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Just One Flick of a Finger
by Marybeth Lorbiecki David DiazA young boy takes a gun to school to scare off the bully who has been tormenting him, and the gun is accidentally fired during a scuffle.
Just Outside This Room
by Michael HoviThis book of poems was partially written while I was quarantined courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic in Henan Province, China.A stay that was prolonged to seven and a half months.The myth and mystery of human experience evoked by being alone, finding myself on the edge of no return. The vulnerability, sudden solitude, struggles in a lifetime, consolidated in meditations, poems and reflections.Most of the poems are spiritual in context, some just free thoughts.My nephew’s take on this book of poetry was: ‘If you thought through the poems, then I will read them.’I am very thankful and humble for this unexpected and unique opportunity, a journey of lifetime.I am also looking forward to sharing this adventure in mind and spirit with you.Michael Hovi
Just Peace: A Message of Hope
by Mattie J.T. Stepanek President Jimmy Carter"I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What began as a casual discourse, not too different from others I have had with inquisitive young people who have reached out to me, became a treasured and enlightening friendship that changed my life forever. With the purity of heart that only a child can possess, and the indomitable spirit of one who has survived more physical suffering than most adults will ever know, Mattie convinced me that his quest was not inconceivable. Inspired by his enthusiasm and without reservation, I committed to a partnership with him. . . . These words of wisdom and inspiration came from the most remarkable person I have ever known." --Jimmy Carter Sometimes the most important messages come from the most unlikely places. Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a 13-year-old boy, made a difference before he died with his Heartsongs poetry. He continues to impact the world through Just Peace. This poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association fervently believed in and promoted world peace not just as a concept, but as a reality.Mattie was working on this manuscript with Jimmy Carter when he died in June 2004. His mother, Jeni, who edited the material and wrote a preface for the book has published it at her son's request. Just Peace explores Mattie's concept of the world and all people as a unique mosaic of gifts. War and injustice shatter the mosaic, which can only be made whole again by planning and actively pursuing peace. The young visionary's essays, poetry, and photographs appear throughout the book. Jimmy Carter has written a special foreword for the book.Just as important to the book and enlightening to the reader are Mattie's many correspondences. Central to these are his personal e-mails to and from former president Jimmy Carter, Mattie's peace "hero" and role model. The Nobel Peace Prize winner met Mattie, considered him an angel, messenger, and hero in his own right, and was genuinely affected by Mattie's passion and drive. Just Peace is an intimate portrait of a president, a young man of hope, and peace itself.
Just Saying (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Rae ArmantroutIn Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as chimeras, creatures that appear when old distinctions break down and elements generally kept separate combine in new ways. Here Armantrout both worries (as a dog worries a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.
Just Us: An American Conversation
by Claudia RankineFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONClaudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation—Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word.Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together.
Juvenal
by Lindsay Watson Patricia WatsonJuvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues, traces the various literary currents which infuse the Satire, and lastly addresses the much-discussed issue of the poetic voice or persona from a sociohistorical as well as a theoretical perspective. Above all, the commentary strives to locate Juvenal in his historical, literary and cultural context, while simultaneously affording assistance with the nuts and bolts of the Latin, and always keeping in view two key questions: what was Juvenal's purpose in writing the Satire? How seriously was it meant to be taken?
