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"Heartbreaking and hilarious simultaneously… " ­ James TateIn Jeffrey McDaniel's second book, it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in 'The Most Awful Lullaby', or broken-hearted romance in poems like 'Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams'.
| Автор | Jeffrey McDaniel |
In this debut poetry collection by award-winning author Kim Fu, incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern death.A sharp edge of humour slices through Fu's poetry, drawing attention to the distance between contemporary existence and the basic facts of life: “In the classrooms of tomorrow, starved youth will be asked to imagine a culture that kept thin pamphlets of poetry pinned to...
| Автор | Kim Fu |
Russell Thornton's latest collection of poems, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain, explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial.Simple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative consciousness. A scavenger alley crow is the universal creative spirit in brutal primordial disguise. A murderously violent father and son are integrated into a single new man who walks «bright as a song in...
| Автор | Russell Thornton |
From the monk who sets himself on fire in a crowded intersection of Saigon (“the familiar corded tendons of his hands, become / a bracken of ashes, a carbon twine of burnt”), to the salmon run in British Columbia (“The salmon word / for home is glacierdust and once-tall trees unlimbed, / a taste, no matter where, they know”), Johnson writes of topics varied and eclectic, unified by a focus on moments both declining and revenant.Startling and haunting, the...
| Автор | Michael Johnson |
Poemat Spensera ma charakter alegoryczny. Bohaterem każdej księgi eposu jest rycerz uosabiający jakąś cnotę. Poszczególne księgi są skoncentrowane na cnotach świętości, wstrzemięźliwości, czystości, przyjaźni, sprawiedliwości i dworności. Bohaterem księgi pierwszej jest Rycerz Czerwonego Krzyża (Knight of the Red Cross). Na język polski przełożony został, przez Kasprowicza tylko krótki fragment księgi pierwszej eposu. Brak informacji o innych próbach przyswojenia dzieła Spensera, poza drobnymi...
| Автор | Edmund Spenser |
Whether Jeffrey McDaniel is denouncing insomnia («4,000 A.M.»), exploring family tragedy («Ghost Townhouse»), or celebrating love and lust («The Biology of Numbers»), his writing is original and provocative. A noted poet, McDaniel has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and NPR’s Talk of the Nation. «Wild, fierce, irreverent, full of praise and lament, and deeply, intensely human.» — Thomas Lux
| Автор | Jeffrey McDaniel |
Oda na część Hierona I Starszego (ur. ?, zm. 467 p.n.e. w mieście Katana, obecnie Katania na Sycylii) – tyran Geli na Sycylii w latach 485-467 p.n.e. i Syrakuz w latach 478-467 p.n.e. Władca ten przyczynił się do tego, że Syrakuzy stały się ważnym ośrodkiem kulturalnym. Był protektorem sztuki i nauki. Na swym dworze gościł takie osobistości jak Ajschylos (który uświetnił powstanie miasta Etny wystawieniem trylogii tragicznej pt. Etnejki, opartej na lokalnym podaniu), Bakchylides, Pindar czy...
| Автор | Pindar |
Christy Sampson-Kelly exposes a journey through the lived experience of being neither this nor that. Drinking in the world around her with a palate unrestricted by ancestry, her open and often privileged view as a perceived insider is vibrantly brought into focus. Whether echoing tenderness, perplexity or resiliency each poem is stitched to her richly interwoven and often blended identities. Taking the reader by the hand, she offers a glimpse into one most human way of being.
| Автор | Christy Sampson-Kelly |
Diane Tucker’s Bonsai Love is an eloquent book of poems about the sensual delicacy of love. Carefully pruned, intricate in design, and sensitive to intrusion, these poems create an image of intimacy through reflection and in relation to nature, the universe, music, literature and art.The voice that comes forth is one of self-doubt seeking reassurance: “Who wouldn’t want her whole self rehearsed/from top to bottom, in every key, before being/laid down to rest in a...
| Автор | Diane L Tucker |
“At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming.”— Publishers Weekly While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu—to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. In addition to his father’s illness, Chin was managing his own health and...
| Автор | Justin Chin |
In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of years and the loss and death they have brought.
| Автор | Marilyn Bowering |
The psalms are among the most sublime poetry in the world, offering us inexhaustible wells of meaning. Herbert O'Driscoll adeptly dips into their sacred depths and draws up sparkling insights to refresh the soul. Our contemporary spirits can feel at home in the world of psalms. All of human experience is there – joy and sadness, love and anger, trust and despair. The gift of the psalms lies in their challenge to us; they invite us into dialogue with them and with the God who inspired them....
| Автор | Herbert O'Driscoll |
Actress Mae West once said «I've been things and seen places.» Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast. In his latest collection of verse he takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through Amsterdam's antique streets and canals, Tuscany's sun-soaked landscapes, Paris's Gallic gabble of monuments and madcaps, and the title poem's Finnish auditory and aural delights. In one poem we play Scrabble with Dadaist Tristan Tzara. In another...
| Автор | Douglas Burnet Smith |