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The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel
by G. Ronald MurphyA spirited retelling of the Gospel story in a Germanic setting, the ninth-century A. D. Old Saxon epic poem The Heliand is at last available in English in Ronald Murphy's graceful new translation. Representing the first full integration and poetic reworking of the Gospel story into Northern European warrior imagery and culture, the poem finds a place for many Old Northern religious concepts and images while remaining faithful to the orthodox Christian teaching of the Gospel of St. Mark. Accessible to students of medieval and comparative literature, Murphy's introduction and notes provide valuable insight and a cultural context for this unique masterpiece.
Helen of Troy
by Andrew LangAndrew 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).
Heinrich Heines „Romanzero“: Mythisches Denken und resignatives Geschichtsbild (Heine-Studien)
by Philipp RitzenDie Untersuchung des letzten großen Gedichtzyklus von Heinrich Heine, des „Romanzero“, legt mythische Denkstrukturen frei, die nach einschlägigen Mythostheorien (Blumenberg, Eliade) eine ordnende Funktion in einer dem Menschen als Chaos erscheinenden Welt erhalten. Zugleich ist mythisches Denken zyklisch. Heine gestaltet im „Romanzero“ historische Situationen aus allen Epochen und zeichnet drastisch die Perpetuierung von Herrschaft und Ungleichheit nach. Der Mythos vermag keine Hoffnung zu kreieren. Heine entwirft am Ende seines Lebens in seiner „Matratzengruft“ ein resignatives Bild von Menschheit und Geschichte.
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution (Jewish Lives)
by George ProchnikA thematically rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany’s most important, world-famous, and imaginative writers Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist whose dynamic life story and strikingly original writing are ripe for rediscovery. In this vividly imagined exploration of Heine’s life and work, George Prochnik contextualizes Heine’s biography within the different revolutionary political, literary, and philosophical movements of his age. He also explores the insights Heine offers contemporary readers into issues of social justice, exile, and the role of art in nurturing a more equitable society. Heine wrote that in his youth he resembled “a large newspaper of which the upper half contained the present, each day with its news and debates, while in the lower half, in a succession of dreams, the poetic past was recorded fantastically like a series of feuilletons.” This book explores the many dualities of Heine’s nature, bringing to life a fully dimensional character while also casting into sharp relief the reasons his writing and personal story matter urgently today.
Heine: Selected Verse
by Heinrich Heine Peter Branscombe'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in fact born in 1797. He was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelgänger poems show, a man divided against himself. This selection, with the German originals accompanied by English prose translations, provides the perfect introduction to Heine. He can be magnificent as an acute, irreverent commentator on politics and current events, though his genius most often strikes home in the poems filled with despair, or sensuality, or sweetness, or self-mockery, in which he draws out the whole gamut of emotions provoked by love and immanent death.
Heidegger's Poetic Projection of Being
by Marius Johan GeertsemaThis book investigates the relationship between poetry and ontology in the works of Martin Heidegger. It explains the way in which Heidegger’s dialogue with poetry forms an essential step on the path of overcoming metaphysics and thinking the openness of presence. Heidegger’s engagement with poetry is an important moment in the development of his philosophy—or rather thinking of Being. Being speaks itself poetically in his view. Rather than a logician or a thinker, Being is the first poet.
heft
by Doyali IslamFrom award-winning Toronto-based poet Doyali Islam comes a second collection of poems that investigates rupture and resilience.GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALISTPAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD FINALISTTRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALISTHow does one inhabit a world in which "the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky"? How can one be at home in one's own body in the presence of suspected autoimmune illness, chronic/recurrent pain, and a society that bears down with a particular construct of normal female sexual experience? What might a daughter salvage within a fraught relationship with a cancer-stricken father? Uncannily at ease with both high lyricism and formal innovation and invention, these poems are unafraid to lift up and investigate burdens and ruptures of all kinds--psychic, social, cultural, physical, and political.Providing continuity over the poet's visually-arresting forms--including Islam's self-termed split sonnets, double sonnets, and parallel poems--is allied remembrance of the resilience of the Palestinian people. Yet, the work doesn't always stray far from home, with a quintet of astro-poems that weave together myth and memory.Here is a poet small in stature, unwilling to abandon to silence small histories, small life forms, and the small courages and beauties of the ordinary hour. In these rigorous, intimate, and luminous poems, the spirit of the everyday and the spirit of witness bind fiercely to one another. heft is a ledger of tenderness, survival, and risk.
