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Que de amor seja a forja
by Tony RuanoVersos de amor, exílio e vida Este livro de poemas de Tony Ruano, "Que de amor seja a forja", busca a vida em seu tom maior, como um passo a mais na recordação dos anos passados. Purifica seu próprio credo ante os seres e as coisas que amou, e com isso eleva-se em sua transparência de ser. -oOo- «Por uma especial coincidência, em um momento em que a transição do tempo vai do dia para a noite, o rosto amado suplanta a luz, e há como um instante ascendente do espírito, uma ascensão da alma (…). Consolo ou cautela na adversidade ou na amargura, pode o amor ser fogueira ou forja que funda, em consoladora amálgama, consolo e dor: “Para tempos de pranto / que de amor seja a forja”». Ángel Cuadra (sobre os poemas de Tony Ruano)
Queen Esther's Garden
by Vera Basch MoreenThis anthology represents a variety of writings produced by the Jewish community of Iran between the eighth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the translations were prepared specifically for this anthology from unpublished manuscripts. Extensive notes accompany each selection to clarify its meaning in jewish and islamic history and legend.
Queen of the Ebony Isles
by Colleen J. McelroyAn award-winning poetry collection depicting the world of the African American woman.
Queers Like Me
by Michael V. SmithConfessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life, while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences; the becoming that emanates from exploring one’ s sexuality. Teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, daydreams of confronting your childhood bully: here is a broad tapestry of a contemporary life. Queers Like Me is an enveloping book— a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight.
Questions About Angels: Poems
by Billy CollinsBilly Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful. " Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours. " The "New York Times calls him simply "the real thing. " Over the past decade, Collins has garnered critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. To celebrate his years as U. S. Poet Laureate, the three books that helped establish and secure his reputation during the 1990s--"Questions About Angels; The Art Drowning; and "Picnic, Lightning--are now available in special, limited edition hardcovers as well as in paperback.
Questions of Travel: Poems
by Elizabeth BishopThe publication of this book is a literary event. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This new collection consists of two parts. Under the general heading "Brazil" are grouped eleven poems including "Manuelzinho," "The Armadillo," "Twelfth Morning, or What You Will," "The Riverman," "Brazil, January 1, 1502" and the title poem. The second section, entitled "Elsewhere," includes others "First Death in Nova Scotia," "Manners," "Sandpiper," "From Trollope's Journal," and "Visits to St. Elizabeths." In addition to the poems there is an extraordinary story of a Nova Scotia childhood, "In the Village."Robert Lowell has recently written, "I am sure no living poet is as curious and observant as Miss Bishop. What cuts so deep is that each poem is inspired by her own tone, a tone of large, grave tenderness and sorrowing amusement. She is too sure of herself for empty mastery and breezy plagiarism, too interested for confession and musical monotony, too powerful for mismanaged fire, and too civilized for idiosyncratic incoherence. She has a humorous, commanding genius for picking up the unnoticed, now making something sprightly and right, and now a great monument. Once her poems, each shining, were too few. Now they are many. When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country."
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland
by Lavinia GreenlawPoet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's poetic reflections on William Morris's Icelandic Journal, one of the overlooked masterpieces of travel literatureThe great Victorian designer and decorative artist William Morris was fascinated by Iceland and wrote a book documenting his travels there. He gets caught up with questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you’ve never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. He is sensitive to the emotional landscape of his band of travelers and, above all, continuously analyzing and fixing this “most romantic of all deserts.”Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, and interposes his prose with her own “questions of travel.” The result is a new and composite work that brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.
Quick
by Anne SimpsonThe human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada's most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a meditation on the body as one world within other, larger worlds, the book becomes an anatomy in itself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Quick as a Cricket
by Audrey WoodA joyful celebration of self-awareness and acceptance known and loved by millions of children around the world, now with art remastered by the illustrator. In this classic children&’s book by celebrated author-illustrator team Don and Audrey Wood, a young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb." Readers will delight in the variety of animal expressions as they discover many different emotions, and learn to accept that all feelings are valid.
Quick as a Cricket (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Blue #Level D)
by Audrey Wood Don WoodA young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb" <P><P>Lexile Measure: 240
Quickening Fields
by Pattiann RogersA new collection by an award-winning poet who “presents her apprehensions of the natural world with striking accuracy and emotional impact” (Orion Magazine)Denise Levertov has called Pattiann Rogers a “visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.” Quickening Fields gathers fifty-three poems that focus on the wide variety of life forms present on earth and their unceasing zeal to exist, their constant “push against the beyond” and the human experience among these lives. Whether a glassy filament of flying insect, a spiny spider crab, a swath of switch grass, barking short-eared owls, screeching coyotes, or racing rat-tailed sperm, all are testifying to their complete devotion to being. Many of the poems also address celestial phenomena, the vision of the earth immersed in a dynamic cosmic milieu and the effects of this vision on the human spirit. While primarily lyrical and celebratory in tone, these poems acknowledge, as well, the terror, suffering, and unpredictability of the human condition.
