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If You Discover a Fire
by Shaun RobinsonPrecision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning.Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson’s If You Discover a Fire is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. They forage through the syntax and vocabulary of late-night voicemails, letters to the editor, songs invented in the shower, professional jargon, “Witness Wanted” signs, technical manuals, and text-message typos to assemble verbal collages that raise more questions than they answer. In settings ranging from Montreal's Mile End to a commercial flight above the Midwest to a wildfire in the mountains of British Columbia, these are poems rooted in working-class Canadian experience, poems that flirt with both safety and danger, that drone on like drunken strangers in a bar. Gathering reference from weather reports, football announcers, aerial disappearances, and the movie Groundhog Day, these poems sound their forlorn yawp through the alleys of East Vancouver. Out on the porch, between shots, he tells you / things you've always known, how the past / and the future are lovers spooning / in bed, and the present is how they don't / quite fit together. (from "Carpe Dos and Carpe Don'ts (FT. Panda Bear)").
If You Have to Go: Poems
by Katie FordThe transformative new book from “one of the most important American poets at work today” (Dunya Mikhail)I am content because before me looms the hope of love.I do not have it; I do not yet have it.It is a bird strong enough to lead me by the rope it bites;unless I pull, it is strong enough for me.I do worry the end of my days might comeand I will not yet have it. But even then I will be braveupon my deathbed, and why shouldn’t I be?I held things here, and I felt them.—From “Psalm 40”The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention, for revelation, and, perhaps above all, for companionship. The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood—in the bedroom, cluttered with doubts, and in the throes of marital loss—these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” In song and in silence, Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness. This is poetry that “can break open, // it can break your life, it will break you // until you remain.” If You Have to Go is Ford’s most luminous and moving collection.
If You Knew My Name: A Novel in Verse
by Lisa Roberts CarterMason ZyíAire Tyndall has big dreams. Dreams of sick beats, epic mic-drops, sold out stadiums. Masonís going to be a rap staróand you donít become a rap star by hitting up BLM protests with your mom or sitting at a desk. Mason wants to get out there and make a name for himself, but heíll have to graduate high school first. And he canít do that if he fails his senior year. Convinced his poetry class is a waste of time, Masonís teacher helps him see just how valuable a couplet and a rhyme can be. But when an unarmed Black man is killed by the police in his city, tensions start to riseóamong the cops, the community, and even Masonís peers. Caught in the middle of increasingly violent conflicts, Mason will have to find a way to use his voice for changeÖand fast.
If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
by J. Patrick Lewis Matthew CordellIn this tasty collection, J. Patrick Lewis displays the breadth and depth of his talent, giving readers of any and every sensibility something to make them laugh out loud. He stirs humor into an astonishing array of subjects--from animals to school to dragons to food. And he delivers them in a remarkable variety of forms, including riddles, limericks, nonsense rhymes, parodies, anagrams, story poems, haiku, and more. <P><P>Baked in Lewis's brilliant imagination and sprinkled with Matthew Cordell's warm, witty drawings, the result is a collection to delight the taste buds.
If You Were a Penguin
by Wendell Minor Florence MinorWendell and Florence Minor create a charming tribute to all the playful fun and activity that comes with being a penguin--which young readers can delight in too!
If You're Not from the Prairie
by David BouchardThe natural beauty of prairie, its extreme climates, its scenic beauty and the modern life are depicted in this book of poems and illustrations for children.
If the World Becomes So Bright: If The World Becomes So Bright
by Keith TaylorA lyrical and accessible collection that explores both the landscape of Michigan and the inner life of one person who lives there.
Iggy Peck, Architect
by David Roberts Andrea BeatyIggy has one passion - building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they are sometimes surprised by his materials. But, when his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of his architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up!
Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth
by Stephen BergWhen Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day.Stephen Berg is the Editor and founder of American Poetry Review.Also available by Stephen BergSteel CricketPB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X * CUSANew & Selected PoemsPB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 * CUSA
Il Lamento dell'immigrato
by Mois Benarroch Martina Fattore"Il lamento dell'immigrato" è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1994 in ebraico. La poesia di Benarroch è stata tradotta in una dozzina di lingue, incluse l'urdu e il cinese. Julia Uceda considera la sua poesia detentrice della memoria del mondo, mentre Jose Luis Garcia Martin ritiene che i suoi versi vadano ben oltre la poesia e che siano dei veri e propri documenti. ""Se dovessi scegliere qualcuno da nominare per il Premio Nobel, sicuramente concorrerebbe anche lui." Klaus Gerken, editore di Ygdrasil. La sua fama cresce constantemente e i suoi libri sono stati pubblicati in Spagna, Israele e Stati Uniti d'America. Benarroch è stato insignito del Prime Minister Literary Prize nel 2008 e del Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize nel 2012.
Il Sentiero Nel Bosco Intricato
by James Lawless Cristina CinquiniClearing The Tangled Wood: Poetry as a way of seeing the world - è stato pubblicato dalla prestigiosa Academica Press negli Stati Uniti nel 2009. La meditazione di Lawless tenta di rivendicare la poesia nella nostra vita e confuta il ragionamento di Platone per bandire i poeti dalla sua Repubblica ideale che definiva i poeti irrazionali o persino effeminati. Il lavoro è uno sguardo globale alla poesia moderna e Lawless fornisce le sue traduzioni di versi dall' irlandese allo spagnolo. Il bosco intricato è una "sequenza emozionante di rivelazioni, un lavoro splendidamente scritto con amore, piacere e intuizione" Brendan Kennelly. 'Un balletto linguistico, dotto e vivace, in favore della poesia' John Montague
Il passerotto nello specchio
by Iperbole10 Rita CAPT KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL Laurence MitryUn deliberato atto di disobbedienza, e l'uomo è entrato per sempre in guerra col suo più grande avversario, il suo ego. Più cede all'ego, più paga col suo sé divino. Il suo materialismo, la forsennata ricerca del potere e l'indifferenza, lo alienano, lo isolano. Schiavo del suo ego, l'uomo si compiace nel suo falso orgoglio, nella sua vanagloria, nella sua falsa sicumèra. La ricerca non ha mai fine. La sete non è mai placata. Lo spirito sempre tormentato. Il cuore perennemente in tempesta. Oscure nubi sovrastano la saggezza ma la creazione umana ha sete di motivazioni. Per questo, il Signore misericordioso ha tracciato il suo gran disegno. Noi tutti, possediamo un regno interiore. Nel momento in cui iniziamo il nostro viaggio interiore, il buio inizia a diradarsi fino a divenire un'alba di infinita saggezza. Ogni vacuo vocìo si placa la calma si schiude. La gioia del cuore, quella vera, conduce alla pace, all'armonia, all'equilibrio.
Il tempo della città e altre poesie
by Vihang A. Naik Letizia MerelloNel suo 'Il tempo della città e altre poesie', un'antologia di poesie intuitive e filosofiche, suddivise in sei sezioni, Vihang A. Naik getta luce sulla vita di una città, in tutte le sue sfumature di gloria e miseria. 'Canto d'amore di un viaggiatore' è una sorta di diario di viaggio interiore, 'Uomini riflessi' descrive altre chimere della città, abitata da persone capricciose come l'incedere di un granchio o come i colori di un camaleonte. 'Il sentiero della saggezza' è l'inizio della meditazione e della conoscenza. 'Sulla riva' registra il senso di futilità del poeta, la memoria, il dolore, l'esilio e l'alienazione sulla riva della vita. Il titolo di quest'antologia è richiamato dal titolo dell'ultima delle sei sezioni, in cui la città si dispiega come un mercato, un paradiso dei perdenti e un terreno fertile per il cambiamento, osservato la sera, la notte, al chiaro di luna e attraverso nebbia e foschia. La poesia intitolata 'Autoritratto' inizia con un diagramma, seguito da alcune pagine bianche, e si conclude con quattro parole...qui il poeta immagina un momento epifanico, la sua vera natura scoperta quando si sveglia per vedersi 'svelato oltre il pensiero'. La rivelazione è preceduta da cinque pagine vuote. L'epifania ineffabile dell'ambiguità, che suggerisce la scoperta di un Sé trascendente, al di là di ogni pensiero e linguaggio, o può suggerire la scoperta di un'Assenza al di là del pensiero umano e della parola.