Juvenilia
by Ken ChenKen Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet's relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love affairs that evaporate before they start. Hungrily eclectic, the wry and emotionally piercing poems in this collection steal the forms of the shooting script, blues song, novel, memoir, essay, logical disputation, aphorism--even classical Chinese poetry in translation. But as contest judge Louise Glück notes in her foreword, "The miracle of this book is the degree to which Ken Chen manages to be both exhilaratingly modern (anti-catharsis, anti-epiphany) while at the same time never losing his attachment to voice, and the implicit claims of voice: these are poems of intense feeling. . . . Like only the best poets, Ken Chen makes with his voice a new category. "
Kabir
by Robert BlyOriginally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kafka and Me: Poems, stories and short stories
by Magnus JohnsenThis book refers to a set of poems, free verses, reflections and short stories, which, out of passion, necessity, and madness, I write every day of my life. Like all life, mine also goes through a valley of tears, and I am not a fool to not accept it, ergo, most of what is put here has that dramatic, sad and “why not” reflective bias of always being in catharsis. I have always believed that in sadness, loneliness, pain, loss, much or all of the creativity of the human being hides, even to make people laugh. Here you will find the works divided into three segments, or chapters: One, that of life itself or "In this valley of tears", then some written in joyous and euphoric moments or "Not everything is bad", and finally those written in prose or "Stories, and maybe a story.” Within the verses, you will see my reflections, the result of observation and sometimes, of living it firsthand, if you like it, pass it on so that it serves as a reactive against so many tragic situations that occur in the world, right now, tomorrow, and always. There are also some curious things, and others that refer to the same theme, and therefore you will see repeated names followed by a number. In this book too, there is the germ of a crime novel (very Scandinavian), which will be available shortly. See if you can find out what it is. Although my way of writing is in verses or short stories, as in what I paint, draw, and design, I always seek to convey what I feel, what I think, what I experience, good and bad, and my ideas. We all have principles, as well as a single end for sure, and I believe that the facts are what always give us away, for better or for worse. In what I write, and I believe, I will never lie. Like everyone, I already lie enough living every day, even when I confirm that I feel good, when most of the time it is not. Good luck in your life, and luck in your things.
Kahin Nahin Vahin (Nowhere But There)
by Ashok Vajpeyi Vijay MunshiNowhere But There: English translation by Vijay Munshi of Ashok Vajpeyi's Sahitya Akademi award-winning Hindi poetry collection Kahin Nahin Vahin. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2004)
Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets
by Kahlil Gibran Neil Douglas-KlotzOne of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time explores the mysteries of life. Here is bite-sized wisdom for daily living in a beautiful gift package.This book is a collection of Gibran's words on life's big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of the fabric of existence, and it is an attempt to penetrate and explain the mysteries of life.Gibran was fascinated by life's puzzles and riddles--those questions that cause us to stop what we are doing and ask, "Why?" Here are his musings about the seemingly unanswerable questions and his exploration of good and evil, love and hate, and the difference between appearances and reality.Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets is organized into five sections that elucidate the key issues and questions that each of us face:1.Entering the Labyrinth of Life2.Secrets of Life and Death3.Life's Ups and Downs4.Secrets of Good and Evil5.Traveling the Inner PathThis inspirational gift volume gently guides readers through life's big issues: meaning and mortality, good and evil, and discovering an authentic spiritual path. Suitable for all gift-giving occasions, it is a book that delights, informs, and inspires.
Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Wisdom
by Kahlil GibranOne of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time shares simple wisdom for living a happy and fulfilling life. <P><P>This book is a collection of Gibran's words on how to live. Here are his thoughts on what it means to live in community and solitude and what gives life meaning, along with his often prescient views on government, organized religion, wealth, and commerce. Gibran's sensibility feels contemporary. He did not recognize any ultimate authority outside of the human soul: <P><P>"It were wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand and more of each other, whom we may understand." <P><P>This is the essential Gibran, with 88 selections organized into 5 sections that elucidate answers to the questions that each of us face: <P><P>Living a Wise Life <P><P>Community Wisdom Wise Exchange Wisdom from Solitude Wisdom Beyond Words <P><P>This inspirational gift volume gently guides readers through life’s big issues: meaning and mortality, good and evil, and discovering an authentic spiritual path. <P><P> Suitable for all gift-giving occasions, it is a book that delights, informs, and inspires.
Kalanni Nidra Ponivvanu (I Will Not Let Time Sleep)
by N. Gopi J. BhagyalakshmiWork of N. Gopi translated by J. Bhagyalakshmi. Award winning collection of Telugu poems.
Kaleidoscope Eyes
by Jennifer BryantIn 1968, while the Vietnam War rages, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who was using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District
by Elias LönnrotThe national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness.