Heed the Hollow: Poems
by Malcolm TariqThe stirring debut from the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected and introduced by Chris AbaniHeed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South. These lyrics of queer desire meet the voices of enslaved ancestors to reckon with a lineage of trauma that manifests as silence, pain, and haunting memories, but also as want and love. In bops, lyrics, and erasures, Heed the Hollow tells of a heritage anchored to the landscape of the coastal South, to seawalls shaped by forced labor, and to the people “marked into the bottom / of history where then now / we find no shadow of life.” From that shadow, the voices in these poems make their own brightness, reclaiming their histories from a language that evolved to exclude them.
A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
by Calvin TrillinTrillin deals with the people around Bush, such as Nanny Dick Cheney, Mushroom Cloud Rice and many others. He tries to predict the behavior of the famously hot-headed John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations in poems.
El hechizo de la amapola
by Desiree Ruiz VelázquezNo me importó desbocarme ante tal desenfreno. Resonó tu advertencia, haciéndose insignificante en mi cabeza. <P><P>«No juegues con fuego», parecía cada vez más tentador. Pero yo solo quería una cosa: jugar sin importarme las quemaduras por venir. El Hechizo de la Amapola ha logrado traducir algunas experiencias; enamoramientos y desvelos disfrazados de poemas sublimes en los cuales muchos podrían ver reflejadas sus propias historias. <P>A través de relatos, textos y poemas, el libro narra un «era una vez» construido con realidades como también de momentos ficticios, inspirados en un «ojalá». Es un viaje de descubrimientos personales provocados por un amor, de esos que sacuden y revuelcan tu mundo.
Heavy is the Head
by Sumaya Enyegue&“Where does all the grief go when it&’s not tugging at your wrist?&” Enyegue&’s debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.This collection does not aim to heal anyone who reads it, but instead help them confront their own healing. Rather than sugar-coated bullets that enter you lightly, these poems are designed to hurt. They are for the girls with difficult names, the boys with softness at their core, and the people with neither. They are meant for the people who are Black, and the people who are not—because we are all tethered together by the heaviness of the human experience.
Heaven's Thieves
by Sue SinclairHeaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions -- What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? -- and the urgent ones -- how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an originality born of her willingness to pursue her own line of inquiry to its limit. These poems get close and cut deep, mixing subject and object, surface and soul: "Red mud glistens / like cut fruit -- or like the knife / that did the cutting, laid down." In this, her fifth collection, Sinclair knows that nature is both "done to death" and "inexhaustible;" that art is an elegy for experience. Experience and its value are changed in these poems. They are as wise as they are disruptive, and they change us as surely as they remake the world.
Heaven Is Here, Beneath a Tree
by Patricia CoriThis little book of profound images and poems from best-selling author/photographer Patricia Cori reflects her inspiration and vision of life and our world. It is intended as a point of reference for the reader, to see over and over again, and to draw strength, joy, and empowerment from the messages that pour from Cori's provocative art and words--messages that truly speak from the soul.Little Books by Patricia Cori is series of concise, digital-only treatises that express the author's wisdom and insights into the meaning of creation. They are connected by a common thread: the author's love for the earth and the most distant stars; her passion for life; and her dedication to spirit.
Heaven and Other Poems
by Israel HorovitzWith more than 70 produced plays and many produced screenplays, playwright/director/author Israel Horovitz presents a new dimension to his creative output in Heaven and Other Poems, the 75-year-old author's first-ever authorized poetry collection. A tour-de-force of emotion, empathy and deep, melancholic beauty, Heaven and Other Poems is a stunning collection of work crafted over a lifetime. From the epic poem "Stations of the Cross" with its startling, tenderly crafted images of familial love and loss, to the punchy and pointed aphorisms of the twin "Defining the French Novel" and "Defining the American Novel" Horovitz displays a remarkable range, and-throughout-a deep understanding of humanity. As the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history, many of his poems naturally are set in France, where Horovitz often directs French-language productions of his plays. The collection is filled with surprises and special gifts, such as the never-before-published translation of one of his poems by master playwright Samuel Beckett, from whom Horovitz found thematic and stylistic inspiration for his own work. A truly inspired poetry collection, which is, in turn, truly inspiring and fulfilling to its audience.