Quiet Down, Loud Town!
by Alastair HeimIn this funny, rhyming read-aloud for very young readers, a grumpy Mr. Elephant just wants some peace and quiet—that is, until he gets it.Packed with hilarious rhymes, fun-to-shout-out sounds, and the frenetic energy of a happy, busy town, this raucous read-aloud follows an exasperated elephant through the course of his day. From barking dogs to clattering dishes at the coffee shop to a boisterous marching band, the noise is just too much. Mr. Elephant wants nothing more than for his loud town to PLEASE QUIET DOWN!!! But what happens when he ends up getting exactly what he wishes for? Snuck into the fun is an important message about seeing things from the perspective of others. Share this story with anyone who loves to make noise and anyone who loves to hate it!
Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson's Life and Poetry
by Carol Dommermuth-Costa Anna LandsverkWhen Emily Dickinson died at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1886, she left a locked chest with hand-sewn notebooks and papers filled with nearly 1,800 unpublished poems. Four years later, her first collection was published and became a singular success. Today Dickinson is revered as one of America’s greatest and most original poets. Using primary source materials, including the poet’s own letters and poems, Quiet Fire presents the life and art of Emily Dickinson to a new generation.
Quiet Is Strength
by Mary Rand HessA comforting ode to the gentle potency of quiet, this lyrical picture book will captivate introverts and nature lovers alike.Quiet is strength. It&’s as strong as a monarch in migration. As important as a whisper and a promise. As deep as a listener, still . . . and sincere. This evocative text combines with warmly glowing images of people enjoying a day at the park, spending peaceful moments together and alone, experiencing the nourishment of quiet. It&’s a reminder that you don&’t have to be loud to make a positive impact on others, and that when you are still, you&’re more able to experience the magnificence of the world around you.Quiet is powerful like you.
Quiet: Poem
by Victoria Adukwei BulleyA black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of &“quiet&” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.&“Bulley&’s stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the political through the personal.&”—Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn&’t silence? Where does quiet exist—and what liberating potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the impulse to guard one&’s inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, "your silence will not protect you."
Quilt: A Collection of Prose
by Finola MoorheadAward-winning author, Finola Moorhead stitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make an incisive comment of the process of writing.
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
by Nikki GiovanniWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and influential poets of the era. Now, Giovanni continues to stand as one of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape. This collection of new poems is a masterpiece that explores the ecstatic union between self and community. Each poem bears our revered cultural icon's trademark of the unfalteringly political and the intensely personal. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is Nikki Giovanni's meditation on humanity and soul. It's her revelatory gaze at the world in which we live -- and her confession on the world she dreams we will one day call home.
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum #No. 21)
by Lucille CliftonBrilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
Quipu
by Arthur Sze"Sze brings together disparate realms of experience---astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism--and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."--The New Yorker"Sze's poems seem dazzled and haunted by patterns."--The Washington PostQuipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor.Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root, slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop when gnats lift into a cloud as we stumble into a bunch of rose apples rotting on the ground.Long admired for his poetic fusions of science, history, and anthropology, in Quipu, Sze's lines and language are taut and mesmerizing, nouns can become verbs--"where is passion that orchids the body?"--and what appears solid and -stable may actually be fluid and volatile.A point of exhaustion can become a point of renewal: it might happen as you observe a magpie on a branch, or when you tug at a knot and discover that a grief disentangles, dissolves into air. Renewal is not possible to a calligrapher who simultaneously draws characters with a brush in each hand; it occurs when the tip of a brush slips yet swerves into flame . . .Arthur Sze is the author of eight books of poetry and a volume of translations. He is the recipient of an Asian American Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in New Mexico.
Quiéreme Rota
by Zoraida M. DíazDesgarrador y valiente, sincero y comprometido. <P><P>Quiéreme rota.Y me tendrás completa. Quiéreme rota es la realidad expresada en verso, es la historia del día a día, y tiene la misma rima que la propia vida. Nos cuenta experiencias sacadas de contexto, como la bruta certeza de la existencia humana. Sin querer, pero ofendiendo, da un repaso a todos los sentimientos. La poesía nutre este libro lleno de frustración y creencias, sacado con la misma seguridad queda el dolor a la vida.
Quotable Shakespeare (Quotable Ser.)
by Max MorrisThis entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
Quotable Shakespeare (Quotable Ser.)
by Max MorrisThis entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
Qusayr 'Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
by Garth FowdenQusayr'Amra is a major Islamic archaeological site, a princely bathhouse with intact frescoes dating from the mid-eighth century. Fowden offers and imaginative and compelling analysis of the iconography and artistic context of the paintings and addresses fascinating and topical questions about early Islamic culture and the West.
R F Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang
by R. F. MurrayAndrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
R's Boat
by Lisa RobertsonThe boldly original Canadian poet Lisa Robertson has received high praise for the uncompromising intelligence and style of her poetry. In R's Boat, she brings us to the crossroads of poetry, theory, the body, and cultural criticism, where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert.