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Message d'un homme dans la quarantaine: RIYAD AL KADI
by Toufik ElmouatamidRIYAD AL KADI Romancier et poète, écrivain né en 1974 à Bagdad d'une grande famille bien connue en Irak. A commencé à écrire des nouvelles depuis l'âge de 15 ans. Il a également été impliqué dans de nombreuses pièces Il a travaillé dans un magazine politique appelé NATIONAL SECURITY de 1994 à 1997 Il est nominé pour INSTITUT OF HIGH OFFICER 1999 Il a quitté l'Irak en raison d'un problème politique et ils ont décidé de le destituer en 1999. Il est venu au Royaume-Uni pour une vie meilleure et maintenant il travaille comme enseignant Il a écrit 20 livres: POÈMES DE FEU ET DE CENDRES - EN ARABE - ILLUSION POEMS - EN ARABE - POÈMES KAHRAMMANA ET INVADERS: POÈMES POLITIQUES - EN ARABE - POÈMES LECTEUR DE COUPE - EN ARABE - JOURNAL D'UN HOMME TRISTE POEMES - EN ARABE - EVE POEMS - EN ARABE - POÈMES DE BAGDAD - EN ARABE - L'ÈRE DES FEMMES POEMS - EN ARABE - NISREEN POEMS - EN ARABE - HISTOIRES COURTES NISREEN - EN ARABE - POÈMES DE RÉFLEXION - EN ARABE - LES POÈMES DE MASSACRE - EN ARABE - POÈMES D'ISTANBUL - EN ARABE - Le destin Le destin PAR RIYAD AL KADI Histoire bossue de Bagdad RIYAD ALKADI
Messenger, Messenger
by Robert Burleigh Barry RootMorning's come around again, and Calvin Curbhopper, the messenger man, is on the go, zipping around from spot to spot, taking shortcuts through parking lots, steering through the midday blare of honking horns, his breath like a smokestack in the frosty air. Wind, snow, rain, sun, can't keep Calvin from making his run. And Robert Burleigh's rhythmic language keeps the groove right alongside him, further enlivened by Barry Root's energetic illustrations.
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (Southern Messenger Poets Ser.)
by Ellen Bryant Voigt"Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world."--Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.
Messy Bessey's Garden (Rookie Reader)
by Dana Regan Patricia C. McKissack Fredrick L. McKissackMessy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.
Metamorfosis (edició en català)
by OvidiLes Metamorfosis és una de les obres cabdals de la poesia universal; s’hi narren els canvis de déus, homes i dones en animals, plantes o minerals, des dels orígens del món fins a la transformació en estel de l’ànima de Juli Cèsar. Els relats, escrits de manera lleugera i molt sensual, són la mostra més evident del talent, de l’erudició i de la fantasia del poeta, que va aplegar tota la tradició mitològica anterior. Des de la seva aparició, el llibre va esdevenir un veritable vademècum i la font d’informació mitològica més important per a escriptors i artistes.
Metamorfosis: Bodegones y otras naturalezas vivas
by Elena Camacho RozasUn cuerpo es un bodegón lleno de frutas tentadoras. La voz poética aspira aquí a que lo quieran más mientras busca desasirse del encierro del propio cuerpo, desahogo que no tiene por qué llegar a buen puerto. <P><P>Portador de toda una historia de oquedades en las que encuentra su razón de ser, el hueco llena el interior de su cuerpo y rezuma vida y quiere llenarse, «Orificios», pero recuerda el paisaje de su infancia y la inminencia del paso del tiempo se cierne en un reloj de arena, «Cuerpo de bodegón»; sin embargo, la naturaleza brutal y ambivalente se erige frente al espacio artificial construido por el hombre, «Naturaleza viva», y el colofón pone a cada uno en su lugar con una vuelta de tuerca en un estilo muy actual, «Ella responde».
Metamorphoses
by Charles Martin OvidOvid's epic poem, whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages, has been the inspiration for authors from Dante to present day writers such as Rushdie and Calvino. Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Metamorphoses
by Rolfe Humphries OvidStories of passion, death, and transformation. From the introduction: "the great collection, the definitive compendium of ancient mythology, which is known to us as the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing Forms. The work on which Ovid's reputation was founded shows a great deal of the spirit of the Restoration; unhappily for this happy man, there was in Augustus a great deal of the spirit of Cromwell. And from the official point of view, Ovid must often have seemed mischievous, if not downright subversive." [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Metamorphoses
by Ovid'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original.Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY
Metamorphoses
by Publius Ovidius NasoTo help the reader contend with Ovid's frequent leaps both ahead and back in time, the principle episodes are listed at the beginning of each book and the subsections and digressions marked with indentations.
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Denis Feeney David Raeburn<P>Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings.<P> Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
Metamorphoses (The Norton Library #0)
by OvidAbout Charles Martin’s translation Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin’s blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a “smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear” (Richard Wilbur) version that “highlights [the poem’s] lightness and pervasive sense of universal mutability” (Michael Dirda).
