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The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by No Yasumaro ŌJapan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new translation of this revered classic aims to make the Kojiki accessible to contemporary readers while staying true to the distinctively dramatic and evocative appeal of the original's language. It conveys the rhythms that structure the Kojiki's animated style of storytelling and translates the names of its many people and places to clarify their significance within the narrative. An introduction, glossaries, maps, and bibliographies offer a wealth of additional information about Japan's earliest extant record of its history, literature, and religion.
The Kojiki
by Gustav HeldtChronicles the mythical origins of Japan's islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs
The Kokinshū: Selected Poems (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Torquil DuthieCompiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteenth century, it was celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. The composition of classical poetry, other later poetic forms such as linked verse and haikai, and vernacular Japanese literary writing in its entirety (including classic works such as Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji and Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book) all draw from the Kokinshū.This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation. Torquil Duthie focuses on rendering the poetic language of the Kokinshū as a whole, in such a way that readers can understand and experience how its poems work together to create a literary world. He emphasizes that classical Japanese poems do not stand alone as self-contained artifacts but take part in an ongoing intertextual conversation. Duthie provides translations and interpretations of the two prefaces to the Kokinshū, which deeply influenced Japanese literary aesthetics. The book also includes critical essays on various aspects of the anthology and its history. This translation helps specialist and nonspecialist readers alike appreciate the beauty and richness of the Kokinshū, as well as its significance for the Japanese literary tradition.
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.
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
by Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaA new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and friendship, bringing Tiruvalluvar&’s poetry and philosophy to a new generation seeking practical wisdom and spiritual sustenanceDrawing on the poetic tradition of W. S. Merwin, Wendell Berry, and William Carlos Williams, and nurtured by 2 decades of study under Tamil scholar Dr. K. V. Ramakoti, this new translation of the Kural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma brings English readers closer than ever to the brilliant inner and outer music of Tiruvalluvar&’s work and ideas.Tiruvalluvar&’s Tirukkural is a masterwork of poetry and practical philosophy. On par with other world classics such as the Tao Te Ching, the Kural is a compendium of 1,330 short philosophical verses, or kurals, that together cover a wide range of personal and cosmic experience, such as—POLITICS:Harsh rule that brings idiots together—nothingBurdens the earth moreHOSPITALITY:The life that cherishes strangers each dayNever falls upon ruinFRIENDSHIP:Friendship is not a face smiling—friendshipIs a heart that smilesGREED:Those who won&’t give and enjoy—even with billionsThey have nothingAccompanying the translation is a foreword by the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, Andrew Harvey; an introduction by the translator and scholar Archana Venkatesan; and a &“Commentary of Notes,&” in which Pruiksma elucidates key words and shares insights from important Tamil commentaries.Rich with indelible wordplay, learning, and heart, Pruiksma&’s translation transforms the barrier of language into a bridge, bringing the fullness of Tiruvalluvar&’s poetic intensity to a new generation.
Kyoto-Dwelling: A Year of Brief Poems
by Kohka Saito Edith Marcombe ShiffertThis 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.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.
L-vis Lives!
by Kevin Coval Patricia SmithFROM 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
La Douleur Exquise
by J. R. RogueWhat happens when you meet your soul mate at the wrong time? What happens when you meet your soul mate but you aren't theirs? La douleur exquise, the exquisite pain of loving some unattainable. J.R. Rogue's bestselling debut poetry collection tells the tale of a once in a lifetime love unreturned.
La macchina di vivere
by Carmen AvilaLibro di poesie sul corpo umano, i sensi e le emozioni. Il lavoro intraprende una grande sensibilità e sonoritá che è intitolato a una poesia di Paul Valéry. Questo lavoro è stato finalista nel XIII Concorso di poesia della Maria del Villar de Navarra in Spagna e ha anche ricevuto una menzione d'onore nel Premio della poesia nazionale Francisco Cervantes Vidal 2008 a Querétaro México.
La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for los Niños
by Susan Middleton ElyaClassic favorites get a modern Latino twistThe itsy arañita climbed up the water spout. Down came la lluvia and washed la araña out. Classic Mother Goose rhymes get a Latino twist in this cozy collection. From young Juan Ramón sitting in el rincón to three little gatitos who lost their mitoncitos, readers will be delighted to see familiar characters in vibrant, luminous scenes brimming with fanciful details. La Madre Goose will make a playful multicultural addition to every modern bookshelf.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016
La mia esperienza
by Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach"La mia esperienza" è un poema epico che descrive la mia esperienza con alcune persone che hanno in un modo o nell'altro contribuito ai miei insegnamenti di vita. "La mia esperienza" è una poema epico. Questo poema descrive le esperienze che ho acquisito da differenti tipi di persone che ho incontrato - tutte le esperienze raccolte in uno dei miei momenti più difficili. Lo scopo di queste esperienze, è di voler sempre cambiare la vita delle persone se solo gli attenti studi e le assimilazioni che ne derivano sono presi con priorità e con attenzione . L'ultima strofa tocca l'esperienza che ho sull'umanità su fatti che mostrano come i politici di partiti opposti vogliono assolvere i loro figli al vincolo del matrimonio.
La vita è poesia: dove iniziano le emozioni
by Maria Roxana MuñozLa vita è poesia: dove iniziano le emozioni di Maria Roxana Muñoz È una raccolta di poesie che cerca di collegare il lettore con i propri sentimenti. La vita è poesia: dove iniziano le emozioni Abbiamo bisogno di connetterci con noi stessi, capire che siamo esseri senzienti, che la sensazione non è una debolezza, è una forza. La vita è poesia, il sentimento incarnato nelle lettere, il giorno per giorno espresso nei versi, il cuore verso il mondo. Stanze che ci danno un giro dell'anima, che siamo e spesso dimentichiamo. L'opportunità di essere, il raggiungimento di ciò che portiamo dentro, per nutrire il nostro spirito, quell'energia che vibra di bellezza. Perché la vita è poesia
La vita è poesia. Rime per l'anima
by Maria Roxana MuñozLa vita è poesia: Rime per l'anima di Maria Roxana Muñoz rac un raccolta di poesie che cerca di collegare il lettore con i propri sentimenti. La vita è poesia: Rime per l'anima Dobbiamo recupare la sensibilità che vive nascosta sotto le paure. Quelli che ci impediscono di fluire con i nostri sentimenti. Rime per l'anima, della vita è poesia, è un incontro con la nostra stessa essenza. La libertad de los sentimientos en el interior, en el camino de la letra de alguien más.
La Vita Nuova (Penguin Classics)
by Dante Alighieri Barbara ReynoldsIn this celebration of a poet's passionate love for the woman he worshiped from afar, Dante weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. La Vita Nuova records the poet's adoration of Beatrice, the celestial figure who would ultimately guide him through his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. <p><p> In addition to its appeal as a sublime meditation on the anguish and ecstasy of love, this volume also serves as a treatise on the art and technique of poetry. Dante's commentaries explicate each poem, further refining his concept of romantic love as the initial step in the spiritual development that culminates in the capacity for divine love. His unconventional approach — drawing upon personal experience, addressing readers directly, and writing in Italian rather than Latin — marked a turning point in European poetry, when writers departed from highly stylized forms in favor of a simpler style. This complete and unabridged edition features the distinguished translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.