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He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
by Christian WimanA moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a suddenly intimate conversation about faith; Mary Oliver puts half of a dead pigeon in her pocket; A. R. Ammons stands up in front of an audience and refuses to read. He Held Radical Light is as urgent and intense as it is lively and entertaining—a sharp sequel to Wiman’s earlier memoir, My Bright Abyss.
He Spoke of Love: Selected Poems from the Satsai
by BiharilalThe seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal’s Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with archetypal hero and heroine motifs that bridge divine and worldly love. He Spoke of Love brims with romantic rivalries, clandestine trysts, and the bittersweet sorrow of separated lovers. This new translation presents four hundred couplets from the enduring seventeenth-century classic, showcasing the poet’s ingenuity and virtuosity.
He leído que no mueren las almas
by Anna AjmátovaEl presente volumen de la colección «Poesía portátil» es una antología de la obra poética de Anna Ajmátova, una de las principales voces de la poesía rusa de principios del siglo XX. <P><P>Una obra maestra contra la represión y el terror estalinista. La obra de Anna Ajmátova (1889-1966), prohibida durante muchos años en Rusia, es uno de los principales testimonios literarios de la turbulenta historia del país. <P>En 1934 su primer marido, el también poeta Gumilev, fue acusado de actividades contrarrevolucionarias y murió fusilado. Muchos de sus amigos poetas fueron enviados a los gulags estalinianos y Ajmátova vio cómo la mayoría de sus seres queridos morían, eran condenados o enviados al exilio. <P><P>Entre ellos, su único hijo. Tras años en el centro de la diana del terror estalinista, Lev fue encarcelado en 1938 acusado de terrorismo. Durante diecisiete meses, Ajmátova hizo cola todas las mañanas ante la cárcel de Leningrado para saber si seguía con vida. <P>De esta experiencia nacería uno de sus poemarios más hermosos: Réquiem, recogido en este libro y publicado en 1963, el mismo año en que se le concedió el Premio Internacional de Literatura. <P>Esta selección, en la versión del Premio Nacional de Traducción José Luís Reina Palazón, también incluye otros poemas en los que Ajmátova desnuda el espíritu ruso mientras canta al desamor, al paso del tiempo y al dolor de ver la propia patria sometida al terror más feroz. -------«- ¿Y usted puede describir esto? <P>Y yo dije:- Puedo. <P>Entonces algo como una sonrisa resbaló en aquello que una vez había sido su rostro.»-------
He leído que no mueren las almas (Flash Poesía #Volumen)
by Anna AjmátovaEl presente volumen de la colección «Poesía portátil» es una antología de la obra poética de Anna Ajmátova, una de las principales voces de la poesía rusa de principios del siglo XX. Una obra maestra contra la represión y el terror estalinista. La obra de Anna Ajmátova (1889-1966), prohibida durante muchos años en Rusia, es uno de los principales testimonios literarios de la turbulenta historia del país. En 1934 su primer marido, el también poeta Gumilev, fue acusado de actividades contrarrevolucionarias y murió fusilado. Muchos de sus amigos poetas fueron enviados a los gulags estalinianos y Ajmátova vio cómo la mayoría de sus seres queridos morían, eran condenados o enviados al exilio. Entre ellos, su único hijo. Tras años en el centro de la diana del terror estalinista, Lev fue encarcelado en 1938 acusado de terrorismo. Durante diecisiete meses, Ajmátova hizo cola todas las mañanas ante la cárcel de Leningrado para saber si seguía con vida. De esta experiencia nacería uno de sus poemarios más hermosos: Réquiem, recogido en este libro y publicado en 1963, el mismo año en que se le concedió el Premio Internacional de Literatura. Esta selección, en la versión del Premio Nacional de Traducción José Luís Reina Palazón, también incluye otros poemas en los que Ajmátova desnuda el espíritu ruso mientras canta al desamor, al paso del tiempo y al dolor de ver la propia patria sometida al terror más feroz. -------«- ¿Y usted puede describir esto?Y yo dije:- Puedo.Entonces algo como una sonrisa resbaló en aquello que una vez había sido su rostro.»-------
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
by Kadir NelsonWhat began as a spiritual has developed into one of America’s best-known songs, and now for the first time it appears as a picture book, masterfully created by award-winning artist Kadir Nelson.Through sublime landscapes and warm images of a boy and his family, Kadir has created a dazzling, intimate interpretation, one that rejoices in the connectedness of people and nature. Inspired by the song’s simple message, Kadir sought to capture the joy of living in and engaging with the world. Most importantly, he wished to portray the world as a child might see it—vast and beautiful.