Metamorphoses: A New Translation
by Charles Martin Ovid Bernard M. Knox"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition
by Rolfe Humphries Ovid Joseph D. Reed"So easy to read that one may have to think twice to realize these tales are nearly 2,000 years old." –Washington Post "One of the most captivating books ever written" —The New York Times Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you’ve never read them before—sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious—from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god. In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid’s swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Metamorphoses: Translated By Various Authors (classic Reprint) (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by OvidThe first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid&’s classic. A Penguin Classic Hardcover Ovid&’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim&’s objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic&’s tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid&’s language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics. Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid&’s nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity.
Metaphysical Dog: Poems
by Frank BidartNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerA National Book Award FinalistMetaphysical Dog offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work todayIn "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours.Near the end of the book, Bidart writes: In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings' relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.This "ancient work" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the "hunger for the Absolute"—a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled "History is a series of failed revelations."The result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Poetry BooksA New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of the Year
Metaphysical Licks
by Gregoire Pam DickMetaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brothers, and betroths her (unhappily) to Nietzsche. Crossing New York City with Vienna and Berlin, it composes dissonance from urban moments, narrative fragments, and philosophical remarks. The inventive, androgynous, sexually loose (and intermittently incestuous) persona of Greta expresses itself through the surreal and haunted imagery of Trakl's poems. Readers will be drawn to Dick's combination of girl/punk/genderqueer rebelliousness and intensely questioning thought, in a text where creativity alone offers escape and exultation, and subjectivity keeps changing its sounds.
Metaphysical Poetry
by Christopher Ricks Colin BurrowA key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics. Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot. In his introduction, Colin Burrow explores the nature of Metaphysical poetry, its development across the seventeenth century and its influence on later poets and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester. This edition also includes detailed notes, a chronology and further reading. Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has edited Shakespeare's Sonnets for OUP and The Complete Works of Ben Jonson, and is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History. If you enjoyed Metaphysical Poetry, you might like John Donne's Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.
Metaphysical Poetry
by Colin BurrowA key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics.Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot.In his introduction, Colin Burrow explores the nature of Metaphysical poetry, its development across the seventeenth century and its influence on later poets and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester. This edition also includes detailed notes, a chronology and further reading.Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has edited Shakespeare's Sonnets for OUP and The Complete Works of Ben Jonson, and is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History.If you enjoyed Metaphysical Poetry, you might like John Donne's Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.
Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology
by Paul NegriDramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone and rich in striking, unusual imagery, metaphysical poetry is represented in this anthology by such masterpieces as "Death, Be Not Proud," by John Donne; Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," as well as works by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, Thomas Traherne, and others. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Song" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
Meteoro
by Julián LópezUna lectura lírica, contemporánea y tierna sobre del amor, la infancia, el ser hijo y encontrarle un sentido a la vida en una época de desaliento y soledad. «Julián López es un autor exquisito.»Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Poemas urbanos, melancólicos, amorosos. En ellos transcurren los días del ser hijo y se despliegan los aprendizajes trascendentes de la infancia, intuyéndolos en el susurro sensual entre el padre y la madre o arrancándolos de sus discusiones. Siguiendo los pasos de quien sale a trabajar, de quien cocina y lava y tiende la ropa al sol. Siguiendo los pasos de quien se apura a sacarla antes de que caigan las gotas de una tormenta intempestiva. Pero también, en estos poemas, juegan tiernas las horas con la persona amada, cuando la ciudad se entrega a la armonía natural de las plantas o se irrita con la disonancia del tránsito. Entonces, el estado de ánimo transforma la mirada sobre los objetos de la casa y del cielo que la abarca. Meteoro, como cada libro de Julián López, es una máquina expresiva, una aventura lírica que se abraza a la realidad como si se arrojara sobre una bomba. Para que le estalle en el pecho. La crítica ha dicho... «Una morosidad de detalles propia de la letanía pero también del poeta.»María Moreno «Julián López es un gran arquitecto de la literatura argentina.»Flavia Pittella «Con preciosismo en el manejo del lenguaje, Julián López propone al lector una experiencia inmersiva en la memoria sensible; un viaje que es al mismo tiempo vibrante, melancólico y sexual.»Verónica Abdala «Una masa, una masa poética y narrativa.»Silvina Giaganti
Method and Imagination in Coleridge's Criticism (RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge #6)
by J.R. de J. JacksonFirst published in 1969, this book places Coleridge’s literary criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking, examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry. Particular attention is paid to the structure of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge’s distinction between Imagination and Fancy, his definitions of the poetic characters of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, his analysis of the mental state of audiences in theatres, and his interpretations of Paradise Lost, Hamlet and Aeschylus’ Prometheus. The emphasis throughout is on how Coleridge thought rather than what he thought and the process rather than the conclusions of his criticism.
Methodist Hatchet
by Ken BabstockShortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book Award Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book.
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse (The Critical Idiom Reissued #7)
by G. S. FraserFirst published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse patterns, and the primary importance of the phenomenon of stress. It also discusses the suitability of various kinds of metrical pattern for various kinds of poetic effect. This book will be of interest to those studying poetry and English literature.
Metric Power
by David BeerThis book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social world today.