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Selected Poems
by Vladimir Nabokov Thomas KarshanThough we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the whole of Nabokov's career, from the newly discovered "Music," written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Véra," composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokov's oeuvre. Included too are such poems as "Lilith", an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and "An Evening of Russian Poetry", a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls. The subjects range from the Russian Revolution to the American refrigerator, taking in on the way motel rooms, butterflies, ice-skating, love, desire, exile, loneliness, language, and poetry itself; and the poet whirls swiftly between the brilliantly painted facets of his genius, wearing masks that are, by turns, tender, demonic, sincere, self-parodying, shamanic, visionary, and ingeniously domestic.
Re-Origin of Species
by Alessandra NaccaratoWinner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging WritersWinner of CBC Poetry PrizeFrom hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world.
Re-Origin of Species
by Alessandra NaccaratoWinner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging WritersWinner of CBC Poetry PrizeShortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardFrom hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world.Praise for Re-Origin of Species:"In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative. Naccarato's shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of being—from the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetry—and it just might be medicine for us all." —Kai Cheng Thom, author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World"What a hive of a book—these poems are so urgent, gorgeous, and necessary. Re-Origin of Species is a siren's call and warning siren all at once." —Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good"Ranging from the sting of personal loss to navigating landscapes full of promise, Naccarato?s poetry interrogates the place where the personal meets the wild." —2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury
Songs from a Mountain
by Amanda Nadelberg"Amanda Nadelberg's poems . . . are jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical....which in the immediate reading is almost pure music."--Ken Tucker, Entertainment WeeklyFrom "Matson":So what patent reason is there to doubtthe color of a person's hair, there is sunand timpani. Rubber wood bone silkhemp or ivory I will cut my own in Junebut in May endured the next yesterdayI've already now forgotten what all themen I'll ever know smelled like. Maybedevotion on the beach in the middle ofthe week which is dumbed down withplanets imagining song.
Selected Poems of Gopalakrishna Adiga
by Sumatheendra NadigWorks, life and poems of Gopalakrishna Adiga.
Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity: Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson (Routledge Focus on Literature)
by Beverley NadinOrality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense. Observing Donaghy’s critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson’s systems of collective relation and “lyric unity”, this volume explores the intellectual curiosity of both poets from the classical to the contemporary, in relation to music, literature, philosophy, scientific thought, and the rituals and austerities of the transcendent. This text also explores the tensions occupying their work between craft and spontaneity, and between the intellect and intuition, that arise from a fundamental respect for form as the poet’s guiding principle. Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity exposes persuasive rhetoric and pursues a nuanced understanding of the enigmatic complexity of poetic language and its critical context. This volume interrogates valuable insights into form, language, and poetics, and clarifies and reframes these, with a focus on the creative process, for readers interested in poetry and the practical and critical perspectives of these poets.
Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems
by Daniel NadlerLacunae, Daniel Nadler's debut collection, is an exercise in poetics of vital import. In it, Nadler imagines himself into those moments of unintelligibility--that blank space in between things--where constraint and expansion coincide. These poems, translations of work that does not otherwise exist, are intended to fill the invented or actual lacunae in manuscripts of classical Indian poetry. When faced with such ellipses, like where a few decisive hieroglyphs have worn off a wall, he infers and reconstructs the flora, fauna, and pleasures of an ancient world. "Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water / sleep bends me toward my lover / and I cannot drink from her": Nadler's is a project of constant negotiation. He attends to impulses of restoration and conservation, in turns. From this tension arises verse of simplicity and clarity of vision, imbued with that trembling quality of new life "luminous and half-naked." Lacunae, deeply felt and gnomically wise, dares to pave a poetic landscape all its own, the work of a remarkable new poet with enormous ambition and ability.
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
by Azar Nafisi Dick Davis Abolqasem FeftdowsiBest most up-to-date English translation of the national epic of Iran.
