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Klang – Ton – Wort: akustische Dimensionen im Schaffen Marcel Beyers
by Sven Lüder Alice StaškováMarcel Beyer hat mit seinem vielfach ausgezeichneten Schaffen auf einzigartige Weise Grenzbereiche zwischen Literatur, Musik und Kulturtheorie erkundet. Sein Œuvre, das außer Romanen, Gedicht- und Essaybänden auch fünf Libretti umfasst, zeichnet sich durch eine spezifische Aufmerksamkeit für das Akustische aus, wobei Fragen der Darstellung, der Systematisierung und der Performanz stets mitbedacht werden. Auf vielfältige, bislang kaum angemessen ergründete Weise verschränken sich in seinem Schaffen Erfahrungen als Mitwirkender (Sprecher), als Autor von musikbezogenen Essays (v. a. Rezensionen) und als Co-Autor zumal im Musiktheater. Der Band, der auf ein 2019 in Jena veranstaltetes Symposium zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge, die in umfassend interdisziplinärer Weise die Dimensionen des Akustischen in Beyers Werken sowie Ausfaltungen des Dialogs zwischen Musik und Literatur, besonders auch in der Praxis des zeitgenössischen Musiktheaters, untersuchen.
Knock At A Star: A Child's Introduction To Poetry
by X. J. Kennedy Dorothy M. KennedyThe classic anthology of poetry for children--now revised with new poems to enchant a new generation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Knocking on Windows: A Memoir
by Jeannine AtkinsAcclaimed author Jeannine Atkins revisits her past in this &“brave, searing&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir-in-verse about memory, healing, and finding her voice as a writer, perfect for fans of Amber Smith and Speak.Night darkens the window to mirror. I&’m back in my old bedroom. Six weeks after the start of her freshman year of college, Jeannine Atkins finds herself back in her childhood bedroom after an unimaginable trauma. Now home in Massachusetts, she&’s struggling to reclaim her life and her voice. Seeking comfort in the words of women, she turns to the lives and stories of Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, and Emily Dickinson. Through raw and poignant letter-poems addressed to these literary giants, Jeannine finds that the process of writing and reflecting has become not only a means of survival but the catalyst for a burgeoning writing career. Inspired and ready to move forward, she enrolls in her state university, where she feeds her growing passion for writing in fiction seminars. But she finds that she&’s unable to escape the pervasive misogyny of her classmates and professors, who challenge her to assert her own voice against a backdrop of disbelief and minimalization. This time, though, Jeannine is not willing to go down without a fight. A searingly honest memoir told through gorgeous verse, Knocking on Windows stands as a beacon of hope and a celebration of the enduring spirit of survivors of sexual assault—and of writers.
Knots
by Edward CarsonThe mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician's knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view. "Flight of the Mind & Measure of the Stars" sets an itinerary and series of proposed directions for the book, its poems introducing the mind in action, laying down themes of art and memory, reason and belief, intimacy and desire. The final sections are composed of verses that can also be read as parts of two longer, interconnected poems. "The Occupied Mind" enticingly pulls us deeper into philosophical questions and answers about the needs of the mind and the ambiguities of love. The central conceit of "Minutes" offers sixty meditations that are both a measure of time and testimony, as well as a witnessing and confession of what takes place within a changing relationship. Confronting the riddles and dualities of mind and heart, Knots provokes a layered interplay of reason, paradox, code, and cipher from our daily thinking and feeling. Actively engaging with the spoken strategies of thought, the nature of art, and our always unpredictable, evolving experience of love, we quickly discover the mind and heart are rarely what we expect.
Knots (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #37)
by Edward CarsonPoems sculpted from the persuasive mind, erratic heart, and enigmatic art of love&’s most devious puzzles.
Knoxville, Tennessee
by Nikki GiovanniA poem from a young girl's perspective about summer's delights in the south.
Knucklehead: Poems
by Tony Keith Jr.dear Knucklehead,perhaps you are like me:always figuring out if your soul and your skinare thick enough to protect your body from sticky stonesthrown from the mouths of those who knowthat spoken words have the power to spit out freedomand break-in bones. While society often assigns the label “knucklehead” to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard.There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that serve as a salve for a world that inflicts hurt, poems that offer a beacon of hope for the curious and questioning, and poems that transform the way people love Black gay boys and men.This is a journey of self-discovery through history, family, friendship, and falling in love. Knucklehead is a breathtaking work, full of black-and-white illustrations and unforgettable poetry that will heal, provoke, and inspire.
Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World
by Liza CrihfieldThis book of Japanese poetry and lyrics explores a little-known style of Japanese song called Ko-Uta.A Ko-Uta is translated as "little song" in Japanese. Unfamiliar to most Westerners, ko-uta are particularly in tune with the tradition of Japan's Edo-era merchants. Some ko-uta are aesthetic, many are earthy.Ko-uta are sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen-a traditional, three-stringed Japanese lute. Ko-uta come to life when they are sung, and the best example of where they live is in the geisha world. To help give some idea of the geisha world, this Japanese music book has provided a complete score of one song.Readers with some experience with haiku and other forms of Japanese poetry will find that ko-uta share many things with those forms. Yet, ko-uta retain their own unique interest, making this book a fascinating addition to any collection of Japanese literature or art.
Komorebi: Light Shining Through
by Gail Box IngramIn the ups and downs of life, for me the writing of a poem allows breakthrough, deeper understanding, and celebration or acceptance of a situation. I love sensing a poem taking shape in my head. This causes me to stop, listen, and write down what is there. I live more fully when I can express a situation, a scene, an emotion by writing a poem. Japan is the only place abroad I have visited, and it has provided several poems as well as the title of this book. Komorebi is my favorite Japanese word. Find out why as you navigate the poetry of my life. "Her poems are vivid images evoking God's intersection with our lives. They bring us needed respite in a world of wounds. " --Jane Kirkpatrick, New York Times bestselling author of All Together in One Place. "Gail Box Ingram is a poet after my own heart. The world is more beautiful with poetry, and especially Gail's. Her imagery is rare, and combined with her appreciation for the human struggle and humanity period, I am proud to call her a fellow-poet. " Laura Harris Smith, #1 bestselling author of Seeing the Voice of God: What God is Telling You Through Dreams and Visions (2014)
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer
by Bp NicholBetter break out your sledgehammer - it's time for a little concrete! Concrete poetry, that is. Concrete what? Well, it's poetry that's a lot like art - its meaning comes from what it looks like instead of the order of the words, so it's full of great visual puns and word puzzles. And one of its foremost practitioners is bpNichol, one of Canada's best experimental writers.Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Danceris Nichol's very first book. Originally published in England by Bob Cobbing in 1967, and then in Canada in 1973 by Nelson Ball's Weed/Flower Press, it has been unavailable for a dog's age. This new edition, curated by poet and antiquarian bookseller Nelson Ball, redresses this wrong. One of the few Nichol books that is dedicated entirely to concrete poetry, Konfessions is, like all of Nichol's work, playful, sincere, explorative, intelligent and human.
Kora & Ka: Novella with "Mira-Mare" (New Directions Bibelot)
by Hilda Doolittle Robert SpooThese two long stories by modernist master H.D. paint the wreckage of post-World War I Europe—both human and civilizational—in bright, vivid detail. Written by H. D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, Kora and Ka and Mira-Mare, are at once profoundly autobiographical yet, through H. D.'s unusual brand of modernist story-telling, pushed beyond personality. The men and women who haunt these tales are wraiths in spiritual exile, wanderers in a Europe still recovering from the devastations of World War I. Her descriptions of the beaches at Monte Carlo are triumphs of vivid detail - bright watercolors set against brooding psychological portraits. In its exploration of the broken dualities of self and civilization, Kora and Ka looks forward to H. D.'s masterpieces, Tribute to Freud and Trilogy.
Korean Nursery Rhymes
by Danielle Wright Helen AcramanA charming collection of fourteen well-loved rhymes, Korean Nursery Rhymes is the perfect introduction to Korean language and culture for young readers.This beautifully illustrated book features songs and rhymes perfect for children who are interested in learning the Korean language or about its culture. Presented in both English and Korean, this multicultural children's book also includes an audio CD with recordings of kids singing in both languages -- songs so lively and sweet, you'll soon find yourself singing along! Many accompany everyday play activities like jum rope and hand clap games. Others speak to a child's view of nature, and a love of home.Favorite rhymes and songs include: Little One Monkey's Bottom Twirling Round Spring in My Hometown And more!For preschoolers and beyond, this book will be a joy to the mind, the eye, the ear and the heart.
