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Penguin Book of Zen Poetry
by Lucien StrykThe Penguin Book of Zen Poetry has Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese Zen masters, and Japanese Haiku.
Penny and Clover, Follow That Ball! (The Lucky Dogs)
by Erica S. PerlLearning to read doesn't need to be ruff with this rhyming tail about a pair of lovable pups, now with a fresh look!Penny and Clover are playing with a ball. They chase it as it bounces all over their backyard, bounding in every direction. But when they go to retrieve it once more, they're surprised to find a new friend at the same time!
Penny and Clover, Up and Over! (The Lucky Dogs)
by Erica S. PerlLearning to read doesn't need to be ruff with this rhyming tail about a pair of lovable pups!Penny is a small, frisky puppy. Clover is a big, careful canine. While Penny has no problem jumping over a log, Clover isn't so sure she can do it. Can Clover come up with the courage to take a leap of faith and follow her friend?
Pensamientos en libertad: En las alas de la poesía
by Giovanni FenoglioEl autor en este libro utiliza la poesía para brindarnos un panorama de sus vivencias y para dejarnos sus reflexiones en formato de prosa.
Pensamientos: 100 Golondrinas
by Mendi A. V.«Te amo hasta donde los números no saben contar». Pensamientos. 100 Golondrinas es un recopilatorio de los más bellos e íntimos sentimientos escritos por el autor, Mendi av. «Te amo hasta donde los números no saben contar» o «Te borrarás, como se borran las palabras en la arena cuando pasan por encima el agua y la sal» son algunas de las profundas y románticas frases que podemos encontrar en las entrañas de esta obra, de este mundo interior repleto de golondrinas, campos en primavera, toneladas de amor y mar.
Pentimento
by Joshua GarciaFrom an Italian word meaning “ to repent,” a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist’ s earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes of confession, ekphrasis, and biblical persona, Pentimento excavates a queerness entangled in one’ s faith tradition. Whether seeking to understand his relationship to god, friends, or family, Garcia interrogates questions that arise on the path to self-acceptance. In “ Self-Portrait as a Virgin,” a biblical persona asks, “ How else are we to take words whole / in our mouths, except as they are given?” Concerned with naming, desire, love, and belonging, Pentimento is a response to a kind of annunciation, the almost supernatural calling of the artist to find words through which the self is free to move.
Penumbra: English Poems
by Vinod AsudaniThis book contains 57 English poems from the pen of multilingual poet who has already established himself as one of the significant contemporary literary voices in Sindhi and Hindi languages in Indian sub continent. The poems included in this book deal with a wide range of topics. Some of the poems like Biodiversity, In Search of Bahugana and Broken Toys portray sensibility of the disabled. They authentically depict anguish, agony and perspective of a disable person. Many other things such as disillusionment, fragmentary existence, self alienation, Love, romance, social criticism to appear and reappear in different poems. All these things have been approached from different angle and they unfold in the poems in an unusual manner triggering emotional and intellectual response from the readers. Poems included in this volume make readers to reconsider and redefine many of their notions about affection, relationship, myths, social reality, violence, governance and so on.. Poetry is characterised by psychological realism. Many of the poems operate at different levels and each level is made up of many layers. Hence, sometimes, they make heavy demand on intellect and sensibility of readers to fully decipher their connotation.
Peony Vertigo
by Jan ConnPoems emerging from deep memory and shifting landscapes to joyously engage flora, fauna, and self. In her latest collection, Peony Vertigo, Jan Conn's poetic sensibility disperses and gathers, careens and slides, in and out of relation with the endangered world. Through poems ranging from global to microscopic scales, Conn's beholden, fluid sense of self dissolves into fog and river, and reconstitutes as bright orange newt, prehistoric horse, painter, and mourning daughter. Her voice is vulnerable, ecstatic, and elliptical, a tender exploration of liminal consciousness and the urge to identify with environments in crisis.
People & Other Aggravations
by Judith ViorstSlim volume of Viorst's humorous poetry. Characters and lifestyle in the late 60s and early 70s. Brief descriptions of each poem's drawing included.
People Hanging from Pegs, 1976-81
by Sarvesvara Dayala Saksena Vijay MunshiSahitya Akademi Award-winning collection of Hindi poems.