Washes, Prays
by Noor NagaRBC Bronwen Wallace Award winner Noor Naga's bracing debut, a novel-in-verse about a young woman's romantic relationship with a married man and her ensuing crisis of faith.2021 Arab American Book Award - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award, WinnerPat Lowther Memorial Award, WinnerGerald Lampert Memorial Award, LonglistFred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry, Second Place WinnerCBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020Coocoo is a young immigrant woman in Toronto. Her faith is worn threadbare after years of bargaining with God to end her loneliness and receiving no answer. Then she meets her mirror-image; Muhammad is a professor and father of two. He's also married. Heartbreaking and hilarious, this verse-novel chronicles Coocoo's spiraling descent: the transformation of her love into something at first desperate and obsessive, then finally cringing and animal, utterly without grace. Her best friend, Nouf, remains by her side throughout, and together they face the growing contradictions of Coocoo's life. What does it mean to pray while giving your body to a man who cannot keep it? How long can a homeless love survive on the streets? These are some of the questions this verse-novel swishes around in its mouth.
Rocks of Hampi: Poems of Chandrasekhar Kambar
by O. L. Nagabhushana Chandrasekhar KambarThe book is an anthology of poems on and about children, poems that sing of love for this "unattainable earth" as Milosz puts it.
Under the Broken Sky
by Mariko Nagai"Necessary for all of humankind, Under the Broken Sky is a breathtaking work of literature."—Booklist, starred reviewA beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan’s experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II.Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they’ve known begins to unravel when her father is recruited to the Japanese army, and Natsu and her little sister, Cricket, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to keep her sister alive, Natsu sells Cricket to a Russian family following the 1945 Soviet occupation. The journey to redemption for Natsu's broken family is rife with struggles, but Natsu is tenacious and will stop at nothing to get her little sister back.Literary and historically insightful, this is one of the great untold stories of WWII. Much like the Newbery Honor book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Mariko Nagai's Under the Broken Sky is powerful, poignant, and ultimately hopeful.Christy Ottaviano Books
Hindi ke Prachin Pratinidhi Kavi: हिन्दी के प्राचीन प्रतिनिधि कवि
by Dr Nagendra“हिन्दी के प्राचीन प्रतिनिधि कवि” प्रस्तुत ग्रन्थ में हिन्दी के प्राचीन काव्य की विविध धाराओं के प्रवर्तक एवं प्रतिनिधि कवियों का अध्ययन एवं अनुशीलन उपस्थित किया गया है, जो हिन्दी-साहित्य के जिज्ञासु-प्रेमियों के साथ-साथ बी. ए. तथा एम. ए. के हिन्दी छात्रों के लिए अत्यन्त उपयोगी है । इस अध्ययन के अन्तर्गत चेष्टा यह की गई है कि अध्येता को आरम्भ से लेकर रीतिकाल की रीति-बद्ध एवं रीति-मुक्त काव्य-धारा तक के सम्पूर्ण प्रतिनिधि कवियों तथा प्राचीन काव्य की विविध धाराओं का सम्यक ज्ञान प्राप्त हो जाय ।
Homeric Questions
by Gregory NagyThe "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission?<P><P>In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written texts that could be handed down over two millennia. His model draws on the comparative evidence provided by living oral epic traditions, in which each performance of a song often involves a recomposition of the narrative.
TIEMPOS DE CIUDAD Y OTROS POEMAS
by Vihang A. Naik Alejandro Camacho GonzálezVihang A. Naik arroja luz sobre la vida de una ciudad inmersa en sombras, gloria y miseria en Tiempos de ciudad y otros poemas. Se trata de una antología con sus poemas más intuitivos y filosóficos, dividida en seis partes: Canción de amor de un viajero es casi un cuaderno de bitácora; Hombres reflejados transciende las quimeras de la ciudad, en la que las gentes son volubles como el caminar de un cangrejo o los colores de un camaleón; El sendero de la sabiduría comprende los inicios de la meditación y el conocimiento; En la orilla recoge las sensaciones de futilidad, recuerdos, dolor, exilio y alienación del poeta en la orilla de la vida. El título de esta colección alude también a la última sección del poemario, en el que la ciudad se despliega como un mercado, como un cielo para los desalmados, como aljófares de cambio, y es observada en la penumbra, a medianoche, bajo la luz de la luna y a través del vaho y la niebla El poema "Autorretrato" comienza con un bosquejo esquemático, incluyendo siete páginas en blanco, donde el lector encuentra unas palabras sobre