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My Journey to Love and Back to Life: A Collection of Poems
by Cavan CollinsAt the age of 50, Cavan found himself alone for the first time in his life. Initially, it was a struggle to fill the emptiness of the evenings and the loneliness of the nights. The days were fine, they were just normal working days and it was as if nothing had changed, but come the evenings, the house was ghostly silent. After a while and with the love and help of those closest to him, Cavan gained confidence to face the evenings and the nights and his thoughts became poetry. His love of music and poetry filled his life and he realised that when put into words, sadness can be beautiful. In this, his first collection of poems, Cavan Collins digs deep into his strong Irish/Welsh ancestry to leave no doubt he has inherited the Celts' beautiful gift of expressing emotions.
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
by William Carlos WilliamsThis autobiographical account of the life of William Carlos Williams recounts the challenges of being a busy physician in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey as well as pursuing a literary career. One of the finest chapters in this autobiography tells how each of his two roles stimulated and supported the other.
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.)
by Geoffrey Chaucer Nevill CoghillNevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Dhoop Aur Dhua
by Ramdhari Singh DinkarThe poem is based on the rule of Britishers in India. The poem indicates the state of mind of people in the period when India had just got independence.
Dwandageet
by Ramdhari Singh DinkarWritten by Dinkar from the years 1932 to 1939 and finally published in 1939, this is one of the best poems written by the poet.
The Illiad
by Homer Richmond LattimoreModern translation of the Greek classic about the Trojan War. Includes a Good introduction.
In the Sierra: Mountain Writings
by Kenneth Rexroth Kim Stanley RobinsonNature writings by one of America's greatest poets, written out of a deep experience of the Sierras. Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth's poetry and prose described the way Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra. Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and correspondence. Famed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has compiled a gift for lovers of mountains and poetry both. This volume also contains Robinson's introduction and notes, photographs of Rexroth, a map of Rexroth's travels, and an amazing astronomical analysis of Rexroth's poems by the fiction writer Carter Scholz.
Our Friendly Friends
by Louis SlobodkinDelightful verses of our relationships to the friendly animals children are most familiar with. For instance, it tells about after a party where Some eat a lot And some eat less, And some drink water, Others drink dew, Some drink milk Just like you. A good book for quiet time.
Rashmi
by Mahadevi VermaRashmi is a collection of new and old poems of Mahadevi Verma. The collection as a regular feature incorporates the feature of chayavaad. A great source of learning for students of Hindi literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis StevensonHow do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Robert Louis Stevenson&’s rhymes have charmed children and adults alike since 1885, when they first appeared to a delighted public. Stevenson&’s joyful exploration of the world speaks directly from a child&’s point of view and celebrates the child&’s imagination. This Golden Books edition, originally published in 1951, features lively, colorful illustrations by Caldecott Medalists Alice and Martin Provensen. The original artwork has been digitally restored for this edition—resulting in a stunning, best-ever reproduction!
The Train to Timbuctoo (Little Golden Book)
by Margaret Wise BrownBack in print for a new generation, a rollicking, rhyming train tale from the author of Goodnight Moon!From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo, has captured the imaginations of generations of children. Out of print for decades, it is back to delight little ones and their parents and grandparents again. "Clackety-clack—clackety-clack—pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"—down the track they go! Now a new generation of children will pore over the cheerful illustrations of bridges, tracks, and countryside, while listening to this rollicking tale.
W. B. Yeats: A Study of the Last Poems (Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats #5)
by Vivienne KochIn this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats’s last years, that poetry which reached and held to the ‘intensity’ which he had striven for all his life. Vivienne Koch explores the ways in which the great but troubled poems derive their energy from suffering, and examines thirteen of his last poems in detail, each with a slightly different focus. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
The War Prayer
by Mark TwainWritten by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy. . . for the destruction of human life. Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine," this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1923, when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere. Handsomely illustrated by the artist and war correspondent Philip Groth, The War Prayer remains a relevant classic by an American icon.
Baudelaire
by Jean-Paul Sartre Martin TurnellThe abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature are turned into a theory of psychoanalysis, stuck in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. This theory is put into practice in this book on Baudelaire.
Best American Poetry 2016 (The Best American Poetry series)
by David Lehman Edward HirschThe premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues--guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.The Best American Poetry series is "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable" (Robert Pinsky); a guiding light for the mood and shape of modern American poetry. Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets who create it. Truly the "best" American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years. A poet of decided brilliance since his 1981 debut collection, For the Sleepwalkers, Edward Hirsch curates a thoughtful selection of poetry for 2016 and an Introduction to be savored. Jumpha Lahiri said of Hirsch, "The trademarks of his poems are...to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls." Hirsch's choices for this collection reflect the soul of poetry in America. As ever, series editor David Lehman opens this year's edition with an insider's guide and a thoughtful contemplation of poetry today.
Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
by David Lehman Natasha TretheweyEdited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.” With her selections and introductory essay for The Best American Poetry 2017, Trethewey will be highlighting even more “elegant and necessary” poems and poets, adding to the national conversation of verse and its role in our culture. The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey’s insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
by Howard NemerovThe former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life.<P><P> The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
Flight of Arrows
by Richard KinneyA short book of poems to his Mother and Dad and copyrighted in 1950
Itihas Ke Aanshu
by Ramdhari Singh DinkarDinkar describes the Himalaya and Delhi in this book of poems. The most prominent is Magadh Mahima.
Lesya Ukrainka
by Vera Rich Constantine BidaThe Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature, she sought difficult and complex motifs and gave them original treatment: themes such as the revolutionary ideological conflicts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which appear in some of her later poetry, are strengthened, given greater impact by her method of applying the individual and the personal to the more general concepts.From the beginning of her career her poetry was characterized by the theme of the poet's vocation and by the motifs connected with it--loneliness and alienation from society. Associated motifs deal with her love of freedom (national freedom in particular) and her hatred of anything weak and undecided.This book, sponsored by the Women's Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, is a discussion of her life and works and includes selected translations: Robert Bruce (1903), Cassandra (1907), The Orgy (1913), The Stone Host (1912), and "Contra spem spero." Readers interested in development of poetic style can study the gradual evolution from the lyrical to the precise and analytical manner of the prose-poems of Lesya Ukrainka, and discover the thematic wealth, depth of thought, and emotional power of her poetry.
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel
by Don MarquisOf all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life--except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature. Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he communicates with Don Marquis by leaping upon the keys of the columnist's typewriter. In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat.
Quipu
by Arthur Sze"Sze brings together disparate realms of experience---astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism--and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."--The New Yorker"Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."--The Washington PostQuipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor.Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root, slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop when gnats lift into a cloud as we stumble into a bunch of rose apples rotting on the ground.Long admired for his poetic fusions of science, history, and anthropology, in Quipu, Sze's lines and language are taut and mesmerizing, nouns can become verbs--"where is passion that orchids the body?"--and what appears solid and -stable may actually be fluid and volatile.A point of exhaustion can become a point of renewal: it might happen as you observe a magpie on a branch, or when you tug at a knot and discover that a grief disentangles, dissolves into air. Renewal is not possible to a calligrapher who simultaneously draws characters with a brush in each hand; it occurs when the tip of a brush slips yet swerves into flame . . .Arthur Sze is the author of eight books of poetry and a volume of translations. He is the recipient of an Asian American Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in New Mexico.
The Redshifting Web
by Arthur SzeThis collection spans more than a quarter century of published work, including selections from five previous award-winning books, and makes available for the first time the full range of Sze's remarkable poetry. Through the startling juxtaposition of images, Sze reveals the interconnectedness, the interdependency of things and ideas, always with an ear attuned to pitch and cadence.
Revival: Selections from his Writings, Translated from the Persian with Introduction and Notes (Routledge Revivals)
by Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn RūmīTo the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge his experience by apprehending the mystic intuition of a great Persian poet. The late author's beautiful and faithful translations are illuminated by Notes on Sufi doctrine and experience. The author did not finish the Introduction, but it has been completed by his old pupil and friend, Professor A. J. Arberry, who has seen the book through the press.
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
by William Wordsworth Mark Van DorenSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the later works. Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes,[Wordsworth's poetry] is great because of the extraordinary power with which [he] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.