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The Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999
by George P. GarrettIn celebration of the many fine poets it has been privileged to make known since launching its poetry list in 1964, Louisiana State University Press presents an anthology of the LSU poets, hereby transformed into The Yellow Shoe Poets.
Yellow Stars and Ice (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #157)
by Susan StewartFrom a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden":Gihon, that compasseth the whole land <P><P>At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries, running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us.
The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
by Charlotte Perkins GilmanWonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for 2,000 years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems.
Yer Ezhupathu and Tirukkai Vazakkam of Kambar
by KambarIn Yer Ezhupathu: (Plough Seventy) Poet Kambar is all praising the profession of agriculture right from ploughing the land till harvesting in seventy verses. In Tirukkai Vazhakkam, he praises the qualities of benovalence of Velalar community in sixty verses.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr SeussIncludes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag.
A Yes-or-No Answer
by Jane ShoreIn her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family's clothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet's teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her mother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll -- continue to haunt the living.The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation at a crossroads.
Yes, There Will Be Singing
by Marilyn KryslYes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl's essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry's collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry's profound spiritual and political possibilities, drawing on rich examples from poets such as Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata. Krysl concludes with a selection of stories of her nursing and humanitarian work, powerfully connecting poetic expression with a generous and compassionate worldview.
Yeshiva Boys: Poems
by David LehmanDavid Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The title poem, "Yeshiva Boys," is a work in twelve parts that blends the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book, explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful, provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired collection.
yesterday i was the moon
by Noor UnnaharNoor Unnahar is a young female voice with power and depth. The Pakistani poet's moving, personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult. Tinged with the heartbreak of a broken home and the complexity of a rich cultural background, yesterday i was the moon stands out from the Insta-poetry crowd as a collection worth keeping.yesterday i was the moon centers around themes of love and emotional loss, the catharsis of creating art, and the struggle to find one's voice. Noor's poetry ranges from succinct universal truths to flowery prose exploring her heritage, what it means to find a physical and emotional home, and the intimate and painful dance of self-discovery. Her poetry and art has already inspired thousands of fans on Instagram to engage with her words through visual journal entries and posts of their own, and her fan base only continues to grow.
Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman
by Don W. KingThe first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer Joy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Yet One More Spring is the first comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King studies her body of work — including both published and unpublished works — chronologically, tracing her development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely overlooked American writer.
Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman
by Don W. KingThe first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer Joy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Yet One More Spring is the first comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King studies her body of work — including both published and unpublished works — chronologically, tracing her development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely overlooked American writer.
Yevgeny Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin Anthony BriggsThe aristocratic Yevgeny Onegin has come into his inheritance, leaving the glamour of St Petersburg's social life behind to take up residence at his uncle's country estate. Master of the nonchalant bow, and proof of the fact that we shine despite our lack of education, the aristocratic Onegin is the very model of a social butterfly - a fickle dandy, liked by all for his wit and easy ways. When the shy and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him, Onegin condescendingly rejects her, and instead carelessly diverts himself by flirting with her sister, Olga - with terrible consequences.Yevgeny Onegin is one of the - if not THE - greatest works of all Russian literature, and certainly the foundational text and Pushkin the foundational writer who influence all those who came after (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, etc). So it's no surprise that this verse novella has drawn so many translators. It's a challenge, too, since verse is always harder to translate than prose. (Vikram Seth, rather than translating Onegin again, updated it to the 1980s in San Franciso in his The Golden Gate). A.D.P. Briggs is arguably the greatest living scholar of Pushkin, certainly in the UK, and as such he's spent a lifetime thinking about how to translate Pushkin. Briggs is an experienced and accomplished translator, not only for Pushkin (Pushkin's The Queen of Spades) but for Penguin Classics (War and Peace, The Resurrection) and others. Briggs has not only been thinking about Pushkin for decades, he's been working on this translation for nearly as long. It's a landmark event in the history of Onegin translations and this edition is accompanied by a thoughtful introduction and translator's note.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Yevtushenko: Selected Poems
by Yevgeny YevtushenkoThis volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for her son, while ‘Encounter’ depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. ‘The Companion’ and ‘Party Card’ show war from a child’s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko’s famous poem, ‘Babiy Yar’, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.
Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women
by Peter Levitt Rebecca NieFreshly translated poems reveal the complexity, self-realization, and spiritual freedom of three classical Daoist women poets.Yin Mountain presents a fascinating window onto the lives of three Tang Dynasty Daoist women poets. Li Ye (c. 734–784), Xue Tao (c. 768–832), and Yu Xuanji (843–868) lived and wrote during the period when Chinese poetry reached its greatest height. Yet while the names of the male poets of this era, such as Tu Fu, Li Bo, and Wang Wei, are all easily recognized, the names of its accomplished women poets are hardly known at all. Through the lenses of mysticism, naturalism, and ordinary life, the five dozen poems collected here express these women&’s profound devotion to Daoist spiritual practice. Their interweaving of plain but poignant and revealing speech with a compelling and inventive use of imagery expresses their creative relationship to the myths, legends, and traditions of Daoist Goddess culture. Also woven throughout the rich tapestry of their writing are their sensuality and their hard-wrought, candid emotions about their personal loves and losses. Despite that these poets&’ extraordinary skills were recognized during their lifetimes, as women they struggled relentlessly for artistic, emotional, and financial independence befitting their talent. The poems exude the charged charisma of their refusal to hold back within a culture, much like our own, that was cosmopolitan yet still restrictive of women's freedom. Skillfully introduced and translated by acclaimed translators Peter Levitt and Rebecca Nie, these wonderful poems will resonate with the lives of spiritual practitioners today, especially women.
Yo le he dicho ¡sí! al amor
by Liliana Rodriguez Bernal¿Es posible sobrevivir a la locura intensa del amor? «Yo le he dicho ¡sí! al amor esculpe y ordena pensamientos, sentimientos y emociones. Su lectura, hecha pausadamente, en voz alta y con los ojos del alma nos adentra, con su ritmo y cadencia, en la danza de la imaginación poética o en los sueños de los enamorados que nos transportan a un mágico lugar, sumergiéndonos en ese mar idílico de pasiones, unas veces tranquilas y otras tormentosas, donde brotan sentimientos cual lágrimas, de felicidad o de tristeza, por aquello del amor o del desamor, de la ilusión o la melancolía, de la soledad o la compañía, de la muerte o la vida...»Miguel Bejarano Corchuelo
Yo siempre regreso a los pezones y al punto 7 del Tractatus
by Agustín Fernández MalloAgustín Fernández Mallo deconstruye, a través de su inconfundible y plástica prosa poética, la ruptura de una pareja. «Recluido en un hotel de una isla mediterránea, el hombre recuerda los avatares de aquel amor. Se despliega, así, un abanico de fotografías verbales, que se engarzan en las páginas como cuentas en el hilo de la memoria.»Eduardo Moga Un gin con limón. Una habitación de hotel. Una isla mediterránea. Un tipo al que su chica ha abandonado creyendo que una casa no agota todos los mapas. Y un monigote atornillado a la puerta del lavabo que no deja de hablar y que, en su largo monólogo existencial, aúna literatura, la belleza del caos que se extiende ante la ausencia infinita, con ciencia, la fría rigurosidad carnívora del número exacto, del azar entendido como obra de arte que se decapita a sí misma a cada instante. Agustín Fernández Mallo deconstruye, a través de su inconfundible y plástica prosa poética, la ruptura de una pareja, arrojando puñados de polaroids verbales ante el lector, asomándose al abismo del terrorífico, por simple, por vacío, mundo real. Un universo cuyos límites están definidos por el lenguaje, como dejó claro el filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein, cuyo Tractatus homenajea, desde el título, este deliciosamente crudo texto: las palabras son armas que, al dispararse, dibujan la frontera entre lo que existe y lo que no existe porque simplemente no puede nombrarse. Brillante reflexión (físico) metalingüística sobre lo paradójico de la existencia.