el final del poema. Aquí, el poeta visualiza, en un momento de epifanía, la verdadera naturaleza del yo cuando despierta y ve su "yo/ revelado más allá del pensamiento". Entre "Yo¨" y "revelado más allá del pensamiento" hay 5 páginas en blanco. La inefable epifanía de lo ambiguo. Puede sugerir el descubrimiento de un yo transcendental allende todo pensamiento y lenguaje, o quizás el descubrimiento de una Ausencia lejos del habla y pensamiento humanos. Reseñas: "La lectura de Tiempos de ciudad y otros poemas es una experiencia embriagadora y reveladora" - Readers' Favorite "Apuntando hacia la filosofía, incluso aspectos existenciales, estos versos amigos de lo ajeno dejan demasiado en lo no dicho." - Kirkus Reviews "Una obra recomendable y única." - Cate Baum
Il tempo della città e altre poesie
by Vihang A. Naik Letizia MerelloNel suo 'Il tempo della città e altre poesie', un'antologia di poesie intuitive e filosofiche, suddivise in sei sezioni, Vihang A. Naik getta luce sulla vita di una città, in tutte le sue sfumature di gloria e miseria. 'Canto d'amore di un viaggiatore' è una sorta di diario di viaggio interiore, 'Uomini riflessi' descrive altre chimere della città, abitata da persone capricciose come l'incedere di un granchio o come i colori di un camaleonte. 'Il sentiero della saggezza' è l'inizio della meditazione e della conoscenza. 'Sulla riva' registra il senso di futilità del poeta, la memoria, il dolore, l'esilio e l'alienazione sulla riva della vita. Il titolo di quest'antologia è richiamato dal titolo dell'ultima delle sei sezioni, in cui la città si dispiega come un mercato, un paradiso dei perdenti e un terreno fertile per il cambiamento, osservato la sera, la notte, al chiaro di luna e attraverso nebbia e foschia. La poesia intitolata 'Autoritratto' inizia con un diagramma, seguito da alcune pagine bianche, e si conclude con quattro parole...qui il poeta immagina un momento epifanico, la sua vera natura scoperta quando si sveglia per vedersi 'svelato oltre il pensiero'. La rivelazione è preceduta da cinque pagine vuote. L'epifania ineffabile dell'ambiguità, che suggerisce la scoperta di un Sé trascendente, al di là di ogni pensiero e linguaggio, o può suggerire la scoperta di un'Assenza al di là del pensiero umano e della parola.
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
by Karthika NairA dazzling and eloquent reworking of the Mahabharata, one of South Asia's best-loved epics, through nineteen peripheral voices. With daring poetic forms, Karthika Naïr breathes new life into this ancient epic.Karthika Naïr refracts the epic Mahabharata through the voices of nameless soldiers, outcast warriors and handmaidens as well as abducted princesses, tribal queens, and a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take center stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the dramas of god and nation, heroics and victory - of the lives obscured by myth and history, all too often interchangeable. Until the Lions is a kaleidoscopic, poetic tour de force. It reveals the most intimate threads of desire, greed, and sacrifice in this foundational epic.
Digital Poetry
by Jeneen NajiThis book examines contemporary forms of digital poetry in emerging technologies such as drones, machine learning, Instagram, virtual reality and mobile devices. Theoretical frameworks that engage with posthumanism, multimodality, hermeneutics and eco-writing are used to examine the changing shape of the literary artefact in the second age of machines. The book contextualises the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach for a complex artefact and gives a broad overview of the field and history of digital poetry as a subset of the genre of electronic literature. Naji examines Instapoetry and the literary algorithm, haptic hermeneutics and poetry apps. The discussion also engages with eco-writing and drone poetry, poetic mirror worlds, and mixed reality poetry, concluding with an examination of the future of poetics and literary expression in the second age of machines.
Iniquity
by Zahra NajiThe poem cycle Iniquity tells a tale of unfulfilled love as seen through the eyes of a teenager, taking the reader on a heartfelt journey of hope, trust, desire and dreams which will finally be crushed by the bitter iniquity of life. Written when the author was sixteen years old, Iniquity’s haphazard jumble of emotions are embedded in every line of every poem. Taken as a whole, the book represents an authentic record of each emotional stage of a love story. Readers are sure to recognise the feelings these poems evoke, whether they experienced them in the past or continue to battle against them even now.
