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Pagan Virtues: Poems
by Stephen DunnPulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and emotive powers on full display. In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their essential honesty, these poems reflect on desire, restraint, and the roles we play in an ever-evolving society. In Pagan Virtues, Dunn reminds us of his penetrating eye for the universal and the specific, and his ability to highlight our contradictions with tenderness and wit. Two poems dedicated to Dunn’s eulogist, in advance, bookend the collection. The first introduces us to the poet’s sardonic candor and unflinching gaze at his own mortality, while the latter, written nineteen years later, reflects on what it means to continue to live in the “despoiled and radiant now.” A stunning sequence on the relationship between the speaker and “Mrs. Cavendish” examines an intimacy sustained and repelled by politics, philosophy, and attraction. Wry, observational, and wide-reaching, Pagan Virtues offers indispensable truths from a master of contemporary poetry.
Pageant of Seasons: A Collection of American Haiku
by Helen Stiles ChenowethThis is a collection of Japanese haiku written by an American poet Helen Chenoweth. The author has used a language that is all American in association, but very much enriched by her love for things Japanese."Poetry in Japan is as universal as air.<P><P> It is read by everybody, composed by almost everybody, irrespective of class and condition." This statement by Lafcadio Hearn deeply impressed Helen Chenoweth. In course of her comprehensive studies in the art of writing and teaching poetry, she became enchanted by the Japanese haiku, in which the subtlest meanings and feelings can be expressed in three short lines.Pageant of Seasons offers many lyrical haiku, some of which are centered around the Pacific Ocean. Other haiku show nature in all its facets of growing. These poems create a kaleidoscope of charming images and experiences to which each of us will attach his own meanings.
Painfully British Haikus
by Dale Shaw'Will make everybody laugh' DOLLY ALDERTON ON THE HIGH LOWEnjoy this hilarious collection of over 200 haikus that sum up the complex, confusing and often compounding character of the British people.The Sellotape endUnlocatable it seemsChristmas is cancelledHow many gin tinsIs decreed appropriate For this train journey? The sound of a splashMy Hobnob falls to piecesMy tea is sulliedEvery houseplantSuffers a slow painful deathI am a monsterYou're at the seasideA seagull eyes your MagnumYou won't win that fight
Painting from the Palette of Love: The Mystical Poetry of Kabir
by Thomas Rain CroweWrap yourself in the boundless love of the Divine with the mystical poetry of renowned Sufi saint Kabir, here brought to life for modern readers by acclaimed poet Thomas Rain Crowe.&“When you&’ve come all this way to the ocean of happiness, Do not return home thirsty with an empty cup. Wake up! Here is some pure water, Drink as much as you can!&”The enigmatic Indian mystical poet Kabir stands among the greatest spiritual thinkers of human history. At once a Sufi, Hindu, and unbounded disciple of the universal Divine, Kabir and his songs of union and ecstasy lead us beyond our preconceived biases about truth and reality—and invite us to see our life, through his eyes, as an ego-shattering and incomparably joyful dance with the Beloved. This 65-poem collection of Kabir&’s most rapturous spiritual songs, rendered into modern language by acclaimed poet and Sufi performing artist Thomas Rain Crowe, is brought to life in fresh, evocative language bursting with mystical power. Striking and profound, Crowe&’s inspired and poetic adaptations offer a sumptuous taste of true reality—beyond boundaries and in joyful embrace of life and our world.
Paisaje con grano de arena
by Wislawa SzymborskaPremio Nobel de Literatura La escritora polaca más reconocida junto a Ryszard Kapuscinski y a Stanislaw Lem. Amplia selección de la obra de Wislawa Szymborska, poeta polaca galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura, Paisaje con grano de arena es el primer volumen poético de la autora que se publicó en lengua castellana. Los cien poemas recogidos en esta antología, autorizada por la autora, constituyen una excelente muestra del recorrido literario y temático de la poesía de Szymborska, una poesía que, según la Academia sueca, «mezcla la elegancia de Mozart con la pasión de Beethoven», y, en palabras de Czeslaw Milosz, premio Nobel de 1980, «es una lección de austeridad, ironía y simplicidad». Críticas:«Su poesía, con irónica precisión, permite que el contexto histórico y biológico surja a la luz en fragmentos de la realidad humana.»Acta del jurado del Premio Nobel «Algo único que había en ella era la mezcla de sentido de la tragedia y sentido del humor: sabía mirar la brutalidad del poder y también su ridículo, que tantas veces lo hace todavía más peligroso.»Antonio Muñoz Molina «Lo que tenían en común su obra y vida era un pertinaz y obstinado apego a la independencia.»Adam Zagajewski «Destacó por una poesía llena de humor y por su hábil juego de palabras. De ella se desprende una consideración antropológica basada en la finitud humana, en la debilidad del hombre frente a la naturaleza, con el hombre en el centro de sus interrogantes.»La Vanguardia
Palabras bajo el agua
by Mª Eugenia Torres LlorensDurante el año de mi profunda crisis personal guardé silencio y estuve en soledad. De la conjunción de estas dos bondades nacieron estos versos que he dado en llamar Palabras bajo el agua. Los sentimientos que invaden y conturban el alma pueden ser depositados en el papel y, mediante unos versos nacidos de la verdad, abrir el camino de la regeneración y el sosiego... de la paz interior.
