionary writing. Finally, they advance the historically significant debate about what constitutes modern literature by revisiting with new perspective questions first asked centuries ago: Did Ariosto invent a truly national, and uniquely Italian, literary genre--the chivalric romance? Or did Tasso alone, by equaling the epic standards of Homer and Virgil, make it possible for a literature written in Italian to attain the status of its classical Greek and Latin antecedents? Arguing that Ariosto and Tasso are still central to the debate on what constitutes modern narrative, this collection will be invaluable to scholars of Italian literature, literary history, critical theory, and the Renaissance.Contributors. Jo Ann Cavallo, Valeria Finucci, Katherine Hoffman, Daniel Javitch, Constance Jordan, Ronald L. Martinez, Eric Nicholson, Walter Stephens, Naomi Yavneh, Sergio Zatti
Renaissance Women Poets
by Isabella Whitney Mary Sidney Aemilia Lanyer Danielle ClarkeIncludes passages from 3 Renaissance women poets (RWP) who are strong and original voices which alter our picture of the golden age of English Lit. Social convention prevented RWP from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways of intervening indirectly. Whitney explored issues of sexual morality and her sense of exclusion from the greedy and commercial London of the 1570s. Sidney produced translations of Petrarch and the Psalms as well as original verse in order to mourn her late brother, develop his legacy and promote the Protestant cause. Lanyer wrote poetry which defends Eve's actions in the Garden of Eden, and celebrates female virtue and spirituality.
Renascence, and Other Poems
by Edna St. Vincent MillayAs outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)
Renascence and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edna St. MillayThe poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent and moving account of spiritual rebirth.In 1917, "Renascence" was incorporated into her first volume of poetry, which is reprinted here, complete and unabridged, from the original edition. The 23 works in this first volume are fired with the romantic and independent spirit of youth that Edna St. Vincent Millay came to personify. In addition to "Renascence," this volume includes 16 other early lyric poems — "Interim," "Sorrow," "Ashes of Life," "Three Songs of Shattering," "The Dream," "When the Year Grows Old," and others, including six sonnets, to which Millay brought great distinction throughout her career.
RENDANG (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Will HarrisUsing long poems, ekphrasis, and ruptured forms, RENDANG is a startling new take on the self, and how an identity is constructed. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Will Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages. They deftly ask us to consider how and what we look at, as well as what we don't look at and why. It is intellectual and accessible, moving and experimental, and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting.Mother CountryThe shades open for landing, I see the pandan-leafed interior expandingtowards the edge of a relievedhorizon. Down alongthe banks of the Ciliwung are slums I had forgotten, the river like a loosely sutured wound. As we begin our descent into the black smog of an emergingpower, I make out the tin shacks, the stalls selling juices, the red-tiled colonial barracks, the new mall.It is raining profusely.After years of her urgingme to go, me holding back,I have no more excuses.
Las Renegadas: Antología
by Gabriela MistralEn Las renegadas, Lina Meruane propone una nueva lectura para la poesía de Gabriela Mistral Lina Meruane selecciona, reordena con atrevimiento y prologa a la Premio Nobel de Literatura, permitiendo leer de nuevos modos una poesía que ostenta el rango de lo clásico. «La poesía dialogante de la Mistral reniega del poder del territorio, entabla una relación fluida con la tierra y nos deja como legado la posibilidad de acabar con los viejos modelos de sociedad», dice Meruane en su prólogo. Y en efecto aquí vemos cómo la rebeldía, la extranjería, la incomodidad y la aspereza son los ejes de una poética singular, poderosa, que no sólo ha resistido el paso del tiempo, sino que ha sabido dejarse leer de distintos modos.
The Renegade: Writings on Poetry and a Few Other Things
by Charles SimicSimic was born in Belgrade in 1938 and his childhood was marked by war. By 1954 he was in Chicago. By 1959 he was a published poet, and after a degree from New York U. he published the first of over 60 books. In time Simic (literature, U. of New Hampshire) the refugee was Simic the US Poet Laureate. His intuitive understanding of the bizarre has remained with him throughout, and this collection of writings reveals some of the reasons why this unique trait has helped to make him one of the great twentieth and twenty-first century poets. He explains attraction, reflection, rule-making, devotion, utopianism, marginalization and the heart of the poet along with the moments in his life that shaped his mind and spirit, and critiques the works of authors ranging from Christopher Marlow to Emily Dickenson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Creeley, and Zbigniew Herbert. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Renglones cortos: Tiempo
by Angustias de las Cuevas«Un canto a la nostalgia por lo que pudo ser y se quedó en simples sueños, la idealización por lo que puede llegar a ser, el inconformismo ante la pérdida de los sentimientos románticos. Esa postura en la que se encuentran todos los que están situados en la curva de la existencia justo cuando comienza el descenso.» Renglones cortos está compuesto por cincuenta y dos poemas, donde el tiempo marca las directrices en su desarrollo. Estos renglones cortos nacen de una forma espontánea, guiados por los sentimientos más básicos del ser humano, la de vivir no solo existiendo, sino sintiendo en cada entresijo del alma. Y se consiguen a través de un lenguaje descifrable, donde la figura retórica de la perífrasis se hace evidente, como fórmula para estimular el pensamiento y lograr idealizarlo a través de un conjunto de palabras necesarias para designar unos sentimientos. En definitiva se trata de emocionar a través de las palabras, de sentir a través de ellas, de reflexionar ante el factor determinante que es el transcurrir el tiempo. «Siempre en un inmenso placer leerte, termino cada lectura y en mi mente corren manantiales y brisas de tiempos que no volverán, pero esta estrofa me mata y me transforma:¡Déjenme llorar mis sueños! ¡Déjeme consumir mis restos en el viejo hontanar de mis recuerdos! ¡Déjeme descansar a solas! Porque son otros tientos ahora los que rescataran mis cenizas!!!...»Enrique Caldas
The Renunciations: Poems
by Donika KellyAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of BestiaryThe Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of “the oracle”—an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends—the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility.In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma—a home whose construction starts “with a razing.”
Repair (Boston Review / Forum)
by Ed Pavlić Ivelisse RodriguezHow we can recover from terrible ruptures, the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfare, gendered violence, and ecological brinksmanship.Individually and collectively, we bear deep wounds. Some of these are generations old; all have been worsened by a destructive period of pyrrhic politics that left us ill-equipped to respond to a global health catastrophe. As we struggle to recover our footing and grieve our dead, Boston Review believes that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal. In this new anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays from renowned writers and newcomers, writers explore whether and how we can repair terrible ruptures, life-threatening illnesses and the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfare, gendered violence, and ecological brinksmanship. ContributorsAriella Aisha Azoulay, Kemi Alabi, Donia Elizabeth Allen, Don Mee Choi, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Emma Dries, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Randall Horton, Savonna Johnson, Kim Hyesoon, Maya Marshall, Colleen Murphy, Simone Person, aureleo sans, Bishakh Som, Olúfmi O. Táíwò, Meredith Talusan, Brian Teare, Yiru Zhang