Il-i-ad That Lad
by Paul Hawkes… Long ago in a far distant and different – though maybe not so – world, 1,250BCE, yet-to-be Greeks tried to retake that world’s most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a 1,000 ships’ (actually 1,034). She’d been seduced/abducted by Paris, the Trojan prince. If she existed she may have been an excuse for colonial conquest, like the non-existent ‘weapons of mass destruction’ of Iraq 2003, as Troy was a key trading centre. Or the war may have been due to widespread famine, thus mass migration in the Med. This innovative take on Homer’s ancient epic Iliad uses a stream-of-consciousness style within a traditional ten-syllable rhyming structure. There are very graphic descriptions of one of our bloodiest wars, but also magic, as the god(desse)s interweave throughout, dispensing miracles for their favourites, nobbling rivals. Zeus, on Mount Olympus, plays chess master, pulling the strings, alongside Fate. And there are wonderful similes from the natural world. Given new resonance by the continuing war in Ukraine, Troy’s timeless lessons are unfortunately likely to become more, not less, relevant with increasing competition for shrinking resources, and now that the crises of global heating and nuclear Armageddon threaten practically all life on the planet. The futility of war and destruction has always been humankind’s Achilles Heel! The ancient Greek earth-mother goddess GAIA has largely become (G)reed, (A)rrogance), (I)gnorance, (A)ggression. The power-brokers of our brave new world are descendants of those peoples past – do we have enough of whatever wisdom they had to survive? If you like Greek mythology or history-fantasy or similar, you’ll love this modern twist on a tale of long ago…
Ilango Adigal
by M. VaradarajanThe book about Ilango Adigal a great Tamil poet, who was instrumental in the creation of silappathikaram, one of the five great epics of South India.
Iliad: Books Xiii-xxiv; With Notes (classic Reprint) (Hackett Classics)
by Homer Sheila Murnaghan"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic." —Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review
Illumination: Poetry to Light Up the Darkness
by Tyler Knott GregsonAn inspiring and beautiful collection of poems to give you strength, arm you for hardship, and remind you that you're always growing, from the bestselling author of Chasers of the Light.Tyler Knott Gregson is the original InstaPoet. With loyal fans across the country and all over the Internet, he breathes new life into this ancient medium and delights fans with his openness and honesty alongside his beautiful photography.This new book will be his first poetry collection in four years, and he returns now with a message of hope. In his elegant and simple style, Gregson will lift your spirits, keep you going when times get tough, and remind you of the inherent inner strength you already have within you.
Illuminations: Prose poems
by Arthur RimbaudThe definitive translation of the one of the brightest geniuses of French poetry. The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varese. Mrs. Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's Illuminations in 1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France, together with an introduction in which Miss Varese discusses the complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special qualities of Rimbaud's writing. Rimbaud was indeed the most astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is best known for A Season in Hell, but his other prose poems are no less remarkable. While he was working on them he spoke of his interest in hallucinations--"des vertiges, des silences, des nuits." These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up--now here, now there--unexplored aspects of experience and thought.
Illustrations and Ornamentation from The Faerie Queene
by Carol Belanger Grafton Walter CraneThis anthology's magnificent illustrations and decorations in the medieval style were created by famed artist Walter Crane in the 1890s to illustrate a sumptuous multivolume limited edition of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser's sixteenth-century allegorical epic poem. A tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, the poem celebrates holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, and other virtues in verse tales of knightly adventure, courtly love, and acts of gallantry. Crane created these 352 magnificent illustrations and decorations in the rich nineteenth-century style of neo-medievalism made famous by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press, with which Crane was associated.Crane's designs have been meticulously reproduced here, including striking images of gallant knights in armor, demure maidens, fearsome dragons, unicorns, angels, and a host of decorative elements -- all displayed in a rich variety of full-page plates, finely detailed borders, and exquisite vignettes. Also included are charming headpieces, tailpieces, decorative initials, and the exquisite typography that originally appeared within the borders and other areas.Sure to delight any admirer of Crane's dazzling style, this splendid archive, skillfully arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton, will also provide a wealth of inspiration and immediately usable graphics for artists and illustrators alike.