Palabras del alma
by Ángel ValorIntenta vivir cumpliendo sueños, y sueña viviendo que los consigues. Hablarse a sí mismo es un hecho que cada vez valoramos menos. La autocrítica, el sentir deliberadamente y no condicionado... Permitidme que os dé mi más humilde opinión al respecto. En cada página que expongo a continuación podréis revivir vivencias,sentiros identificados por algún suceso personal o cercano que haya transcurrido o transcurra actualmente en vuestras vidas. Pero siempre con la firme intención de proporcionar la capacidad del libre albedrío del pensamiento. No pretendo contar mis historias, sino que a través de mis historias seáis capaces de rememorar o sentir las vuestras al leerme. Sencillamente, el sentimiento nunca muere.
Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson
by Joan CrateIn powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.
Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies (Palgrave Advances)
by Simon Kövesi Erin LaffordThis collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare’s first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare’s importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare’s world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare’s immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare’s work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.
Palilalia
by Jeffery DonaldsonPalilalia is disordered speech. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this lesser known vocal tic is "an involuntary repetition of words, phrases or sentences." Sister to echolalia (repeating what others say), and distant cousin to the more forbidding coprolalia (the involuntary use of obscene language), palilalia can feel, on the one hand, like an affliction to be suppressed, and on the other, like a kind of meditative mantra that focuses and intensifies your thought. "Your repetitious tics," the ghost of the poet's mentor, Northrop Frye, tells him, are " the ecstatic rhapsodist's / St. Vitus Dance, slangster's whizzle / and conjuration, philologist's hullabaloo." It isn't a question of how to stop them, but of finding how far they will take you. Jeffery Donaldson offers poems about Tourette's Syndrome, about his loves and blessings, about the erotic life as flavoured by all these, and about the grace of a stillness in the midst of so much mental noise. Paul Val�ry said that a poem is never finished, only abandoned. All poets have palilalia, or should have....
Palilalia (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #19)
by Jeffery DonaldsonPalilalia is disordered speech. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this lesser known vocal tic is "an involuntary repetition of words, phrases or sentences." Sister to echolalia (repeating what others say), and distant cousin to the more forbidding coprolalia (the involuntary use of obscene language), palilalia can feel, on the one hand, like an affliction to be suppressed, and on the other, like a kind of meditative mantra that focuses and intensifies your thought. "Your repetitious tics," the ghost of the poet's mentor, Northrop Frye, tells him, are " the ecstatic rhapsodist's / St. Vitus Dance, slangster's whizzle / and conjuration, philologist's hullabaloo." It isn't a question of how to stop them, but of finding how far they will take you. Jeffery Donaldson offers poems about Tourette's Syndrome, about his loves and blessings, about the erotic life as flavoured by all these, and about the grace of a stillness in the midst of so much mental noise. Paul Val�ry said that a poem is never finished, only abandoned. All poets have palilalia, or should have....
Pan Tadeusz
by Adam MickiewiczPan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 at a point in Polish history, when Poland-Lithuania had already been divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria and disappeared from the political map of Europe.
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania
by Bill Johnston Adam MickiewiczThe national epic of Poland and touchstone of modern European literature, now in a fresh translation by award-winning translator Bill Johnston.A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the Lithuanian countryside are captured in verse of astounding beauty, simplicity, and power. Bill Johnston's translation of this seminal text allows English-language readers to experience the richness, humor, and narrative energy of the original.