Korean Nursery Rhymes: Wild Geese, Land Of Goblins And Other Favorite Songs And Rhymes [korean-english] [downloadable Mp3 Audio Included]
by Danielle Wright Helen AcramanA charming collection of fourteen well-loved rhymes, Korean Nursery Rhymes is the perfect introduction to Korean language and culture for young readers. This beautifully illustrated book features songs and rhymes perfect for children who are interested in learning the Korean language or about its culture. Presented in both English and Korean, this multicultural children's book also includes downloadable audio with recordings of kids singing in both languages -- songs so lively and sweet, you'll soon find yourself singing along! Many accompany everyday play activities like jum rope and hand clap games. Others speak to a child's view of nature, and a love of home. Favorite rhymes and songs include: Little One Monkey's Bottom Twirling Round Spring in My Hometown And more! For preschoolers and beyond, this book will be a joy to the mind, the eye, the ear and the heart.
Kumara Kuruparar's Mathurai Kalampakam
by Kumara KurupararVenpa is one of the poetic formats of classical Tamil. Poet Kumara Kuruparar glorifies Lord Murugan of Tiruchendur in sixty one verses. Sakalakalavalli Malai is a nine verses poem praising Goddess Saraswati (God of Wisdom). Neethi Neri Vilakkam is a 101 verses poems preaching morals and ethics everyone should bear in mind.
Kunchan Nampyar
by V. S. SharmaThe life and works of Kunchan Nampyar, an 18th century Malayalam poet.
Kyoto-Dwelling: A Year of Brief Poems
by Edith Marcombe Shiffert Kohka SaitoThis collection of Japanese haiku by an American expat is an important contribution to the world of poetry.<P><P>Edith Shiffert, called by Poetry Nippon "one of Kyoto's living nation--and international-- treasures," here writes brief poems in the form of traditional Japanese haiku for each month of the year. Taken as a whole, the poems describe an American woman's twenty five-five year sojourn in KyotoThe poems, over 350 in all, are beautifully complemented by the traditional Japanese ink-paintings of Kyoto-born artist Kohka Saito.
Kyrie: Poems
by Ellen Bryant VoigtIn this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. The Nation calls Kyrie "an astonishing collection . . . so spare and tightly woven, yet so mindful of the cadences of the speaking voice, that the poems read like verse drama. "Starting with the family, Voigt creates voices that gather into one vast community story, a "true tour de force" (Boston Sunday Globe) that speaks to our own time of plague.
L'alba dei nostri solstizi
by Ilaria Igieni Aurélien Di Sanzo"L'alba dei nostri solstizi" è una raccolta di 58 poesie che invita il lettore a rifugiarsi fuori dal tempo. In prosa e più raramente in versi, queste poesie vi immergeranno in un'evasione ora fisica ora astratta, spirituale, talvolta persino misteriosa e affascinante. Ogni poesia è stata scritta con un sottofondo di musica ambientale, fonte inesauribile d'ispirazione poetica.
L'amore Non Basta
by Gelsomino walter mattia da silvaNot Enough Love "è la prima collezione di Maki Starfield, che è un'importante poetessa emergente. Una delle più grandi virtù della sua poesia è la sua capacità di ascoltare e identificare i problemi più profondi del nostro tempo, nell'arte e nella critica sociale. Il vigore, la generosità e la saggezza della sua poesia gli conferiscono la categoria di un poeta universale. Inoltre, il fascino delle poesie di Maki Starfield è nel perseguimento della realtà della condizione umana nel mondo dell'illuminazione attraverso l'auto-riflessione nello stile di poesia a 3 linee, basato sull'haiku. Si può dire che il suo mondo sia un prodotto di risonanza delle anime umane in un'unica melodia come un luogo in cui Oriente e Occidente si fondono.
