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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.
La Vita Nuova: The New Life (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.)
by DanteThis celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.
Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems
by Daniel NadlerLacunae, Daniel Nadler's debut collection, is an exercise in poetics of vital import. In it, Nadler imagines himself into those moments of unintelligibility--that blank space in between things--where constraint and expansion coincide. These poems, translations of work that does not otherwise exist, are intended to fill the invented or actual lacunae in manuscripts of classical Indian poetry. When faced with such ellipses, like where a few decisive hieroglyphs have worn off a wall, he infers and reconstructs the flora, fauna, and pleasures of an ancient world. "Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water / sleep bends me toward my lover / and I cannot drink from her": Nadler's is a project of constant negotiation. He attends to impulses of restoration and conservation, in turns. From this tension arises verse of simplicity and clarity of vision, imbued with that trembling quality of new life "luminous and half-naked." Lacunae, deeply felt and gnomically wise, dares to pave a poetic landscape all its own, the work of a remarkable new poet with enormous ambition and ability.
A Ladder of Cranes (The Alaska Literary Series)
by Tom SextonWhether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in this new collection, wending a lyrical and at times mystical path between Alaska and New England. Travelers along the way include the fabled wolf of Gubbio, old and lame and long past his taming encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi, and Chinese poet Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin. Yet, while Sexton’s journey crosses borders—and occasionally centuries—his ultimate destination is always the landscape and people of Alaska. A Ladder of Cranes showcases Sexton’s mastery of both traditional forms and free verse. The tensions of his formal influences, Chinese and European, force the reader to experience these spare lines and tight observations in stunning new ways.
Ladder to the Moon
by Douglas Burnet SmithIn his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33
by Michael J. Deluca Kelly Link Gavin J GrantGuest edited by Michigan writer Michael J. DeLuca, LCRW #33 approaches its theme of humanity's relationship with the earth with a little humor, a touch of horror, and seventeen different kinds of understanding.<P><P> Includes multiple award winner Sofia Samatar, Nebula and Shirley Jackson award nominee Carmen Maria Machado, and World Fantasy Award nominee Christopher Brown among others.
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir: Poems
by Richard Hugo"Richard Hugo's concern is the unenviable, the unvisited, even the uninviting, which he must invest with his own deprivations, his own private war. The distinctiveness of impulse int he language, the movement organized in single syllables by the craving mind, this credible richness is related to, is even derived from, the poverty of the places, local emanations, free (or freed) to be the poet's own." --Richard Howard "Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image." --Richard Howard
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
by Richard HugoThe collection includes "Montgomery Hollow," the title poem, and the famous, "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg," in which he turns to the reader, midway through his description of a dying town, and says, "Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss/ still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat/ so accurate, the church bell simply seems/ a pure announcement: ring and no one comes?" His 1973 book, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, is both about Montana and not about Montana. Of his method, Hugo once said: "Usually I find a poem is triggered by something, a small town or abandoned house, that I feel others would ignore." The poems in The Lady in Kicking House Reservoir are tied to place and landscape, but Hugo's real subject matter remains elusive. From the book jacket: Richard Hugo (1923-1982) was born and raised in White Center, Washington. He flew thirty-three missions in Europe as a bombardier in World War II, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Seattle to study with Theodore Roethke at the Writing Program. Nominated for the National Book Award. From 1977 to the end of his life, Hugo served as the judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Upon publication of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir in 1973, Richard Howard wrote, "Richard Hugo's concern is the unenviable, the unvisited, even the uninviting, which he must invest with his own deprivation, his own private war.... Each poem adds its incisive particulars to the general stoic wreck; but what startles, then reassures in all this canon of the inconsolable, the unsanctified, the dispossessed, is Hugo's poetics, the analogy of language to experience. . . . Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image."
Lady of the Beasts: Poems
by Robin MorganRobin Morgan's second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythic Daughter, wife, mother, lover, artist, and even priestess are all here in shorter lyrics that cluster around four subjects: blood ties, activism and art, love between women, and archetypes. But Morgan surpasses the political grief and rage she delineated in Monster, her acclaimed first book of poems--especially in the four major metaphysical poems here: "The City of God," balancing grace and despair; "Easter Island," on the ironies of transcendence in embattled love; "The Network of the Imaginary Mother," which became a virtual anthem of the women's movement; and "Voices from Six Tapestries," inspired by the famous Lady and theUnicorn weavings that hang in the Musée de Cluny in Paris. Themes of familial love and hurt, mortality, survival, and transformation inform the poems collected here as the author weaves a wise and powerful self into being. Lady of the Beasts is Robin Morgan at her most lyrical yet.
The Lady of the Lake
by Sir Walter Scott"The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it comprises six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland clans (led by Roderick Dhu of Clan Alpine). The poem was tremendously influential in the nineteenth century, and did much to inspire the Highland Revival. By the late twentieth century, however, the poem was virtually forgotten. Its influence is thus indirect: Schubert's Ave Maria, Rossini's La donna del lago (1819), the racist custom of cross burning, the last name of U.S. abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and the song "Hail to the Chief" were all inspired by the poem.
The Lady of the Lake
by Walter ScottThe Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland clans (led by Roderick Dhu of Clan Alpine). The poem was tremendously influential in the nineteenth century, and inspired the Highland Revival.
Lagrimacer o el acto de derramarse
by Andrea ValbuenaUn poemario que habla de lo necesario de las despedidas y de la tristeza como acto natural. Un grito que se rebela ante la necesidad actual que nos han impuesto de la felicidad perpetua. «Cada uno de estos poemas es una lágrima. Pequeñas cápsulas redondas y saladas de versos que también se derraman, que brotan, que caen y se escapan de un ojo o a través de un lapicero sujeto por una mano temblorosa. Una mano que escribe y llora, y sabe que de la tristeza también nacen cosas, buenas o malas, pero frecuentemente bellas». La poeta Andrea Valbuena hace en estas páginas un alegato a favor de la tristeza como estado natural y necesario y del duelo como mercromina para el dolor, y nos invita a volver a dar valor a la palabra «lagrimacer» y al acto que denota. La palabra como rebelión y como espejo, llorar sin vergüenza para poder volver a reír. La crítica ha dicho...«Empezó publicando en las redes y ahora es uno de los referentes de la nueva poesía.»ABC «Escribe versos para las mujeres que necesitan recordarse, que son hermosas y eligen quererse a sí mismas antes que a cualquier persona.»El Mundo