Memórias aparições arritmias
by Yara Nakahanda MonteiroO primeiro livro de poesia de Yara Nakahanda Monteiro tem passado e futuro, memórias e sonhos. «Eis uma nova voz que importa descobrir - e que veio para ficar.» José Eduardo Agualusa «Trineta da escravatura, bisneta da mestiçagem, neta da independência e filha da diáspora», Yara Nakahanda Monteiro (Huambo, 1979) estreia-se na poesia com um registo íntimo, tateando nas palavras a essência da condição feminina, da natureza, da identidade e da pertença, das memórias e dos sonhos. Tranço o cabelo dizem quero parecer mais preta Faço brushing dizem quero parecer mais branca Na frente quente vinda do hemisfério sul os caracóis secam desordenados perguntam quero parecer de onde? "Eu sou de onde estou." Os seus poemas transportam-nos para outros tempos e espaços: o da infância e adolescência na periferia de Lisboa; o das histórias da vida em Angola, contadas pela avó. Neles brotam desassossegos rabiscados em cadernos, esboçam-se trilhos imaginados a partir das grandes questões que definem quem somos. A meio caminho, corre a vida de todos os dias e surge uma voz literária envolvente, encantatória, impossível de ignorar. Qualquer ressonância com a realidade é poesia. Sobre Memórias Aparições Arritmias: «Herdeira de uma tradição lírica (oral e erudita) que não renega, Yara Nakahanda Monteiro traz para a poesia angolana os grandes temas de um presente em convulsão. Eis uma nova voz que importa descobrir - e que veio para ficar.» José Eduardo Agualusa «A mão delicada tece as veias da vida como linhas de bordar e palavras na boca das mais velhas. Há meninas assim: ficam sentadas na esquina dos dias só para amansar os ventos, cuidar das chuvas e rodar as flores no sentido do sol. Esperam. A cidade cede a mil noites de calor e insetos sem o sono da fartura nem a quietude dos pássaros. As mulheres preparam o milho do dia seguinte e calam a água e as sementes do riso. Não dormem. Esperam. Entre grito e silêncio, a voz das mulheres gravada na memória da cidade e há tanto tempo esquecida surge assim nestas aparições. Yara Monteiro juntou, deu a volta e escreveu. Nada do que aqui está é simples. Tudo tem corpo e vida e está purificado pelo fogo.»Ana Paula Tavares
The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning
by Nalanda Translation CommitteeThe art of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over a hundred of these profound songs are found in this collection of the works of the great teachers of the Kagyü lineage, known as the Practice Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.Many readers are already familiar with the colorful life of the yogin Milarepa, an early figure in the Kagyü lineage, some of whose songs are included here. Songs by over thirty other Buddhist teachers are also presented, from those of Tilopa, the father of the lineage, to those of the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, as well as several songs by Chögyam Trungpa, the noted teacher of Buddhism in America who directed the translation of The Rain of Wisdom.The diversity of the songs mirrors the richness of Tibetan Buddhism and gives us clear portraits of some of its most eminent teachers. Their longing for truth, their heartfelt devotion, and their sense of humor are all reflected. These poems share a beauty and intensity that have made them famous in Tibetan literature. With its vivid imagery and deep insight, The Rain of Wisdom communicates a profound and timeless understanding.
Umbilical Cord
by Hasan NamirDear Child, Once upon a time, Your dads wanted to have a baby. It was a life-long dream of ours. We were always hopeful.Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first year as a family of three. Umbilical Cord is a heartfelt book for parents or would be parents, with a universal message of hope.
War / Torn
by Hasan NamirWhere, the Mile End, Irish poet Julie Morrissy's debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy's lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow, the streets, the sensual memories. Where, the Mile End reimagines the places we inhabit, the moments we remember, the things we long for.
Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Murty Classical Library of India #33)
by Guru Nanak“A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib.”—Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak’s verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469–1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs’ sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology. The scripture was expanded and enriched by his nine successors, and Sikhs continue to revere it today as the embodiment of their tradition.This beautiful new translation by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, a foremost authority on Sikhism, offers a selection of spiritual lyrics composed by Guru Nanak. Here the reader will find the range and depth of his pluralistic vision of the singular divine and discover his central values of equality, inclusivity, and civic action—values that continue to shape the lives of Sikhs worldwide.
Anny's Mirrors
by Nancy E. Walker-GuyeAnny finds mirrors everywhere: in her mother's room, her spoon, her pot, and a puddle!