Yo soy esta tormenta
by AstroMostraPoemas desgarrados, poemas embrujados, poemas cósmicos. Del autor de Guía astrológica para sobrevivir en la Tierra y Astrología para hacer la revolución. Sabemos que el amor no dura para siempre. Entonces ¿cómo es que parecía tan eterno? ¿Estuvo todo en nuestra cabeza? ¿Y qué nos queda después del derrumbe? ¿La bronca, la confusión, las estrellas en el cielo? Nos queda la poesía. Porque los poemas pueden ser también hechizos, rituales brujos, hogueras en las que quemamos los jirones de nuestros deseos. Un destello mágico que puede transformarnos en otra cosa: un planeta fuera de órbita, un viento huracanado, un gato agazapado que amenaza con atacar pero ronronea en secreto. «Si pudiera hacer un conjurolanzaría una tormentaque rompa ventanas,puertas, ciudadesy haría que en el mundono existan más los enamorados».
Yoga Heart
by Leza Lowitz Akiko Tanimoto"Yoga Heart is a tiny treasure to hold and to behold. Even the typography and colors are food for contemplation...highly recommended for people who will not only read the lines for enjoyment, but also use them for contemplation and right action in life." -New York Journal of BooksThese sixty poems on the Buddha's six "perfections," or qualities for a meaningful life-generosity, kindness, patience, joy, stillness, wisdom-were written over years of yoga and meditation practice, inspired by Tibetan Heart Yoga, nature, Buddhism, Osho, Tantra, ancient Japanese and Chinese poetry, Rumi, Kabir, haiku, love, and life. They seek to capture a journey from the physical body to the subtle body to the light body, until the heart bursts open into the beautiful radiance of divine energy in the world.Leza Lowitz is an award-winning author and editor. She owns Sun and Moon Yoga Studio in Tokyo and has written for Yoga Journal and Shambhala Sun.All author proceeds from the sale of this book go to relief efforts for people and animals affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011
Yoga Poems
by Leza Lowitz Anja BorgstromThe sixty poems in this book are windows into the mind/body/spirit experiences that come about through yoga practice. Each poem is named for a posture or breath exercise and is inspired by the physical properties of the pose or some aspect of breathing that led the poet to deeper understanding. Listening to these poems read aloud, or contemplating them on one's own, will help yoga students understand their own struggles and inspire them on the way to personal transformation.
Yossi And Laibel Hot On The Trail
by Dina RosenfeldTwo contemporary Jewish brothers deal with issues that every child must face. Sharing, doing favors for others, and never giving up are the important themes in this funny, heartwarming series. Award-winning artist brings the characters to life The lovable characters from Labels for Laibel are back in an all new rhyming adventure. Join the two brothers as they follow a trail of good deeds, going out of their way to help every Jew - no matter what and no matter who
you (Literature in Translation Series)
by Chantal Neveu Erín MoureFrom poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life, comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love.you demonstrates with exceptional beauty how in the interval between words or verses, language can glimmer, absorb, and refract the changing realities and attractions of an all too human relationship. Personal autonomy and the formation of “ self” are nourished here by multiples— I, you, s/he. The voice in you reclaims life from change and time and affirms it anew.
You and Yours (American Poets Continuum)
by Naomi Shihab NyeIn You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she&’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East.The DayI missed the day on which it was said others should not have certain weapons, but we could. Not only could, but should, and do. I missed that day. Was I sleeping? I might have been digging in the yard, doing something small and slow as usual. Or maybe I wasn&’t born yet. What about all the other people who aren&’t born? Who will tell them?Balancing direct language with a suggestive &“aslantness,&” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity, and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye&’s work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including NOW with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, and The United States of Poetry. She has traveled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
You and Yours
by Naomi Shihab NyeIn You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East.The DayI missed the day on which it was said others should not have certain weapons, but we could. Not only could, but should, and do. I missed that day. Was I sleeping? I might have been digging in the yard, doing something small and slow as usual. Or maybe I wasn't born yet. What about all the other people who aren't born? Who will tell them?Balancing direct language with a suggestive "aslantness," Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity, and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye's work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including NOW with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, and The United States of Poetry. She has traveled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.