Head Off & Split: Poems
by Nikky FinneyWinner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry<P><P> Winner, 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry<P> Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry<P> Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry<P> The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina. Finney’s poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother’s wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president’s final State of the Union address.
Head in the Clouds: An offbeat collection of poems, limericks and rhymes
by John FedorenkoHead in the Clouds is the debut poetry collection by Doncaster-based writer and humorist John Fedorenko. A fun, quirky compendium of thoughts and musings on various topics, ranging from the frustration felt by having a low phone battery to the utter delight of experiencing gut-busting laughter. John shares childhood memories of his bizarrely behaved first pet and of growing up with an ancient TV. He reveals his unlikely idea for a remarkable invention and the real reason vending machines get stuck! Poems on the philosophy of life and the fragility of time are presented alongside those on the importance of tea and how he was once madly jealous of a hamster. There’s even a poem about writing a poem... From the serious to the surreal, from longer pieces to witty single-verse observations and traditionally written limericks, Head in the Clouds offers an entertaining, funny and uplifting insight into the mind of a self-confessed scatterbrain!
Headwaters: Poems
by Ellen Bryant Voigt"Luminous. . . . Each reading reveals the tug of opposites, and in this tension the poet shows her brilliance."--Library Journal, starred review Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages--owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills--and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetime's worth of skills herself: she too has survived. The power of these extraordinary poems lies in their recognition that all our experience is ultimately useless--that human beings are at every moment beginners, facing the earth as if for the first time. "Don't you think I'm doing better," asks the first poem. "You got sick you got well you got sick," says the last. Eschewing punctuation, forgoing every symmetry, the poems hurl themselves forward, driven by an urgent need to speak. Headwaters is a book of wisdom that refuses to be wise, a book of fresh beginnings by an American poet writing at the height of her powers.
Healing with Haiku: A Poetic Exploration of Self
by Anne HelferHealing With Haiku invites you to delve into your innermost self, both emotionally and spiritually, through the art of haiku. This form of poetry, with its emphasis on careful observation, contemplation, and honest vulnerability, allows you to navigate personal challenges while aspiring for a balanced, peaceful, and joyous life.Therapeutic writing has long been a cornerstone of wellness programs, particularly those addressing trauma, addiction, anxiety, and stress. By merging the healing power of therapeutic writing with the mindfulness and self-expression of haiku, you can process significant moments and emotions in a structured yet creative manner.In Healing With Haiku, you will learn to:• Compose authentic haikus using the 5-7-5 syllable structure• Choose emotional language to better express yourself• Write with both guided prompts and personal inspirationCreate deeply meaningful haikus and discover new ways to articulate what is true and important to you.
Heard it in the Playground
by Allan Ahlberg'The teacher tapped his forehead. At last! the children cried!The answer, Sir's, in your head...What a perfect place to hide'Jump into Allan Ahlberg's playful world of poetry, perfect for primary school children.Shed a tear for The Boy Without A Name, discover the secrets to teachers (they NEVER leave the school!?) and try to solve the riddles of The Answer. Packed with rhythmic poetry and playful songs, this timeless collection has delighted children for generations.'Every desk should hide a copy; every staff room own one' - The ObserverDiscover more school stories from Alan Ahlberg:Starting SchoolPlease Mrs Butler
Heard-Hoard
by Atsuro RileyWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. Recognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.” From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
Heard-Hoard
by Atsuro RileyWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. Recognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.” From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward (Southern Literary Studies)
by Ruth SalvaggioWhile sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the book, Salvaggio realized that the process reflected how Sappho's own words were unearthed from the refuse of the ancient world. Undertaking such a task in New Orleans, she sets out to recover the city's rich poetic heritage while searching through its flooded debris. Hearing Sappho in New Orleans is at once a meditation on this poetic city, its many languages and cultures, and a history of its forgotten poetry. Using Sappho's fragments as a guide, Salvaggio roams the streets and neighborhoods of the city as she explores the migrations of lyric poetry from ancient Greece through the African slave trade to indigenous America and ultimately to New Orleans.The book also directs us to the lyric call of poetry, the voice always in search of a listener. Writing in a post-Katrina landscape, Salvaggio recovers and ponders the social consequences of the "long song" -- lyric chants, especially the voices of women lost in time -- as it resonates from New Orleans's "poetic sites" like Congo Square, where Africans and Indians gathered in the early eighteenth century, to the modern-day Maple Leaf Bar, where poets still convene on Sunday afternoons. She recovers, for example, an all-but-forgotten young Creole woman named Lélé and leads us all the way up to celebrated contemporary writers such as former Louisiana poet laureate Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, Nicole Cooley, and Katherine Soniat.Hearing Sappho in New Orleans is a reminder of poetry's ability to restore and secure fragile and fragmented connections in a vulnerable and imperiled world.