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People
by Elias Lönnrot'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation through the ages from the dawn of creation. Sung by rural Finns since prehistoric times, and formally compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the nineteenth century, it is a landmark of Finnish culture and played a vital role in galvanizing its national identity in the decades leading to independence. Its themes, however, reach beyond borders and search the heart of human existence.Translated with an Introduction by Eino Friberg
Kalyana Mittata: Beautiful Friendship Poems
by Basil FernandoFernando may not write a lot, but his poems are moving and powerful. This collection includes: The Anonymous People, The Tortoise and the Philosopher, Gems and Intrigue, Sweet Are the Blessings, and more. "Resurrection Today I talked to a man Who had escaped A death camp. Resurrection? No, He is dying now. Growing thin Looking dazed and haggard Having nightmares Mentally not all there. Typical signs Of those who undergo Such experiences," says the psychiatrist. Is there any typical sign To know what His torturers go through? Sweet dreams, nice children Great hopes? I could have helped This man to escape The dreaded camp. I am powerless now, To prevent his slow death."
Kamayani
by Jayshankar PrasadKamayani looks at the Chayawaadi school of Hindi poetry. It plays continuously with the human emotions and takes metaphors from mythologies. The chapters even are named after the emotions. The plot is based on the Vedic story where Manu, the man surviving after the deluge (Pralaya), is emotionless (Bhavanasunya). Anyone having interest in Hindi poetry must read it.
Kamban
by S. MaharajanThe characteristic reach of the Poet Kamban for cosmic personification in his poetry clearly ties these high and abstract matters to very human detail. It is the world of human experience he deals with, and it is through the exaltation of poetic song that he achieves what all the world's great poetry attempts to achieve--a marriage of the divine and timeless with the earthly and experiential.
Kandar Anubuthi, Kandar Alangaram,Vel/Mayil/Seval Viruttham and Tiruvakuppu of Arunagiri Nathar
by Arunagiri NatharKandar Anubhuthi: In this composition of 51 verses the poet, in his inimitable style of ‘sandham’(Tune), worships Lord Murugan for protection and salvation. Kandar Alangaram: Arunagirinathar offers his favourite deity God Murugan not a garland of flowers (poomalai), but a garland of songs (paamalai) in 107 verses. It describes the different manifestations of Muruga in each temple and how He showers mercy on the devotees. Vel –Mayil-Seval Virutham: Vel is a sharp Weapon adorning the hand of God Murugan, Mayil (Peacock) is His Vehicle (Vahana) and Seval (Rooster) is His Flag. Virutham is the tempo of the lyrics. Arunagirinathar glorifies the three- Vel, Mayil and Seval, each in six viruthams.Vel is a symbol of intellect, Mayil represents splendor and majesty and Seval wakes up people from darkness to dawn.
Kant and Milton
by Sanford BudickThis book brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant's encounter with Milton's poetry to the formation of Kant's moral and aesthetic thought.
Kapilar Akaval
by KapiladevarAkaval ia a poetic form. In this poem Kapilar narrates the mortality of life and emphasizes all are equal by birth and no one is superior by birth alone.
Karma
by Cathy OstlereIt is 1984, and fifteen-year-old Maya is on her way to India with her father. She carries with her the ashes of her mother, who has recently committed suicide, and arrives in Delhi on the eve of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination - one of the bloodiest riots in the country's history. <P><P>Then Maya is separated from her father and must rely upon the help of a mysterious, kindhearted boy, Sandeep, to safely reunite them. But as her love for Sandeep begins to blossom, Maya will have to face the truth about her painful adolescence . . . if she's ever to imagine her future. <P><P>In this gorgeous, haunting portrait of love, loss, and growing up, Cathy Ostlere - in masterful strokes of verse - has created a simply unforgettable read.
Karyotype
by Kim TrainorAt the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype’s poems range from the title sequence, which explores the DNA and woven textiles of this woman and her vanished people (a karyotype is the characteristic chromosome complement of a species), to the firebombing of the National Library of Sarajevo, from an abecedarian hymn on the International Red Cross “Book of Belongings” to the experience of watching the televised invasion of Iraq in the dark of a Montreal night. The Beauty of Loulan becomes a symbol of the ephemerality of human genetic and cultural texts, and of our chances for survival.