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Author : Jen Bervin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789882378209
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Silk Poems written by Jen Bervin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jen Bervin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937658724
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Silk Poems written by Jen Bervin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silk Poems takes silk as subject and form, exploring its cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities
Author : Arthur Sze
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321025
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Silk Dragon written by Arthur Sze and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze has gathered over 70 poems by poets who have had a profound effect on Chinese culture, American poetics and Sze's own maturation as an artist. Also included is an informative insightful essay on the methods and processes involved in translating ideogrammic poetry. MOONLIGHT NIGHT by Tu Fu can only look out alone at the moon. From Ch'ang-an I pity my children who cannot yet remember or understand. Her hair is damp in the fragrant mist. Her arms are cold in the clear light. When will we lean beside the window and the moon shine on our dried tears? Sze's anthology features poets who have become literary icons to generations of Chinese readers and scholars. Included are the poems of the great, rarely translated female poet Li Ching Chao alongside the remorseful exile poems of Su Tung-p'o. This book will prove a necessary and insightful addition to the library of any reader of poetry in translation. The poets include: T'ao Ch'ien Wang Han Wang Wei Li Po Tu Fu Po Chü-yi Tu Mu Li Shang-yin Su Tung-p'o Li Ch'ing-chao Shen Chou Chu Ta Wen I-to Yen Chen Arthur Sze is the author of six previous books of poetry, including The Redshifting Web and Archipelago. He has received the Asian American Literary Award for his poetry and translation, a prestigious Lannan Literary Award, and was recently a finalist for the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. from A Painting of a Cat Nan Ch'uan wanted to be reborn as a water buffalo, but who did the body of the malicious cat become? Black clouds and covering snow are alike. It took thirty years for clouds to disperse, snow to melt. -Pa-ta-shan-jen (1626-1705) The Last Day Water sobs and sobs in the bamboo pipe gutter. Green tongues of banana leaves lick at the windowpanes. The four sur
Author : Angela Jackson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810150010
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dark Legs and Silk Kisses written by Angela Jackson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry Angela Jackson brings her remarkable linguistic and poetic gifts to the articulation of African-American experience. The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vitality of spirit, and her emotional sensitivity and psychological insight.
Author : Meena Alexander
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810151588
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Raw Silk written by Meena Alexander and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander's cross-cultural perspective and sense of global identity (gained from her childhood in India and the Sudan, and her adult life in New York City) infuses her poems. She writes about violence and civil strife, love, despair, and a hard-won hope in the midst of a post-September 11 world.
Author : Lily Pond
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0446556963
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Yellow Silk II written by Lily Pond and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Gordon. Kenzaburo Oe. Amy Bloom. Ivan Klima. James Dickey. Paul Theroux. Jane Hirshfield. W. S. Merwin. And many others. Acclaimed International Writers Explore the Essence of Eros Now the editor of Yellow Silk, the world's premier publication of erotic literature, assembles a collection of over 40 new erotic short stories and poems -- many never before available -- from around the world. From Mary Gordon's tribute to seeing and being seen, to James Dickey's ode to "interspecies infatuation" ... from Dany Laferriere's confession of Haitian secrets to Ingrid Hill's revelation of Chinese ones ... from W. S. Merwin's account of sexual initiation in backwoods America to Kenzaburo Oe's adventures in urban Japan and Amy Bloom's tale of a luxurious sexual experience before the eyes of God ... Yellow Silk II conveys the power and the transformative nature of passion with the brilliance and intensity only great writing can conjure. Expect to be moved. Expect to reacquaint yourself with the many astonishing faces of sex, love, and Eros itself.
Author : Bronwen Tate
Publisher : Hillary Gravendyk Prize
ISBN 13 : 9781734497779
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)
Download or read book The Silk the Moths Ignore written by Bronwen Tate and published by Hillary Gravendyk Prize. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk the Moths Ignore animates the liminal, sometimes gothic, spaces of miscarriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood with exquisite defamiliarizing detail. Weaving together prose versets, sonnets, and short poems with titles like "Against Choking" and "To Acknowledge Damage," the collection sings, bleeds, and casts spells to "carry hope like a weight." As evidenced by the reception to Michelle Obama's Becoming, as well as recent writing by Chrissy Teigen and Meghan Markle, The Silk the Moths Ignore arrives at a moment when people finally seem willing to discuss miscarriage with an openness that has previously been taboo. Tate brings a fresh and embodied language of grief and song to a conversation still beset with platitude and euphemism. For the many people who have experienced loss, this book offers the peculiar comfort of an alien yet instantly recognizable landscape.
Author : Mich?le M?tail
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629968002
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Wild Geese Returning written by Mich?le M?tail and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as "a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."