Panchali's Pledge
by Subramania Bharati Usha RajagopalanHonoured at a public function when he was a mere boy of eleven with the title 'Bharati' (one blessed by Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning), C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) is renowned as the herald of the renaissance in Tamil literature. The simplicity and lyricism that marked his poetry reflect a clear shift in sensibility and craft from the classical tradition, which had adhered to strictures of style, imagery and language for over 2000 years. Panchali's Pledge is the English translation of Bharati's seminal work, Panchali Sabadham, which reimagines the pivotal Game of Dice incident in the Mahabharata, where coerced into playing a game of dice by Duryodhana and Sakuni, Yudhisthira, the eldest of the Pandavas, stakes and loses his kingdom, his wealth, his brothers and finally Draupadi, leading to her disrobing and her rescue by the divine intervention of Lord Krishna. Enraged at the quiet indifference of those present in the assembly at her plight, Draupadi finally takes a pledge to avenge her ignominy with the blood of the Kauravas. Bharati wrote and published the first of the two-part minor epic in 1912 while living in the French territory of Pondicherry to escape British persecution. It was intended as a political allegory to the ongoing freedom movement and as an affirmation of the latent power in women. Usha Rajagopalan's translation seeks to complement what Bharati himself set out to do with the original text: to 'create an epic using simple phrases, a simple style, easily understood prosody and rhythm which the common man appreciates.'
Pandemonium: Some verses on the Current Predicament
by Armando IannucciTell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give plenty gratitude and pay Willingly for the vict'ry triumph Merited by these wisest gods. Pandemonium is an epic mock-heroic poem, written in response to the pandemic with all the anger and wit that Armando Iannucci brings to his vision of contemporary events. It tells the story of how Orbis Rex, Young Matt and his Circle of Friends, Queen Dido and the blind Dom'nic did battle with 'a wet and withered bat' from Wuhan.
Pandiyan Parisu
by BharadidasanPandiyan Parisu is a very popular drama written in poetic form by Pavendhar Bharadidasan.It is the story of Velan and Annam and Vezha Mannan along with few other characters told effectively in a very simple fashion that makes it very appealing to its readers.
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
by Margaret AtwoodAn extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood&’s most vital poems in one essential volume.In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. &“How can one live with such a heart?&” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Atwood, in her journey through poetry, illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand-new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
by Margaret AtwoodOne of the Toronto Star&’s 25 books to read this season • One of Indigo&’s Most Anticipated BooksAn extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age.Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood&’s most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. &“How can one live with such a heart?&” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Atwood, in her journey through poetry, illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears. Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand-new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
by Virgil Suarez Victor Hernández Cruz Leroy V. QuintanaFrom the Publisher: The first and still the most complete anthology of the best U. S. Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Alvarez, Baca, Cervantes, Espada, Firmat, Gonzalez, Medina, Pau-Llosa, Ríos, Rodríguez, Sáenz, Villaneuva, and others. "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe." (Harvard Review).
Paper House
by Jean JanzenA cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poems in this collection by celebrated poet, Jean Janzen. Here she writes about aging, intimate love, the bearing away of children, light, and as always, memory. A cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poems in Part 1 of Jean Janzen's newest collection. Her refusal to turn aside from any difficulty, any loss, here presses her writing into firmer edges than ever before. She writes with cool tones; she witnesses now with a longer view, layers of life stacked against each other. But the subjects are her choice ones-aging, intimate love, the bearing away of children, light, and always memory. How does she see so keenly above and below the surface at the same time? Motion and rhythms and round words roll through the poems in Part 2, the more familiar hallmarks of Janzen's rumbling universe. She brings longing to every page, and then calls us in, gently, yet irresistibly. Among these 43 new poems are "Skin and Air," "The Uprooting," "Lifting You," "Architecture of Falling," and "Holding On to the Walls." Janzen has received The Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of three books of poetry published by Good Books: Snake in the Parsonage, Tasting the Dust, and Piano in the Vineyard.
Paper Scissors Stone
by Kit FanBorn and educated in Hong Kong, Kit Fan now lives in the UK. He completed a PhD in English at the University of York, and his poems have been widely published in literary magazines such as Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Poetry Wales, and The London Magazine. He won a 2006 Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the 2010 inaugural HKU Poetry Prize.
Para qué la poesía
by Juan Cobos WilkinsEso que le sucede a los demás, vivir.La rama de mimosa amarilla con el abejaruco que antes fue un poeta y fue mi hijo.Un minuto, un segundo, y ahora la eternidad.Vivir,eso invisible que le sucede a otros.
Para qué la poesía
by Juan Cobos WilkinsGanador del XVI Premio Torrevieja. Eso que le sucede a los demás, vivir. La rama de mimosa amarilla con el abejaruco que antes fue un poeta y fue mi hijo. Un minuto, un segundo, y ahora la eternidad. Vivir, eso invisible que le sucede a otros.