Heaven and Other Poems
by Israel HorovitzWith more than 70 produced plays and many produced screenplays, playwright/director/author Israel Horovitz presents a new dimension to his creative output in Heaven and Other Poems, the 75-year-old author's first-ever authorized poetry collection. A tour-de-force of emotion, empathy and deep, melancholic beauty, Heaven and Other Poems is a stunning collection of work crafted over a lifetime. From the epic poem "Stations of the Cross" with its startling, tenderly crafted images of familial love and loss, to the punchy and pointed aphorisms of the twin "Defining the French Novel" and "Defining the American Novel" Horovitz displays a remarkable range, and#151;throughout#151;a deep understanding of humanity. As the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history, many of his poems naturally are set in France, where Horovitz often directs French-language productions of his plays. The collection is filled with surprises and special gifts, such as the never-before-published translation of one of his poems by master playwright Samuel Beckett, from whom Horovitz found thematic and stylistic inspiration for his own work. A truly inspired poetry collection, which is, in turn, truly inspiring and fulfilling to its audience.
Heaven and Other Poems
by Jack KerouacHeaven and a choice of poems sent to editor Donald Allen for anthology and magazine publication. With a selection of Jack's letters on his poetry and a biographical note.
Heating the Outdoors
by Marie-Andrée Gill Kristen Renee MillerYou're the clump of blackened sprucethat lights my gasoline-soaked heartIt's just impossible you won't be backto quench yourself in my crème-sodaancestral spiritIrreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill.In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill's interrogation and reclamation of the language, land, and interpersonal intimacies distorted by imperialism. They navigate her interior landscape—of heartbreak, humor, and, ultimately, unrelenting light—amidst the boreal geography.Heating the Outdoors describes the yearnings for love, the domestic monotony of post-breakup malaise, and the awkward meeting of exes. As the lines between interior and exterior begin to blur, Gill's poems, here translated by Kristen Renee Miller, become a record of the daily rituals and ancient landscapes that inform her identity not only as a lover, then ex, but also as an Ilnu and Québécoise woman.
The Heath Introduction to Poetry (Sixth edition)
by Joseph DerocheThis chronologically arranged anthology features more than 500 poems written between the eighth century and the present.
Heat Wake
by Jason ZuzgaMixing science with humor, humanity, whimsy and love, Jason Zuzga's debut collection is a revelation. In Heat Wake, the reader encounter natures in myriad forms, all crafted from the unusual perspective of a poet astonished by the world and at work among the queerness of life, the odd sweetness of other people, the city, nature, love, and humanity. The poems unfold amid the presence of stubborn rocks, the vast ocean and its shores, the intimate details of a suburban New Jersey landscape. The book's exuberant poems take a journey through time itself: the limited time of humans versus time evolutionary and geological. The poems present in rollicking, playful language and joyful imagery, glancing at the infinite and at the future imagined from the desert in Arizona to Mars. "Charming, witty, and science-y smart, these debut collection poems pop with volleys of youthful and wise acts, tactics, maneuvers, catastrophes, scenes, and did I mention love poems overrunning! --Jane Miller
Heartstrings and Happenings: Poems and Poetry of Betty Swensen Dodge
by Betty DodgeElizabeth Holroyd Shipley Swensen Dodge (Betty) was born, ninth of eleven children, in Sutherland, Utah on January 8, 1917. The mother of five children, her life as an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints included a full time mission and nearly two decades as an ordinance worker in the Jordan River Temple. She has been a widow for nearly 50 years. Her poems of insights and compassion reflect the heartstrings and happenings of a mother, widow, friend, and a women committed to the the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Heartsongs
by Mattie StepanekMatthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known to his friends as "Mattie," began writing poetry and short stories at the age of three. Some of his works explore the uncensored reality of living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and with the grief associated with the loss of his three siblings to the same Iife-threattning condition. But most of his work proclaims the innocent hope, profound wisdom and delightful humor of childhood Other books by this author are available from Bookshare..
The Heartbreak, It is Mine
by Nathalie Andrews Stanislas Kazal“The Heartbreak” (copyright July 2008) was a clandestinely published book, sold illicitly after performances in Paris and Bordeaux’s underground scene until 2010. At last, here is a final edition of this rare and hard to find book, (a collector’s item), which has been responsible for fomenting division and revolution. In addition, this opus draws on other work published covertly by the author in 2008. I thus want to celebrate the long period of catharsis that inspired me to pull these miscellaneous writings together into this “mashup,” which was never meant to be mass-produced or sold in bookshops. This version is complete, containing the spirit of the original in the writing. One should view “The Heartbreak” as the ‘materia primera’ of an alchemical reaction. It ends differently to the original underground edition, from 2008, by returning to a new point of departure, but remains a poignant testimony to my years of wandering. – Stanislas Kazal (18th May 2014).