Iluminando A Floresta Obscura: A Poesia Enquanto Visão De Mundo
by James Lawless Marcella MattarUm aclamado estudo e uma meditação global sobre poesia e criatividade. Essa monografia é um estudo da poesia enquanto uma forma alternativa de ver o mundo e de obter insights a realidades que permitem ao leitor enxergar a vasta alteridade que usualmente nos escapa. É discutido o processo criativo. As influências de outras áreas na elevação da consciência são descritas, bem como metodologias de observação que têm sido empregadas nos últimos 100 anos. Também é dada atenção à contribuição de poetas irlandeses modernos, especialmente no que diz respeito ao papel do poeta na sociedade. O trabalho de três poetas não-ingleses (Salinas, Lorca e Pasternak) é analisado em detalhe. Também é comentado o papel destes três poetas em suas sociedades, visualizando os insights e iluminações poéticas destes contra as forças sociais que destruiriam o poeta e sua poesia. A seção final do livro lida com a poesia enquanto uma arte única capaz de interpretar o mundo pós-moderno em sua aridez e fragmentação.
Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed
by Alejandro Pérez-CortésThe new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author’s impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima, Mexico.“In this remarkable bilingual debut . . . Pérez-Cortés cracks open the name of his hometown, Colima, to generate a vast mythology . . . The side-by-side presentation of the original Spanish and its English translation adds another layer to this engrossing volume.” —BooklistA Poets & Writers Page One SelectionIma and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés’s personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence perpetrated by the narcos.In his introduction, preeminent Cuban poet José Kozer praises Pérez-Cortés: “Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed comprises a voice that I consider poetic and that should be cared for and listened to with true interest. A voice that encompasses all, one that seeks to integrate, remake, and modify normative language when necessary, and to distort language that allows a better perception of the present and of everything that is historically behind a contemporary poet.”The Paz Prize for Poetry is presented by the National Poetry Series and Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College and is awarded biennially. Named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize–winning poet Octavio Paz, it honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish by an American resident.
Images Of Micronesia: Images And Writings Of Micronesia
by Evelyn Flores Brian L. MillhoffCollection if images both written and visuals of Micronesia. The short stories and poetry are written by both student and semi-proffesional writers native to the Micronesia islands.
Imaginary Logic
by Rodney JonesA new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones's distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. "The Art of Heaven" opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones's readers have come to rely on: "In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, / the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards. / Not deep depression. This nice hell of suburbs. / Speed bumps. The way things aren't quite paradise." Rodney Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of America's "best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets" (Poetry). Imaginary Logic is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind, scrupulous eye, and capacious heart.
Imaginations: Kora in Hell / Spring and All / The Descent of Winter / The Great American Novel / A Novelette & Other Prose
by William Carlos Williams Webster SchottImaginations makes accessible to the broad reading public live early books by William Carlos Williams, which, except for Kora in Hell, have long been hard to find in their original and complete forms. Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the power of the imagination to hold human beings to life and propel them onward." The prose-poem improvisations (Kora in Hell) . . . the interweaving of prose and poetry in alternating passages (Spring and All and The Descent of Winter) . . . an antinovel whose subject is the impossibility of writing "The Great American Novel" in America . . . automatic writing (A Novelette) . . . these are the challenges which Williams accepted and brilliantly met in his early work.
Imagine
by Karen KilpatrickImagine and dream. Play and learn. Now you have the wand. It is your turn. What will you change? Who will you be? Anything's possible - try it and see! Slide down rainbows and swing from stars! Bounce on clouds and drive fast cars! Join the Pumpkinheads as the switch the world around in a silly adventure that explores the power of imagination and the differences that make the world beautiful. Imagine is part of the award-winning Pumpkinheads series. Pumpkinheads books focus on social and emotional development, aiming to help little ones build awareness of their feelings, along with learning from and interacting with others. The Pumpkinheads mission is to educate, empower, inspire and entertain through multiple media platforms and above all, help children learn through play! ***Recipient of the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval, Academics Choice Smart Book Award & Dr. Toy's Ten Best Children's Products of 2015!***