People Need People
by Benjamin ZephaniahTo walk toTo talk toTo cry and rely on,People will always need people . . .From the creators of Nature Trail comes an uplifting picture book about the power of people, and the importance of connecting with others. This timely poem reminds us all to be kind to one another.Written by legendary poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, one of The Times' top 50 British post-war writers. Beautifully illustrated by Nila Aye.Praise for Nature Trail:A joy to read with small children - Independent
People You Know, Places You've Been
by Hana ShafiThe latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful strangers on public transit, told secrets to their hairdresser. We interact with these supporting characters on a daily basis—and often we are them for others.Shafi celebrates the Antiheroes of the world (the alcoholic at your local bar, teenage girls); examines those in Beautiful Leading Roles (the hot professor, the rich couple); lauds older generations of Wizards and Crones; and flags the Nemeses (men who think they’re allies, competitors for produce at farmer’s markets). We sink into recognition at depictions of Palaces such as the greasy spoon, Dungeons of public transit, and the Liminal Spaces of checkout counters or waiting rooms (including that one at the end of the cosmos).People You Know, Places You've Been is an insightful, charming collection that offers a sense of shared recognition and nostalgia, ultimately asking: what if seemingly mundane places are actually the foundations of who you are?
Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
by Roger EbbatsonThis book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates the ways in which Hardy represents a social world which serves as a ‘horizon’ for the individual and explores the dialectic between the perceptible world and human consciousness. Ebbatson demonstrates how, in Hardy’s oeuvre, modern life becomes alienated from its roots in rural life – individual freedom is achieved in works like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure or The Woodlanders at the cost of personal insecurity and a deepening sense of homelessness. However, this development occurs against the marginalisation of dialect forms of speech. This book also explores how Hardy’s impressionist vision serves to undermine the prevailing conventions of plot structure.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Modern Critical Views)
by Harold Bloom-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights<BR>-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816
by James BieriHaving retired from teaching psychology in US universities, Beiri presents a biography of British Romantic poet Shelley (1792-1822), ending with the summer in Switzerland of which so much has been said and imagined. He says the poet compressed into less than three decades a rich legacy of poetry, prose, and correspondence; and though he did not know the work of his contemporary William Blake, the two shared a psychological understanding of humanity that anticipated the age of Freud.
Pere Gimferrer
by Pere GimferrerA bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet.Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: &“Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.&” In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer&’s career as a poet—from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian—is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, &“is a great poet and also knows everything.&”
Perestroika at the Crossroads
by Alfred J. Rieber Alvin Z. RubinsteinThe contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism and the nationality problem, and foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.
Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé: The Passage from Art to Ritual
by Mary Lewis ShawPerformance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarmé perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on previously unexplored references to supplementary, extratextual performances in four of Mallarmé's major poetic texts—Herodiade, L'après-midi d'un faune, Igitur, and Un coup de des—revealing the consistent formal expression of his original conception of literature's relationship to the performing arts.Shaw then discusses Mallarmé's monumental project, Le Livre, a metaphysical book designed to be performed in a series of ritual celebrations. She analyzes and describes the intrinsic structure and contents of this unfinished work as the fullest realization of the text-performance relationship elaborated throughout Mallarmé's corpus. Shaw offers Le Livre as a prototype of avant-garde performance, drawing important parallels between Mallarmé's literary experimentation and crucial developments in twentieth-century arts.
Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Niki TulkThis book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña. Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied performance, material elements, film, and writing. Each case study involves traumatic content, including the legacy of slavery, child sexual abuse and environmental degradation; each artist constructs an aesthetic milieu that invites rather than immerses—this allows an audience to have agency, as well as multiple pathways into their engagement with the art. The author Niki Tulk suggests that these works facilitate an audience-performance relationship based on the concept of ethical witnessing/wit(h)nessing, in which viewers are not positioned as voyeurs, nor made to risk re-traumatization by being forced to view traumatic events re-played on stage. This approach also allows agency to the art itself, in that an ethical space is created where the art is not objectified or looked at—but joined with. Foundational to this investigation are the writings of Bracha L. Ettinger, Jill Bennett and Diana Taylor—particularly Ettinger’s concepts of the matrixial, carriance and border-linking. These artists and scholars present a capacity to expand and articulate answers to questions regarding how to make performance that remains compelling and truthful to the trauma experience, but not re-traumatizing. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, visual arts, feminist studies, theatre, film, performance art, postcolonialism, rhetoric and writing.
Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems
by Harold Bloom John Kinsella"We are poised before...what I prophesy will be a major art."—Harold Bloom "One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light."—Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003
Perishables
by Tina EgnoskiPerishables opens with a sister sitting calmly on a burning chair then moves out of the childhood home that seems so fragile that it might split along the equator like a rotten piece of stone fruit. It is a reckoning of those things, outside and in, that we must Handle With Care.
Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (8th edition)
by Greg Johnson Thomas R. ArpThis eighth edition of classic text continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (10th edition)
by Greg Johnson Thomas R. ArpThis tenth edition of Perrine's Sound and Sense, like the previous editions, addresses the student who is beginning a serious investigation of poetry. The authors of this new edition seek to give that student a sufficient grasp of the nature and variety of poetry, some reasonable means for reading it with appreciative understanding, and a few primary ideas of how to evaluate it.