Author : Shi Zhi
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184566
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Winter Sun written by Shi Zhi and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shi Zhi has been a major force in Chinese poetry since 1968, when several of his poems were circulated as secret handwritten manuscripts in the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited youth, and although once relegated to obscurity, he is today celebrated as one of China’s most important cultural influences, having spawned the modern Chinese poetry revolution of the 1980s. This collection of Shi Zhi’s most significant poems, featuring an afterword by the poet himself, is the first book-length publication of his work in English. Born as Guo Lusheng in 1948, at the height of the Chinese Civil War, Shi Zhi joined the People’s Liberation Army at the age of twenty-three. Discharged early, he entered into a period of severe depression and spent much of the next three decades living in mental hospitals under harsh conditions. Taking the pen name of Shi Zhi, meaning “index finger,” to evoke the image of people pointing at his back, he continued to write poetry through these tumultuous years, chronicling his journey from the heights of fame to the depths of institutionalism and ultimately to a final redemptive return to society in 2005. The voice of this besieged poet, burdened with exile and illness, captured the spirit of his generation and now inspires young readers. By presenting Shi Zhi’s poems in chronological order, Winter Sun allows readers to appreciate the evolution of his poetry from his earliest work to his most recent poems. Masterfully translated by Jonathan Stalling, and with an introduction by leading poetry critic Zhang Qinqua, this landmark collection ensures that Shi Zhi’s poetry—so important to Chinese readers during the most challenging of times—will engage the hearts and minds of new readers the world over for years to come.
Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poems written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Selected International Poets
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957071155
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Journeys Along the Silk Road written by Selected International Poets and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary. beautiful poetic journey through the countries of the Silk Road. Highly Recommended." Karen Jones Journeys Along the Silk Road is a fascinating poetic journey meandering along the ancient Silk Road featuring some of most exciting poets of our generation. The poems in the book reflect the great diversity of the cultures and people of the Silk Road. Drawn from countries traditionally associated with the ancient road they offer a fascinating snapshot of life along the Silk Road in the twenty-first century. In its long history the Silk Road has seen empires rise and fall. The Silk Road has witnessed times of conflict and peace carrying a variety of exotic trade goods such as silks and spices from Asia into Europe and Africa and back again. The Silk Road brought new cultures, religions, languages with it, forever changing the countries it passed through. Today the Silk Road runs through many different sovereign states: the economic sleeping tiger nations, war zones, peaceful democratic countries and military dictatorships. This anthology takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery through these countries and beyond.
Author : Martín Espada
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249042
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet Martín Espada gives voice to the spirit of endurance in the face of loss. In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour workday. At the heart of this volume is a series of ten poems about the death of the poet’s father. “El Moriviví” uses the metaphor of a plant that grows in Puerto Rico to celebrate the many lives of Frank Espada, community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer, from a jailhouse in Mississippi to the streets of Brooklyn. The son lyrically imagines his father’s return to a bay in Puerto Rico: “May the water glow blue as a hyacinth in your hands.” Other poems confront collective grief in the wake of the killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and police violence against people of color: “Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World” urges us to “melt the bullets into bells.” Yet the poet also revels in the absurd, recalling his dubious career as a Shakespearean “actor,” finding madness and tenderness in the crowd at Fenway Park. In exquisitely wrought images, Espada’s poems show us the faces of Whitman’s “numberless unknown heroes.”
Author : Robin D.S. Yates
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170028
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Washing Silk written by Robin D.S. Yates and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wei Chuang was a prolific Tang dynasty poet. He not only wrote in the shih form (poems in the old and new styles, the latter having strict rules of meter, rhyme, and euphony), but also was one of two literati founders of the tz’u (lyric) tradition, based on a popular song form. This tripartite study provides a thoroughgoing picture of his life and work. The book begins with the first detailed biography of Wei Chuang in a Western language, drawn both from historical sources and Wei’s poetry. The shih poems are intensely autobiographical and provide insight into Wei’s own experience and into the situation in China at the end of the ninth century. A second section analyzes the poetry, demonstrating that Wei’s tz’u cannot be understood without reference to his shih compositions, a new approach to the totality of Wei’s work. Finally, this volume presents translations, briefly annotated, of 110 shih poems, including his major narrative poem, The Lament of the Lady of Chin, and almost all the tz’u attributed to him, constituting more than a third of Wei Chuang’s extant poetry. The translations, while hewing close in meaning to their Chinese originals, have considerable value as poems in English. This work offers information that is useful to those interested in the literature, history, and general culture of medieval China. The translations bring to modern readers of English poetry the pleasures of becoming acquainted with a complex and innovative voice from the Chinese past.
Author : Li Po
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442724
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Poems written by Li Po and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1973-07-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of two of China’s most influential classical poets: Tu Fu, called “China’s Shakespeare” (BBC), and Li Po, the subject of Ha Jin’s The Banished Immortal and “China’s most beloved poet” (The New Yorker) A Penguin Classic Li Po (AD 701–62) and Tu Fu (AD 712–70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty complement each other so well that they often came to be spoken of as one – 'Li-Tu' – who covers the whole spectrum of human life, experience and feeling. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Shangyang Fang
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322455
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Burying the Mountain written by Shangyang Fang and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.
Author : Nick Laird
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571341748
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Feel Free written by Nick Laird and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been 'an assured and brilliant voice' (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. This is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense the deep American influence from living in New York meeting his familial shores of Northern Ireland: the acoustically generous, longer lines of the new world's Ginsberg or Whitman, and the lyricism of his forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. These are smart, energetic, worldly poems of political edge and family tenderness.
Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811221757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Gorgeous Nothings written by Emily Dickinson and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color facsimile publication of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts