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature
by Angela LeightonHearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.
Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (New Hispanisms)
by Sarah FinleyHearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51–95). A voracious autodidact, Sor Juana engaged with early modern music culture in a way that resonates deeply in her writing. Despite the privileging of harmony within Sor Juana’s work, however, links between the poet’s musical inheritance and subjects such as acoustics, cognition, writing, and visual art have remained unexplored. These lacunae have marginalized nonmusical aurality and contributed to the persistence of both ocularcentrism and a corresponding visual dominance in scholarship on Sor Juana—and indeed in early modern cultural production in general. As in many areas of her work, Sor Juana’s engagement with acoustical themes restructures gendered discourses and transposes them to a feminine key. Hearing Voices focuses on these aural conceits in highlighting the importance of sound and—in most cases—its relationship with gender in Sor Juana’s work and early modern culture. Sarah Finley explores attitudes toward women’s voices and music making; intersections of music, rhetoric, and painting; aurality in Baroque visual art; sound and ritual; and the connections between optics and acoustics. Finley demonstrates how Sor Juana’s striking aurality challenges ocularcentric interpretations and problematizes paradigms that pin vision to logos, writing, and other empirical models that traditionally favor men’s voices. Sound becomes a vehicle for women’s agency and responds to anxiety about the female voice, particularly in early modern convent culture.
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
by Catherine RobsonMany people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Heart Talk: 52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery
by Cleo WadeBased on Cleo Wade&’s bestselling book, Heart Talk, these pages string together gentle prompts, words of encouragement, and inquiries into the body, mind, and soul.Inspired by her conversations with the thousands of fans she has met on her nationwide sold-out tours, Heart Talk: The Journal is a space to share your own truths alongside hers. As Cleo writes, &“The best thing about your life is that it is constantly in a state of design. This means you have, at all times, the power to redesign it. Make moves, allow shifts, smile more, do more, do less, say no, say yes—just remember, when it comes to your life, you are not only the artist but the masterpiece, as well.&” Inside, you will find the opportunity to let go, feel what you need to feel, discover your own poetic wisdom, and become the person you want to be.
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
by Cleo WadeA beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called &“the Millennial Oprah&” by New York Magazine—that offers creative inspiration and life lessons through poetry, mantras, and affirmations, perfect for fans of the bestseller Milk & Honey.True to her hugely popular Instagram account, Cleo Wade brings her moving life lessons to Heart Talk, an inspiring, accessible, and spiritual book of wisdom for the new generation. Featuring over one hundred and twenty of Cleo&’s original poems, mantras, and affirmations, including fan favorites and never before seen ones, this book is a daily pep talk to keep you feeling empowered and motivated. With relatable, practical, and digestible advice, including &“Hearts break. That&’s how the magic gets in,&” and &“Baby, you are the strongest flower that ever grew, remember that when the weather changes,&” this is a portable, replenishing pause for your daily life. Keep Heart Talk by your bedside table or in your bag for an empowering boost of spiritual adrenaline that can help you discover and unlock what is blocking you from thriving emotionally and spiritually.
Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems
by Gabriel FriedNearly 100 poems about that most literary of sports: baseball. An anthology of classic and contemporary poems by some of America's top authors--in a beautifully designed, portable edition that will be treasured by all baseball fans. Here is an impressive roster of poets from the past 75 years, including Hall of Famers like Richard Hugo, Irving Feldman, William Matthews, Marianne Moore, Ogden Nash, and May Swenson, and contemporary All-Stars like B.H. Fairchild, Linda Gregerson, Donald Hall, Denis Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thomas Lux, Gail Mazur, and others. In all, nearly one hundred poets represent the spectrum of verse writing about the National Pastime: from stickball and sandlot games to the Majors, from spectators to scrubs and superstars. They underscore baseball's particular poetic sensibility, capturing its rhythms, culture, and timelessness. Includes a Foreword by Daniel Okrent, acclaimed author (Nine Innings, Last Call, and others), inaugural Public Editor of the New York Times, and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball, also known as Fantasy Baseball. A very classy collection, excellent poetry and excellent baseball--a perfect gift.
Heart to Heart New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
by Jan GreenbergWhat do we feel when we look at a great work of art<P><P> What does a poet feel<P> Heart to Heart offers an original way to approach poetry and art—with new works by distinguished American poets, specially commissioned for this book by editor Jan Greenberg. Prompted by paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by American artists working in the 20th century, these poems lend a new meaning to “art appreciation” and make each page of Heart to Heart an exciting discovery.<P> Join such poets as Jane Yolen, Nancy Willard, X. J. Kennedy, Naomi Shihab Nye, David Mura, and Angela Johnson as they reveal a personal, heartfelt response to works by Thomas Hart Benton, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Grandma Moses, Faith Ringgold, Man Ray, Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others. Whether the poems are playful, challenging, tender, mocking, humorous, sad, or sensual, each work of art, seen through the eyes of a poet, allows readers to look at the world with new insight.
Heartsongs
by Mattie StepanekMatthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known to his friends as "Mattie," began writing poetry and short stories at the age of three. Some of his works explore the uncensored reality of living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and with the grief associated with the loss of his three siblings to the same Iife-threattning condition. But most of his work proclaims the innocent hope, profound wisdom and delightful humor of childhood Other books by this author are available from Bookshare..
Heartstrings and Happenings: Poems and Poetry of Betty Swensen Dodge
by Betty DodgeElizabeth Holroyd Shipley Swensen Dodge (Betty) was born, ninth of eleven children, in Sutherland, Utah on January 8, 1917. The mother of five children, her life as an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints included a full time mission and nearly two decades as an ordinance worker in the Jordan River Temple. She has been a widow for nearly 50 years. Her poems of insights and compassion reflect the heartstrings and happenings of a mother, widow, friend, and a women committed to the the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Heat Wake
by Jason ZuzgaMixing science with humor, humanity, whimsy and love, Jason Zuzga's debut collection is a revelation. In Heat Wake, the reader encounter natures in myriad forms, all crafted from the unusual perspective of a poet astonished by the world and at work among the queerness of life, the odd sweetness of other people, the city, nature, love, and humanity. The poems unfold amid the presence of stubborn rocks, the vast ocean and its shores, the intimate details of a suburban New Jersey landscape. The book's exuberant poems take a journey through time itself: the limited time of humans versus time evolutionary and geological. The poems present in rollicking, playful language and joyful imagery, glancing at the infinite and at the future imagined from the desert in Arizona to Mars. "Charming, witty, and science-y smart, these debut collection poems pop with volleys of youthful and wise acts, tactics, maneuvers, catastrophes, scenes, and did I mention love poems overrunning! --Jane Miller
Heating the Outdoors
by Marie-Andrée Gill Kristen Renee MillerYou're the clump of blackened sprucethat lights my gasoline-soaked heartIt's just impossible you won't be backto quench yourself in my crème-sodaancestral spiritIrreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill.In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill's interrogation and reclamation of the language, land, and interpersonal intimacies distorted by imperialism. They navigate her interior landscape—of heartbreak, humor, and, ultimately, unrelenting light—amidst the boreal geography.Heating the Outdoors describes the yearnings for love, the domestic monotony of post-breakup malaise, and the awkward meeting of exes. As the lines between interior and exterior begin to blur, Gill's poems, here translated by Kristen Renee Miller, become a record of the daily rituals and ancient landscapes that inform her identity not only as a lover, then ex, but also as an Ilnu and Québécoise woman.