L'anima germogliata: Poesie del Raccolto d'amore
by Doobie Shemer Federica GalettoPoesie d'amore d'ispirazione mistica per amanti della Poesia Se ami, se hai amato, ordina ora il dono perfetto: una copia di L'anima germogliata:Poesie del Raccolto d'amore L'anima germogliata è una silloge di Poesie del Raccolto d'Amore rivolta a chiunque sia alla ricerca della Pace interiore in tempi di dolore, di un'appagante beatitudine e una fede crescente, di nuove speranze in momenti difficili, di sollievo dell'anima in stagioni di abbattimento, di meglio comprendere l'amore mistico, di risvegliarsi alla propria chiamata.
L'art d'estimar
by OvidiLa gran obra llatina de la poesia didàctica sobre l'amor, plena de saviesa, on Ovidi ensenya sobre l'amor sense oblidar la ironia, la paròdia i l'humor. Ovidi és el més gran exponent de la poesia didàctica llatina sobre l'amor i L'art d'estimar és la gran obra d'aquest gènere. Dividida en tres grans llibres, Ovidi dedica el primer i el segon als homes. Els explica on trobar dones, com seduir-les i mantenir el seuamor. El llibre tercer va dirigit a les dones, perquè s'enfrontin a la batalla «en igualtat de condicions». Ple de saviesa, Ovidi ensenya sobre l'amor sense oblidar la ironia, la paròdia i l'humor. «Si algú d'aquest poble no coneix l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, que estimi». Són els mots que encapçalen L'art d'estimar. Una lectura sensual i llicenciosa.
L'orsetto sospetto: Una storia che insegna ai bambini a non avere paura del buio
by Francois KeyserRick trova un orso nella sua casa buia ed è terrorizzato. I suoi genitori non vedono quello che vede lui e pensano che sia solo un incubo. Ma l'orso esiste davvero. Sarà un amico o un nemico? "L'orsetto sospetto" è la storia che ogni bambino vive ogni notte. Parla della paura del buio e dei suoi mostri. Nasce per mostrare ai bambini che non hanno nulla da temere e quello che di notte può diventare spaventoso in realtà non lo è. Tutti, grandi e bambini, abbiamo dovuto fare i conti con questa paura. Scritta in rima, la storia è una piacevole lettura e si presta alla recitazione per bambini che ricordandola possono affrontare meglio la paura delle tenebre.
L-vis Lives!
by Patricia Smith Kevin CovalFROM THE POET the Chicago Tribune calls "the new voice of Chicago," comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who have used and misused Black music. Like so many others who gained fame and fortune from their sampling, L-vis is as much a sincere artist as he is a thief. In Kevin Coval's poems, L-vis' story is equal parts forgotten history, autobiography, and re-imaginings. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history's more obscure "whiteboy" heroes and anti-heroes: legendary breakdancers, political activists, and music impresarios.A story of both artistic theft and radical invention, L-vis Lives! is a poetic novella on all of the possibilities and problems of "post-racial" American culture-where Black art is still at times only fully accepted in a white face, and every once in a while an "L-vis" comes along to step in to the void.i am a heroto most. the great hopeof something other.a complex back-story.something other thanthe business of my father.bland's antonym.jim crow's black sheep.the forgotten sonleft to rise in the darknessamong the discarded in the wildof working class, singlemother hoods. a herowho transcendswho translates the dissatisfactions of the plains;kids of kurt cobain,method man amphetamine,the odd Iowan who digs dirtand lights beyond the pig yard,spits nebraskan argot,hero to the heartland, middle brow(n) america
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
by Lucasta MillerA lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining . . . spellbinding"--New York Times Book Review; "ingenious"--The New Yorker)."None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"--L.E.L., "Lines of Life" Letitita Elizabeth Landon--pen name L.E.L.--dared to say it and made sure she was heard. Hers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.
LARB Digital Edition: Independence Day
by Los Angeles Review of BooksAs National Poetry Month was just last April, it's only fitting that we celebrate poetry this July. The poets in this collection represent the depth and breadth of contemporary American poetry: its independence, its drive to find new ways of making meaning, and its commitment to innovative ways of interrogating what we might consider foundational texts. In this new poetry ePub, we present two poets writing about Emily Dickinson, Stephen Burt's groundbreaking essay on trans-poetry, Joshua Edwards's elegy to poetically seeing the landscapes around us, and original poetry by Douglas Kearney, Maurice Manning, and Lauren K Alleyne.